Hi all,
I'm really worried now about DD's development.
She was late on almost all milestones but still in the "normal" range ( like walking at 18 mo)
Her speech is following the same pattern. At 21 mo she could say about 50 single words, animal sounds, would babble all day long and sing parts of her nursery rhymes.
I thought she was about to have her "word explosion" and I was eagerly waiting for her to start combining them.
Now at 23.5 months she added maybe 10 words to her vocabulary and she still doesn't make two word phrases. She will say "what's that" or "no I don't want" but they don't count as real word combination (mama gone, ball blue)
More worrisome, she seems to be losing some words.
- she used to say "thanks" a lot now she doesn't say it on her own and refuses to say it when prompted. Same goes for "bye bye" or "morning"
I thought it was just stubbornness but in the last few days, she lost vocabulary to request food:
- she learned to say "pain" ( French word for bread) and "yaourt" (yogourt). These are her 2 favorite things. She would ask them all day long. Then she learned "pate" (pasta).
All of a sudden she won't say "pain" or "yaourt" anymore. She will say "pâte" (pasta) instead to request anything while pointing to the actual thing.
No matter how hard I try to correct her, she won't reapeat the correct word.
Am I over reacting? She's close to the 2 years mark and is really not advanced in her speech. She has 60 words top, will use about 10 on a daily basis, can't count or name colors. She has a very selective receptive speech.
She stumbles a lot, doesn't fall but walks like a drunk.
She keeps touching her own ears or mine any chance she gets. She also likes patting things (caressing her clothes, a pillow, anything smooth or wooly)
I'm really scared.