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Not sure exactly but I guess within the first 2 months.

Within the first month.

Adding that my lo was super fussy at that age...so we wouldn't have gotten anywhere with books either.

It's a sore spot for me. I want to get better about it but it's such a challenge so far and he's already 8 months! He wants to eat the book, he wants to crawl away, etc. I have been trying while he he practices self feeding and other stuff where he is contained but occupied.

We started a couple of months ago and DD just turned two and a half. She wasn't really interested before that. Now that's she's 2.5 she's obsessed with books.

I'm a super bookworm and truly believe reading to your kids is one of the most important things you can do for them. However, I have never read to my 4 month old yet and it took me a while (maybe until 8 or 9 months?) to read with my oldest. Not sure why - just not something I prioritize when my kids are tiny. But if it makes you feel any better, my 3 year old loves, loves, loves to read. So it's not too late! Don't stress about it too much

We bought some newborn books with high contrast images and baby loves them. They can hold her attention long enough for me to pump. Started at 3 weeks.

I'm a librarian but I waited until LO expressed interest. Shes always loved looking at books and turning/gumming pages, but I didnt start regularly reading to her until she showed she was into it...sometime between age 1 and 2. I don't remember now.

Before that we would just look at books and point out things on the page like cow, green ball, letter A. I think thats how she learned the alphabet so early.

Anyway now she loves to read and at age 2, we go get new books from the library every other week and she reads to us and we read to her bith before nap and bed and throughout the day when she brings us a book

Probably the day we brought her home. When she was tiny, sometimes she just liked to hear our voices as she fell asleep for naps, so we didn't even always bother with kids books. I got half way through a Gregory Maguire book by just reading that aloud to her at naptimes.

Pretty early on (a few days old?) but at that point it was him hearing our voices while we read. We loved showing him pictures in the "Look Look" (Peter Linenthal) books-black and white contrast is excellent for babies. I then started reading the same book at bedtime each night as part of our routine. He now LOVES books at 10 months old. It definitely took a while for him to be interested and actively looking at pictures and looking at us to hear his favorite parts. Right now he's into the "Spot" books (lift the flap), and Sandra Boynton. I use lots of voices and he loves hearing me sound silly. I was a kindergarten teacher so knew I wanted to start early with my baby, and I'm glad I did!

I started reading to DS when he was in the womb. I'd read one book each night (unless I got home really late). Once he was born, I continued to read to him when I would nurse him.

We started right away. It's part of our bedtime routine.

Two weeks old. But that was due to an awful combination of me being a teacher and hormones messing with an already existing anxiety disorder, therefore feeling like I was already failing as a mother by nont reading to her daily. Needless to say she wasn't at all interested. Thankfully DH convinced me to back off.

She started looking at pictures around 6-8 weeks but not truly being interested until 4 months, and even then it was a cursory interest.

She will be one on Thursday and now LOVES books. Book is one of her very small number of words and she will drop everything for a book. Don't worry, it's not too late!

Since she was born! We did go through a period where I stopped reading to her because she would just want to eat the book and be really mad if I tried to do anything other than feed her the book. And she would literally get it slobbery enough to be taking bites and consuming it. So we put a hold on book reading for a few months, maybe age 6-9 mo? I suppose she did pop 7 teeth during that interval! Now she LOVES books and knows how to turn pages and spends most of her time in her room just looking at all her books. Still occasional chewing but she'd rather look at the pages. Okay she has a few books that she views as primarily just edible, but just a couple!

I started reading to DS around 3 weeks as part of his bedtime routine. He is too young to be able to see the pictures but will listen to my voice. I wanted to start good habits early.

I read aloud from the time my son was born, but he couldn't be more disinterested in reading.

He's more of a numbers kid and that's just fine by me, so I just continue to read aloud and maybe one of these days he'll bring me a book to read unprompted or look at one on his own.

When she was 2 days old and I haven't stopped since. Babies don't need to show interest in order for reading to be beneficial to them. The sound of your voice and hearing the words are the most important thing for them. There are countless studies on the importance of reading to kids as early as possible - they tend to learn better, know more words, speak sooner and better, etc etc. Keep doing it regularly - tummy time, nursing/feeding, pretty much whenever you can!