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My LO was never a babbler. Even what i thought was babbling was nowhere close to the babbling of my friends' LOs.

She displayed understanding of what was said to her, but she only said "ma" at that age.

@Mrs. Cat in the Cradle: Mine will be 7 months tomorrow and does the same thing, particularly with the closed-mouth "mmmm". No "ha" but sometimes a "gggga" sound. He seems to be aware of sounds around him and has passed his screening tests but sometimes he doesn't respond at all when I'm trying to get his attention. My pedi isn't concerned, but I sort of am...

I don't think it's too concerning. LO definitely just ramped up the babbling the the past 2 weeks, and she's 10 months old. Before that she was pretty quiet. Occasional spurts of babble every few days.

We didn't get mama and dada until 10 months with DS. He was making lots of other sounds, lots of vowel sounds and single consonants, but didn't put vowels and consonants together until recently. However, now at eleven months, he has four words (plus mama and dada), so I guess he was just waiting until the right moment to really get going!

@Mrs. Cat in the Cradle: Do you have any Sandra Boynton books? Those were a favorite in our house (and still are) at that age. Just don't get the Dog book, you'll want to rip your face off.

@Mrs. Cat in the Cradle: oh crud...I thought you meant reading up on what milestones they should be hitting. We read baby books at bedtime and during the day when I'm home. Gah! My previous statement sounds like I gave up on reading baby books to her. Haha.

I agree with @mrs. Jump Rope, though. Sandra Boynton is fun. The Going to Bed Book is my fave.

@Mrs. Cat in the Cradle: The Moo, Baa, La La La book was our Pavlov's dog, until we bought the Dog book... which we've actually hidden. She totally caught on that we weren't changing the barks!

@Mrs. Cat in the Cradle: @Mrs. Jump Rope: but WHY do they exercise AFTER they bathe and brush their teeth and put on their jammies? That part really bothers me.

@Mrs. Cat in the Cradle: My LO (almost 7.5 months) sounds a lot like yours, except that he does do a lot of "ggaa" sounds. I feel like those didn't really start until he got his first two teeth, though. Does your LO have teeth yet?

@Mrs. Jump Rope: lol we have the doggies book and my DH is the one who tries to get me to read it all the time! LO seems to prefer moo baa lalala. Haha

My LO is 7 months and doesn't babble either. He screeches and that's about it. I think at 4 months he was saying guh guh guh but nothing since! I read to him every night but I'm also a very quiet person and have to make a conscious effort to keep talking to him.

@Mrs. Cat in the Cradle: Oh, maybe soon, then? It's totally unscientific and maybe just a coincidence, but I definitely noticed a difference in my LO's vocalizations (not just the gaga stuff) after those teeth showed up.

I'd love to hear any updates since our LOs are about the same age and seem pretty similar in this respect.

@Mrs. Cat in the Cradle: nice! My LO used some intonations today that I've never heard from him, much more sentence-like than usual, but still no real consonant sounds except for the "g".

We had a play date yesterday with a friend and her 9-month-old. We hadn't seen them in a while and she told me that he started babbling very fluently around 7 months, but stopped again after a month and is now pretty quiet again. I didn't know that was a possibility - somehow I thought it was all very linear once it finally started!

@Mrs. Cat in the Cradle: My son said mama for the first time at 9 months, dada shortly after. I've never heard of that as an important milestone though. I think as long as they are making vocalizations of some kind I would really try not to worry. I got all worked up around 14 months when he wasn't adding words (stuck on saying same few words for a few months), then at 15 months he had an explosion.

@Mrs. Cat in the Cradle: I need to stop stressing over this too! But I did want to say that my LO has been obsessed with figuring out crawling for the past two months, and has only just now mastered it to the point of reliably going forwards, so I find the "one 'problem' at a time" idea convincing.