Babies this age begin smiling regularly at mom and dad, but may need some time to warm up to less familiar people, like grandparents. Babies now discover their ability to vocalize: Soon you'll have a cooing and gurgling machine! Some babies begin to make some vowel sounds like "ah-ah" or "ooh-ooh" at about 2 months. Your baby will "talk" to you with a variety of sounds, and also will also smile at you and wait for your response, and respond to your smiles with his or her own.
Your baby may even mimic your facial expressions. Your baby loves to hear your voice, so talk, babble, sing, and coo away during these first few months. Respond enthusiastically to your baby's sounds and smiles. Tell your baby what he or she is looking at or doing and what you are doing. Name familiar objects as you touch them or bring them to your baby. Take special advantage of your baby's own "talking" to have a "conversation.
You are teaching your baby valuable lessons about tone, pacing, and taking turns when talking to someone else. You are also sending the message that your baby is important enough to listen to.
The ages given are meant only as a rough guide. Your baby starts to understand speech even before they begin to speak. From a very early age, they will be interested in looking at your face and listening to your voice. At about two to four months, your baby will begin to respond to the different tones that you may use. For example, they may cry if you raise your voice or may laugh or gurgle excitedly if you make a word or sound that they find funny.
From birth, your baby will make a range of noises which will mean something to you — for example, that they are hungry or in pain. These noises include crying, coughing and sounds made while breathing.
During feeding, your baby will also make sucking, burping and quiet low-pitched contented sounds. Crying and making noises are important as this is how your baby learns to control the air that comes from their lungs and use their vocal cords.
It lays the foundation for speaking. To start with, your baby will still use crying as their main means of communicating with you, but will then start to extend his range of sounds. There is a great variation in the types of sounds made. As time moves on, your baby will use crying less often to communicate and you will also notice a reduction in the first early noises they made. Your baby will also start to smile at you and wait for you to respond and they will probably smile back at you.
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