# My Baby Laughed at a Sound Today! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 16, 2016, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-laughed-at-a-sound-today/743295 "2016-01-16T00:12:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![prettydorky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f04885/32.png) [@prettydorky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/prettydorky)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2016, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-laughed-at-a-sound-today/743295/1 "2016-01-16T00:12:29Z")
I don’t feel like it is mundane or pointless, but I lack perspective in this situation. My 8 month old, Henry, has an unknown degree of hearing loss. He’s visually impaired too, and is in fact registered with our state’s deaf-blind collaborative. He has further testing coming up to determine his degree of loss in both. Normally, he does not respond to any sounds. I have been pretty convinced he was totally deaf. But in the last week or so, he has seemed to notice a couple high-pitched sounds- like his eyes will widen or he will turn his head, and he seems to dance to music a little bit. Then, today, I was playing with him and decided to grab my husband’s finger cymbals off the coffee table. I rang them together and he laughed!! I handed him one, and did it again, and he laughed again! I took a video for my husband and then clipped it and put on youtube to send to others. I thought I’d share it here too, because who doesn’t love laughing babies? [Henry Laughs at Ringing Sound](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giIvn0VYVIY) This has been a hellish week and it was cool to see my son do something I thought he’d never do. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2016, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-laughed-at-a-sound-today/743295/2 "2016-01-16T00:21:55Z")
Very cute! I wish the video was longer. And there is no question at all that it is the sound that’s making him giggle. I’m glad you got a nice “upper” at the end of a bad week. ---
**Author:** ![prettydorky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f04885/32.png) [@prettydorky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/prettydorky)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2016, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-laughed-at-a-sound-today/743295/3 "2016-01-16T00:37:41Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#): > > Very cute! I wish the video was longer. And there is no question at all that it is the sound that’s making him giggle. I’m glad you got a nice “upper” at the end of a bad week. I figured my family etc would prefer a shorter video so I actually clipped it to that length. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2016, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-laughed-at-a-sound-today/743295/4 "2016-01-16T02:26:40Z")
That sure looks encouraging! The very best to all of you… ---
**Author:** ![shantih](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@shantih](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shantih)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2016, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-laughed-at-a-sound-today/743295/5 "2016-01-16T04:21:48Z")
What a total cutie! His laughter is adorable, even more so for the hope it implies. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2016, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-laughed-at-a-sound-today/743295/6 "2016-01-16T16:58:39Z")
Give Mr. Giggles a kiss. ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2016, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-laughed-at-a-sound-today/743295/7 "2016-01-16T17:11:14Z")
So happy for you! That must be very encouraging 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2016, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-laughed-at-a-sound-today/743295/8 "2016-01-22T05:54:14Z")
So cool!! ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2016, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-laughed-at-a-sound-today/743295/9 "2016-01-22T08:18:25Z")
Dear little fellow! How wonderful 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2016, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-laughed-at-a-sound-today/743295/10 "2016-01-22T13:28:42Z")
In a world with it’s full share of sad and dismal things, this made me grin. Thank you for it, and give Henry an extra cuddle. ---
**Author:** ![Calla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Calla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calla)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2016, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-laughed-at-a-sound-today/743295/11 "2016-01-22T14:10:35Z")
That’s awesome! ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2016, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-laughed-at-a-sound-today/743295/12 "2016-01-22T14:44:08Z")
Great news! ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2016, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-laughed-at-a-sound-today/743295/13 "2016-01-22T15:21:43Z")
Big smiles. Love it! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kinthalis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kinthalis/32/16084_2.png) [@Kinthalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kinthalis)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2016, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-laughed-at-a-sound-today/743295/14 "2016-01-22T16:06:09Z")
What a cutie pie! Any chance his hearing could continue improve as he grows? ---
**Author:** ![Emiliana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@Emiliana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emiliana)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2016, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-laughed-at-a-sound-today/743295/15 "2016-01-22T16:08:31Z")
That’s wonderful prettydorky. A sound of joy and hope!