Question

This might be silly but for babies to babble ‘mamamama’ ‘babababa’ does this have to be repeatedly said to them?

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I never really repeated it to my son. I just talk to him normally throughout the day. I essentially just narrate everything I'm doing for him. Any kind of language input is going to help their development.

When did he start babbaling like mentioned above?

Consistently around 5 months. Before that it was pretty sporadic!

My baby is nearly 7 months and isn’t going it yet

Aww, this is not silly at all!
The answer is no. Communicate with your baby regularly, and your baby will absorb and learn. When you least expect it, they will quite literally just start saying sounds, word, words, phrases, repeat etc..
In general (not a fact), I have noticed that a common first word is dada. Repetitively!
I don’t know why! 😂

Not to worry it’s completely normal my son only started fully being able to say mama and a dada at 9 months also says “baba”too

I always talk, sign and play with him all day long and he does make noises and stuff but just not the ‘typical’ babbling for this age as I’ve heard it’s supposed to be that

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