Does 15 month old have to call mom and dad constantly?

[vgahdmi123]

Hi everyone,

I writing this post to ask for advice regarding language development of a 15 month old baby.

Thankfully, we are really at this point on track for all Milestones even for 2 years, except for language which I am not sure how it should be interpreted at this time.
According to CDC Milestone app it says that at 15 month "baby should have 1 more word beside mom and dad". And we have that since he can say bu for bug, meow for cat, brm for car.
Hovewer, what it concerns me is that our boy actually never called us mom and dad. Yes, he was babbling all the time around home randomly mamamama, dadada, but he never reached me and said dad or dada. He also imitates sounds of 15 animals correctly, and he will point to over 50 objects when asked for example show me tv, show me chair, show me spoon, etc.

Maybe not calling us is because we are always around him so no need to call us because we always monitor him, but just wondering is this normal?

I am asking this since our friend 16 month old girl already has 50 words she can say. I also know that all kids are individual because our boy is more advanced then her in some cognitive and other social skills, but still like to check.

I mentioned this on meeting with pediatrician, but he did not wanted even to talk about language development unless baby does not speak after 24 months of age, just said you are good here.

thanks for feedback

My son barely said proper words until 18m or so but was much more active physically faster than the chatty ones. He caught up and had no speech delay whatsoever. I’d say you’re very within the ‘normal’ range and it’s a very wide range.

Totally normal

He's fine.

My son could say fewer than 10 words at his 2 year check, when the HV expected him to be able to say 30. He barely said a word until he was 2y 6m, when he told his nursery nurse in great detail about how I was having another baby, and had been ill in hospital and Grandma had been to visit and he wanted a brother.

We hadn't told him I was pregnant, but he'd obviously been listening!

He is 16 now and has a huge vocabulary and talks a lot!

Chill out, put the parenting books down and stop comparing your child

Read to him, engage with him, practise mark making with him, build up finger strength with homemade salt dough, talk to him and narrate what you are doing, take him on outings to see the world but for the love of god stop obsessing it's not good for him and it's not good for you.

My daughter was advanced with speech so this happened a bit younger but she said a LOT of names, the whole extended family, Night Garden characters etc but not mama ... because she didn't have to. I was always around. She was talking in sentences when friends' children had one or two words. They are now teens and no one would be able to pick out the early talkers from the late ones!

All children are individual. Keep talking to him, reading to him etc, it will come with time.

My daughter had 3 words at 10 months but still only 3 words at 20 months as she lost old words when she learnt new ones. She lost mumma and dadda quite early. They were more worried about losing words rather than the number of words. At 2 she had about 10 words and communicated by pointing by 26 months her language exploded and she started using mummy and daddy again. She's not shut up since!
She followed this pattern when learning everything doing it a little then not at all then overnight doing it continuously as if she had always been doing it!

I didn't even realise counting how many words kids could say was a thing and I've had 2!

Honestly, stop putting pressure on it and just talk to them. You won't really know if there's a delay until they're about 3 but based on what you've said he clearly communicates fine

I'm guessing this is your first... Unless you make a conscious effort to say mama and dada, then he might not pick up on it. Hide and then say 'where's mama' and then when he finds you say 'yes you found mama'. Ask him where's dada, then see if he points.

But honestly, you need to not stress about this. He is making sounds, is able to understand you and fifteen months is very early on his language journey. Just play lots, give him lots of experiences and he will be fine!!

he fill find, and point with finger, and look at mom/dad, and lough, but not repeat word mama or dada

The fact that he is pointing and understanding what you are saying is a big positive. He will get there, don't worry. My son didn't have more than six words until he was 22 months, then he had hundreds of words within weeks! Just keep giving your son lots of experiences and he will be talking before you know it!

did he have regression in calling mom/dad by word, i mean he learnt, then he stopped using it for a while, or basically it was fluent once he learnt those words?

@vgahdmi123 He could do many animal noises (he loved the Dear Zoo book) and he lost a few words, but was consistent with mom, dad and car. We had speech therapy with him from about 19 months. We taught him some makaton which helped his communication with us and just persisted with the advice given by the speech therapist. But if I'm honest, it was a case of him just needing more time, there wasn't one thing that I can say suddenly fixed it.

My son is now 18 and at uni so it didn't have any long term effects.