5 month old DS very quiet

[Gingerface39]

Hello, I’m very concerned about my DS and how little noise he makes. My older DS was much more noisy at the same age and I can’t help but compare. I am starting to have concerns that he is showing signs of autism or something else developmentally.

things he does do:

• He has only in the last couple of weeks started playing with his feet
• has attempted to start blowing raspberries (I can hear him blowing through the baby monitor in the mornings)
• very smiley and chuckles sometimes
• reaches for toys and grabs them

things i am concerned about:

• very quiet, and when he does make a noise will be a mmmm, aaaaa, or eh sound. And this is infrequent. He was ill last week but now recovered but since then he has become almost mute. Older DS was saying dadadada at this stage
• not really attempting to roll - my older DS was attempting to sit and rolling all over the place at this age.

I’m a worrier by nature and when I get something in my head I can never shake it. Does anyone have any thoughts or shared experiences of this with their babies?

TIA :)

The amount of posts on here where parents are concerned that their babies of only a few months old are showing signs of autism is honestly astounding. Babies can’t show signs of autism this age. The very normal things that babies do / don’t do are not ‘signs’ that they have autism.
But just to reassure you, babies all develop at different rates. If you put your 5 month old in a room with 10 other babies of a similar age I guarantee they’d all be doing different things. Some will be rolling all over the place, some will be sitting, some babbling etc. There’s no reason to be concerned.
My little one is 10 months old and has only just started to roll onto his tummy as he knows this is how he can get into position to stand from there. However, he could walk unaided by 9 months. My friends baby the same age was crawling and rolling everywhere by 6 months, but now at 11 months is just taking wobbly steps.
My other friend had twins and one of them started walking nearly 6 weeks before the other. They’ve been brought up exactly the same, had all the same experiences etc and yet there’s still differences in their development. Whenever I start to compare my baby to others I always remember the twins and how they develop differently, so every other baby will also be developing in their own way.

Sorry, it’s just so prevalent these days and more common in boys so odds are quite high. I cringed writing it but I do worry, mainly about his speech, less about the physical side. Thanks for trying to reassure me though