Crying, squeaking, chuckling: how a baby communicates
At the age of one to three months, your baby will communicate with you more and more and will try to communicate through crying, chuckling and squeaking. Find out more about your baby’s first attempts at communication here.
The older your child gets, the more it starts to react to you and especially to your voice. As soon as he hears you, he starts kicking and waving his arms excitedly. When your child starts smiling directly at you, respond. Laugh back and talk a lot and reassuringly. It doesn’t matter what you say, it just matters that it hears your voice. Because frequent loving speech is the cornerstone of human language development.
Why Babies Cry
By crying, your child will continue to express their most important needs beyond the first three months. It mainly cries when you are hungry and have a full diaper, but also when you are angry or stressed. Sometimes the crying has no apparent reason. After a while you may even be able to recognize differences in crying and figure out what your child wants from you at that moment. No matter what the situation, it’s important to remain calm at all times and to transfer that calmness to your child, even if they seem heartbroken. This is how your child registers the closeness and attention you give them and feels safe and in good hands.
Why Babies Cluck
If your baby feels completely comfortable, it gives a happy chuckle. Most of the time, the first smile already spreads. This may not yet be the conscious smile that sets in later when your baby intentionally wants to show affection for you, but at least the “satisfied smile”. In combination with a clucking sound, you can assume that your baby is happy.
Why Babies Babble
Of course, your baby can’t speak at just a few months. And yet it knows exactly how to communicate with you. If you talk to him and use the so-called nurse language, which is mainly characterized by a higher pitch and a simplified vocabulary, you can be sure that your baby will soon try to imitate you. This imitation starts in the first months of life and is expressed by so-called babbling. Sounds that your baby uses but have nothing to do with actual speech.
Why babies squeak
Just like the chuckle, the squeak is an expression of baby’s well-being. Babies reach a particularly high pitched voice at this age. But the squeaking of the babies also makes its parents happy because they can be sure that their baby is fine.
Babies communication in the first year of life
Get an overview of how your baby communicates in the first year of life in our other articles:
- Newborns: This is how your baby makes contact
- 4th-6th Month: Your baby laughs a lot
- 7th-9th Month: Your baby recognizes moods
- 10-12 Month: Your baby’s first words
In our specials “ Learning to speak ” for the first year of life and “ Language development ” for infancy, you will learn more about the development of your child’s communication and language.
That happens in other areas of development
Would you like to know how your one to three month old baby is developing in other areas? Then click on the following posts:
- Movement: Movements become more controlled
- Nutrition : This is how your baby gets full
- Sleep: Your baby’s day-night rhythm
- Senses: Your baby experiences new impressions
- Growth: Your baby’s growth and weight
- Growth spurt: Your baby’s 8 growth spurts