How many words could your child say at 1?

[lovescake83]

My son can say :

Mum (rarely, he mostly calls me Dad)
Dad (which he says alot [resentment smiley])
Hello (Haaa-oooh)
Hi ya
Uh oh
Dog/Duck (same word)
He understands phone/wave/clap/etc

All my friends are telling me their children are really advanced in the language stakes and frankly, Im taking it as a slight against my boy because he does clam up around other people. Im fed up of the pitying looks, because thats not behind at all is it? or is it...

Please reassure me x

Arf at Pursang and the mischievous grin! My DS does that too. Just say Mama! Grr

with DD1, pretty much nothing until she was 2. However, I may be doing her a disservice as we never counted it unless it was a proper word, not the same sound to signify the same thing. Most kids I know said nothing at 1 so am very impressed with so many of the kids above! I think DD2 is pretty good (2.5 and capable of full conversations for a while now) but I don't recall any words at 1.

Dgd (11 and a half months) says "bye-bye" accompanied by a funny little wave and "no". Her father (ds2) had a similar word count at the same age except his words of choice were "cake" and "more". DS1 didn't say anything recognisable until after his first birthday and his first word was "baby". All babbled away merrily.

I wouldn't be at all bothered by a lack of words at one, tbh. Out of the three mentioned above, two of them have degrees and rarely stop speaking!

DD1 had about 20-30 words when she was one, but she is nothing special now (although she can do long words, like supercalafragalisticexpialidotious). Apparently she never speaks at all at school, so being able to speak early hasn't done her any good at all (she is 3.10).

DD2 probably didn't have any words at 1 - at 18 months she still only has about 5. Your kid is doing fine.