Babbling usually begins around 4 months of age. Babbling consists of different speech sounds of consonant-vowel vocal play which are randomly produced. This is an important part of speech development because now, the baby discovers s/he can produce sounds.

As parents or for caregivers, it is important to encourage this vocal play, which is more often does not have real words. For a more significant vocal play production in children above 6 months, one can probably pair these babbling sound to persons or objects. For example:

• “ma ma ma” for Mommy
• “da da da” for daddy
• “ba ba ba” for ball

Take time to enjoy these wonderful time when the baby is discovering vocal play. After all, this is a wonderful start in “trying to communicate” not by identifying or naming persons or objects but mostly by having people react to them when they babble.

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