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?

Of course a child could know the word for juice before they drink it! Maybe they have an older sibling who does or it’s on the table at breakfast time or toddler group or they have one of the trillions of baby board books that have a picture of some juice and the word juice underneath!

My kids said nothing for ages. Then took a long time to put two words together. Not much until 2 really when they took off.
They were babbling though and responded to surprise sounds occuring. So that was reassuring.

One was very unclear until school age. (All good now.)

I hear little ones pipe up in a clear voice and it seems really odd!

Mine was a talker not a walker. I can't remember how many words, but she knew quite a few. No sentences though. Ages before she walked.

My DD was like Yabber's DD. She had a lot of "words" that she consistently used to refer to specific things, but they were not words in the sense that someone who did not know her could understand what she meant.

Now she is quite quiet. She has used up all her words.

Mine walked at 13/14 months so not early at all.

What the hell were they doing! Lol.

My 9 month old doesn't even know 50 baby gibberish "words". She knows Mama which is good enough for me.

Well my youngest 16 months has zero words. I am a bit concerned about his development but 50 words definitely isn't to be expected at 11 months.

LOL, most babies I have ever known have not had a DOZEN words at 11 months, let alone bloody 50! My DD had about 70 words at that age, but didn't walk until she was 17 months old. DS walked at 12 months, and didn't say fuckall til he was 18 months old. That was dadda! He was probably 2 before he had 50 words. Can't shut him up now though.

All kids are different. My two are grown now, and are smart and clever and both did well at school/college/uni.

So no need to worry!

@newnameforthis7
Your post makes no sense at all

My daughter was the exception but had more than 50 words at 11 months, she spoke in sentences by a year.

She couldn't however walk at that age. She started talking at 8 months. People could never quite believe it when they met her.

She's not stopped talking since, is top of her class academically, but still pretty behind physically. They're all different and it all evens out.

My oldest started talking at 9 months and I could have a proper conversation with him by 18 months. He knew his shapes, colours, could count to 20 etc. He didn't walk till he was 16 months old.

He's 19 now and was pretty average at school. Talking early didn't make him a genius. (Although obviously as my pfb I totally thought he was one!)

My second didn't talk till he was 5, he has ASD & MLD.

I have 3 more and they talk. They never shut up. I can't remember when they started talking and how quickly they used sentences. But I know they have no problems now they are pre-teen/teens.

So I don't think it really matters in the long run when they start and how many words they can say by a certain age.

DD couldn't say anything except 'kaa' at that age...although she did have around 20 words of baby signing. None of the other babies in our NCT group were saying more than 'dada' either.

Mine did but he was weird like that. He told the health visitor that he thought "her thermostat was broken because it was very warm" at his 12 month checkup and she brought a paed and a GP in to check she wasn't going insane He was also recognising numbers, counting and simple addition. Apparently he was a genius and had research done on him.

Now he's a slightly above average ten year old but no proper "genius" is evident, especially when it comes to listening and common sense.

It's not usual, but it's not impossible either. I think average at that age is about ten words.

Fresta glad you commented, my 18 month old says some words but I have never thought to count them either! Doubt I could even list all his words right now even if I sat down and thought about it!

Do you think he knew how a thermostat worked at under a year? Or was he copying something he’d heard said when it was too warm in the house. Either is pretty incredible but the former seems nuts.

Oh, ours had been broken so he had heard us talking about it and seen the repair men He connected it being warm with our bloody boiling house.

My DD got up to about 500 words in baby signing before she got her mouth under control...as a result of this, one of the first words I remember her actually saying out loud was 'parachute'.

It took me a while to get that one.

Yeah, one of my husband's first copied phrases was "Slobadan Milosevic" off the TV - just turned around and repeated it.

He did grow up to do a politics degree...

Maybe thermostat baby will be a heating engineer.

I'm pretty sure DD did. She's been a bookworm since she could sit up.

That's amazing!

Well, there's money in plumbing so possibly

My eldest was a late talker but walked at 10 months so I assumed the early walker later talker saying.

My youngest is coming up on 22 months, didn't walk until 14/15 months and doesn't talk! She can say hiya, tata, ta, boo (playing peek a boo), poo (when she smells her feet not in a nappy context), what's that (wisssattt) and no. I actually had the HV out the other day because I was worried about it but she says too young to be concerned yet.

My eldest did have a vocabulary of a good 40 or 50 words by the time he was 12 months, he was an early talker (and still a real talker now). Everyone he met commented on it.

I tried never to read much into it or make a big deal of it, an early walker doesn’t mean you have a future Olympian on your hands, same goes for an early talker.

I think some people do exaggerate and some people will also hear words in normal baby babble. But I do still think it is possible. My daughter was another early talker and late walker. I don't know how many words she could say, but it was quite a lot. No talking in sentences but she would point at things and say what they were. It wouldn't have even crossed my mind to count and compare how many words she said compared to others

Wow. My 13m literally only says dadda and daddy. Sounds out ba, ma, ka. No proper words yet...

God no, none of mine had 50 words at that age. In fact, my middle child, who is apparently very bloody clever indeed, was the slowest to speak. My mum and I were starting to think he had a real speech and language issue because it took him so long to get beyond "dada, mama, yes, no". But all of a sudden one day he starting speaking loads and loads and has never looked back.