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Your Baby’s Firsts
6-8 Weeks: Eye Contact
6-8 Weeks: Eye Contact
Your baby starts out with eyes only for you. From birth she can only focus on objects about a foot away, just about the distance your face is from hers when you hold her. At 6 to 8 weeks, she’ll be holding your gaze — human faces are the most interesting sight to her, after all — and tracking objects with her eyes.
By Katherine Solem. Published on July 18, 2011. Updated on November 24, 2015. Katherine Solem is a health writer and editor in San Francisco.
Reviewed by Susan Spencer, MSN, RNC, IBCLC on October 16, 2015.
