💡 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

💡 There are so many playful ways to encourage babbling! Comment “BABBLE” and we’ll send you 8 easy tips to try today. 👋 Hi! 👩‍⚕️ We’re Ilana and Kellie—a speech-language pathologist and a CDA (and moms!) We’re here to help you connect, play, and nurture your little one’s communication skills from the very beginning. Curious what babbling really sounds like? Here are a few real-life examples 👶✨ Babbling isn’t just noise! It’s one of the biggest milestones in early speech and language developm

Did you know that babies who sign babble? It’s called Manual Babbling and they do it for the same reason vocal babies babble- to practice the elements of their speech. Your baby is experimenting with their tongue, lips and mouth movement so they’ll be able to make all the sounds necessary for their speech. Babies learn these elements by mimicking the people around them. Have you noticed your baby babbling? . . . . . . #babyintune #babydevelopment #babyspeech #babytalk #babylove❤️ #babygirl #cute

💕 Babbling is more than just adorable! 🐣 Around 6 months, your baby’s expressive language is transitioning from those sweet early coos and delighted squeals to more experimental babbling. 🗣Expressive language is the collection of sounds or gestures your baby makes in their early attempts to communicate. 👏 You can encourage this by playfully smiling and responding with similar babbling sounds. This tells your baby that their attempts at communication are important and effective, and introduce