Why Doesn't My Baby Coo by 4 Months
no blathering or cooing from 4 month erstwhile
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my 4 month old dd is very quiet. She'southward pretty much on runway for her milestones, can lift head when on tummy, can curlicue onto her side but not completely over, smiles when she sees/ interacts with united states, she fifty-fifty started to laugh at ds when he'southward being silly. She is very placid and like shooting fish in a barrel going, rarely cries and sleeps well. mostly she's a little star. But she doesn't actually make noise. She doesn't babble or coo, she sometimes makes a short 'ah' sound but even that is pretty rare. I talk to her and stuff to try to encourage her but at what point should i worry? Her hearing seems fine as she jumps if someone coughs/ sneezes/ claps etc and she's not expecting it. I'm pretty certain ds was much more than exact than this? The just other time she makes noise is when she'southward falling comatose chewing her fingers and you get a repeated yayayaya blazon audio. Please someone say your dc were like this too and it all turned out ok!
sorry you're worried. just so yous know, the fact she jumps at coughs/claps etc. doesn't rule out hearing loss. I did this when I was a baby and I have a moderate-to-severe hearing loss. It's most astringent at the frequencies of speech (not uncommon) so I believe I also didn't babble etc.
why not see your GP or HV and they can advise?
I might do that. I wonder if I should push for a hearing test. She was fine when they tested her in hospital when she was born.I'm just non sure if I'thou worrying prematurely or not.
Anyone else?
I can't remember how much cooing or babbling there was at four months ninja just if you're worried it sounds like a perfect HV question - they should be able to tell you of it'southward 'normal' or non. Practise you accept a HV you lot get on with? Or a clinic you can simply turn up to? If they don't give you a satisfactory answer so I'd pop forth to the GP I think.
Sorry I can't assistance more ten
If you are worried, I'd become and raise information technology with an hcp of some sort. If they think at that place might be an issue and then they'll transport you for a hearing exam and hpefully you'll take some reassurance.
I think that the hearing test at birth is pretty much it ninja - ie if it was fine her hearing is fine?
Dd1 didn't chatter half equally much as dd2 does as a baby. I might have worried nearly it if she was my start. She never bloody shuts up now though!
I would ask hv/gp too for reassurance.
I think i of the things I am finding difficult is that with ds nosotros had friends with babies the same age (our nct group) and so I knew where ds was in the grand scheme of things but this fourth dimension around we oasis't done whatsoever groups and I don't know any babies the same age so take nothing to compare to. If in that location are whatsoever parents of 4 months olds reading this, I would be interested to know what noises your dc make and how often.
I know DD didn't react to noises until 6 or so months. She didn't leap at claps and slammed doors... Didn't babble til 9-10mo.
She's 18mo now and chatters away merrily. twenty clear words, the rest is gibberish. She's bilingual.
HOWEVER, we do have major concerns with her in this respect. She'south just just started recognising her name this calendar week and most babies tin do this by 6mo. In all other areas she's fine.
So i'd say 4mo sounds early on to me, but if you're worried, ask the HV. Nosotros take a hearing test booked.
Should they really recognise their proper noun at 6mo? I'm non sure ds2 does and he'due south viii months 
DD (viii mo) reacts if I say her name, but it'southward a encarmine miracle if she actually knows the name, seeing as I call her Bean, Pickle, Monkey or Munchkin 99% of the fourth dimension. I refer to her as Bean to my family unit and friends likewise. 
I recall she's reacting to my tone rather than my vocalization.
Ninja, I'1000 pretty certain DD was cooing past four months but I'yard clueless most the betoken at which you might need to worry. I remember Bedhopper is right and the GP/HV might exist able to reassure you.
Cheers all, I have to accept ds to the docs tomorrow so will ask re dd and then too.
Good luck op permit us know how you get on.
She sounds perfectly normal 
but I just desire to be clear to anyone reading this that passing your newborn screen doesn't mean your hearing is ever fine. Hearing loss tin be progressive and the newborn screen doesn't cover about 10% of deafened at birth babies.
That's really helpful hatchy cheers.
OP Really wouldn't worry, she is making a noise even if chewing, and is even so very very tiny.
I have a iv calendar month old DD and she sounds only like yours! She rolls the same (to side merely not any farther actually) sucks her fist smiles lots and giggles occasionally. She does coo a footling just my Mum says she'due south never come up across such a quiet baby. She's my DC3 and I don't actually remember with my other 2 but they're sooo noisy at present I could practise with a quiet one!
She did fail her start hearing exam (born at home so beginning test done a week later or so in the infirmary) and so had the slightly more detailed one too. She passed that fine. There's never any harm in taken a wee one to a GP for something similar this though. HTH
I've got a 4 month quondam DC and she is likewise still very tranquility. Really inside my NCT grouping the only ones starting to babble more and are the ones born a few weeks alee of mine so I'1000 thinking information technology's probably fine.
DD didn't whorl til she was 12/13mo. She crawled first 
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She besides failed her hearing test the first time merely passed the second fourth dimension. We practise think she has trouble though then have booked her an engagement.
Manifestly babies should respond when yous call them one time they hitting 6-8months. Some do information technology at 4 months. I'm not sure if it matters that they know their actual name, it's more than a social response thing. DD only started responding last week at 18mo, then that'southward definitely a flake of a worry for us.
4mo is really early days. But I remember if you lot're worried, get it checked. People really fobbed us off with DD and told united states to wait it out. Now nosotros're getting the checks we should've pushed for over a year ago.
Ninja I don't think DS fabricated many more than noises than the occasional 'ooh' at 4 months but I may be wrong. Allow usa know what the GP says.
How did yous become on at the doctors Ninja? Did you get a chance to inquire well-nigh DD?
I left a bulletin for the duty hv to call me back as gp says hv deals with it. Nothing nevertheless just I'll chase information technology tomorrow if I don't hear anything. The more I pay attention to what noises she makes the more I think I'm correct in getting it checked. She merely makes closed oral fissure type noises and she really should be at least attempting vowel sounds occasionally just she just doesn't.
I posted something very similar when DS was around that age, possibly even older. He did a lot of grunting but didn't outset babbling (bababa, mamama) until he was about eight/9 months. Someone posted this which talks nigh babbling existence a 6-8 calendar month milestone, rather than a 4 calendar month ane (which I think information technology is listed as in that bounder What To Expect volume).
Anyway, he is 17mo now and never shuts up. He has loads of words and it all sort of happened at once. I wouldn't worry if everything else seems normal.
Thanks yep that's really interesting. Especially the fleck nigh the nazallized vowels. She clearly tin make open oral fissure sounds when she cries and when she moans to herself to become to sleep as she'south merely done information technology but it really puzzles me why she won't practice it when awake as she is a smiley and engaging but silent baby. I think I will see if the hv thinks a hearing examination is worth it as she merely responds occasionally to sound.
The hearing test is very not-invasive (DD had one at about 8 months and enjoyed information technology enormously) and then I think it'south a adept idea to put your mind at rest. And if there was whatever hearing loss, then the earlier the intervention the meliorate.
ok and so the hv says not to worry at the moment as she smiles and is interested in general but to go along an eye on it to see if information technology seems to be progressing over the adjacent few weeks/ months equally she is still so tiny. I think I'll give her a month to see any progress in language/ response to sounds and then go to gp's if she'southward not come up on a chip by and so. I might test out some sounds on her too to see what she responds to and if at that place is any design.
Good idea Ninja. Don't be fobbed off if you proceed to take concerns though. Best of luck.
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