Squeel & Scream spinoff

Ben is a serious squealer, Owen is quieter but practices his squeal every once in a while. I'm wondering though, should they be starting to babble yet?

They do make lots of little noises (raspberries, cooing, "thbspb" sound, and a lot of ahh ahh ahh). I'm not hearing much in the way of hard consonants though. Is this normal? I talk to them a lot during the day and sing to them, but I wouldn't say they are "imitating" my sounds yet. Ben makes a lot of sounds like he has a lisp.

What do you all think--should they be making more typical babbling sounds at this age? I have NO experience with this whatsoever, so I'm feeling pretty clueless and we don't see our pedi until 9mo. I do try to encourage them by making ba-ba, da-da, ma-ma sounds and then saying other words that start with those letters. They smile and look at me like I'm nuts (no comment... ).

 

I am curious to hear replies as mine are doing the same thing as your guys. Lots of Ahhhs they did the dadddd mommmm thing afew weeks ago but lately its squueling and ahhs.

 

I honestly can't remember what my older two did at this age. I know Ellie is making lots of sounds. It is like she is yelling at us. It is a garbled mess - not the mama, baba, dada - but just noises with some consonants in there. Allison pretty much does squeel and scream - that is about it. She will rasperberry every once in a while - but not the same as Ellie.

I would love to hear other responses. I know around 9 months you want baba or dada or something - but I honestly don't know what is normal for 6-7 months.

 

DS is a squealer....DD is great at babbling..no mama or dada's yet....but she is great at doing bababababa and wawawawa..and the last couple days she has been sounding out some constanants like k and r...I think she will be an early talker and DS will be my early walker! lol!

It's so great...they seem to have conversations with each other all the time these days!

 

I found this.....

Key stages in your child's speech development:
At only seven days old, your baby can distinguish her mother's voice from another woman's voice.


Your baby's first attempts to communicate her needs and emotions are through crying. Parents quickly learn how to differentiate a hunger cry from a tired cry or crying about a wet nappy.


At two weeks old your baby can distinguish her father's voice from another man's voice.


At three months your baby will turn her head towards voices, she may stop crying when her parent's speak with her. She will repeat sounds such as cooing and can even make vowel sounds.


At four to six months your baby will notice new sounds such as the telephone or washing machine. She will respond to "no" and to changes in the tone of your voice. Early sound discrimination skills are beginning to emerge. Sounds have a more speech like sound to them e.g.mamama. When playing alone or with parents your baby will make gurgling sounds. She will now pay attention to music. Your baby can also tell you by sound or gesture when she wants something.


At six months your baby can make a few consonant sounds adding to her vowel sounds, and may say 'dada' or 'mama,' but cannot yet attach them to individuals.


At seven months to one year your baby is beginning to turn her head or look up when her name is used. Your child will listens when spoken to. She can recognise common words such as juice or bottle, and can respond to requests like 'Come here'. Your baby will more frequently use speech or non-crying sounds to get and keep attention.


At one year old your child will attach "mama" or "dada" to the right person. Your child can now also respond to one step commands such as 'stop that'.


On this website.


All that being said, my kids have varied SOOOO much in language development. And even in the twins there is a huge difference. Emma is already trying to imitate words like tickle and hello, and Jake is still at the gaga, mama, dada, stage, with no real meaning to his "words".

 

By the age of one they should be able to:

Pays increasing attention to speech
Responds to "no"
Responds to simple verbal commands
Babbles with inflection (changes in tons)
Says "dads": and "mama"
Uses exclamations, such as "Oh-oh!"
Tries to imitate words

 

They just start making the bababa/mamama string of sounds around 6-7 months of age. I would say that the majority of sounds they make are vowel/cooing sounds but more sophisticated than the cooing they did around 2-4 months of age. Around 9 months of age they start making more of a variegated type of babble, mixing the consonants and vowels. Again this starts around 9 months and this type of babble becomes more sophistated as a function of increasing age and eventually evolves into jargon with a mix of real words. I would suggest looking at the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association (www.asha.org). They have information regarding speech-language development/milestones for infants and children of various ages. HTH!

 

our girls started saying 'dada' a lot these few days - of course my DH was very excited but they seem to say it for anything hahahaha Apart from dada, a lot of strange noises - ahs and squeals and shreaks!