I say go with your instincts. However you feel is natural to communicate with baby is usually the right way.

It's empowering for babies to have their noises repeated to them; they learn that they have a way of altering their environment through verbal communication, but obviously they need to hear adult words too.

You probably speak to your baby in adult words more than you realise, and using 'motherese' (the sing song, over inunciated 'baby voice') is absolutely fine too. In fact, it helps baby identify important words (usually nouns) like Mummy, Daddy, Baby, Teddy, Dog, Cat etc.

When my little one was really tiny I found it easier to sing to him than talk. After a while I ran out of things to say to him, but could sing him songs all day long. Now he's 13 months old, it's unsurprising then that as well as Mama, Dadda, Hello and Bye, the only other thing he says is 'Row, Row'. Usually repeatedly comlete with the rocking motion until I finally cave and sing it a couple of times round!

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