19 month old no words at all? How do i encourage her? Do i need to worry yet?

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My 19 mont old dd is the 4th of my 5 children. My oldest is 7 and we also have a 5 year old and 3 year old as well as a 3 week old baby. She is a lovely little girl, cuddly, interested in things and has really good attention for things like books, jigsaws etc but something which has bothered me more and more as tem goes on is that she just doesnt seem to be picking up any words. She os surrounded by people talking to her both adults and children all day - our house is busy and loud! And yet she has yet to chip in to the conversation at all.

She make noise babbling etc but actually when i really think about it the actual sounds she makes are limited to mmmm and bbbb witht the occasional dddd. No words. She does sometimes say mmumum ir dadadad but these dont seem to relate to either me or dh it seems to be more babbling randomly.

My other chidlren have not been early talkers BUT i think they were saying a few words at least by this age even if they were basic like "bye" or simply calling us mama and dada properly.

I am already just making a bit more effort to get her to speak for example trying to get her to say thanks or ta when i give her something ( which was the frst thing ithers seemed to pick up) but she just looks at me blankly and clearly has no clue what i want her to do. What else can i do?

Do i need to bring it up with the health visitor yet or is it too early to worry about it? She will b coming in a few weeks to see the new baby so i could bring it up then if needed ?

I'm afraid I don't really have a lot of advice for you, hopefully someone else will - DS is 17 months and has no words really, except "du'" for everything from a duck to a giraffe...

I think the textbooks say they should have some words by 18 months, so it is definitely worth speaking to your HV about your DD. Though who knows if she'll have any useful advice for you...!

I plan to have a word with mine if DS is still not speaking in a month's time. He can't walk yet either - I'm not sure if he has problems or is just spectacularly lazy! (he might get that from his mum...)

DS is just shy of 18months and says very little really. We get dadadad, nanananan, and for a week or two he attempted doggy (oggee) but not much else. I'm hoping he's one of those kids who just come out with a full sentence one day but not holding my breath at the moment.

It does concern me I must admit. I know the HVs offer a SL assessment at 22 months so I may well take that up if its not improved by much.

My DD is 18 months next week. She doesn't have any words yet either. It is not a concern if their understanding is good. For example, I can say to my DD 'come upstairs now to brush your teeth' and she will sign 'tooth brush' and come to the bottom of the stairs. (we have just done a 6 week baby signing course). She understands simple instructions not that she does them and interacts well as your DD does. I'm fairly confident on this as the info is from a neighbour (recently retired specialist HV) who told me if understanding is good don't worry, up to age 2 it can eb normal to say very little and then have a language explosion!