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Decrease in babbling

RibbitGrl930RibbitGrl930 member
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Jake is nearly 10 months old and I recently notice he doesn't babble with consonants nearly as much as he used to. He used to do the "babadadagaga" stuff on a eegular basis, but now he doesn't really do it much at all anymore. He does coo and make vowel sounds, so he is vocalizing. He's even screaming (with a smile on his face- he appears to be having fun). He also displays regular social behavior- making eye contact with trusted adults, responding with gesture, etc. he just doesn't seem to be making his consonant sounds as much. Now, he was determined to be having seizures (which caused him to have episodes of apnea) from when he was about 6 months old....but I can't remember if his babbling changed then or not, and he's been on medication that has kept him without an episode for nearly 4 weeks now. An MRI didn't find anything that might point to a developmental delay, so I don't know,

Have any of you other mamas seen anything like this?
 
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Re: Decrease in babbling

  • jesuisfatigueejesuisfatiguee member
    DS still babbles a lot with a lot of variety, but he also makes a whole lot of vowel-only sounds. Lots of "ehhhs" and "ahhhs", which did seem to increase somewhere around 8 or 9 months. 



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  • Pearls+OystersPearls+Oysters member
    Is he focusing on another skill? DS will stop babbling when he's working on a motor skill. It's non-stop vowel screams (Aaa) but consonants to a minimum for a few days/weeks and then he's back to 24/7 conversations.
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  • RibbitGrl930RibbitGrl930 member
    He has been working on sitting up and army crawling recently- it's not traditional crawling, but he's been doing it as his main mode of transportrather than just rolling. He's also been getting more teeth. Could those things have something to do with it?
     
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  • VPGIRL06VPGIRL06 member
    Also look up Wonder Week: Sequences. One sign of this is a decrease in babbling
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  • poppyc8poppyc8 member
    We went through a decrease in babbling most of December and now he is back in full force babbling away!
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  • jesuisfatigueejesuisfatiguee member
    RibbitGrl930 said:
    He has been working on sitting up and army crawling recently- it's not traditional crawling, but he's been doing it as his main mode of transportrather than just rolling. He's also been getting more teeth. Could those things have something to do with it?
    Aww, DS army-crawls, too! And like PP mentioned, check out your Wonder Weeks :)



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  • sgoodselsgoodsel member
    DD has gone through a few periods of not really vocalizing, a week or two at a time, as she's working on something else new. And then she returns to babbling up a storm. And lately she doesn't babble to everything anymore, only to her favorite toys or if she has something to tell you :-)
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