Concerned about 18 month old milestones!

[wildflower10]

Hello, this is my first time posting.
I’ve read a few other threads but I just wanted to make my own too to talk to other parents.
My DD is 17 months old, will be 18 months in about 2 weeks and I’m just worried that she’s not meeting her milestones.
She doesn’t talk at all, she says ‘dada’ and ‘mam’ and ‘wow’ and that’s it. I talk to her all the time and have a lot more recently too but she just doesn’t seem to pick up on words and doesn’t seem to want to talk. She’ll babble all day long, like all the time haha but no actual words and I’m not sure what else I can do to encourage words.
Also I’m not sure if she has a great understanding of what I’m saying as well, I’ll ask her certain things or ask her to get something for me or where is something and she either ignores me and carries on what she’s doing or she just doesn’t do it?
She also doesn’t know where her nose is, head or any body parts at all, I feel like I haven’t done that enough with her but when I do it she doesn’t mimic me by pointing at her nose either.
I know I shouldn’t compare at all but it’s so hard not too, I have a lot of friends with babies the same age as my DD that I met in baby group and still meet up regularly! But I’d say most of the babies are talking, they know body parts, they know the sounds of certain animals when asked, can point to things in books when asked and also get things they’re asked for.
My LO can sign for more, she’s only just started shaking her head no but not sure she understands what no means, when you ask her if she’s sleeping she’ll put her head on a pillow and pretend to snore, she can give hugs when asked, she’ll point to things she wants, she’ll grab our hands and take us to where she wants to go, she knows her shoes go on her feet, to brush her hair and her hat goes on her head (she doesn’t do it if I ask her but she’ll grab her hat or shoes just out of the blue and try putting them on herself) she can do all the gestures too like clap hands, wave, point etc.
Sorry this is so long just wanted to get everything in that I could, if someone could give any advice or have been through something similar with their LO’s that would be amazing, thank you!

Bump for you x

@ElmtreeMama ahh thank you! Hopefully someone can relate haha, thanks again x

OP if it's any reassurance my son only had a handful of words at 24mths (he also used baby sign). He had his 2yr health visitor assessment and she wasn't concerned - she said comprehension, and progress in language skills, were more important (rather than the absolute number of words he could say). She said she'd check in with me again at 30mths to check he was progressing. And wow what a difference that 6mths made. There was no stopping him by that point, speaking loads and saying new words all the time (and had stopped signing). It's a cliche but all children are different - a friend's little girl could sing whole songs by her 2nd birthday. My son still can't do that at almost 3. It doesn't matter, it's not a race. If you have concerns, chat with your HV - hopefully they can reassure you but they can refer you to SALT if they feel that would benefit your child.

It’s hard isn’t it? My ds will be 18 months old tomorrow and all what he can say is dada but I don’t think he knows what it means as he says it to things other than his dad 🤷‍♀️
When he was younger he said egg a lot but not in relation to anything and he doesn’t do it anymore so maybe it was just a random sound 🤷‍♀️
He's had a hearing test which went fine but he doesn’t respond to his name, doesn’t understand no or anything we say really and is really sensitive to noises like the vacuum or anything that takes him by surprise.