ds 16m very few words and doesn't say "mummy" or "mama"

[minxofmancunia]

However he says daddy just fine!

he also says "yeah" "hot" "hiya" "cat" and "chocolate" .

he did babble mamamamama when he was 12 or so but has since stopped.

he walked early 11m and now climbs, gets on and off things goes up stairs unaided etc.etc.

he makes his needs known very effectively nods and shakes his head, points to things, gets v frustrated and angry when he can't get his point across. dd now 4 was joining was joining words together at this age had 40+ words and combinations. he's way behind her speech wise. Am not overly worried just wish he would at least try to say mummy! he knows who I am as in "pass that to Mummy" etc and he'll bring it over etc.

Just interested to hear of others experiences. Don't want to take him to see HV as they are a pile of poo round here.

16m DS2 not saying much more than that here. I'm not particularly concerned though. DS1 was about the same I think, can't shut him up now :o (5)

I would honestly say not to worry. I think that your DD was pretty advanced at talking and that your DS sounds very similar to in particular my DD (also second child) who didn't say much until about 22 months or so. She could communicate which I think is a very important thing.

I remember writing all the "words" DS could say at about 18 months and they were all single "words" and many of them were complete guesses. Didn't do anything like that for neglected DD .

They are 7 and 5 now and do a lot of talking :)

Sounds absolutely normal to me. At this age, if he shows that he understands what is being said to him, and generally can make his needs known, then I really don't think you need to worry. Also, STOP COMPARING him to your dd!!!!

Apparently as long as they grunt to communicate don't worry, words will come along.
My 20 month old is saying new words everyday now, it happened all in a rush in the last month or so!

My DS could name most of Thomas and Friends before he could be arsed to say Mummy. It was probably about his 200th word (at about 20 months?)

My DD was the same. She had quite complicated signs for things - she was very good at making her wishes known, just without saying anything, except NO. Now at 26 months she is saying 2-3 new words each day (luckily Mama was one of the earlier ones). She is behind compared to her contemporaries but catching up. At her 2 year check (when she could say about 15 words) our HV (generally OK advice-wise) said not to worry unless she was still not saying much at 2.5 years.

My ds is 18 months and can say 'dada' but not 'mama' or anything similar. He can say a few other words, like car, yes, hat but not a lot else. some things he has a word for but it isn't the proper one yet. The rest of the time he sort of says 'uh, uh' when he wants something and gets very frustrated! He babble a lot to himself as well. He's getting there slowly, some children just take a bit longer, I'm certainly not worried.

On the other hand my dd at this age was starting to put words together and said her first word at 11 months! They're just all different and go at their own pace!

Wouldn't worry. DD2 hardly said anything at that age. Mostly she would point at something and make a noise.

Even about six months ago (she is now nearly 3) she was saying very little. Just in the last two months she has suddenly started going on like a mad relative, and is starting to use compound sentences. Her development ebbs and flows.