What age starting to talk?

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DD2 is 14 months, people are asking if she is saying any words yet. Which she isn’t. Should she be saying something by now?
I’m sure DD1 didn’t start saying anything until nearly 2!

“1 to walk, 2 to talk”

I think it depends on the child tbh. My 11 month old says ‘mama,dada,yeah,hi and what’ but only really says mama with any purpose.

People are always asking if they’ve met a certain milestone just to make conversation I think, I was constantly asked if dd was crawling yet and as soon as she could crawl they started to ask if she was waking!

I was worried when my toddler didn't say anything at 18 months. He's doing okay now at 22 months and can say 25 words

In my experience first words is the milestone with the most room for, erm, parental interpretation. I got a bit worried when I apparently had the only 13 month old with no words, until I heard my friends' babies 'say their words' when we all met up (make random sounds at random intervals, just like those DS was making, while their mothers enthusiastically said 'yes, that's right, bottle!' to a bemused baby).

Thanks all. I think she’s fine then by the sounds of it.

That made me chuckle LisaSimpsonsbff it’s very true though as I’ve witnessed that!

People love asking you if your baby is doing things that they are extremely unlikely to do. Like when someone asked if my 6 week old baby was in a good routine. I just wanted to cry.

My 12mo says Dada, mama, Nana and randomly this lunchtime 'nom'. All of them are just sounds he likes to make, not words.

Hiya no not really. My son is 21.5 months and he says dada, mumma, no, oh dear, ta, woof woof, wee, uh oh, reada tedda goooo, Hiya, hello, bye bye and get down haha. That's it basically. He can do the noooom sound of an aeroplane too.

My daughter by his age could say all her family and friends names, all animal noises and she could say things like moon, stars, aeroplane.... Also was able to tell you what she was eating.

I'm not worried that my sons lacking compared to her with his range of words as he's starting to pick it up slowly now. I think it said average of 40 words at 18 months but nope that's not the case with my youngest.

Just over a year it's perfectly fine if they say dada etc and nothing else. My son waved at one. Other kids wave at 8 months lol. He is great at other things though instead like climbing and playing with his cars

My own children talked around 2, but I have had childminded children who talked from about 18 months.

I have also had lots of children start at around 9 or 10 months with a whole long list from parents of all the words they say at home... but they also started talking about 18-24 months

My DD wasn’t saying much at 14 months, not even mama. It suddenly clicked at about 16-17 months and now at 20 months she never shuts up. She didn’t say mama until about 18 months though. She could say dog, cat, sheep, shoes, dada, car....but not mama! She now asks “what dat” about everything and tells me she likes things, which is nice. Word of the moment though is “NO”.

My son only said ‘oh dear’ at one, still had very few words at 2. He’s nearly 3.5 now and talks about bloody murmurations of birds and doesn’t shut up! But it’s probably only in the last 6 months that I’ve stopped worrying about it and only the last 3 where he has caught up with his peers substantially.