How much does your 1 year old talk?

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My DD is 13 months old and says loads of words, can count to 3 and knows all the usual animal noises, she can also pretty much copy words when repeated a couple of times. When people meet her they're all quite shocked at how much she says. Please don't take this as me trying to brag about how much she does, I'm genuinely curious how much 1 year olds talk. I thought it was quite normal for a baby her age to say a lot?

My experience with my own children is interesting. My son, first born, started talking at 12 months, and I mean fully talking. Full sentences. He had hardly ever done any "baby talk", just started talking like a tiny grown person. He also never stopped talking, so by the end of the day I was mentally exhausted by the constant conversation. Like you, people were shocked by his vocabulary, but at the time I didn't think anything of it. He was my first so I didn't appreciate how unusual it was.

Two years later I had my daughter, and she was the complete opposite. She didn't start really talking until she was nearly 3, and I was a wreck about it. I had her hearing tested three times because I was so worried, and even had her assessed by a specialist for learning difficulties. I really didn't think she had any because it was clear that she was very engaged and very intelligent, she just wouldn't talk. I lost a lot of sleep worrying about her. When she finally did start talking, she was just like her brother, conversation 24/7. 🙂

My first was like a pp and talked at 1. We have a video of her saying "sitting on the sofa I am, eating mine sandwich, watching little piggy on the television" with her first birthday cards in the background.

My second could do three basic words together at 12 months (want drink please type requests), all animal noises and some singing /counting by rote but didn't really talk properly until he was 2.

Mine, literally nothing of substance 😬
Copies some sounds but not actual words.
Mama, dada, yes and that’s about it.

He understand much more complex things though like ‘take the book to mammy to read to you’, off hell trot book in hand to find mammy and sit on my lap and open it so we can read.

Mine is 13 months. Says mama, dada, hiya and points to the light and says ‘ight’. That’s it. He’s my third and to me this is normal. They all develop at different speeds though and in my experience girls start talking that bit earlier.

At 13 months mine said around 30 words and started using two words together at 15 months. Now 22 months and can speak in full sentences and doesn't stop talking!!

I remember my 18 month old nephew coming up with a toy and saying "it's broken, can you fix it?"

I was totally as DS was nowhere near this at the same age.

Really interesting how physical milestones are quite similar for babies but speech is totally random.

Eldest DC was full sentences by 12 months.
DC2 has SEN so didn't talk at all.
DC3 is 14 months right now, babbles a lot and has said a couple of words but nothing that I would call proper "talking".

My 13 month old can literally only say mama, dada, lily(his sister) roly(riley his brother 🙊) and bye 😅 where my daughter was talking much more by this stage.

It sounds like your DC is going to start talking very early.

For the benefit of anyone reading this thread who is worried that their one year old isn't speaking in full sentences, my DS said one or two words max at that age. It was Christmas and if I asked him where the tree was he would look at it, but wouldn't point.

He's now 22 months and says somewhere between 50-100 words (I've stopped counting). He knows most body parts and a lot of animals. He's just started stringing 3 words together, but a lot of what he says only makes sense to me and DP. Looking at speech development websites, He's bang on where he should be at this age.

DS is 16 months and not really saying anything. He can understand though; if you ask him to bring you a particular book from another room he'll go and get it. Can point to body parts. Points to the fridge if you ask if he'd like a yoghurt. Knows who we all are!

His brother was a late talker so I'm not worried. Now at seven he never shuts up...

My DS is 11 months (just) and I’m not confident he has any words yet! He babbles loads, lots of mama and dada but I’m not convinced he’s properly linking it to us! He’s a very physically motivated baby, he just wants to move all the time, whereas my mum said I was talking in full sentences before I could walk and she was really embarrassed that I was still crawling, I am starting to worry that he won’t have any words by 1 but just reading to him loads and doing lots of modelling!

15 month old says nothing. Not even mama/ dada. He seems to understand everything and points