Hello everyone! I've found Mumsnet incredibly helpful and reassuring in the past, so I wondered if I could have some thoughts on my DS. I'm not sure if his social interaction is where it should be.
My DS is 13 months. He babbles a lot, both vowel "ah ah" sounds and consonant babbles. He also copies our sounds, including our laughs! He understands some instructions such as "Turn the page" and "Come here", with and without visual cues.
In many ways, he is incredibly sociable. He smiles all the time, looks for preferred family members and his key worker at nursery and will crawl over to us and climb up us when he wants to be picked up/when he wants something. He does show joint attention too, for example he checks we're watching before he throws things on the floor from his high chair!
But...he isn't showing us his toys, or offering them to us. He enjoys games like "Peekaboo" and "Wind the bobbin up" but he doesn't try and join in for himself. He's usually the sort of child you'd describe as "into everything", but in this sense he seems quite passive. He doesn't have any words yet either.
What do you think? I wasn't worried about his development, until my friend posted on Facebook that her 11 month old was doing all of these things and it really got to me! He does go to nursery twice a week and they haven't expressed any concern, but I can't help but worry.
Thanks x