What makes your baby laugh?

[Gabeesh]

My 4mo ds is just starting to chuckle. We're still waiting for the hysterical giggling stage but he definitely laughs now. Thing is, I thought babies were supposed to LIKE repetition! Not mine. Something will make him laugh one time but if we repeat it he's like 'Seen it - what else ya got?'

The only thing that will induce repeated grins (he's very smiley) is counting to three very slowly (oh the anticipation - the punch line is always a let down though) or blowing raspberries. We're running out of ways to try and amuse him now. So, how do you make your babies laugh?

Bouncing DD up and down on my knee while making funny high pitched noises, she only started at the weekend tho and she is 6 months. Makes me laugh too which then gets her laughing more

Mine was like this. She found any new noises funny, noises I could make with my mouth such as whistling, purring, blowing my nose etc. the things she found funny were usually the things I did by accident.

A buzz noise like a bee, pig noises into her neck, hundreds of kisses all over her head, making her "fly", raspberries on her tummy, nursery rhymes when she's facing me on my tummy, tickling her feet, being bounced on her jumperoo, peekaboo, silly faces, DH or I laughing, the dogs play fighting..... the list is endless. She seems to have inherited our very silly sense of humour so making her laugh is a doddle.

My DD was like this, she'd crack up once or twice at something then make you feel like an idiot for keep doing it!
As a result the things that made her laugh were transient so I've forgotten - bad parent! (she's 3 now)
DS is the opposite. He thinks DD is the funniest person ever and laughs at lots of things. For example, DD dropping books on the floor, any silly body noises and today's gem - DD saying 'barbie world.com' over and over again. He was in hysterics!

For some reason all three of my kids have liked the exaggerated fake sneeze ahhhh ahhhhh ahhhhhh tchoooooooo cue fits of giggles

My DD is 7 months now, things that have her chuckling have been rasps berries on her belly, face or anywhere. Big silly notices with anticipation. Holding her upside down, jogging her up and down on my knee like a horse, she laughs a lot when I do 'this is the way the lady rides'. Her current nutty laughing frenzy comes from saying the word noodles at her. Laughts without fail but especially if I emphasise the o's.

Sorry for many typos, typing on phone while feeding!

I second the fake sneeze, especially with a word or name in it. E.g. Ah...Ah...Ah-BABY-choo!. I have no idea why, but it worked for months, with pretty much any word (choo-choo was a very popular one).

6mo DD has laughed when I've said "ba-ba" over and over again, when I've played peek-a-bo from behind the door, and when I do the '1-2-3' countdown before ticking her or rolling her around on the floor. But she's not much of a laugher and what works one day never seems to work again! She grins a lot, she does a huge open-mouthed grin when she is amused, but not much of a laugh.

Dangling a teddy bear over her and then swooping it down to tickle her tummy, with nonsense phrases like rumble tumble. I think it's the repetition/anticipation. :)

Dd is now 2 but has always loved 'round and round the garden like a teddy bear...' with the 'tickly under there' punchline. She has always been really ticklish and will hold her arms up to be tickled. She now tries to tickle her friends, which isn't too popular with some!!

Another one with the fake sneezing here, and being thrown up in the air and caught makes 10mo DS squeal with laughter. Also, randomly, he finds watching people walking up/down stairs utterly hilarious. No idea why

I forgot- he loves watching people pretend to fall down. Major giggles there. Bit of a fan of slapstick is DS!

Holding her horizontally and swooping in on mummy for a kiss (I'm daddy) always gets a laugh.

Raspberries on the soles of the feet
High-pitched Red indian noise where you wiggle your finger in your mouth (is that non-pc? meh)
As stated above, doing daft stuff. I stubbed my toe on a metal baby gate and the resultant limping/hopping/swearing was the funniest thing since tommy cooper.

Yes ipswich, throwing in the air is a nailed-on winner!

(Are you a motorcross fan, by any chance?)

9 months old, blowing in her face. She tries to do it back.

Oh yes both of mine love the sneezing! My DD1 used to laugh when she actually sneezed after this! DD2 is 5 mo and laughs at everything DD1 (2.5) does especially when she's being naughty! She laughs when I tell her sister off she also loves raspberry a on her neck gentle tickles, me holding her do she's chasing DD1, DH making her kick a ball! Oh they are so lovely :)

I sing 10 green bottles to my dd! She's only 3 months old so doesn't quite chuckle but gives me the biggest grin ever! I think she likes the repetition of the song. Maybe I should change it to 100 green bottles......

Ds is 10mo now, but what has always worked really well is repetition but varying somthing for instance tone of voice, so you can say 1, 2, 3 and sometimes say the 3 really loudly, sometimes in a whisper, or say 1, 2, quack, quack...interspersed with the normal 1,2,3. Worksfor ds.

How'd u guess austen? used to watch a lot with dad when I was a kid, and that we always my brothers nickname for me since we're from there!

ipswichwitch - I'm suffolkated too, but I'm over on the unfashionable western side! (Between BSE and Newmarket, and down a bit). Lots of mentions of the Ipswich Witches on BBC Radio Suffolk, so your name stuck out a mile!

Thanks everyone for the ideas! It would seem perhaps I'm getting a little ahead of myself in terms of laughter and development, he certainly is a smiler. But at least now I've got a few more ideas, he's very discerning!

I'm not deliberately going to stub my toe though.

The thing that made my dd laugh hysterically was singing 'The Grand Old Duke of York' and lifting her up on the 'when they were up they were up' bit and down on the 'when they were down etc' bit. It was so lovely!