How old were your DCs when they said their first word and then first sentence?

[taintedpaint]

Just wondering what the collective average would be.

A friend is expecting her DS to start talking soon. He is just turned 3 months old. [hhmm]

pmsl!!!

ds1 started saying words around 18m i think, was just about joining things together at 2

ds2 didn't talk really until he was 2. is now 3 and just starting to put 3 words together. he has glue ear tho.

ds3 is 16 months and says nothing

i do have a friend whose little girl was talking at 9 months tho! not sentences but definite words. sentences just after she was 1. was incredible

[hgrin] [hgrin] [hgrin] [hgrin]. Let me guess, a pfb?
Gosh, average must be about 11 months (first word) and 23 months (something with structure like a sentence).
My kids were much much later than that!

The best talker I've known personally, you could have full on detailed conversations with her at about 22 months, said her first word at 6 months.

Haha yes, PFB, how did you guess?!

She thinks he will say a sentence. I said bollocks. Clearly the little prince has more verbal skills than me!

Dd- 19mo ("Papa")

DS- 5mo ("Papa" took him till 20mo to say "Mama"!)
They're all different.

But a full sentence at 3 months is not going to happen is it?

I'm not unreasonable to have laughed am I?

[hgrin]

My youngest didn't say anything much (not even many words) until he was 3 YEARS old. When he did start talking, he did so in very long sentences in two languages and has never stopped talking since, he even talks in his sleep most nights. I often look back to those days of silent communication with a slight feeling of melancholy.

So no, you are not unreasonable to have laughed.

In all honesy I can't remember [hblush]

DD, words about 10 months.. quite complex sentences about 22mths..

Smug, I was..

Then along came..
DS words about 13 months. Sentences about 26 months

Re the PFB think I think some people are genuinely confused between baby cooing and babbling which do come very early and proper speech. Your friend's baby might say "eeeeooo" at a few months old but it isn't really talking, just practicing making sounds...

I can't even remember when DD said her first words . At some point the "dadadadada" babbling turned into "dada" while pointing at DH. Probably somewhere between 6-10 months.

She still doesn't do full sentences yet at 20 months, only two words at a time ("mama, milk", "dada, up" etc..). We're bringing her up bilingual (DH is Finnish) and I wouldn't be surprised if her sentence formation does take longer than average simply because the two languages are very different and she needs to grasp the structure of both.

DD is OK at non-verbal sentences - sort of miming instructions to us. She will one day be very good at charades, I suspect.

PS One of the most intelligent, academically high-achieving friends I have didn't speak at all until she was three and started with full sentences. Early development doesn't necessarily say much about what comes later.

i have come across some people who do refer to baby babling as "talking" maybe she just means that?? like dadadada babababa mamamama sounds, some people claim their child has said "their first word" when they say these things??

i cant even remember the age mine said their first word, i know by 1 yr ds1 had quite a few, and sentences i think putting stuff together about 20 months? and proper sentences about 2 yrs or slightly over (he is only 2 still so i should remember this really!)

but ds2 10 months dont have any words yet

No, she definitely thought it was going to be actual words, and not ones that just come out through babble, though I did think that myself before she elaborated.

Her DS is very alert and smiley and I think she's been told this so much now that she thinks she has a genius on her hands. Which she way well prove to have, but he will not be talking in sentences any time soon!

Oops way may!

my kids are 17 and 21 years old

i have no idea.

its really not important. especially when they get a tongue piercing, you can't understand them anyway

DS1 was an early talker and could talk in fairly complex sentences (in two languages) by 18 months.

DS2 was the opposite and didn't put 2 words together in any language until he was 2 years old.

DD was somehwere in between.

I can't remember the age of the definite first word with any of them, as others have said it just kind of evolves from the babbling.

It doesn't seem to have made any difference to them (they are now 4, 6 and 8). They all talk incessantly. The lastest to talk was coincedentally the earliest to read.

DD1 first word at 9 months, probably 40 word vocab by 12 months.

then I had more "normal" children including 2 with speech delay

I can't remember ..my youngest is 18 though

DD1 - 14 months, first word 'Shoes' (and I was right to be worried about that ). Complex sentences by about 22 months. 'Cows in field behind hedge over there' - I remember because I was completely gobsmacked.

DD2 - 14 months, first word 'Duck' - but she now loves shoes as much as DD1. Complex sentences also at 22 months, 'mummy, where combine harvester gone?' - which also gobsmacked me, mostly due to the odd subject matter...

At 3 months my DD1 started growling, sounded scarily like a very large dog - so perhaps that was a second language?

first word - 9 mo. "Cat", shortly followed by "dad". "Mum" took ages

first sentence about 17mo

She is now 3.5, and all the other children at nursery caught up ages ago

I remember "Mummy" "Daddy" (didn't use an abbreviation waited until she could say them in full) were at 14 months and her vocab was huge by then. I remember a particularly long sentence at 18 months "Ella fell over and bumped her head on the floor like this" - she was my first, I didn't realise it was quite so unusual until much later on.

DS was quite adept at saying "ah goo" at 4 months! First proper word was "tea" pronounced like "dee" at 10months. He had a few words by 1 year, I think and was doing 2 or 3 word phrases by about 20 months. First phase was "cup of tea". We don't actually drink all that much tea, honest!

It's actually quite strange to think that he wasn't really talking that fluently at 2 years. He's just turned 3 and talks non-stop now, long complex sentences "I want orange juice in my blue cup. No actually, I want apple juice please mummy" He still babbles though and makes up his own words.

9 months for first word 'Rafe' which is name of our cat. Sons both said it a few times while clutching the cat. Odd words after that but it was very hit and miss really. At 2 years DS1 was talking in sentences with about 3 words while DS2 was talking in sentences of 6 or so words.

oh yes i didn't get mummy or even mum for ages... boo hoo

well dd is just completely random she has about 5 favourite words that get rotated throughout the day "more" "school" "diddit"(I did it aren't I clever!!)miaow-miaow(my lovely cat friend that makes me so happy) and a version of ds' name but she has also recently come out with random one off sentences of "I wanna get out" and "I no did poo (version of ds' name) diddit!" She is 17mths.