How old was your baby when s/he...

[mackmama]

1) started to turn toward sounds?
2) started babbling and cooing a lot? (not incl grunting or cry-talking)
3) started smiling?

[♥ms.pacman♥]

honestly, i don't remember when these happened with DS (and it was just last year! :bag:) the only one i sorta remember is smiling, which i believed happened around 2 months (a "real" social smile at someone, not just the kind newborns do in their sleep that's just a reflex). i guess it varies a lot though, i can see it taking my DD a lot longer (she's a preemie though).

[llama8]

I believe around 8 weeks or 2 months for most of that list.

[marymoo86]

I believe around 8 weeks or 2 months for most of that list.

:yeahthat:

all roughly occurred at the same time - maybe smiling started first

[mezzona]

I believe around 8 weeks or 2 months for most of that list.

:yeahthat:

[citymama]

I dont remember about sounds.
Smiling for both DDs was around 4-5 weeks, just over a month.
Babbling and cooing, 8 weeks sounds right.

[marge234]

I have zero recollection, and was not good at writing this down. I know he was late with the ba ba ba, da da da type babbling but I think that's later than the cooing/babbling to which I think you're referring.

I somehow found this survey--link below--and I do it periodically to see how my LO is doing with these kinds of things. It is long, but the format is less confusing (to me) than the milestone info I've found on-line, and in books. Love quizzes and such and nerdy researcher in me finds all the aspects of development fascinating.

so FWIW:

http://pages.uoregon.edu/asqstudy/

[sste]

Both my kids oriented toward sound and motion pretty much from delivery (motion more consistently than sound but they would still most of the time turn toward sounds).

Smiling: DS 6 or 7 weeks if I recall, DD 3.5 weeks (but she was a 42 weeker at delivery)

Cooing: Well, neither of my kids ever made anything as sweet sounding as a coo. IMO it was more like a kind of droning wail but I think both did that increasingly over time but starting at about 6 or 8 weeks.

[LadyPeter]

Between 2-3 months, I think. He was 3.5 weeks early, so our ped said the slight delay was normal.