Kinda worried, but don’t know if I’m overthinking and expecting too much?

[kirstblxo]

Hi,

so I have a almost 14 month little girl. She’s amazing just to start, she is amazing with food (could eat for Scotland!) and she’s been on her feet from 10 months old. She runs and everything now and loves to climb! I’m posting because it’s the communication side or things that I’m concerned about. So my daughter will make a lot of noise (shouts and cries and make other noises) but she hasn’t said any words yet. She can babble but barely ever does. She makes noises more than babble! (If that makes sense) I cannot hold her eye contact or attention for any longer that 5 seconds to try and “talk back and forth with her” so if I speak to her she isn’t looking at me and there’s no interaction back. They only time I will get her attention for a slightly longer time is when out her hands on my eyes to do peekaboo. She hasn’t even done peekaboo by herself and won’t allow me to out her hands on her eyes to show her. She doesn’t copy clap hands, peek a boo or anything! She isn’t pointing at all and she doesn’t wave or shake her head or anything? It’s just worrying. I know babies all develop in their own time but her having no sort of communication interactions is now raising alarm bells with us. She’s so hard to get attention from and keep the attention. The health visitor has spoke to us and booked her in for a ear test ( her hearing is fine) so that if she needs referred to speech and language in the future they won’t tell us to get that done first… I don’t know if I should be pushing for something to be done sooner or what? But I’m just hoping someone comes along with the same as my daughter and will tell me their kiddo “caught up”. I don’t know if it’s worth mentioning but my son 11 is currently undergoing tests for ADHD and my partner had ADHD too xx

Not the response your looking for but following this as I feel in the same situation! My DS is 15 months but he's not walking...he's been cruising for the last 6 months but is very slow to progress to walking. Babbling and says mama dada but no relation to who's who. Same as your little one, no gestures or copying. Eye contact is great if your singing to him or playing games with him but he also doesn't respond to his name (and definitely nothing wrong with his hearing as he crawls the other side of the house if he hears the bluey theme tune from another room!!)

Hi OP, I feel your concern.

My son is just about to turn 15 months and I'm super concerned about his lack of attention too. I see some other people's babies and they closely watch EVERYTHING their parents or other people do.. my son will look at you, but it seems like it has to be on his terms most of the time,.and it's usually only quick glances like you described.

My son is pointing, following things we point at, handing/showing things to us, saying a handful of words, and following some commands like "go get the _" , "shake this", "grab your foot", etc..

But I'm just so darn concerned about his lack of attentiveness at times. He just seems so busy all the time! And his name response is pretty shoddy, too.

Mine is inconsistent with eye contact like that too. In some instances like changing him or when he's eating, he'll look at you a bunch, but if he's on the floor playing and you get near his face he wants nothing to do with you! We figured out he's much more into eye contact from a distance.