At what age does a baby "catch" a yawn?

Aha...I thought I was the only crazy person who wondered this!!!

My daughter is 9 months and ALWAYS gives me what I call "the yawn disease" but she is yet to catch it off me.

It's a very funny thing...even reading this question is making me yawn LOL

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some interesting info

Between 40 and 60 percent of people who watch videos or hear talk about yawning also end up doing the deed, according to Nature News Service.

Researchers from the State University of New York in Albany tested people to find out why some are susceptible to contagious yawning and deduced that self-aware or empathetic people are more likely to catch yawns, according to the news service.

One hypothesis is that the phenomenon came about when ancestral humans lived in troops, and it was important for them to wake up at the same time. Yawning may have been a way for them to communicate the level of alertness among different group members, Baenninger said.

Though other creatures yawn - including dogs, cats and even snakes - contagious yawning is a "purely human occurrence," Broughton said. It begins around age 2.

(although other answers have said their babies did it much earlier...and I have also read that dogs and chimps have contagious yawns!!)

Baenninger and his students conducted a study to see if the contagion works between species. The students went to the zoo to observe whether humans would yawn when the animals did. A few people yawned in response to a lion's yawn, but the lion never replicated the humans' behavior, Baenninger said.

There is some evidence that when one ape yawns, others will too, the professor said.

Most people seem to enjoy yawning: They usually rate it highly on a scale of 1 to 10 in terms of the pleasure it brings.

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http://www.al.com/healthfit/mobileregister/index.s...

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my daughter started about 9 months but i usually turn away from her (so i do not breath my breath all over her in case i need to brush my teeth!) so she never really seen me yawn. but the few times she did i thought it i was just coincidence. i guess i will never know the true age but around 9 months was without a doubt going to yawn.

and and to the person who said she thought she was the only person to wonder this i always wondered it also and just thought i was thinking to much!! so i am right there with you and the person who asked this

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My daughter does it and shes nearly 11 months.

Event thinking about someone yawning makes me yawn, strange!

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haha my son started doing it at a few days old. He is now 3months old and catches them all the time. Although I don't think I have ever verbalized it until now!

My nephew did it at just a few days old.

mine did from about a week old. well cute!