Dear Moms/Dads,

Can someone tell me when does a baby start
uttering words? I am looking at a range
(in months).

Finally, what can we do as parents to get baby
interested in uttering words?

So far ours just utters \" dildildildil...\" when
the baby is happy running around!
BTW its just ~ a yr.

Please advise!! Thanks a mil again!

game replied. all babies different babies and on cannot say for sure when a baby should achieve a particular milestone, even though the apprx age range is specified. I dont think you suspect any speech issues with ur kid, u r just awaiting her to speak. Let her take her own time. Some babies start speaking words at 8m, others at 12, like that. My 12m old baby also does dildildil, but she also saus mumma papa dada didi kaka like that. I think ur baby will also start speaking words in a couple of months. Some ppl believe girls approach milestones faster than boys, i dont know how true is that.

What i did to encourage my baby is this. I caught up the letters that she can speak. Some can speak ma some speak pa but not ma, some can speak ka but not da, like that. Thankfully my baby started with ma and i could soon hear that magical word mumma, then she cd speak da. So i knew she cant speak ka. Hence if she cd speak ma pa da, i taught her forms of those. Like mummy, papa, dada dadi didi (she has a didi 5 yr old) then dede. She is speaking these well.

so give time to ur baby and u can try encouraging like that. BTW what is thanks-a-mil?