Archive for February 1st, 2010
Your baby is learning to communicate from the time they are born. Their first form of communication is crying. The baby learns when he cries that he will get your attention and he is communicating with you in the only way he knows.
About two months later, you will notice that when you speak to your child, he will gaze at you and coo and sometimes smile. At that time he has started to connect between what he hears and what he does with his mouth. When you speak to him in your monolog, he will start to recognize words and sounds.
Be sure when you converse with your baby, you leave him time to reply. He is babbling, but he is also attempting to imitate the sounds that he hears. He is making vowel and consonant sounds now and in a few months he will be able to imitate your words.
The excitement of his first word will remain a favorite memory of yours for years to come.