6mo ds still isn't blowing raspberries

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I wasn't too bothered and was ignoring all the annoying developmental emails which said he should have been doing it 2 months ago but the hv has just mentioned it too.

He's fine otherwise. Crawls, can get up into a sitting position, sits unaided, babbles, says mama and dada etc. But no raspberries. If we blow raspberries at him he just laughs or blows kisses at us.

Only concern is that he's blw and I want him to have sufficient control over his mouth and muscles to spit stuff out that is too big. He does sort of open his mouth and let bits drop out but I do wonder if his expulsion efforts wouldn't be sufficient if it really came to it. At this age dd was spraying food across the kitchen 3 times a day.

DS didn't blow raspberries until he was 18 months. Just didn't fancy it. He had no problem with BLW and spitting stuff out and he is well ahead in verbal skills now so it hasn't held him back.

If he's doing the other stuff then I wouldn't worry too much and just see how he gets on with food.

That's not a question is it?

Just wondered how late is really late I suppose. Is it a worry?

X-post. Thank you. I couldn't think why it might be relevant outside of spitting stuff out.

my 4 year old nephew has just learnt how to blow raspberries

didn't think it had anything to do with gag reflex tbh

Showy, DS still doesn't really at 17 months. He never even attempted it til at least 14 months. And we did BLW. He didn't really get food til around 9.5 months and now he shovels it in as if theres a famine on the way.

I have no idea why it's important. Just know the hv asked about it and developmental calendars always have it on at around 4 months. I largely ignore that sort of thing tbh but the hv mentioning it made me wonder if I'm missing something.

DS gets food perfectly. If we're talking missile projections and target practice. I'll just be glad he's not spray painting the wall with broccoli then.

I painted my kitchen wall green to tone in with the broccoli, which he used as grenades. Its the one food he will not put up with.

DS turned two this month and has never blown a raspberry! I had no idea it was so important!

We did purees and finger food - although he is now fully weaned obviously - but he always managed to spit stuff out if it was too big. It just kind of fell into his bib, rather than being sprayed into my hair - much better as far as I am concerned!

He can blow (candles etc), suck, and his speech is coming along great guns. I wouldn't worry!

Your 6 month old says mama, dada, crawls and gets himself into a sitting position????

Christ. Mine just lies prone where she's put. And just makes baby noises

I had no idea she should be doing stuff

And he blows kisses?

He's a genius. I wouldn't give the radberries another thought

And come to think of it I don't thing DS has ever blown a raspberry and he's 2.5

Oh no

I am not missing the raspberries tbh. DD used to spray all sorts in your face and laugh at her skill.

Arf at genius. He's g&t at pooing certainly. The dada mama stuff is accidental consonants, he probably means 'breastmilk now slave woman' as opposed to actually recognising that we have labels.

Mine (12ms) has never blown raspberries and I'm not remotely bothered. He does loads of other stuff and I have no doubts about his development. I just don't think he thinks blowing raspberries is a crazy fun thing to do. Perhaps yours is the same.

Didn't even know it was a development milestone

Agree with previous post, your DS sounds like he's doing great to me, saying mama and dadda; sitting up unaided etc are other important milestones that he's met already.

I personally wouldn't worry if he's happy, content, enjoying mealtimes etc. I'm slowly learning to block out opinions in relation to milestones; each child is different and will learn in their own time.

@ShowOfHands hi. I know it’s many years ago but I wonder how did it turn out for your dc? Did his language develop typically?

He turns 14 on Wednesday and while some of his communication has devolved into eye-rolling and exasperated sighs, his language development has been utterly unremarkable ie completely normal.

I can't even remember if/when he learned to blow raspberries. I must ask him later if he can do it.

Are you concerned about your child?

@ShowOfHands hi. Thank you very much for your response. Yes I’m currently worried about my ds. he will be 6 months in a couple of days. He is not babbling yet but makes occasionally some consonants and is in general vocal. He is squealing and schreeching most of the times. But he is not yet blowing rasberries and as I said not yet really babbling. I find it concerning as it is a six month milestone and read somewhere that it can be related to being neurodivergent.

DS actually is neuro divergent but his speech development was as expected.

Hopefully, some of the other replies on here are reassuring and in 18 years of raising my dc, I have discovered that there is a huge spectrum of normal development. Do you have a supportive health visitor?

@ShowOfHands May I ask if your ds is on the spectrum? Or is he ADHD?

My eldest is high functioning autistic. He also never blew rasberries but he didn’t squeal or babble either. He was in general very quite baby. Not making much sounds. But after one year his vocabulary exploded and never had really language delay. It was more like his language and communication was more impaired before three years old. He speaks now three languages very fluently.
I will bring this up definitely in my six month check up.

DS is autistic and you'd probably describe him as high functioning as well. He's dyslexic so he struggles with spelling and processing but he's an avid reader and has an excellent vocabulary and is verbally creative. It's writing and spelling which he finds difficult.

Good luck with the 6 month check. Don't forget to celebrate all the wonderful things he can do.