{"id":69,"date":"2006-08-10T19:49:14","date_gmt":"2006-08-11T02:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/?p=69"},"modified":"2006-08-11T08:30:26","modified_gmt":"2006-08-11T15:30:26","slug":"da-da-da-da-da","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/da-da-da-da-da\/","title":{"rendered":"da da da da da"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the linguist who gave a presentation to our parents group, babble is defined as a series of short consonant-vowel sounds repeated over and over: &#8220;da da da&#8221;, &#8220;ba ba ba&#8221;, etc.  And, also according to the linguist, it is the single most important milestone in speech development.  Babbling typically starts around 7 months (Ruby is 5.25 months), but there&#8217;s a wide range that is normal.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Ruby started saying &#8220;da da da da da da&#8221; while lying on her blanket!  Kate was home from work so we both got to enjoy it.  She did it many times, with four or five &#8220;da&#8221;s in each string.  So, we are declaring today as Ruby&#8217;s official &#8220;first babble&#8221; day.<\/p>\n<p>And no, we&#8217;re not counting &#8220;dada&#8221; as her first word because:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a) as far as she knows, my name is &#8220;Papa&#8221;, and<\/li>\n<li>b) she wasn&#8217;t using the word in context &#8212; she was just babbling.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the linguist who gave a presentation to our parents group, babble is defined as a series of short consonant-vowel sounds repeated over and over: &#8220;da da da&#8221;, &#8220;ba ba ba&#8221;, etc. And, also according to the linguist, it is the single most important milestone in speech development. Babbling typically starts around 7 months [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-milestones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}