Can your 7 month old 'talk'?

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Interesting conversation with a woman in the park today re 7mo ds and what's average in terms of communication.

She seemed rather surprised at ds's methods of communication. He says a few words and has recognisable ways of saying other things that he can't make the sounds for yet. So he says...

Dada
Mama
DD's name
Grandad
Hiya
Uh oh (when he drops something)
Yehyehyeh (whilst nodding and he generally means yes please, hand it over NOW)
Nernernerner (whilst shaking his head and means no take it away wench)
Says 'bahmuh' when he wants milk whilst gesticulating/grabbing at my chest
Says bahbahbah when waving (we tell him to 'wave byebye' so assume he's attempting the sound)

I think it's just progression from different cries signifying different needs and as he's developing more consonant sounds (ba na duh da muh ma guh etc etc), he's just using them instead of crying.

Lady in the park however thinks he's weird and followed us around telling us so and asking me to 'get him to do it again'.

DD was exactly the same. She was 7 months at Christmas and we have some video of her gumming a carrot and shouting 'up' 'guk [look]' 'hiya' 'mama' 'dada' etc. It's the dullest video ever I grant you.

You can have the final say. Is ds a weirdo? I want to know so that I can write it in his baby book along with the more dull stuff about first solids. First suggestion he's weird.

Stealth boast. And not a subtle one. He is clearly gifted. You're on the wrong board .

It's honestly not a stealth boast. Honestly honestly honestly. DD was the same, she's nearly 5 and not gifted at anything other than hearing a sweet packet being opened at 100 paces in a locked room.

I'm genuinely asking people to confirm it's normal. 7mo babies jabber on all the time. I've heard them at baby group hell chattering on.

Yes, it is very early. My son is 10 months and it sounds like he's saying "mama" and occasionally "dada" but that's it (and I think he is clever saying those words!)

My friends DD is 7m and can say your above list, it is however easier for her parents to understand her but I could definatly hear mama and hiya from her. Am coaching my 6m old now

My friends DS was able to be understood by strangers with a very similar list at same age, my DD was about 9mths when we could understand her verbal communications tho no one else could - again/more/food/her brothers name/dog/dadda/hi/bye. So I'd class your DS as eager to communicate but certainly not a weirdo!!

Weird

My DS is 7 months and babbles 'dadadada' 'mamamama' 'hiya' etc but to to anyone or anything or at any prompt

My baby is 8 months and says fuck all.

DD1 was like this (she still never stops talking...), DD2 was more like 11months and is generally a bit less chatty even now (4&3). Far more prone to just bellow when it's reached emergency levels of need, whereas DD1 provides a running commentary of her thoughts and feelings. I don't think it's weird, all babies are different. I loved the early talkin

My baby is 17 months and says none of the above and nothing else either. She's on the late side, but growing up with three languages in her defense. I would expire with shock if a 7 mo said a recogniseable word to me. It has never happened yet. But from the OP, apparently it's possible!

Er, no that's ridiculously early. My DD is twice that age and has about the same vocab.

My baby is 7 months old and all she can say is "ah!" with various different intonations.

My son is just shy of 19 months and says nan, dada, bzzzzz (for bee), ..ggee (doggy) and ..aaaa.... (for cat).

At 7 months I think he had just started dadadadadada and we didn't progress further til at least 13 months.

Thank the lord Crikeybill, I was feeling The Fear creep up on me. Exactly the same here.

My DD talked at 10 months....she could make a number of animal sounds when asked "What does a so-and-so say?" she would respond with Meao, woof, tweet-tweet etc...she could also say "Spongebob" (bumbob) and Hello, by bye Mama Dada. She had sentences at 1..."where Daddy gone?" "what's in your bag?" etc.

She is 7 now and distinctly average in all things except looks (biased) art and making up stories. Yes she's articulate and spells vey well but her maths and comprehension is rather...well...not great!

Ealry speech isn't an indication of greater intelect imo.

She also learned to read slightly slower than some of her peers and her writing was atrocious till this year. But she still uses far more sophisticated words than her peers.

Sounds very early to me too. DS1 was over one before he said anything that constituted a word (and even then, it took another few months until a stranger could understand him). DS2 is almost one, and (in the last couple of weeks) has learned to say "nanana" (banana) "na na" (night night) "dadnnn" (daffodil) and "Dad! dad!" (anyone at all, but especially delivery men). I thought he was pretty advance to be honest .

It's pretty early for him to be saying that many words reliably. My DS is 15 months, and can understand questions like "Do you want milk/grapes/banana/to go out in the buggy?" and he can clearly say about 20 words and a few phrases, like "Go out" or "Get in" (to the play pen). I can't really remember when he started talking, which is a shame really, I should have written it down, but I'd say his first reliable words started at about 10 months.

My son is an early talker. He is now 17 months and people are often amazed at what he says. He has started saying two words together, for example "spicy pizza" was his latest thing. He said Mama at around 6 months, very clearly. He also said quack quack for duck and woof woof for dog. He now can say the sounds of all animals, plus knows their names. he can say hi, bye, mama, dada, baba (which is grandma), he says people's names, milk, water, ball, tap etc etc. I just think he has very good recall and good mimicking skills - I am quite sure he is not a genius by any stretch of the imagination. In other physical things like crawling, for example, he was quite slow. Just talking and remembering words he seems to be quite fast. I think it all evens out.