Does your LO "talk"?

kacelle · August 2011

So I was reading the website someone linked about first year milestones, and it lists "talks when others are talking" as a 7th month milestone. What exactly is this referring to? DD will carry on "conversations" with us for minutes at a time, "sings" when others are singing, and talks on the phone (while trying to hold my Blackberry to her ear; it's the cutest thing ever). She seems to understand how people take turns speaking and pause before responding, which my child development class says is one of the first things babies pick up about communication. So what does it mean by "talks when others are talking"?

sparkymcgeee · August 2011

Eliza talks all the time. It's adorable. We took a video. I should really upload it to FB.
She talks to me and I talk back. We take turns and she makes eye contact. I'm not sure what they mean when they say talks when others are talking. I would have to read the article.

kacelle · August 2011

meimsx:
Eliza talks all the time. It's adorable. We took a video. I should really upload it to FB.
She talks to me and I talk back. We take turns and she makes eye contact. I'm not sure what they mean when they say talks when others are talking. I would have to read the article.

https://www.americanpregnancy.org/firstyearoflife/firstyeardevelopment.html

tokenhoser · August 2011

It says 3rd month is "talks" when spoken to.

I don't know how that's different than their 7 month milestone. Owen "talks" all the time. Lots of sounds and coos.

RavenandJosh · August 2011

Andrew loves to "talk". It's so cute! He will babble for the longest time whether we are listening or not. I have so many videos of it! He loves to "talk" back to you when you carry on a conversation with him.

kacelle · August 2011

tokenhoser:
It says 3rd month is "talks" when spoken to.
I don't know how that's different than their 7 month milestone. Owen "talks" all the time. Lots of sounds and coos.

Yeah, I guess I'm just confused as to what the difference is.

Athena0809 · August 2011

I haven't read the article but LO talks to us in the normal flow of conversation, however, when two people are carrying on a conversation and no one is paying attention to him he starts to "coo" and if not paid attention to he'll do it even louder until someone finally pays attention to him! it's really funny! Can this be what they mean?

amandabrooke81 · August 2011

Hmmm I'm not sure unless it means a participative exchange at 7mos versus simple mimicking at 3mos. That's weird.

jg_girl1 · August 2011

Audrey loves to talk. She talks and pauses and if I don't respond she gets upset. She doesn't understand that objects don't talk and gets mad when the turtle by the changing table doesn't have a conversation with her.

MissMommyMac · August 2011

My DS loves to "talk"! If we talk to him he'll just coo and laugh, I love it.

kacelle · August 2011

jg_girl1:
Audrey loves to talk. She talks and pauses and if I don't respond she gets upset. She doesn't understand that objects don't talk and gets mad when the turtle by the changing table doesn't have a conversation with her.

Violet talks to the giraffe on her activity mat and expects it to talk back too. It's really cute.

kjj834 · August 2011

kacelle:

jg_girl1:
Audrey loves to talk. She talks and pauses and if I don't respond she gets upset. She doesn't understand that objects don't talk and gets mad when the turtle by the changing table doesn't have a conversation with her.

Violet talks to the giraffe on her activity mat and expects it to talk back too. It's really cute.

Jane also does this to the hanging monkey on her mat! I just think it is adorable!

AndreaS1206 · August 2011

My daughter Alisha "talks" all the time. Especially in the mornings when she first gets up. When I put the phone up to her ear when her nana is talking she "talks" back. Idk but it seems like these kids are doing things a lot faster now a days.