8 months old boy.
1. When I call his name, he doesn't always respond. He does it some of the time but not always. Especially when I'm near him, he won't look at me. Like if we are laying on the bed together, and I call him, he's too busy with his stuff and ignores me. But if he's in his baby walker, and I call on him, he turns his head and looks at me and smiles with his big smile! Does that sounds normal for a 8 month old, when is a baby supposed to ALWAYS respond?
2. Imitation. He smiles when we smile. And when I do high fives with my husband, and we go "Oh yeah" a couple of time smashing our hands together in front of our son, and then we turn to him and put our hand in front of him and say "High five?". He then puts his hand up, and we smash our hand on his, softly! The last couple of days I have been sticking my tongue out hoping he would mimic me, but he didn't. Now, today, he's been sticking his tongue out all day. And when I do it back, he smiles, and then a few moments later he sticks it out again like "do it again!". So it feels like he learned it from me. When I touch a toy, he touches that toy. But he doesn't imitate sounds. He did that at 3-4 months of age, whenever I said "goooo" he said it back. But not anymore.
He doesn't babble yet. He speaks alot of vowels like "Aaa" and "Eee" and "Ooo". If we turn away, he can call on us by making sounds like "Eeee" and smile and when we turn arund and look at him, he gets happy! He smiles at us first alot of the time. Laughs at silly things like my hiccups and when I tell him he's a troublemaker when he kicks something off the changing table.
He reaches for stuff and he reaches for us when he wants to be picked up.
He has said "Ba", "Ga", "Kiiu", "Ne" a few times but I don't know if that's considered as speaking both vowels and consonants? he doesn't do the repeated sounds.
He's interested in what's happening around him, and notices when someone enters or leaves the room. He seeks attention, by smiling at someone in the same room, or making some sound like "aaah" or "eeeh", giggling and looking at the person.
He enjoys games, when I kiss his feet and make funny faces and sounds to make it like look like they are stinky, he likes peek a boo, and sudden sounds from me, tickling, songs!
He has great eye contact most of the time, he looks at us in our eyes when we play, and he can switch from looking at me, to looking at daddy, or granny and such. And he sometimes looks up at me when playing with toys, smiling, but sometimes he plays by himself. He doesn't ALWAYS want to look at me, like when I'm holding him and i feel like looking at him, he can be interested in other things, same thing in other situations but he does look most of the time and enjoys it, and always during play and such.
He has looked at daddy a couple of times when i ask where daddy is. Not always though.
It sounds like you just described my baby at that age. Everything sounds completely normal! No worries. ;)
WOO HOO! How exciting.
If possible, try not to expect new stuff.
When he's ready, he'll do various things.
About #1 . . . there is no "supposed to".
Even when he's 3 and 11 and, especially 17,
he will not always turn to look at you when you call his name.
About imitation . . . yup. Isn't that great?
And I enjoyed reading about his various sounds/vocalizations.
Keep up the good work, mom!!
Get the book:
1) "What To Expect the First Year" and,
2) "What To Expect The Toddler Years."
He sounds fine.
Your son IS "babbling."
Put it this way, not even "Husbands" respond to us all the time, nor in the same way each time, nor at all. :) And they give us varied responses and faces and sounds, too. For the same things.
all the best,
Susan
This is all normal for an 8 mo old. They don't always look at your. They don't always answer to their name. He is doing great.
Sounds totally normal. Sometimes babies are interested in what you are doing/saying. Sometimes they are more interested in what they are doing and don't want to be distracted by you, and so will ignore you. And babies/toddlers/kids/teenagers will never 'always respond' so don't expect that to change. Same thing with looking at you. He loves you, but sometimes there are more interesting things to look at since he already knows what you look like. Nothing to worry about.
Your baby is babbling just fine, from what you say. At this age, my little one isn't so interested in imitating me like he was when he was younger, but he loves when I imitate him. So, for example, he says 'ah ah ah ah' and if I say that back to him, he will get a big smile and do it again. Try it if you haven't, it's fun.
He sure sounds normal to me. Babies aren't little machines, and we can't expect them to respond exactly the same way each time. He'll be involved in his own explorations sometimes when you call his name, and could be quite oblivious to you at that moment. My husband is exactly the same way, and as far as I can tell, he's pretty normal.
The consonant sounds babies make are almost always connected to or by vowel sounds. (Try saying "b" with no vowel attached – not at all natural.)
Your little guy sounds like a delight. Watch for changes in the future, but for now, I see no cause for worry.
Sounds like he is a happy guy who is checking out his entire world! Enjoy his curiosity of his new world! It's probably much easier as a mom of 3 to type this than to actually ease your fears, just know that I think you are doing a great job and he sounds very happy and healthy!
He's fine. Kids don't always respond when you call them and that's at every age, especially when they're teenages. Take a deep breathe and relax, all babies develop at different speeds and it sounds like he's doing just fine.
He sounds totally fine and normal! All babies are different. Very few of them do exactly what the books say when they say they will. Just relax and enjoy him!
He sounds like an awesome little guy! :-) Enjoy him!
You got all great responses already, both from this post and the 30 responses you got from your last post on this concern. Call your pediatrician and make an appt. to ease your fears. Your son is doing everything he should be doing! You can really truly relax about this!
sounds perfect to me! remember even if a baby seems like they are "forgetting a skill" they are usually just focusing on something else. and maybe he just doesnt like preforming...my son has been learning to walk, taking little steps here or there but he refuses to do it in front of anyone but me...its so funny, my relatives are starting to think I am making it all up lol
