8.5 month old not interested in babbling

[Tiredboymuma]

My sweet boy is 8.5 months old and seems to have no interest in babbling. When we babble to him he just looks at us like “What is that, please stop” look. He won’t copy anything we do like sticking out tongue etc.

I caught him saying babababa once and I thought fantastic he started, but he stopped.

Hes an avid raspberry blower, loves shouting and making screaming noises to get our attention (then he smiles) when he almost blows out our eardrums.

Hes Crawling, standing, sitting unassisted, trying to take his first steps. He has great eye contact, responds to his name (when he wants to!)

Am I worrying for nothing?

My son is 13 months and I’m pretty sure at 8 months he was mostly shrieking and blowing raspberries. Just keep talking, singing and reading to him and it’ll build the language for him. He might say dada one day and then go a few days not saying it again, so try not to worry too much if that happens.
Just for reassurance, my son still doesn’t say any actual words, but he babbles all day. No idea what he’s saying but he loves talking. And can understand things like ‘where’s your head?’ He’ll touch his head. ‘It’s bedtime’ He’ll go to the door to go upstairs. ‘what noise does a snake make?’ He’ll go hissssss. So as long as they have an understanding of simple commands around a year ish old then you know lack of words isn’t a hearing issue.
But the best thing you can do it to just keep talking, singing and reading.

Thank you for your experience, I’ll keep up with the babbling/singing and reading we do, hopefully he will pick it up in his own time 😊

Worst thing about having a friend with a baby that’s 3 weeks younger is she’s more advanced than him in babbling and I’m always worrying and comparing which I know isn’t a good thing to do, seeing as all babies are all different!

Gosh the comparing is so hard not to do, but can so quickly make you worry and take away your enjoyment or what your baby is doing.
I always try to think that at some point it’s becomes so irrelevant when they reach a milestone.
My friend had a baby a few weeks before me and he was rolling around way before my son was. But then my son was walking at 9 months and hers took a bit longer.
Now a few months on they’re both walking and rolling etc and you wouldn’t know who rolled or walked when.
It’s good to be aware of milestones and when they should reach each thing, but hold onto it loosely. There’s always average ages they should do things, which means there
must be a load of babies who do them ‘early’ or ‘late’ to create an average.