No babbling at 5 months?

schmoodle · November 2011

So I know every baby is different, blah blah blah, but I just realized Boodle doesn't babble at all yet and I'm wondering if I should be concerned. She mostly just screams and is all vowels. I know Toodle babbled by 4 months. She's WAY ahead of where he was with gross motor (she is already rocking on all fours which he didn't do until 7-8 months) but I don't think her language is on track where he was and when I google typical age for babbling it's all over the board but much of what I'm reading is indicating she should do it by now.

Anyone else have a babe not babbling yet at this age that ended up developmentall on track with language development?

UsedToBeGoldie · November 2011

Gibby didn't babble until 7 months. He also didn't have much eye contact and was hard to get to smile... i was sure he was on the spectrum (my dad and nephew are so it's in the family). Grayson was babbling at 3mo - so i was worried... and low and behold, Gibby was the first one to start talking and Grayson ended up needing speech therapy.

Gibby talks non stop now

futrkingsley · November 2011

I'm not sure you can say she's not "babbling" if she is making vowel sounds and screaming. Is she using her voice to play with sound or noise or to attempt to get attention? I am a worrier extroidinaire and I wouldn't worry at 4 months unless she was not making eye contact or not smiling I think.

Having said that, my own kid was not a big babbler. He made sounds at about that age and played with them some but was not super vocal. His pattern over the first year was also strange -- he would play with one sound (Ga for example) for about a week and then stop making it all together. He didn't use sound to get attention very often either. And he never used more than one vowel sound at one time. By age one, he was not using gestures (waving, clapping, blowing kisses, pointing) or saying even mama. By 18 months he was in speech therapy. He had one year of therapy. He is almost 3.5 now and he talks non-stop, is very articulate and intelligible.

If I were you, I'd watch and play occassional games with her using simple sounds -- mamamama, babababa, papapa. Make sure she can see your mouth when you talk.

Kiki11 · November 2011

Granted my kid is a former micropreemie, but he didn't babble (consonants) until he was 13 1/2 months/10 months corrected. And since then he hasn't stopped.

nicolita14w · November 2011

Both my kids started babbling right around 6 months, Ben slightly later than James. I know that this is not exactly reassuring in light of my post below about James, but Ben is on track for all his milestones (with the exception of pointing with a finger), and I really have no worries about him. I think that no babbling by *12 months* is the point of concern.

oooCarrieB · November 2011

My baby just started babbling at like 6 1/2 months. Before that it was all vowel noises and squealing. Then one day, it was da da da, all the time.

kme930 · November 2011

I think she's perfectly fine. Will didn't make consonant sounds until 7 months, much less babble!

I just sent you an email...

LVBlvd · November 2011

Paige wasn't babbling until her 9 month visit. And she was a "late" talker, first word at 15 months, but she never stopped talking after that!

Just now, we passed the hall closet and she said, "night night vacuum cleaner. Sweet dreams, and I'll see you in the morning." LOL.

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't worried about it. But I'm trying to be more laid back with my boys, because I know that every kid develops at their own pace.

*Very embarrassed to say that I don't remember when Jack and Braley started babbling. Uggh. But fairly certain it was much later than 5 months. And they both seem very typical to me - so no concerns about their development.

MrsEnglishbride · November 2011

Aiden wasn't babbling until 7 months. He is saying so many words now. I wouldn't worry!

LisaBRM · November 2011

Alana wasn't babbling at all then. In fact, I never characterized her as actually babbling. You know how you hear other people's kids babbling in that baby talk where they sound like they're having a whole conversation with themselves? Nope, she never, ever did that. She just slowly learned and added words to her vocabulary, but, never did baby talk. And, while she is not speaking in full sentences, like I know some other kids are at her age, she is perfectly fine with her language growth, per her pedi. We are getting new words and new phrases every day around here!