We chat all day - she makes noises and sounds and chats to us and to herself but barely says anything clear other than, dada, mama and baba...even then it's kinda touch and go!!! She makes dog noises and kissing sounds but that's about it. She didn't really start babbling until late - 9 mthsish, but walked at 10 1/2 mths so I think maybe she has been more active than chatty! Don't stress too much - they all develop at their own pace!!
Yep, I agree that talking is really individual. Some kids talk alot from a young age and some take things in but don't talk til later. My DD says lots of things at 14mths- mummy, daddy, bubba, no, yes, this, thanks, fish, bath....., but my friends little one says basic words muma, dada, baba at 16mths. I think 18mths is a good age to use as a point of reference. If you DD isn't vocalising by then, then I would talk to your gp. But even making noises is a way for babies to talk.
I would say my DS was saying pretty much the same as your DD at 12 months of age. It's just now in the last few weeks (just turned 17 months) that he is starting to say a few more words and/or attempting the sounds of words he hears me say. It all happen really quickly from my experience.
personally i think it depends on their personality (as well as the environment they grow up in)...
dd is 15 months and can probably say about 100 words, has been talking ALOT since about 13 months... but from the age of about 6 months we taught her all the objects in the room (of course she couldn't say them, but from 7 months could point them out), and this gradually became broader and broader, to her being able to point out just about any object she had ever seen once or twice before.... she has been pretty 'thirsty' for knowledge from the time we started teaching her the name of objects... on the other hand, she is not a very 'brave' girl, as in she is quite tame and timid when it comes to riding on her little car, and riding on see saws etc at playgroup like the other kids do.... she loves being outside, but probably her favorite thing is reading a book, where she points at each picture in the book and says what it is.
maybe your little one will be more advanced in other areas, they all have their little quirks, i wouldn't worry
even though you have a dirl andi have a boy i think kids live life at their own pace ... nix can only say about 7 words at 20 months ...
but docs say hes fine , so i would nt worry .. he can say these words :
DS is almost 12mths and can say mumma, dad-dad, nan-nan, uh-oh, mm-mmm, and makes noises that are his version of a cat and dog. There's a dog down the road that just does not stop barking, so he hears that and makes a woof noise. We have 2 cats and when he sees them or when he wants to get their attention he makes a meow noise. Cute too, coz it almost sounds like that! I know what he's trying to say when he says it. Just today he must have seen a cat somewhere when we were out and he made the noise. Both dh and I have heard him repeat the word "ten", and once he made a "word" that sounded like the f-word...
He says a lot of his own nonsense words. He says them individually or in a magical made up sentence. Must copy me coz I noticed one of his "sentences" ended with a laugh... uh-oh!
OMG some of these littlies really have lots of words! Oskar is 16 months and nowhere near that many! He says cow, mum, dad, go car, ta (used very sparingly..lol)... that's all that comes straight to mind. He KNOWS what things are if you ask him to find pictures in books and he says quite a few animal sounds, but wow @ some of these bubs. If he SHOULD be saying around 50 words by the time he's 18 months, I seriously don't see that happening. He's a great uh uh and pointer to objects...but hmmm.
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