Babbling?

Eitak82 · September 2013

When did your LO start babbling with consonant sounds?

DS is 7 months and VERY vocal (calls out for attention from people and constantly "talks"), but he is still mostly making vowel sounds. Every now and then we will get a "Maaaaa" sound, but no repeating of the consonant. A lot of what I've read says it should start between 4-6 months, but we just took a Mommy & Me class where all of the kids were between that age and none of them were doing it yet.

Just wondering if I should be concerned (and call the dr) or if this is one of those things you read and then find out a lot of babies don't do it later.

Las135 · September 2013

Our little guy is 8 months, and he just recently started saying Momma, bobba, pop pop. When he was 7 months, he was still just kind of babbling and yelling. Within the last two weeks he really started saying words with intention. It is good that he is trying to talk. Every baby develops at their own pace, and I don't think something like this would warrant a call to the Dr. If you are still concerned at the 9month check up, bring it up then.

I'm sure your LO will be babbling your ear off pretty soon!! Good Luck!!

Anjel_9@hotmail.com · September 2013

My 7 month old just started with a few consonant sounds this past week. It came out of nowhere, she really hadn't been making even too many vowel sounds before hand. We're getting lots of bleh bleh blehs and a few wonderful momomomomommmms. It's really hilarious. Don't be concerned, your DS will start babbling away when he's ready and you will love it!

Eitak82 · September 2013

Thanks, ladies! I tend to worry too much.

In the past two weeks DS went from army crawling (which he had been doing for a while), to wobbly regular crawling, to really good/fast regular crawling, to sitting up from a laying down or crawling position, and he now looks like he's contemplating pulling up, so H thinks he has just been "focusing" his attentions elsewhere. Not sure if I agree or not, but glad to hear this doesn't seem out of the realm of normal.

VPGIRL06 · September 2013

We just went to DDs 6 month appointment (she is 26 weeks now, and on Wednesday will be "6 months"-I never know when these milestones will be hit!) and the doctor asked about babbling. I explained she was still doing a lot of "ahhh" and laughing but rarely will give me a constanent (some "ba" and "ga"). BUT, she's also already rocking on all fours and doing variations of crawling, sits just fine unsupported, can get into a sitting position with minimal support-so the doctor said that babies who seem pretty advanced in one area will lag behind in another area since they focus more on the other aspect.

she said given that my DD seems to be hitting physical milestones fast, that it wouldn't be out of the realm of normal that she doesn't really "babble" for another couple months. she said if at 8 months my DD still isn't really babbling then I should bring it up, but it's not a concern until then.

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st.augbride · September 2013

Dd has yet to babble consonants too. She also doesn't seem all that close to crawling. However, she is SO vocal! She literally yells at everyone all day long. She's the loudest baby at daycare and has conversations with the other babies there, lol. I'm sure it's all coming.

Mitsya · September 2013

Yep, those bottom teeth sort of help them realize that they have something besides the roof of their mouths to push against as when they swallow. Say a couple of d-starting words & you can feel how helpful those teeth are in producing that phoneme!

My son cooed & made some sounds (like the ng in "hungry" & the ts in "its") really early & just in the last two weeks started repeating da. He finally cut those two front bottom teeth at the same time! He played with them with his tongue like crazy right before the da-ing took off.

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