To think that an 11 month old does not have 50 words?

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I was casually googling 'how many words should my baby speak' yesterday and I came across a thread where numerous people swear blind that their baby can speak 20 odd words, some saying up to 50! Am I right in thinking that's madness? Any more tiny, chatty genius babies out there?

Definitely not....

Oh I’d be so disappointed. Only one language at 11 months? Sad.

I’d say probably not!

I always thought it was walking at 1 talking at 2 roughly. Mine loosely followed that pattern.

Ha ha ha, I think there may be some deluded people out there!

my 18month doesnt even know 50 words all we have from her is
Mine
No
Dummy
Moana
Banana
mummy
dads
nin
oh last night I swear she said pizza

I have no idea. I was a very quick to learn to talk as a child, slow to do anything else (still the same now) and my family always go on about how well I could hold a conversation and identify things. But the exact number not a clue and I would imagine it varies majorly from child to child.

I can't imagine they're telling the truth. I have an 11 month old, she can say Hiya, dada, mama, aww and I swear she was trying to say cat the other day but who knows!

Mine may have done - she started talking at 8 months. Hasn’t stopped since! Walking was a few months later.

Depends on the child. DS had at least 30 words at 11 months. His best friend didn’t have any at that point. His best friend walked at 9 months, DS didn’t walk until 12 month.

Feel like it could be possible. My youngest had about 35 words at 16 months and I think he's quite average so 20+ at 11 months might be reasonable for some outliers who are a bit ahead in speech?

Also people might be counting the noises their kids make that they are parents understand but that most people wouldn't call words. Wouldn't surprise me

My 16 month old ha about 15 words maybe. I think people over state their children's ability generally...

Both of my girls had at least that many words, maybe more at age. They started using words with meaning at around 7-8 months. My siblings and I were all the same. We're just a family of early talkers.

Yeah the HV thought I was deluded when I said my DD had about ten words at a similar age. DD then dropped a toy and said 'oh dear'. HV had the good grace to apologise. Fifty words does sound like a lot and people do exaggerate but it's not impossible.

Distinct words unlikely but doesn't matter what age they talk from. DD could baby sign 50 words by 12 months, was very helpful with communication. When she started talking she didn't stop.
DS on the other hand was a late talker even had some speech therapy as was 3 years and struggling. Now they are older I'd actually say DS is naturally more intelligent then DD.

I’m pretty sure dd was dating a good few works by that age. But I’d have to dig out her baby record to be sure as she is 13 now

DD probably did, although I never counted. But she was using sentences around 1year. DS definitely didn’t, he was two before he was that chatty. Possibly as DD often talked for him. They’re 10 and 8 now and you would never tell who had more words earlier. It’s hard not to get hung up on these milestones, but they’re not always that meaningful in the long term.

Yes, totally possible. Ds had 70 words at 13 months. He was part of a study at the local University so I'm not making this up nor misremembering. He was using 3 word phrases at 18 months.

However, he's also autistic...

This thread makes me think of the Friends episode where Emma says her ‘first word’ which is basically just a baby babbling noise to everyone else but her parents

DS didn't say more than 20 at 2yo. Now in medical school. They develop at their own speed and it means nothing how early they start talking or walking for that matter. I'm sure there are some Premiership football players who were not walking before 18 months!

There's an old saying that a baby is a talker or a walker. I do find those speaking early walk later and vice versa. But even so, I have yet to meet an 11 month old with a 50 word vocabulary. I would think thats pretty rare and would be quite disbelieving unless I heard it.
Also depends on what you count as a word. I always took it to meant saying the word for an actual object etc (ie look at a duck and say duck) but have met some mums who count any noise that sounds like a word.

I think at 11 months DD was just saying animal noises, 'more' (food) and Dada. But she had a big leap soon after and had a really big vocabulary by 15 months. Now she is two and a half and just chats in sentences like a human. A human who doesn't quite understand pronouns, to be fair.

My 18m old had 50 words. At 11m I’m fairly sure she would have had 1/2 max possibly none. There are some very chatty kids out there so I wouldn’t be surprised if there were a few 1 year olds with big vocabs but it is certainly not normal or average.

Same, @Danglingmod. My I’m the youngest of five so by the time I came around milestones were unremarkable, that’s why my parents talk about this sticking out to them as none of my siblings did it.

I’m a speech and language therapist. 10 words by 18 months (including animal noises, vehicle noises etc) is the early milestone we look for.