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When did yours started to talk?

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mammatutto · 09/07/2004 22:37

DS is nearly 13 months old, and has been saying a few words for a couple of weeks now.

He can say Hallo, Thank you, Look, Milk and bye bye apart from mama and dada which he has been saying for a few months.
Is he a early talker or is this normal?

Just to add something else, when I say he says those words I mean he knows the meaning as he uses them appropriately. He will repeat other words he hears from me too, parrot style, but I don't count them as words he says!

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Hulababy · 10/07/2004 00:39

hmb - DD is just getting into the idea of letters and loves to "read" to herself. She now only let's Dh take her top bed and kiss her, and she now reads her own bedtime story to her babies! She is so curious about letters and words. My sister was the same too, but not my brother. Girl thing???

I noticed this past month she has been really counting too - so far up to 6. Know this as we got a giant snakes and ladders and she could count the spots of the dice. She has been able to say her numbers to 10 for months, and is now going further... but really counting is a recent one for her.

Jimjams · 10/07/2004 00:43

cheers hmb. Oh god I can't decide what to do....

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mammatutto · 10/07/2004 00:46

Galaxy, nine months seems very early to me: she seems more than advanced, must say as none of the babies I know has ever said a word before they were 10-11 months. (maybe I don't know too many babies!)

As for the books, ds has recently taken an obsession with them. He only wants to play with books, he will pick up the ones he likes and will put them on the sofa by my side and then will ask to sit on my lap to be read to!
Amazing as until 1 month ago he didn't have any interest whatsoever in books!
He will turn the pages pointing at the pictures and will try to repeat what I say...

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Galaxy · 10/07/2004 00:49

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hmb · 10/07/2004 00:50

Jimjams, look into all the options, in case some of them pan out, would be my advice.

Helping him with an interest has to be good for him, and you.

Hulababy · 10/07/2004 00:52

I am not sure about this early talking/late walking link thing though - read about it on MN a lot. DD also walked quite early at 10 months, and was cruising holding my hands at 5 months. She didn't walk until 8.5 months though. And didn't get teeth until 13 months, and then the "wrong" ones!

I guess all our babies are so different, and for the majority they even out once they have been at school a year or two.

hmb · 10/07/2004 00:54

Hulababy, def a girl thing in my experience.

Sexual steriotyping I know but dd is the 'talker' and ds in the 'do-er'. It was he who showed his sister (who is 3 years older than he is) how to open the 'fridge door. She had never worked it out! Interestingly ds counted before dd.

hmb · 10/07/2004 00:55

I'd agree Hulababy, dd also walked earlyish at 11 months.

Hulababy · 10/07/2004 00:56

Now it being a girl thing I can definitely relate to. My friend's little boy talked later than DD although he now talks very well (he is now 2y 10m). And my cousin's DS, who is almost 2, does not talk at all yet, although he does point and indicate what he wants.

Jimjams · 10/07/2004 00:57

I don't mind helping, but going backwards and forwards to the computer and having to physically prompt every aspect of it does get a bit tedious (and hurts the back). The trouble is he gets so over-excited that he goes into spasm and his hand kind of glues to the mouse and he can't let go of the buttons. Also I don't think he realises that the arrow is moved by the mouse, althugh he does realise that bigger objects can be moved by the mouse sometimes.

Not sure whether to try a huge two handed trackball that I've found, or get Intellikeys and try that- it would be useful for all sorts of things anyway in the future.

Galaxy · 10/07/2004 01:02

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florenceuk · 10/07/2004 01:12

Hulababy, are you sure you don't have a superbaby? Early talker, early walker, eats everything and sleeps till 8am in the morning? You must have amazing genes

bloss · 10/07/2004 05:51

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Hulababy · 10/07/2004 11:59

florenceuk - don't think so, honest! Gosh, really hope it didn't come across as me 'bragging'. Didn't mean too - just answering the question. To put it in perspective - she didn't sleep through properly or regularly until we did CC this Christmas, aged 20 months, she was 'teething' for months and didn't get teeth until she was 13 months and more, she was rubbish at crawling... Oh, and believe me there are disadvantages to early walking and talking too, as I am sure hmb will agree - her DD is the same. Little peace is one of them!

Hulababy · 10/07/2004 12:01

Oh and she doesn't sleep till 8am most mornings??? More like 7-7.30am. Although it was 6am on Saturday And even this if pretty new - see CC comment.

florenceuk · 10/07/2004 16:09

Hulababy, your DD sounds a really alert lively child, so please don't think you were bragging - you have a right to be proud! She does sound really advanced, and I am impressed.

CountessDracula · 10/07/2004 16:14

dd started talking pretty early, can't remember exactly when. She is now 22 months (yesterday!) and can hold conversations very well. She is starting to get her tenses right (eg if she want to do something she will say Weezie do it and then when she has done it she says Weezie done it).

She made me laugh yesterday we were staying with friends and dh got up for her, went to get her bottle and she was shouting "Daddy, where are you? Daddy, come here. Daddy where's my bottle. Daddy naughty, come here" down the stairs!

I think that they are all different, I talke dearly and my brother hardly said a word until he was 2.

Hulababy · 10/07/2004 20:28

Thanks florenceuk. I am proud of her, but for just being her TBH. Like we all are!

minkmama · 11/07/2004 14:53

Oh no, DS1 is 19mths and by comparison can't say a word! He can only clearly say Bye Bye, mama, dada (which he says more ) baba for ds2 and really, the other words are just sounds that I recognise because i'm with him all day. we used to think it was the bilingual thing but DH has stopped talking to him in cantonese for some time now and doesn't see his grandparents that often.

I'm a VERY chatty mummy, so what's going on?!!

He's a massive chatterbox in his own bubba language though and incredibly expressive, bit of an actor really...

minkmama · 11/07/2004 14:54

Oh and he crawled at 7mths, cruised from 11mths and walked at 13 so not slow in the activity area.

Jimjams · 11/07/2004 15:48

Normal language development staggers me. This week ds2 has been killing himself laughing pointing to himself saying "me" and then laughing when I say "you". He knows the difference. I find that staggering. As he'l then point to me and say "you". If ds1 ever gets to that level it'll probably take years of 1:1 teaching before he understands that. Likewise I said to DS2 "say bye bye his name" and he said "bye bye name of the person he was saying bye bye to". My friend's verbal 7 year old autistic dd says "can i help you?" to me when she wants me to help her and "bye bye her name" when her mum tells her to say bye bye.

Actually it depresses me - it so unfair that ds2 just gets it and has an inbuilt ability to manipulate language. It's so easy for him

hmb · 11/07/2004 15:58

I know what yuo mean about language development being stagering. How do any of us manage it? Fine, I can understand that if you point at an apple and say apple, people tend to understand but how do you 'learn' the meaning of the word 'prefer'? Or 'understanding'? or 'love'?

re ds's language it is improving, but he is still behind normal at age 4. But he does come out with some nice mistakes.

I had picked him up to see something and he cuddled up to me and said 'Sing, Mummy', so I started singing and then he said, 'No, Mummy, sing with your feet'. He wanted me to dance with him! I shed a little tear!

Hulababy · 11/07/2004 20:20

hmb - I wish DD would ask me to sing with my feet. Instead if I sing to her she just looks at me disdainfully and says "No muumy, sing it properly please!"

Piffleoffagus · 11/07/2004 20:24

ds was sentences at 16mths
dd has lots of words that we understand, not a lot that anyone else would and she is 20 mths, I do know she understands and points and converses in her own happy way.
All babies are different even ones from the same gene pool, your ds sounds like he doing really well!

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