Speech regressing - is this a 'normal' stage?

[Frasersmum123]

Fraser as been doing quite well lately with his speech, and now has about 10 words (he is 2.3), but they seem to regress.

For example, shoes has a definate 'sh' sound before, but that has turned into 'foooooo'. Book was very clear but has now become boof, and as I said the other day he had been singing Twinkle Twinkle - it was babble but you could make out 'ikkle', but now thats not there any more either.

I know I am a worrier, and I probably need a slap, but I just cant help but feel like we take a step forward and then one step back.

DS1 learns and loses words as his interest waxes and wanes - however the overall progress is positive as he always keeps more than loses - does that help or make sense? It's great that he's got any language at such a young age.

Snap out of it woman!

DS2 does this as well. It depends on the day/week he is having. He does get the words back eventually, sometimes as they were, sometimes babylike.

yes ds used to say daddy now gaggy mummy is now nunny

and we have to have speech therapy as alot of sounds he could say he cant do anymore

but i find when he does lose he tends to have more when it does come back even if not said right

its like he is trying to do too much at once so sacrifices the sounds out to let more words in iyswim too much to concentrate on them few words properly

I've seen that things go and then come back with DS too. I think sometimes when they see that they can do a thing, after a while they get bored with it and seek out the new thing iyswim

I used to drive myself barmy worrying about this with ds1. But I can only really think of a couple that he ever actually seemed to lose (I mean for a few months, they resurfaced later), and once he got to about 2.6 he had a steady and consistent increase until we're up to probably over 1000 now but I've lost count (used to record every single one.)

Totally understand your worry, but our SALT said it's fairly usual for children to lose clarity as their vocabulary increases, so that may be what's happening with Fraser.