It started off as babble, and soon she was reeling off a flurry of ‘mama’ and ‘papa’ sounds, at will.\u00a0 She still did not know who among us was the mama and who was the papa.\u00a0 But she liked the sound of it, and wanted to say it over and over.<\/p>\n
To tell you the truth, apart from that, it still is just babble.\u00a0 But you should have no trouble understanding what she wants, when she wants it.<\/p>\n
Using a combination of gestures and facial expressions (and screams and laughs!) she can convey exactly what she wants to.\u00a0 You’ll know when she’s hungry, and know when she’s thirsty.\u00a0 You’ll know if she likes something, and know when she doesn’t.\u00a0 It won’t be a mystery that you’re someone she likes, and it will be as clear if she’s scared of you.\u00a0 She’s full of beans one moment, crawling at full speed all over the house.\u00a0 And then there are times when she only wants to sleep.\u00a0<\/p>\n
My precious daughter is all of nine months, and does not know a lot of words.\u00a0 But she sure can “communicate”!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My precious daughter is all of eight months, and hasn’t yet spoken an intelligent word. But she sure can “communicate”!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-wonder-years"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}