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When do babies start to babble?

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biotin · 07/05/2011 09:08

Barring the thousands of MN genius babies, when do babies start to babble - and I mean mamamadadadbababa sort of babble?

DD is 5.5 months. Lots of noises, sounds, gurgles, coos, noise, noise, noise...but none of the mamama etc.

Just wondered what the average was?

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IMissSleep · 07/05/2011 09:30

DS is 8.5 months and has started saying dada, he cooo's a lot too! Not sure what the average is, all babies develop differently.

smashingtime · 07/05/2011 13:56

Agree - all babies develop differently IME. Take my two - DS was full-on babbling at 6 months which was hours of dadadababa etc but DD never really babbled and started with single words at about 11 months and progressed from there.

Lots of noises at 5.5 months sounds good to me!

Pfriend · 07/05/2011 17:59

No idea what the average is but mine started at 7 mo with dadada and a-dad.

malachysmum · 07/05/2011 22:13

9 months and we do conversational babbling, love it!

working9while5 · 08/05/2011 10:21

6 - 10 months. If canonical babbling hasn't started by 10 months, it can be a sign that there is language delay. There is a good bit of research on this.

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