Can 19 week old be shy? Or just taking in surroundings?

[Charlotteap]

My 19 week is the happiest little baby at home he is constantly laughing and you only have to smile at him to get one back, however only at home. We go to a baby group twice a week and the one I go to with my cousin, babies are a day apart. But my son will play with the props and look at the lights etc but never makes a noise and won’t crack a smile. Compared to others who are laughing and cooing etc. But also when we take him to relatives we will never be able to get a smile but as soon as we take him phone he comes alive.

can a baby this young be shy? Or am i just being silly

Even at that age children are different. Mine are adults now, or all but, however at 19 weeks they definitely had their personality.

Dd1 smiled at everyone, would go to everyone, loved being with lots of people and going out.
Dd2 glared at anyone who had the audacity to smile at her. Would scream blue murder if anyone tried to pick her up, but equally well hated to be put down.
Ds would smile and babble to anything, even soft toys, that had a face, but didn't particularly like being held by someone he didn't know and preferred to be at home.

It's not necessarily shyness, but more that they don't want to do that. They may change and become the life and soul of the room by 3yo.

Thank you very much for your reply. Out of interest did Dd1 become the more outgoing of the three? My DS definitely sounds like a mix of your ds and dd2! He will talk away laughing at the mirror and also soft toys but anyone he’s not too familiar with he just gives them evils. Also cries if they hold him

None of mine are very outgoing, but actually I think dd1 is the shyest of the three of them.

Dd2 as an older toddler became very smiley, to a point when I meet people who knew her back then, it's what they remember about her.

But other aspects of their personality have stayed the same.
Dd1 was very careful. She didn't do things until she could do it well, and then did it perfectly. She walked at 16 months-took her first steps one day, next day walked everywhere. She's still like that now. Will thoroughly check everything out and make sure it works before she trusts it.
Dd2 was much more throw herself into the mix and hope. She was the child at the top of the climbing frame at 16 months needing rescuing if I took my eyes off her for a moment. She goes first and trusts to luck and someone else to catch her if things go wrong!
Ds is a mixture. More careful than dd2 and more adventurous than dd1. He's also very determined to do it his way. At 16 months he could walk if he wanted to, but it was so much better to crawl with a car in each hand so he could watch the wheels go round... At nearly 16yo now he'd prefer to see the inner workings of a tank, but the same principle applies. He still prefers to be at home though. When we go on holiday, even if it's somewhere he loves, he's angling to get home after a couple of days away.