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Babbling in complete sentences - has anyone else experienced this in their 17-19 month olds?

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RoRoMommy · 05/09/2008 15:16

My DS has been babbling in complete sentences for about a month now. What I mean by that is that he speaks to you like he's conversing with you, sometimes as a question, sometimes a statement, sometimes a command, with pointing and gesticulating and everything. He'll even repeat exactly what he babbled if you say "what?" We speak back to him in English and Spanish, either guessing what he's asking or talking about, or just making stuff up.

I wonder if anyone else has had this experience, and what it means to further speech development; that is, will he just come out and start talking in complete sentences, or will he stop babbling and start adding words one by one, or keep babbling and adding words? He also says a handful of words, including dog (gog), cat (gat, could be spanish gato), gua (agua for water), grasee (gracias for please), mas (spanish for more), and pees (please).

Not worried, just curious.

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funnypeculiar · 06/09/2008 20:51

dd did this. We were CONVINCED she was talking ewok...

jimmyjammys · 06/09/2008 22:03

DS is 13 months and he just witters to himself endlessly all day as he potters about. It seems to be a mixture of mama mama dada dada gerr gerr dag dag and then nodding his head now and then and pointing at things. Its so cute!

FattipuffsandThinnifers · 06/09/2008 22:05

Yep 16 month DS does this too - tis very cute, especially when he seems so earnest, like he's got a really important point to make. Has 'conversations' with his 21 month old cousin too.

ajm200 · 07/09/2008 11:53

Last night we moved DS (22 months) to his big bed as we need the cot again for his sister in a few weeks time.

All day long we got nonsense talk with the words big boy, bed and all night mixed in. We thought that meant he was happy to move across.

At bedtime, he had his most coherent chat with us yet as we turned his light off. He told us 'no big boy' babble babble 'I baby now' babble 'no bed, no all night' I had to leave the room as I was close to tears. It is amazing how with a limited vocab they can get their point across.

Evil mummy, ignored his pleas, settled him every 2-3 mins for an hour and left him in his bed.

This am I got 'I night night, bed, all night hurray'

lecohen · 07/09/2008 16:42

wow ajm, what a smart kid! I am deliberating what to do re bed as expecting in Dec and contemplating buying another cot - dd will be 2 on 25th of this month...she loves her cot so much and it converts into a bed so think I want toi keep it for her....hmmmm decisions

Blandmum · 07/09/2008 16:45

at 20 months dd was saying things like, 'Mummy can I have an icecream please?'

RoRoMommy · 07/09/2008 20:56

Wow, ajm, that is so amazing! How special that you can relate that story to him one day, he did it, hooray!

Martian, I forgot to mention that my DS already says that. That's the only coherent sentence he speaks...

just kidding.

Chaotica, I love that story!

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ja9 · 07/09/2008 21:00

roromummy, my dd has been doing this. very cute! she's 18 mo now but been doing it for quite a while. occasionally now we get a recognisable word in amongst it all. i'm desperate to catch it on camcorder before it all becomes recognisable speech... never seem to get around to it tho'

RoRoMommy · 07/09/2008 21:03

I know what you mean, I keep trying to get to the tape recorder and push the button but somehow...exhaustion has made my brain into swiss cheese!

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fizzbuzz · 07/09/2008 21:13

My dd once had a temperature and was babbling in her sleep.

Heartbreaking

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