When do babies see and talk?

Question

I heard that when babies are born all they can really see is shadows unless you're right in front of their face. How long does it normally take till they can actually see. Also around what age do they start to talk?

Answer 1

Their eyes start focusing around 3 weeks or so, but talking is another story.
An average would be around a year or so, but I've seen some as early as 6-7 months and some as late as 18 months. And the difference was in the parents. Those that talk/read to their babies all the time seem to talk sooner. (More than just a Mama or Dada sound)

Answer 2

Babies see only shadows and the like for the first few days. Most babies don't start talking until they are about 1 year to 18 months old or even older. They usually start with simple two letter words they mimic from their parents or brothers like 'da' or 'ma'.
It's not unusual, though, for kids to be talking earlier than that, though.

Answer 3

It takes a couple of weeks before they can see well.

Depends on what you mean by "talk". They will babble and make random noises when they are just a few months old. Squealing can become quite a game around 6 months. They will say their first words like "dada" or "mama" between 9 months and 15 months usually.

The more you talk to them the quicker they will try and learn to talk back.

Answer 4

It is true that when they are born they cannot see very far so you do have to be in their face. But they recognize your voice and your smell immediately. They really like to look at foil or black and white stuff. But by the time they are 4 months they can see 15 ft. and they can see all colors.

Answer 5

they can see the day they are born. Once they open their eyes. They can talk at about a year. They are always trying to talk, but they can not make out the words. that way they cry

Answer 6

Newborns can see only about 8 to 15 inches away — just far enough to clearly make out the face of the person holding them. Handily enough, your face is the most interesting thing to your baby right at this age, followed by high-contrast items such as a checkerboard, so be sure to put in a lot of face-to-face time.

By the time she's 1 or 2 months old, your baby will have learned to focus both eyes and will be able to track a moving object left and right, though she may already have been able to do this for brief periods since birth. A simple rattle passed in front of her face will often transfix her, or you can play eyes-to-eyes by getting very close to her face and slowly moving your head from side to side. Often, her eyes will lock onto yours.

Starting at 2 months old and continuing through her fourth month, color differences will become clearer to your baby, and she'll start to distinguish similar shades such as red and orange. As a result, she'll probably begin to show a preference for bright primary colors and more detailed and complicated designs and shapes. Encourage this by letting her look at bright pictures, photos, books, and toys.

Once your baby passes the 5-month mark, she'll be better at spotting very small items and will begin to tell the difference between pastels. By 8 months, your baby's vision is strong enough to recognize people and objects across the room.

Talking-Long before they begin to use words, babies join in "conversations" with their caregivers. Even newborns use eye contact to let us know when they want to interact. By four months, they can follow the direction that we are looking. We also tend to look where the baby is looking, often commenting on what we think she is looking at. Researchers have shown that this kind of joint attention is especially helpful to babies' later language development, leading to earlier and more use of words. Babies also learn to communicate by using gestures. By the end of his first year, a baby can gain our attention and make his wishes known by touching an object, holding it up, or pointing to it as he makes eye contact with us.

As early as two months, infants begin producing cooing sounds. By four months, they begin playing with sounds that are easy to make, repeating strings of vowel and consonant combinations, like "bababa." Early babbling is found in babies everywhere, even those who are deaf. But for babbling to continue to develop into words, babies need to hear spoken language from others. By seven months, babbling begins to include the sound combinations distinct to their native language and, by a year old, babies' babbling includes a broad range of sound combinations and may include their first words.

As early as three months old, infants begin to learn the conversational skill of turn-taking. In the beginning, we adults take the primary responsibility in turn-taking. When we talk to an infant, we pause and then respond as though she answered back. We also model turn-taking when we play games like pat-a-cake and peek-a-boo with babies. Over the next several months, babies gradually become more and more active participants in back-and-forth play and conversation.

By the beginning of the second year, babies use combinations of gestures, turn-taking, and word-like sounds to communicate. A close listen to an older baby's babbling will reveal someone hard at work experimenting with language sounds and matching those sounds to the right objects and the right circumstances.

Answer 7

no longer a lot, no. yet we do it as quickly as we are being lovable with one yet another. Like play struggling with and he pretends I harm him and he will try this little newborn "OW!" and then i'm going to assert some thing like "Awww...detrimental toddler! Lemme kiss it for you!" or some thing. something previous which could be a sprint a lot for me.