OK, so now you're aware that yeah, maybe I should keep an eye on this, but take it from a mum who's 3rd child didn't really talk much more than what your DD is at 2yo and is now in intensive speech therapy and hoping that come next year when she starts school that the teachers will be able to understand her, that you cannot just pass it off as nothing to worry about all the time. Speech is something that really needs to be dealt with ASAP, because there are such long waiting lists that by the time a problem really starts to be an issue, you could still have a 12mth wait for an assessment, let alone actually seeing a speechie and by then the problem is that bit worse again and any therapy is going to be more intensive than if you got onto it earlier.

I had two early talkers - they were speaking sentences by 20mths and could hold a conversation at 2 and then I had my 3rd and she was a little slower to start and could not speak a sentence at 2.5yr (but she could by 3 but was very very hard to understand) becuase everyone kept telling me she was fine, she was just different to the other two and that she'd catch up in time. Well she didn't., Her hearing and comprehension is outstanding and in fact on her last assessment at 4y3mths it showed that she would more than adequately handle going to school this year even, that's how high her score was, but she can't form the sounds well enough to be understood. She has improved out of sight, and her speech is a lot clearer, but she has a long way to go.

But that said, she may just be slow to start and in time she will be up there with all the other kids, but if she isn't much better by 2, I would be getting her assessed.