I'll have a consonant please, Carol.

[autodidact]

In an otherwise alert, curious, sociable seeming baby of almost 10 months, is a lack of consonant babbling something to worry about?

Mine did very little babbling at that age...6months on she's a jabber box (though I still cannot understand 99.99% she says)
Keep watching, but I'd not be worried yet.

Oh thank you for replying, bebemoohatessnot. That's reassuring. Hope my little girl will follow in your daughter's footsteps. She is very into crawling and cruising at the moment and I wondered if she was putting the babbling on hold until she's perfected walking or something. Her non-verbal communication seems pretty good and she likes blowing raspberries and making sounds by bringing her lips together but her actual vocalising is very vowel based still. The odd gah and goo but nothing anywhere near that babababa dadada mamama stuff. She did have a tongue tie snipped @10 weeks old but I'm not sure if that would make a difference or not. She grins hugely if anyone else starts babbling at her but doesn't try to imitate it. And I can't remember if/when my older ones (twins now 11) babbled!

Interesting you should say that about the walking etc. because Moo was really into sorting her gross motor skills out too. Now she's running....

Bet that is v cute.

At this age most children will either focus on language or gross motor skills - and they soon catch up with the other.