My DD has just turned 10 months. She does not babble but is very vocal with vowel sounds and does a sort of ‘a a a’ sound to get your attention when she wants something. She blows raspberries and makes a sort of ‘v’ sound but no ‘mama, baba, dada’ etc.
She has just started to clap and literally this morning has started to work out waving.
She has zero interest in pulling herself up but can nearly crawl on hands and knees and get to where she wants to go.
She is a very smiley, social baby on the whole.
A lot of my concern comes from the fact I have a 2.5 DS on the ASD pathway who is severely speech delayed so am perhaps hyper vigilant / always on alert observing. I did raise it with the HV at her 9M review but they have simply said they will review her at 12M (although there has been lots of progress in her all round development since that review to be fair). I also feel lots of guilt as DS understandably takes up a lot of our time and DD perhaps gets the shorter straw. My mum died 11 days after DD was born so it’s taken me a little while to be able to do things like baby groups etc with her but she has now started a baby signing group in November and will be starting nursery two days a week from next week.
I just wondered what other people’s experiences were and if they could offer any advice to get them babbling! Thank you if you read all the way through!