11 months old - STILL no dada, mama

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Please reassure me! My DS is 11 months old and has never said dada. Every other baby I know has been speaking by now and I'm starting to get a little worried.

He does babble, laughs and blows raspberries and things, just doesn't say dada or anything other than aaaa, aiii and ing occasionally.

This is ok isn't it? I chat away to him constantly, all day, probably he can't get a word in edgeways.

Oxfordshire.
She seems happy, she eats very well, she sleeps very well at night, sometimes well by day, sometimes not (am convinced she doesn't want to miss out on a thing!), she understands loads of what we say to her and can follow simple commands such as "lets go to the kitchen", "give me the cup", "bring me your shoes", "pick a book for a story", "can i have a kiss?" or "where is your nose?" I'm not very worried, but sometimes it just gets to you doesn't it? I think I may go along tomorrow, if only so I don't beat myself up in the future if there does happen to be any sort of problem.

Is this something to worry about? Ds2 is nearly one and is still squealing! Hadn't given it a second thought - until now!!

I think the consensus is that it is nothing to worry about beansprout but that is is very hard NOT to!

Surely there should just be a thread for "paranoid mothers of normal children" It would be the most popular by far! We are all as bad as each other

Jammy - I think our dc were born at the same time and both a month prem. I posted on antenatal boards at the beginning but then kind of tailed off. Anyway please please plase don't fret - Ds has only been walking for about 6-8 weeks (way later than his similar aged friends) and is still very very wobbly.

Also although his vocabulary isn't too behind so much of it is only recognisable to me and he only mastered Mummy at Christmas. That one's a mixed blessing actually because he can now call from his cot for me rather than Daddy.

On the whole he still seems such a baby compared with his peers who are definitely all 'toddlers' these days but as long as I can see even tiny progress week to week I'm trying hard to relax about it and ignore other people's comments when they tell me how 'young' he is for his age.

Oh gosh it's really early! Can't remember when DD started saying dada mama, but I'm sure it was after 1 year and it's really only the last 2 months she has been saying them and actually meaning mama dada. Please don't worry.

Btw, if you are worrying about ITNG, my DD calls all flowers 'ha' after the hahoos because they look like flowers, because obviously ITNG came first then the rest of nature just copied it

Well, we were with some other mums and LOs this morning and I mentioned what had happened yesterday and they all said that DD sounds unusually advnaced and my DD was fine. And she was marching around the room pushing a toy pram with just one hand, so I don't think it's worth asking about her walking as it seems it really is a confidence thing. So I've cancelled all plans of seeing the HV, for now at least and have relaxed again.

about the Ha Hoo flowers Bumper

I don't think many babies of 11 months are really saying 'dada' or 'mama' as in daddy or mummy - think it's just typical babbling sounds which happen to have those consonants. My ds was making those sounds from about 9 months, along with kakaka, babababa etc, but I would never have called them 'words' unless I knew they had a meaning. I count his first proper actual word as ball, when he was 13 months.

Makes me laugh when people say their dc is talking cos they called them 'mama' at 8 months

I wouldn't worry about it at all, as long as he is making consonant sounds.

Phew! Well ladies , yesterday he managed to say baba to his teddy! I think he's been reading my threads and trying to reassure me as well, bless him.

Haha doingthisright Our dc are a lot brighter than we give them credit for! My dd has just walked across the living room after i told her the other day that she was getting too big to be carried and all the other children were walking.