💡 Want to encourage babbling? Comment BABBLE for 8 easy tips! ✨ If your baby is starting to say mamama, dadada, nanana, or lalala - that’s babbling! 🗓️ Around 6 months: repetitive consonants (baba, dada, mama) 🗓️ Around 7–8 months: babbling becomes longer, with more sounds mixed together (babamama, dadadada) 🗓️ Around 9–10 months: babbling starts to sound like real speech - different tones, gestures, and some meaning emerging And no - babbling doesn’t need to be perfect to count. Every sound

What comes after cooing? Babbling! By 4-6 months of age, baby will begin to use consonant sounds in babbling (e.g. “da, da, da”). Encourage baby to babble by babbling to them! Make sounds they can repeat during play or feeding sessions, such as “ma, ma, ma” or simply copy the sounds they make and add in a new babble sound to see how they react! You can even add words to the sound, such as “bah, bah, ball.” #MilestoneMonday See the rest of baby’s 4-6 milestones here: https://pathways.org/growth-d

✨ Babbling is one of the most exciting early milestones - those little sounds show your baby is practicing the foundations of speech. 🫶 Babbling doesn’t automatically turn into first words - but it is the foundation. Your simple, repeated words and predictable routines are what help those early sounds gain meaning and grow into early words. Here are the pieces that make the biggest impact: ✨ simple words in the same moments ✨ predictable routines your baby can count on ✨ repetition in context (