Here i am again, probably worrying about nothing, but i can't help it.

I've always been worried about Lily's speech development. She's always been behind in it. I would have tohught that by now, at 2yo, she would be talking heaps. But she's not. All I usually get from her is whinging. And it's driving me bonkers. She knows what most things are, i've heard her say them, but she just won't. The words she does know are: mum, dad, baby, puppy, bunny, cookie, car, bowl, ball, go, bye, hello, pretty, please, thankyou and no. Everytihng else she just whinges or babbles, which is most of the time. She will say maybe 3 actual words a day, if that.

I read to her all the time, always ask her what she wants until i give it to her. But that usually end in a huge tanty because she will just point and whinge and not tell me what she wants. I'm always saying what things are and re-peating them to her. But she just doesn't want to know.

It's getting too frustrating when she wants something and i'm having to look after Charlie and then she starts having a meltbown because i can't get her what she wants.

She understands everything i say though. Like i will ask her to get a nappy, or clothes or to put something away etc. She just won't talk! It's just whinge, whinge, whinge. She is worse than Charlie.

What can i do without taking her to see someone about it? Or is that my only option?