DS is 8.5 months. He’s my 2nd but my first was a covid baby, I had PND and a lot of her first year is a blur. So I can’t really remember what she did and when.
DS is having his 9-12 month check in a few weeks and the questionnaire has me a little worried. It’s asked if he has 3 words, he has none, nor is he babbling like dadada just vowels and the odd consonant by itself. He also cannot crawl or pull to stand. These are all on the questionnaire.
Things he can do: rolls around well, can sit unassisted for 5+ minutes at a time, feeds himself even small items of food quite well. Holds his beaker and drinks from it clumsily. He babbles a lot but mainly ahhhh and ohhhh, screeches, and words like ‘kaaaa’ or ‘beeeee’. No bababa noises yet. If you clap he sometimes claps back, same with waving but not all the time. If you say ‘ta’ and hold out your hand most of the time he will give you what he’s holding. He cries if I leave the room and constantly ‘looks’ for me sometimes quite obsessively, and seems really quite upset if I’m not where he can see me or holding him. I think he recognises a couple of words, tree/dolly, if you ask where they are some of the time he will look to them. He laughs and smiles and looks to me a lot for praise.
Hard not to compare but a friends baby of the same age is walking and babbling more word type sounds! He also seems to perform every time a request is made whereas DS only does it some/most of the time. Any reassurance appreciated.