DS 2.4 has started stammering - should I be worried?

[NorkyButNice]

Naturally (PFB syndrome) I am worried already but I'm hoping that you're all going to tell me that it's common and I don't need to rush him off to speech therapy!

He's been a good talker for a few months but suddenly had a spurt in his vocabulary and at the same time started stammering. I asked nursery to keep an eye on him, and in the last month they've only heard him do it
once. However, he does it all the time at home so I'm not sure if they missed it or if it depends on the situation.

Any experience or advice? Will he just grow out of it?

My DS started doing this at exaclty this age. I spoke to the doctor about it and they said it was perfectly normal, because my DS's brain was working faster than his mouth! She said that I should never interupt him or finish his sentences for him, but let him finish what he is saying and be patient. I made sure I told this to the nursery. My doctor gave me some information from a website on stammering (I think something do to with Michael Palin's character from A Fish Called Wanda).

Anyway, this only continued for a couple of months and my DS has not had any problems with his speaking since!

My dd did this for a while, the spurt in vocab is they know what they want to say but takes their brain a while to get the message to their mouths! I think as their vocab expands they have more words to sort thruogh before deciding what to say.
Maybe he generally talks more at home which is why you've heard it more. I wouldn't worry, it will probably pass as it's very common.

DS did this for a while at the same age. It got pretty bad and I actually posted on MN about it. I also spoke with our HV about it and she was really helpful.

Its now subsided and at 2.9yo he only stammers very occassionally when he is really excited.

There is lots of good advice on the internet too. I think the main things that I was advised (many of which may not apply to you or you may do already, of course) were:
-Talk slowly and clearly to DC so that conversations can be unhurried and calm.

-If you are busy doing something and cannot talk to DC, tell them "mummy is busy doing X, I can hear you and will come to talk with you very soon".

-Ignore the stammer- Do not ask DC to slow down , speak more clearly, take his/her time etc, this draws attention to the stammer and can make DC selfconscious.

-Do not question DC as the pressure to answer questions can make him/her feel stressed and this generally worsens the stammer (I found this a hard one, I just tended not to fire too many questions).

Its hard to say if any of these things worked or if DS's stammer would have just got better on its own- but for what its worth I did feel it was important not to make it an issue to avoid him becoming anxious about it which may have caused futher problems.

I was told the same as Frankie - brain working too fast!

Ah thanks for the reassurance!

I never interrupt him or rush him to finish, so hopefully it'll resolve itself.

My DD (2.4) did the same, very good speaker then suddenly stammering. But just ignored it, and after a couple of months it seems to have gone. It kind of reached a peak where I began to panic, but it was christmas and too much else to worry about. Now its almost back to normal!