Speech

[Msd2416]

Hey,

My little girl is nearly 14 months now and we still haven’t had any words from her! She was super vocal as a tiny baby and used to babble on lots but never has she even said Mama or Dada?

The health visitor has basically told me she’s really concerned and they need to review her because she’s not developed properly! Also told me to try speaking to my child which obviously really upset me! I literally do so much with her constantly playing doing activities she’s always busy with something so that was a kick in the teeth!

Just wondering when all your little ones started speaking? Any slow burners?

I think the only difference with my little boy is he did say mama and dada. Though he didn't really use it straight to us or to gain our attention. He had about 100 words by the time he was 2 and from 2 onwards he just started progressing pretty fast. Think his first word after mama and Dadda was boo at around 17 months and then nothing for ages and then 21/22 months was when he started saying other new words. It took 3 months to gain a vocab of 100 words

Your HV seems really harsh! My boy only said dadda and ta at 14 months....17 months has a couple more...only said mamma at about 20 months..he is 2 next week and pretty much says everything now...his speech has exploded in the last 2 months. I wouldn't worry at all at 14 months xx

I think it needs to be taken in context with everything else development wise. Is she on track with fine/gross motor skills? Does she wave/point/clap? How about receptive language? Mine didn't say much at 14MO but had good receptive language and pointed etc early at 9MO. Like pp she had a bit of a language explosion at 18MO and has just come on in leaps and bounds since then. Now at 2.5 she talks in long sentences and makes me crease with some of the clangers she comes out with eg yesterday when I was teasing her by keeping knocking her toys over she said 'i told you 100 times don't knock my toys over'.... can't think where she learned that! I guess you have to entertain the HV if she is concerned but I'm quite surprised she's wetting herself this much over a 14MO not talking tbh... plenty aren't

I think it needs to be taken in context with everything else development wise. Is she on track with fine/gross motor skills? Does she wave/point/clap? How about receptive language? Mine didn't say much at 14MO but had good receptive language and pointed etc early at 9MO. Like pp she had a bit of a language explosion at 18MO and has just come on in leaps and bounds since then. Now at 2.5 she talks in long sentences and makes me crease with some of the clangers she comes out with eg yesterday when I was teasing her by keeping knocking her toys over she said 'i told you 100 times don't knock my toys over'.... can't think where she learned that! I guess you have to entertain the HV if she is concerned but I'm quite surprised she's wetting herself this much over a 14MO not talking tbh... plenty aren't

My mum says that ever baby is different and not to worry. My DD is 9 months and same.

Well you wouldn't really expect a 9 month old to be saying anything

@TigerQuoll 😂

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