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?

Oh I'm sorry but that's just bull shit.
50 words at 11 months. They'd be child prodigy. Mind you look at Einstein. He didn't speak until he was 4, did he.
My nephew is almost 18 months and his vocabulary is "Peppa Hiya and Yeah".

Dd1 I am sure did. She was my first and I knew no other babies. I know for a fact at 18 months we were on holiday in a pub and she was chatting to an American couple about coins and their names. They were stunned . She went on to become a grunting teenager but is now a sensible adult. For balance dd3 had years of speech therapy. Would have been much happier to take an average.

One of my DC could probably say about 50 by a year. Spoke in sentneces by 18 months. She was very verbal early on and is still excellent with language now she's at school. Other stuff she developed a lot more slowly at. It's unusual but some children do certain things very early on.

my eldest definitely would have. She started talking at eight and a half months and has never shut up since. She said her 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th words within 24 hrs of saying her first, and at one point around her first birthday I had a list on the fridge of all her words and it was a full A4 sheet with at least 3 word lists on it, which I distinctly remember sitting and reading through the day my mum died (a week before her first birthday) and crying because she wasn't going to see my daughter grow up. I probably still have it in a box somewhere, but not seen it for years. My younger daughter no way, she only said a handful of words at that age.

Didn't indicate any great genius with my eldest - she is a fairly normal 19 year old now. She did well, but not exceptional in her GCSEs and A Levels, though her highest marks in both were for English!

My DD did, full sentences DS who is gifted didn’t have the same vocabulary until 2.

A friend’s ds did, he walked at about 7 months and talked in sentences at his first birthday. They’re 11 now and he’s just average really.

My 23 month old still bables away. Obviously a lot of kids say more, but the range is vast.

I can remember an exact sentence ds said at 16 months (there's a specific reason I recall the date): " ni' apple, thanks, mama" (ni' meaning nice). I'm not bullshitting. As I said, he's autistic so an outlier in many ways. He walked at 18 mths.

My DS is 10.5 months and we go to quite a lot of baby classes, as well as being in several baby groups of babies the same age. His cousin is a few months older, so we also see a slightly older cohort. So I can confidently say this is utter bollocks.

They pretty much all do a range of noises by this age; mama, dada, baba, boo, pah-pah, yaya, etc. Reliable words with meaning are few and far between. Using a word in context, none of them have many words at all and the words they have aren't perfect. The health visitors ask if babies have 3 words with meaning by 12 months, that seems about right, maybe 10 for particularly verbal babies. Mine reliably has 3 words with meaning but one is for two things and two for one thing (mum-mum for me or DH, boo-ba/ ning for milk; can you guess his priorities in life?). He's inconsistent with others and random noises so I wouldn't count them.

Sorry, will add about context. I would say the early words were mostly nouns, so things she could see (in real life or a picture). She used to say "more" when she wanted more food in the pre-fussy days.

Oh wait, he says "no" confidently and often, so he does have 3! Whoops.

DD had 20 reliable, clearly pronounced, words at 11m, probably 30 at 12m then when she started walking at 13m she lost every single one of them and didn't start talking again with proper words until 18m.

Her pronunciation of her 20 words at 11m was better than her pronunciation now at 21m. She's probably got 200 words now but many of them a stranger wouldn't be able to hear as her consonants aren't clear enough.

I don't recall how many words dd had when she was 11 months. What I do know is that her first proper word (i.e. used consistently in the right context) was when she was around 9 months and that she was entertaining people with many more words by her first birthday party. I suspect that at 11 months it was probably just a few proper words and lots of animal noises - her specialty at the time!

She started making short sentences at around 14 months and had a huge vocabulary/10-12 word sentences by 18 months. She was always an advanced talker. However, she didn't walk until around 15 months.

DD1 definitely not but DD2 probably wasn't too far off.

My eldest son could speak properly by age one. Very freaky. Didn't walk until 18. Then my youngest barely said a word until he was 3.

Like a pp I find it odd ( and a bit sad ) that someone would count and record the words their children said

I was singing and playing with my two at that age. Both academic high flyers so my lack of a list did them no harm.

Bullshit like this just worries parents

DS1 was a good talker but only had a handful at that age. I don't remember how many exactly. DS2 is 1 next week and can say yeah, mumma, dadda, bye and baba (for banana). There are other things he has said once or twice in imitation (dog, cat, some attempt at blueberry) but I don't count them until he has said them without us saying them first.

I do remember that for ages his vocabulary was almost entirely food based. So he could say AGAIN CHEESE before he could tell you what a dog said for example. He could also say toasted tea cake - that was definitely in the first 20.

I don’t remember how many words she had, but my DD was an early talker, at 12 months she had lots of words and some short phrases including “all gone,” “all fall down,” “oh dear,” and “what’s that?” I know because I wrote all the dates in her baby book. She also walked at 9 months.

However, like a PP my DD is autistic, and although she is still articulate and has an excellent vocabulary, she is behind academically in every subject and really struggles with school.

I do wonder, like others, how much this is parents taking babble and saying it’s words. My mil swears that our 12 month old recognises his father in pictures on her wall, and won’t have it that some days everything is dadada... I wouldn’t say he has one word reliably. He’s got a whole variety of babble and I’m sure is saying something, but it’s not words.

On the other side of the spectrum, I remember DS1 didn't have the box for 10+words at his 2 year check.
In upper ordinary now, he apparently has an excellent vocabulary. So if in the range of normal, I'm not sure how much it matters.

He could also say toasted tea cake - that was definitely in the first 20.

That's so cute!

My mum always says I didn’t speak for absolutely ages and then when I did I spoke in full sentences. She also like to say she hasn’t managed to shut me up since.

Babies develop at their own pace, but I would be surprised by 50 words at 11 months! That doesn’t even sound like a number parents could reasonably keep track of.

Upper ordinary = upper primary

DD has her first word at 9 months and it was ‘that’. It was to herald what an inquisitive little imperious madam she was to become.

She had about 15 clear words by 1. And was asking questions and taling in full sentences by 18 months.

But she’s never been great physically. She didn’t climb until she was nearly 2 and only just likes going to soft play to clamber about. I used to take her and she’d sit on the floor and talk to the other kids but refuse to climb anything or go anywhere near the slides. She hates slides. Also hates swings. It meant our activities were limited to fairly indoor activities for ages.