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Unspoken Language

Explaining the Secrets of Twin Communication

By Gwyneth Doherty-Sneddon

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Human babies have an inborn interest in faces. Direct face-to-face interaction is incredibly stimulating for all infants and children. Looking into another person's eyes causes an increase in heart and breathing rate.

Infants start making mutual eye contact when they are around 3 weeks old. This is important in developing the bond between parent and child. Babies' first smiles happen primarily when they are in rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. These are not true smiles. Proper smiling, in response to the outside world, comes around 3 weeks – initially to their mothers' voice and later to her face.

By the time babies are 6 weeks old, they smile back at attentive older children and adults. Twins are clearly aware of one another's presence from very early on. However they do not make mutual eye contact and smile at one another until they are around 3 to 4 months old.

As they get older, they begin to find social interaction with one another more and more enjoyable. By the time they reach their first birthdays, they will be good at reading one another's emotional expressions.

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