Could DS be at early stages of talking at five months?

[stormforce10]

DS is five months. He seems to be at early stages of talking but both DP and I find it hard to believe and think its just us attaching meaning to his sounds. He's not our first and DD certainly did not talk at this age. Over the last few days he's come out very clearly with

Mama

mama ooby (whilst pulling at my top and rooting about for a feed)

ada when sitting on DPs knee

El which is the last syllable of his sisters name and he only says when sitting on her knee or if she's playing with him

Does anyone have a view or experience of this. If this is early talking how can we encourage him to say more?

I very much doubt it

from 6 months ish babies start to babble and copy things so mama etc is perfectly possible.

I have a video of ds at just turned 6 months clearly repeating "dada dada nana nana". He wasn't actually saying either of those words though, just practicing sounds that came easily to him. As it is, he has never said "dada" again, when he did really start talking dh was always and is "daddy".

Ds started to talk at seven months "Ta, dog, gone, more, juice, again, no" and was putting two words together at 9 months. He spoke like an adult at 15 months our GP said he had never heard any child with vocabulary and comprehension like it before. He didn't walk until 18 months though.

They start babbling at this age, you may just not have had a particular babbler for your older one. He may well have said mamamamama, or even stopped at mama, but there isn't any meaning.
It's very easy as an adult to hear them as words as your ears are adjusted to hearing words iyswim.
I've known babies that pipe up with something that sounds like "Hiya" and things like that, worse a friend's baby's favourite sound was a short word starting with a ffffff and ending in a very sharp KK sound. That got heads turning, I'll tell you.

Onely one of mine really babbled. He would sit on my knee having vast conversations, where he'd stop for me to say something and would then babble an answer. He actually seemed to say less when he started talking because he stopped the babble talk.
The others didn't really do this. He was my latest talker (through hearing issues probably) My older two didn't babble much, or say many words before 11 months, but by 16 months were putting words together.

Thank you its fairly much as I suspected but as DD never really babbled I really didn't know what I was hearing and whether it had meaning or not

Obviously I am still convinced my son is a gifted genius

DS3 waved and said buhbuhbuh at around 5.5 months, did it for a couple of weeks and then stopped again. He was an early talker.

It is unusual but it isn't unheard of.

Time will tell! It will either disappear or he will continue to be clearer in his speech. It is unusually early but not impossible.

And of course he is a genius. So is my DS. Obviously!

Have a look at this recent thread, I don't see why it's not possible that this is the beginnings of talking. www.mumsnet.com/Talk/behaviour_development/a1622377-I-swear-my-9wo-is-trying-to-say-hello