16 month old progressing really well - but some words she knew she's stopped saying...

[muttonnotlamb]

My 16 month old DD is really great. Very engaging, alert, interactive. She's a very good communicator, we think - even though she only has a few words.

OVer the past week, her jargon/babble has really taken off - she speaks like she thinks she's saying sentences, with lots of intonation etc. But obviously (sadly) we don't understand.

Within this, the word 'dada' seems to have become the favourite buzzword. She uses it for loads of things.

This word 'dada' seems to have replaced a couple of the words she knew like 'teddy'.

Is that normal? My DP says she still says it but whenever I hear it, it sounds like daddy, not teddy.

She's not losing any other skills - if anything, her imitation skills etc are all terrific

Just wanted to know if this was usual development stuff

It's very normal for children to 'forget' words. They will come back, don't worry!

Thanks for the reply. That's good to know :-) I panicked as I'd read about regressive autism...

Dd did this a lot at that age. Now twenty months and she is chatting away

So strange but my 15mo has done the exact same thing, her new favourite word is dada so she calls lots of things dada that she previously used to call by proper names eg. Cat, teddy..

Wow! Snap re my 14 month old. How strange. Exactly that - she seems to have forgotten certain words and now calls everything Daddy. Oh, and she gets confused between me (mama) and her baby doll (bubby) - but I think that's because her doll says 'mama'. No wonder she's confused!

My DD did this too! For instance one of her first words was 'cheese' she said it for weeks and weeks, then suddenly stopped and couldn't/wouldn't say it for months.
They all came back though, and at 2.4 she is saying everything she used to, and loads more. I think they call it 'forgotten words' it's quite common.

Yes, my DS is also doing this and he's 16 months. He sounds almost identical - in that he's making a lot more sounds/noise but has stopped saying a couple of words.