Incredibly Advanced Seven-Week-Old Baby Says ‘Hello’ To His Mum

Babies don’t tend to start talking until they’re nearing their first birthday, if not later. But this tiny tot has gone viral for greeting his parents at just seven weeks old.

Toni and Paul McCann from Ireland revealed their son, Cillian, uttered his first world while still a newborn – and we’re not talking a babbled sound, you can clearly hear him say "hello" in this short home video that his mum filmed.

“He was trying to speak for a while but that day I knew he was trying to say something,” says Toni, 36, told Mail Online. “I’d read that babies communicate from a young age and to give them space to answer when you talk to them.

“That was what I was doing that day and because he was so alert and making such good eye contact I decided to video him. You can tell my total shock when came out with ‘hello’.”

According to Toni, Cillian has been trying to form words since he was just five weeks old.

“From about five weeks old his little tongue would stick out when his dad was talking to him,” she says. “I realise now he was trying to talk because that’s what he does in the video.”

It is a huge developmental leap that Cillian’s made, if he is indeed saying “hello” and not just making a bunch of noise that sounds like the word. But Toni says that he has said it again.

“After that he said it again to my daughter Eva although it wasn’t as clear,” she says. “When he has been focused and interacting with me since that day I have been telling him ‘I love you’ and I can see he is trying to copy that.”

Although most babies aren’t able to communicate when they’re as young as Cillian, they do grasp more than you may think.  Author Tracey Blake says that babies are “wired” to respond to language far earlier than most people imagine.

“They can actually hear you in utero – your voice calms them down,” says Blake. “From 26 weeks on, their cry is affected by the sounds of your speech.”

She recommends that parents start having conversations with their baby when he or she is between four and 10 weeks old.  

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