baby talking 🥹 (help)

How old is she?

What about it frustrates you? If it’s the fact that the conversation goes nowhere, I guess just pretend you understand her and she’ll get happy and start babbling about something else

@Julia 1year

@Alicia i get frustrated that i cant understand her. sometimes i feel like shes really trying to tell me something! and she cries and hets frustrated and then i feel bad and get frustrated with myself

Idk if this helps, but My son has a speech delay and a lot of words and babbles can be difficult to understand and he gets frustrated sometimes You LO is still young so will soak up information a bit more easily things that have helped my son come along in his speech is narrating everything I or he does. Giving options and long pauses and repeating significant words such as “do you want apple or orange” “oh you want the orange okay!mummy will peel the orange” and letting them pick and eventually doing a long pauses such as “ do you want the apple orrrr…. Orange” Reading books even if they don’t let you finish reading the page. And nursery rhymes And also let them believe they’re having a conversation with you even if it is just babbling copying the sounds they make even if you don’t understand will encourage them more these babbles will eventually turn into words

@rissa I’ve found most babies have low expectations of being understood. They more want to just interact with me, and feel connected. They feel connected when I smile at them, affirm them, point things out to them in response, etc. When I do these things, I usually end up having a good time with her even though I have no idea what she’s saying lol. At the same time I usually try to go down the list of why she might be uncomfortable and trying to communicate that - diaper, water, nursing, cold/hot…