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Hi Tiny Bubu and all May mummies,
Tiny Bubu, may I know why your gal need to go for occupational theraphy? Was it she still can't walk well? My boy just started to walk unassisted this week, still prefer crawling to walking. I think your gal is fine. Sometimes I think the PD tends to go simply by the book. For my boy, I am not worried at all because his regular PD said that learning to walk depends on the baby character as well, my boy is super cautious type, so she told me he most likely will walk by 16 months, a tad later then most babies. And it proved that she is right.
I think the doctors are pretty concerned that she doesn't respond to her name?
Re: talking
As for talking, we really need to take note that most babies here are exposed to 2, sometimes 3 languages. It will be confusing to them at first. This is why if you compared the talking milestone to those western standards, our babies seem to be slow.
To encourage baby to talk, we must make sure they see our mouth movement when we talk. We need to talk slightly louder and higher pitch so as to attract their attention.
We always make sure we point out things to my boy and read aloud for him. Every thing along the street, or things he pointed at, etc. It is tiring but it is effective. My boy can say about 15 words now.
Another interesting thing I read from a book is that caregiver must respond fast enough when baby attempts to communicate. It doesn't matter that the baby only babbles, or point at the thing, important thing is let them understand the importance of communication. When they babbles, just respond, asking what do they want, is it the ball, or the bear, emphasing the mouth movement when u talked. If the babies do not get enough attention from the caregiver when they attempt to communicate, they will not find the motivation to communicate right?
I hope this is helpful to some mummies here. I find it amusing that alot of PD just suggest hearing test when the baby is still not talking by 15 month... I mean as parent, we should know whether our baby responds to sound? How fast a baby start to talk depends on so many factors, including the baby character itself..
Tiny Bubu, may I know why your gal need to go for occupational theraphy? Was it she still can't walk well? My boy just started to walk unassisted this week, still prefer crawling to walking. I think your gal is fine. Sometimes I think the PD tends to go simply by the book. For my boy, I am not worried at all because his regular PD said that learning to walk depends on the baby character as well, my boy is super cautious type, so she told me he most likely will walk by 16 months, a tad later then most babies. And it proved that she is right.
I think the doctors are pretty concerned that she doesn't respond to her name?
Re: talking
As for talking, we really need to take note that most babies here are exposed to 2, sometimes 3 languages. It will be confusing to them at first. This is why if you compared the talking milestone to those western standards, our babies seem to be slow.
To encourage baby to talk, we must make sure they see our mouth movement when we talk. We need to talk slightly louder and higher pitch so as to attract their attention.
We always make sure we point out things to my boy and read aloud for him. Every thing along the street, or things he pointed at, etc. It is tiring but it is effective. My boy can say about 15 words now.
Another interesting thing I read from a book is that caregiver must respond fast enough when baby attempts to communicate. It doesn't matter that the baby only babbles, or point at the thing, important thing is let them understand the importance of communication. When they babbles, just respond, asking what do they want, is it the ball, or the bear, emphasing the mouth movement when u talked. If the babies do not get enough attention from the caregiver when they attempt to communicate, they will not find the motivation to communicate right?
I hope this is helpful to some mummies here. I find it amusing that alot of PD just suggest hearing test when the baby is still not talking by 15 month... I mean as parent, we should know whether our baby responds to sound? How fast a baby start to talk depends on so many factors, including the baby character itself..
