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14 month old talking in sentences?

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Foal · 18/02/2023 15:58

Does anyone have or know of a just turned 14 month old who speaks in sentences?

A woman on a WhatsApp group I'm in is often mentioning how her DC talk in sentences from 13/14 months old (and not just simple things but telling someone about their day was one example she gave). I don't know why she would lie about this in a random WhatsApp group but it just seems so far fetched and of course there's never any videos to back it up! So, to the wisdom of Mumsnet...is it possible that a 14 month old could do this?!

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Consistentlytired · 18/02/2023 16:39

My ds3 was able to talk in sentences at that age for example "theres a red car, it is very noisy" is something he said. However he is also under assessment for ASD so maybe that's has something to do with it 🤔

Lancelottie · 18/02/2023 16:39

Theelephantinthecastle · 18/02/2023 16:29

I think some of your perception is that actually kids are different in those settings than with their parents. DS2 was very quiet at nursery. A good six months after he was doing 2-3 word sentences at home, nursery told us that he had started to talk.. they genuinely believed he had just started. They probably wouldn't have believed me if I had said otherwise so I didn't bother.

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Oh god, that would be DS. Totally, worryingly, mute throughout his two-year check, while I made myself look an idiot by saying ‘He does talk at home! He knows colours, and numbers, and every train from Thomas the Tank engine, and and…’

Fortunately, as we headed out through the doctor’s reception area followed by mournfully sympathetic health visitor, he said sternly, ‘All those children making SO much noise mummy!’

We got our tick in the ‘knows six words’ box, and yep, he got his autism diagnosis in due course.

SparkyBlue · 18/02/2023 16:40

My cousin did. She was this tiny little thing that could hold full on conversations. It was mental. My aunt mentioned it once at work and she saw them all eyeballing each other as if to say "listen to this shite". I wouldn't say my eldest was this early but definitely spoke full on sentences much earlier than average but my other two children weren't early talkers

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DailyDuckie · 18/02/2023 16:40

yes My eldest did everyone seemed so surprised when she used to tell them she was 1 and will be 2 on her next birthday! My middle one on the other hand didn’t say mum until she was two and very rarely talks now unless she has too. My youngest is a big standard toddler. So even if her little one is talking it’s not out of the ordinary and all develop at their own rates. Just remember not to compare!

itsgettingweird · 18/02/2023 16:41

Wereongunoil · 18/02/2023 16:38

Well, as no is a complete sentence it's entirely possible 🤷🏻😂

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Skodacool · 18/02/2023 16:42

Yes, my now 47 year old did. He was relatively late walking.

QueenofallIsee · 18/02/2023 16:44

My oldest(24 now) was very very quiet until she was about that age and we worried about it, having her hearing checked and so on. Then she said ‘mummy can I have some juice’ out of nowhere and continued to talk in coherent sentences forever after. It was utterly bizarre. She is not gifted (though bright enough) nor early in anything else.

PennyRa · 18/02/2023 16:44

Of course it is. I have a video from about that age where my child is talking for 5 minutes explaining how somethings works.

All children are different

hiredandsqueak · 18/02/2023 16:47

Ds2 could speak in sentences at 15 months. I only remember his age because I had taken him to the GP for hayfever medicine and he was chatting away to GP. He thought it was his brother ( 18 months older) and said he'd never heard vocabulary and comprehension like it before and went and fetched the partner. Ds said his first word at seven months and was joining two words at nine months.

MattBerrysHair · 18/02/2023 16:47

Ds1 one put 2 or 3 words together at that age. He's also autistic, like a lot of the children mentioned on this thread.

bagelbagelbagel · 18/02/2023 16:50

My youngest did 'I get the ball' ' more bubbles' - it wasn't more than that sort of thing really. And she's bright but I don't have a mini Einstein on my hands 😂

PinkPantherPaws · 18/02/2023 16:51

I haven't personally experienced it but I can believe that some do.

One of mine was walking at just gone 8 months and progressed freakishly quickly. He seemed to totally miss the unsteady baby/toddler walking phase and progressed to walking like a two year old in days. First steps at 8 months and 2 days and two weeks later he was in outdoor shoes, walking to the corner shop and back with me, unaided, solidly and at a decent pace.

