13 month old chatters constantly

[Lammveg]

Hi all

I'm just wondering if anyone has a similar child?! My 13 month old literally never stops making noise. She's happy doing it but it's relentless. In the car, on a walk it's just constant babble/shouting. She'll stop and listen to me and we have 'back and forth' conversations but even when she's just playing or crawling about she's chatting. She is SO LOUD that me and DH sometimes can't have a conversation over her chatter. She's also learnt the makaton signs for more, book, food and milk and does those a lot too which is helpful because then at least it feels like I can do something with all of the communication. There's no actual words yet, but she sort of says uh-oh if she drops something, and she kind of says 'no' and 'more'.

She's more quiet at play groups until she warms up a bit.

I guess I'm just asking if this is normal? I love hearing her chat but in the car I can't hear the radio and can't talk to DH, and evenings are hard when me and DH can't think straight due to the noise lol

I think this is great and a precursor to her talking.

Try to interact with her while she's doing it to try to bring her on.

Sounds like she wants to be included in the conversation.

This is great because she wants to communicate with you, encourage her more and words will come soon.
children are never going to be quiet 😂

I had one of these. Her tongue ran on wheels. Hate to tell you that it still does. On the upside she had lots of friends at school and has many of them still 20 years later.

Yes, welcome to life with a child once they can communicate (even if that is non verbally). Just accept you will only be able to have proper conversations when she is asleep. I can't remember the last time I listened to the radio with my daughter in the car. Our daughter was like this and at 2.5 still doesn't stop talking. On the positive side, she is a brilliant communicator and as a result seems to learn/pick things up very quickly. We also seem to have dodged tantrums by and large because she can communicate her frustrations. She was speaking fluently and was understandable for strangers before she was 2. She's not perfect but a lot of the typical toddler behaviour hasn't manifested and I think a lot of that is because of her speech. The constant chatter is exhausting but it definitely has some positives.

Its just me and her for most of the day and I'm always talking and narrating things to her so maybe she's mimicking me!

Glad to hear others have had similar and i'll just keep encouraging.

She also wakes up every 45mins in the night if I'm not in the room with her, so me and DH have many rushed conversations in the evening 😅

Yes ds was like this. He's a teenager now and still like it! My mum said it was my fault cos I narrated everything to him all the time. Resign yourself now to missing loads of bits of telly, radio and juicy gossip for the next 17 years.... sigh 😉