There are looks so powerful that they are able to change your life forever. Loads full of love that get time to stop for endless seconds. But I don't talk about the way a couple can look at you, but your children. Those of us who have had our babies of a few months in our arms have been able to delight ourselves with the most beautiful and pure look that someone can give us: your baby's first look of love.
You know what I mean, right? If you have experienced them you will know perfectly and if you have not yet had the privilege, prepare yourself because it is a moment of fullness that will remain forever in your memory. It is that exact moment when you feel that your baby already recognizes you and even if he still can't speak, he tells you through his gaze that he is dead of love for you. That you, dad or mom, you are everything in your little world. Can there be something more precious?
A very special connection
The baby sees since birth, but still does not see too well, so it is also guided by the ear and smell. At birth, the first connection is purely instinctive, to such an extent that if the newborn is placed on his mother's womb he is able to crawl to his chest guided by instinct.
It's no accident that the best distance to go to your baby is between 20.3 and 30.5 cm. It is the perfect focus distance of the newborn and it is precisely the distance between the face of the mother or father at the time of feeding or cradling it in arms, as if it were designed to be in arms as long as possible, which is Where is a newborn better?
But there comes a day, around two months of life, in which there is a very special connection with your baby. A moment of spark that should have a name and does not have it. The day he not only sees you, but also looks at you in another way And it's something you only know if you're a mother or father. You realize that your baby recognizes you and loves you.
It's just a few seconds of looking at it, that I look at you and know that it contemplates you with love. Your baby speaks to you with his eyes: he tells you that you are everything to him, He tells you that he is in love with you.
Those caresses and the first smile
That first look of love usually coincides with two moments of connection also unforgettable in the first months of the baby: when he gives you his first caresses and his first smile.
When breastfeeding or feeding the baby, you can focus on its perfect distance. It is quiet, external stimuli are reduced and it is only focused on your face. You look at him, he looks at you, you know he recognizes you and extends his hand to caress you. There are no words to describe what it feels like.
Also in that stage of first socialization, between the fourth and sixth week of life, is when your baby gives you his first smile. Your first social smile in response to a stimulus from the father or mother, the first two-way communication between the parents and the baby.
That first look of love of your baby It is one of the most beautiful moments we can live as parents, when your son, just a few months old, looks at you in love. Do you remember it?
