xp - Not babbling yet

bluesapph · November 2011

When do I start to worry that LO isn't babbling? He's 6 months and 1 week now. Is it normal not to babble yet? He is doing well otherwise (sitting up, reaching for toys, initiating peek-a-boo). Most of his vocalizing is "ahhhh" type sounds, no consonants. He usually vocalizes when he's really tired or hungry. It is the lead up to crying. We read, sing and talk to him every day. (We have our 6 month well-baby check up next week so I'll ask the doctor but it is nice to hear from other moms as well.)

kelly321 · November 2011

No babbling here, either, although I go by her adjusted age, not her actual one. Still, we're approaching 6 months adjusted and she's only doing consonants and screeching. She starting trying to blow raspberries the other day, so I assume that's a step towards consonants.

McAllie5 · November 2011

DS was saying "ma" and the very rare "la", and then he learned how to blow raspberries. Now he's completely given up consonants and is all about the raspberry. (This has been going on for 2 weeks.)

Just today he started up again with the "ah"s and even did his first "ay". I think it's typical for them to focus on one thing until they get it figured out or get involved trying to learn another new thing.

MrsDL · November 2011

My little guy won't be 6 months until the 23rd and he babbles with consonants, but very rarely at home. I was concerned as well but a few parents with boys and girls in my neighborhood have told me their girls babbled a lot sooner than their boys (and three of them told me it was past 6 months before they consistantly heard it) - their kids are fine. Do you have a boy by chance?

Oddly, I've been picking up DH a little early from daycare the last few days and I'll watch him - when I'm there but he doesn't see me he's babbling up a storm! Last Friday he looked like he was having some baby-talk conversation with another child - they were going back and forth, it truly amazed me.

There was a study released a month or two ago that stated TV can delay speech development in infants and the recommendation was not to allow your child to watch TV (or severely limit it) until age 2. Now we don't plop DS in front of the TV and let him watch, but we are guilty of always having it on in the background (the news, shows we watch) and there is no TV at his school so I'm starting to wonder if there is something to this. We're trying to make more of an effort to limit the TV being on, particularly when it is just on in the background and we're not watching just to see if it encourages him to babble a bit more at home.

kacelle · November 2011

MrsDL:
My little guy won't be 6 months until the 23rd and he babbles with consonants, but very rarely at home. I was concerned as well but a few parents with boys and girls in my neighborhood have told me their girls babbled a lot sooner than their boys (and three of them told me it was past 6 months before they consistantly heard it) - their kids are fine. Do you have a boy by chance?
Oddly, I've been picking up DH a little early from daycare the last few days and I'll watch him - when I'm there but he doesn't see me he's babbling up a storm! Last Friday he looked like he was having some baby-talk conversation with another child - they were going back and forth, it truly amazed me.
There was a study released a month or two ago that stated TV can delay speech development in infants and the recommendation was not to allow your child to watch TV (or severely limit it) until age 2. Now we don't plop DS in front of the TV and let him watch, but we are guilty of always having it on in the background (the news, shows we watch) and there is no TV at his school so I'm starting to wonder if there is something to this. We're trying to make more of an effort to limit the TV being on, particularly when it is just on in the background and we're not watching just to see if it encourages him to babble a bit more at home.

Several of these studies have been released in the past few years, and I support them. But the language impairment occurs from ~9 months through toddlerhood, and having the TV on in the background shouldn't hinder your son's language development at all. My biggest concern with letting babies watch TV is that electronic screens can cause babies' brains to form synapses differently (in a negative way) than they would from experiencing other sights.

Lisa Frank · November 2011

All kids develop at different rates. Try not to read too much into the "timelines" that are given as they are so generic and will only stress you out Sounds like your LO is doing fine! My DD isn't sitting up yet, but she's very vocal. My DS was a master sitter at this age, walked at 10 months, but barely made a peep (outside of his yelling! lol) or got really social with us until like 7-8-9 months.

Don't stress.

sumpunkchair · November 2011

DD started blowing a raspberry at about 4.5 months and it seems didn't stop until last week or so. She's taken to making constant babbling sounds, reminds me of a Sing A Ma Jig.

Beabs · November 2011

Lisa Frank:

All kids develop at different rates. Try not to read too much into the "timelines" that are given as they are so generic and will only stress you out Sounds like your LO is doing fine!

This. Your baby is fine

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