ds has started stuttering a lot.....

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ds2 is 2.4 is an erly talker and has a great vocab (he learns everything from his big brother). Just this week he has started stuttering a lot....

I'm ignoring it and am not correcting him. I just wait for him to finish what he is saying before I answer him....

Ds1 didn't go through this so I'm not sure if I need to do anything or take him to the drs or how long it will last.....

dd did this about this age
it freaked us out
but it went as suddenly as it came
don't say anything
don't tell him to slow down, or breathe (like we did until we read up!)
just ignore it and give him time to speak.
it is just his brain working faster than his mouth atm.

dd started it again recently (now aged 4) but again it stopped quickly enough.

this time she became more aware of it, i had to stop her doing it on purpose to make her older sister laugh!

Stuttering can be part of normal development. You are doing the right thing by just not worrying about it or drawing attention to it. Keep an eye on it and ask your GP for a referral to a speech therapist if it gets so bad it interferes with your ability to understand your son or if he is still stuttering at 3. If he is still stuttering at 3 it doesn't mean its not part of normal development, just that a speech therapist would be able to give you some more advice and reassurance about your own approaches to dealing with it.
Stuttering is not the social no no it once was and there are many excellent therapies to deal with it while kids are young, if you are worried you could look up the Lidcombe Programme for further information about how a speech therapist could help.
But at the moment, you are doing the right thing.

My Ds is 2.6 years old and has just come out of his second bout of bad stuttering since he turned two. It had gotten to the point where he would give up talking and say 'I can't say it'. I mentioned it to nursery because as well as this I had noticed his confidence lowering and they agreed. So we have been referred to a speech therapist - apparently it takes 10 weeks for an appointment so I thought it would be a good idea to get on the list now before he gets to 3 and really starts to suffer.
I never worried about it until I could see it starting to affect his confidence.

Thanks for the good advice...I will continue to ignore it unless I see that it bothers him or stops him from wanting to talk.