My baby girl is 13 months now and she is very social with people of her own choosing, which is only a handful of people including mum and dad other then that she has extreme stranger anxiety and not even grandma can hold her.
She has over 35-40 words and do more then 15 gestures and on top of that she communicates great with us and understands alot of commands. She loves books and points at stuff and wants to know name of it to repeat and has a ton of energy, I mean a ton and she is always called a happy baby by people. I’ve also been told she entertain herself very well and she does alot of pretend play for example feeding the doll milk, gives us “food” she has stirred in a pot and talks on phone, dance to music and she has an incredible memory.
However…. Me and her dad is seeing some behaviours that seems odd and I guess I’m coming here to get some type of input before taking it further to try get early intervention to get ourselves a better understanding and tools for her to thrive.
She has never been great with close eye contact, she will look at my mouth or look at something behind me which makes it so obvious when hanging out with friends children in the same age.
Throughout the day she will rub her back on us or the sofa constantly also have started laying on the floor with her cheek on the carpet.
She hates I mean absolutely hates getting nappy change, it’s a wrestle every time.
She is a picky eater but not to an extreme.
She talks in her own gibberish language and words she knows alot like constantly and is very loud at home however as soon as we aren’t in her environment she will be quite and if there’s a lot of people around at once with lots of sounds she will have a complete meltdown where we always have to leave social functions cause she is scared of literally anyone saying hello to her and she seems sooo overwhelmed.
She is obsessed with tags and as soon as she spots one she will instantly chew on it or feel it and needs it to sleep.
When she gets excited she shakes for a few seconds.
She is not close to walking and doesn’t seem interested in it though she just started standing unassisted. (Which I know isn’t an concern yet)
She naps well but have had split nights since many months back.
Shakes her head side to side and laughs (New thing)
Puts fingers in mouth to try gag herself (New thing)
Not very interested in other kids rather then pointing at them and saying baby.
Sometimes she stiffen legs and arms when sitting in high chair when excited by something.