When do babies start to babble?

NoVaIrish · May 2009

I've been seeing more videos and posts about this lately and Michael is so not doing it. ?Not even close. ?He yells and grunts, but there is no "babbling" pattern to what he is doing.

One more thing to stress about between now and his hearing test. ?Yay.?

ocean71506 · May 2009

Emma has started babbling a lot this past week, ever since she turned 4 months. She will babble or "talk" for minutes at a time and try to carry on a conversation with us. She even does it in her crib at night. She is not making a ton of different sounds though so I am not sure if that is what you are looking for. What is his hearing test for?

cloud9climber · May 2009

Casey started at 10 weeks but he's clearly an early babbler. ?A lot of my facebook friends are shocked at our videos. ?

Skatcat · May 2009

I'm not sure I can say. Hope definitely makes more structured "sounds" than Henry does..he mostly says "oo ooo ooo" and "uh uh uh" while Hope makes pretty complex trills and sounds. They've been doing this for awhile though...since maybe 2 months for Henry and a bit later for Hope?

mrparsley07 · May 2009

Kailey started babbling early on...3 months maybe. However, my nephew who is now 2, never made a peep...literally. He would never babble or "talk" or make any sort of noise other than crying unitl he was at least a year old. Now we can't shut him up, and he's just perfect

GeminiKMP-C · May 2009

Lilly is more of a repeater than a babbler. She doesn't really just babble away to herself all that often. Instead she likes for us to make a sound for her to copy. I think she likes the one-on-one attention and the praise and fuss we make over it. In fact, I'd say it's her favorite thing to do! She started this around 3 months, but I think it's just her personality. Her cousin was born the same day and has no interest in babbling, but he's been rolling over (and over and over and over... across the room!) for almost 2 months now. I think he'll be more of a physical milestone reacher and DD will be more of a... non-physical! haha, she's much happier laying around than getting herself to move:)

NoVaIrish · May 2009

ocean71506:
Emma has started babbling a lot this past week, ever since she turned 4 months.? She will babble or "talk" for minutes at a time and try to carry on a conversation with us.? She even does it in her crib at night.? She is not making a ton of different sounds though so I?am not sure if that is what you are looking for.? What is his hearing test for?

He has something called a preauricular pit on his left ear. ?It looks like a little hole or divet on his ear. ?It's usually because the ear didn't quite attach to the head perfectly in utero and can be a sign that the inner ear didn't develop properly. ?He barely passed his hearing test for that ear as a newborn (my pedi said she didn't even consider it passing) and since he has the pit, we need to go in for a follow up test.?

ocean71506 · May 2009

I hope it goes well! I will be thinking of Michael.

FredsNey · May 2009

Kate does not babble yet. Our pedi considers her to have a mild developmental delay (she is almost 10 months old).

Good luck with Michael's hearing test!

berty12777 · May 2009

I had to show Allie videos of babies babbling on youtube before she got it! I admit I trained my child to babble.

When is the hearing test?

Crazycrustacean · May 2009

DD started to babble at probably 3-4 months to herself. She started saying Uh-ma at 5.5 months and ma ma at 6 months. But she was really young for her "speech".?

I know that if there is a problem with hearing, speech can be delayed. I hope his test goes well. ?

NoVaIrish · May 2009

berty12777:
I had to show Allie videos of babies babbling on youtube before she got it!? I admit I trained my child to babble.
When is the hearing test?

LOL - maybe J and I should start doing that! ?His test is on the 1st. ?I keep telling myself everything is fine and then I come up with another reason to worry.

cloud9climber · May 2009

NoVaIrish:
ocean71506:
Emma has started babbling a lot this past week, ever since she turned 4 months.? She will babble or "talk" for minutes at a time and try to carry on a conversation with us.? She even does it in her crib at night.? She is not making a ton of different sounds though so I?am not sure if that is what you are looking for.? What is his hearing test for?
He has something called a preauricular pit on his left ear. ?It looks like a little hole or divet on his ear. ?It's usually because the ear didn't quite attach to the head perfectly in utero and can be a sign that the inner ear didn't develop properly. ?He barely passed his hearing test for that ear as a newborn (my pedi said she didn't even consider it passing) and since he has the pit, we need to go in for a follow up test.?

good luck with the test. ?keep us updated on everything.?

847Christine · May 2009

I can send you the same info I sent another nestie if you'd like. I think we're both on FB? Or give me your email address.

If it makes you feel any better, Evie was 7 months old before she was really making consonants on a consistent basis... and I'm a speech therapist, so even when you're doing everything right, some babies just develop at a slower pace than others. One thing I think made a big difference was exposing her to other kids, especially older babies. She's been babbling up a storm ever since we visited my nephews.

GL w/the hearing eval!!

MayBride2B2007 · May 2009

no babbles here. some cooing on good days, but certainly no babble.

abj22 · May 2009

DD had only vowel sounds until the day she turned 6 months old. I was concerned and talked to my pedi about it at that appointment. But that night she said da-da-da and then went straight to ma-ma-ma.?

Laustique · May 2009

I was very concerned about Willem's lack of consonants when he started month 7. Although he has always been verbal - lots of sounds from an early age - he hadn't done much reduplicative babbling, and I was borderline freaking. (As a warning, I'm a little nutty.) Then, about 3.5 weeks ago, within hours of figuring out the crawling thing, he just came out with a bunch of bababas. And barbobabu. Since then, Willem has added d, m, l, g, and p to his consonant repertoire. A babbling landslide.

But I think the age range for babbling varies very widely. Many of my friends babies didn't babble until they were more than 9 months old. Now they are chatterbugs.

So I would try not to worry too much. Easier said than done, I realize. In any event, I hope Michael's hearing evaluation goes well. I'll be thinking of you both!

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