People never believe it but it doesn't mean it didn't happen. It's just unusual.

It means nothing in the long run, my precocious walker is now 12 and still yet to win any awards for his skills 😂

Harebrain · 18/02/2023 16:56

My youngest DD was stringing 2 or 3 words together at 14 months and talking in sentences at 18 months. My friend’s daughter (same age) didn’t speak until the age of 3 but within a couple of weeks, was just as fluent as my early talker. They just all do it at their own rate.

2bazookas · 18/02/2023 16:57

Does anyone have or know of a just turned 14 month old who speaks in sentences?

Yes; actually younger than that. Not mine, a neighbour's child.

HateEatingInTheDark · 18/02/2023 16:59

Why does it matter?
Really?

Needmorelego · 18/02/2023 17:02

@HateEatingInTheDark in theory it "doesn't matter" because all babies are different but by being aware of differences can help anything that might be an issue being spotted early on.
A lot of late talkers don't talk because it turns out they can't hear. Sometimes it is good to compare.

PeekAtYou · 18/02/2023 17:02

I have 3 kids and my dd was speaking in sentences at her 12 month check.

Remember that you can make a sentence from only 2 words. "No more" "Big one" "Hi mum" "Love you"

kagerou · 18/02/2023 17:05

Apparently my partner could speak in full sentences and walk by the time he was 1

As an adult he now fully admits he set the bar too high and that was the height of his academic prowess

Funny thing is his mum is actually mensa level genius (speaks 8 languages, plays multiple instruments and used to work for the UN) so i think she definitely took it as a sign she was raising the next Einstein but unfortunately he's gone on to be disappointingly (for her anyway) average

Shinyredbicycle · 18/02/2023 17:06

My ds's first sentence was at 14 months when he said completely clearly, "Mummy, put the television back on."

I was SO proud.

Didn't walk until nearly 18 months though and is in no way gifted.

I have no idea why someone would make something like that up so it may be true, I guess, but just not that interesting to anyone other than immediate family!

InTheAttic · 18/02/2023 17:08

I have a video of my daughter at 22 months saying “I did a kiss to Mary. There’s a photo of me on the see-saw, in the park.”
She was remembering a photo of her blowing a kiss to her cousin when they were on a seesaw, and she’d recently seen a photo of them on it. She was completely fluent by age 2. I have videos of her reciting pages from books (that she’d memorised from me reading them to her).
At 14 months she was saying things like “Look, see airpane in sky!”, “Mummy, come down!” , “I want bekvest!” and loads of other short sentences using her own words that we understood but others probably wouldn’t, like “I see baptitata” (butterfly) and “pickypa” (caterpillar).

Cma1988 · 18/02/2023 17:08

One of my nephews was putting two and three, words together in phrases at that age. I have a video of him on his first birthday pushing a play-pram saying “I’m coming”, “open da door” “look baby sleeping”.
it’s very very rare though and we had never seen it before in our family. My other nephew (his younger brother) didn’t talk in phrases until after 2 and my sister parented them the same. Some kids just talk earlier. They are both teen boys now and it has made no difference that one spoke earlier than the other.

DinosApple · 18/02/2023 17:09

I can believe it.
DD1 was putting two words together at that age, and full sentences by 18 months.
She was also an early walker, just stood up and walked round and round the room at 8.5 months and as steady as a toddler.

She's was great at reading from 6- but also very dyslexic (couldn't spell her name until 8 or 9). She is also being assessed for ADHD.

DD2 was much earlier crawling, but walked at a respectable 11 months and didn't get a word in edgeways for much longer.

TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 18/02/2023 17:10

Better that than 'speaking in tongues'

MummyInTheNecropolis · 18/02/2023 17:12

My DD was putting words together at that age - “all gone!” “No more now” “it fall down” and “more please,” for example. She was also an early walker, running around at 9 months. She is probably autistic and most definitely not gifted or ahead of her peers in any way (more the opposite) at the age of 17.

seymoursmyman · 18/02/2023 17:13

My eldest starting talking in sentences at 13 months. First one was "scratchy's a bad cat" when said cat stole a bit of her lunch.
My jaw hit the floor at the time and we got funny looks out and about when she spoke.

My youngest hardly said 10 words by the age of 2. Can't shut either of them up now 🤷🏼‍♀️