Jim Henderson, photographer
“Cuban Family, from a personal project I shot in Havana, Cuba.”
this post was submitted on 03 Aug 2026
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My lil baby is starting to smile sometimes! Almost 7 weeks young. She is an easy baby but been having some pretty fussy evening times where nothing can chill her out for a few hours. Great snuggles and when she sleepily burrows into me its the most wonderful thing. I can't wait for her to start being silly!!
Hey, maybe you already heard about this, but a friend once told me that this phenomenon is called "blue hour" (like the dusk time period), and it's when little ones in roughly their first year are mentally working through everything they experienced in the day. It's a big process for the brain and it takes time to work through. What helped, according to the friend, is being patient and gentle with the baby when she enters this period and just sitting through it with the little one. When they don't feel alone, they (sometimes) don't cry as much.
Happy to hear about the smiles, I hope you'll get to see many more watching her grow up
It's coming! It will sneak up on you. Right now she's still just figuring out how to exist
Same...
(jk)
We were told to help them get to sleep that we should have a set lights out time. Maybe this is common knowledge though. But we would make sure lights were turned off around 6:30/7:00 when they were little like that. It felt like it really helped them both get to sleep easier and eventually became the hour that bedtime started. Now we do 7:30 for bedtime stuff.