👶✨ Your Baby Is Talking — Just Not With Words (Yet!) Babies communicate through signals long before they speak. Learning to read these cues can make parenting feel a lot calmer 💕 Here’s a quick guide to what your baby might be telling you 👇 🍼 Hungry • Sucking on hands • Rooting • Crying 😴 Tired • Eye rubbing • Yawning • Fussing 🧸 Bored • Looking away • Making fussy sounds • Losing interest 🌈 Overstimulated • Turning head away • Crying • Arching back When we respond early, babies feel safe

There are lots of parts of talking that come together when babies try to say sounds and words. First, they watch us to see how we move our mouth when we talk. Then their little brains try to mirror us, but don’t always get it right! Those little muscles are learning new tricks! Then, babies need to learn how to turn on the sound at the same time they are moving their mouth muscle muscles! That’s hard to coordinate at first! This mama is so patient and uses powerful pauses to give baby time to ta