When do they babble with consonants?

[staceychev]

My baby--6 months next week--isn't using consonants in her vocalizing yet. She's a pretty quiet little kid most of the time, but when she does talk it's open-mouthed and just long strings of tonality (future singer? ).

Anyway, I'm not so much concerned as curious. When does babbling with consonant sounds happen? Like, babababa sort of stuff? (By the way, when I do that to her, she thinks it's hilarious... Maybe she's waiting until she can actually speak!) As I said, she's pretty quiet, and her sister is really talkative, plus is five, so I'm mostly clueless here.

[happysmileylady]

Originally Posted by staceychev

My baby--6 months next week--isn't using consonants in her vocalizing yet. She's a pretty quiet little kid most of the time, but when she does talk it's open-mouthed and just long strings of tonality (future singer? ).

Anyway, I'm not so much concerned as curious. When does babbling with consonant sounds happen? Like, babababa sort of stuff? (By the way, when I do that to her, she thinks it's hilarious... Maybe she's waiting until she can actually speak!) As I said, she's pretty quiet, and her sister is really talkative, plus is five, so I'm mostly clueless here.

There's a very wide range of normal. My almost 2 year old still isn't talking much at all, in real words. In fact she JUST started saying mamma like in the last 2 weeks. And when she was an itty bitty baby, she didn't babble much either. She's been at the late end of normal for all of that communication stuff-her first smile, first babbles, first laughs etc etc. And as far as babbling with consonants, I would say she was closer to a year before she started doing it regularly...I think she was around 8 months or so the very first time, but it was few and far between for a while.

[SilverFish]

i wouldn't worry about it. my babe is 6 months plus a couple weeks and just started really using consonants recently. she is also pretty quiet compared to some other similar aged babies, and was making the same kinds of sounds as yours. then suddenly we had some b and d type sounds, and now she really does chatter quite a bit, like strings of sounds and tones that sound like sentences.

[nola79]

Mine started right at 7 months. She only does "ba" sounds, though, so far.

[Forthwith]

I think it varies a lot. My DS started "babababa"ing at about 5 months, but my family tends towards early talkers.

[Peace+Hope]

my LO started consonants just as he flipped to 4 months, i miss those long soft tonal sounds . around that time he quit sounding so breathy and got more of a punch behind his vocalizations. he experiments with lots of m's and d's and b's, all different mouth shapes and volumes too.

glad you aren't worried! now that mine is 5 months, i'm just wondering, when he's gonna roll......

[jump mama jump!]

I've been wondering the same thing. My dd is 6 months. She only does H, and the occasional N, maybe M??? and G and even more rarely L sounds, and only does some of the vowels. Lots of As, Es and Is in different forms but no Os or really Us yet. On the other hand she loves making dinosaur screech-roars, and is actually pretty expressive considering her limited vocalizations.

[Oceanone]

Mine just started now at 7 months, mamama, babababa. At her six month appt she wasn't , and I brought it up with the baby care nurse. She suggested they wouldn't really check on it until 9 months and even then just keep an eye on it.

[Perdita_in_Ontario]

We get mamama, lalala, bababa, and on occasion ma-ba. DS started with consonants around 4 months, then stopped when he discovered The Screech a couple of weeks ago, and has just started again.

[Jenica]

I think it's really common for babies to not talk much when they have a super talkative older sibling. I know two people who's kids were like that and with both, the lo's they went from being practically silent, to talking in complete sentences. They were just too busy listening to talk much at first