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✨ Babbling is one of the most exciting early milestones - those little sounds show your baby is practicing the foundations of speech. 🫶 Babbling doesn’t automatically turn into first words - but it is the foundation. Your simple, repeated words and predictable routines are what help those early sounds gain meaning and grow into early words. Here are the pieces that make the biggest impact: ✨ simple words in the same moments ✨ predictable routines your baby can count on ✨ repetition in context (

Here’s one of the most fascinating child development videos I’ve ever shared. As your baby learns language, they begin by approximating the examples you set. After a period of early experimentation with sound (including cries, coos and gurgles), infants begin babbling - making speech-like sounds (which often include components of conventional speech) that are - nonetheless - not yet conventionally meaningful. This babbling phase is a precursor to the use of formal words. And it happens in all la