16 month old still dribbling

[theduchesse]

My DS is almost 16 months and still dribbles constantly. It doesn't matter if he's teething or not, it is all the time. All the other babies I know have stopped and I just want to know if it's still within the bounds of normal for him to be doing it at 16 months.

He has tended to be a late developer for anything to do with his mouth - he didn't really get the idea of chewing until he was 7 or 8 months, he didn't get his first tooth until he was 9 months and still only has 6. He babbles and has a few words but seems much more interested in learning to understand what I say than saying anything himself.

None of that concerns me and I know he is on track with all of his other development and to be honest the dribbling didn't concern me either until my DHs family started going on about it. They also think I should be toilet training him so I know they're not exactly clued in and I should just ignore them but I would feel so much better to hear other people say their child still dribbled at this age.

There's the other thing though, some tied babies feed just fine!! DS2 has a lip and tongue tie and fed like a dream, especially compared to ds1 who was much more tricky because of his ties. He doesn't dribble though.

DS is still dribnling at 2.2 but now it is only really bad when he has a blocked nose as opposed to all the time. He had a postetior tie which he had snipped at 10wo but I have wondered about whether it has reattached as his speech is unclear..... hmmm.