When should "Mummy" & "Daddy" fit into the first words game?
My understanding is "normal" speech development is to have 10 words by 18 months old (though some children are scraping that many words and still talk fine).
My little one is 16 months and has more than 10 words now and things seem to be going well but he still doesn't call us Mummy & Daddy. Is that normal? Would you expect Mummy & Daddy to be within the first 10-20 words?
What concerns me is that his older brother said over 100 words at 18 months and could say Mummy & Daddy but in hindsight we realised he never called us Mummy & Daddy, he just repeated the words from books. The tonight his little brother said Mummy for the first time... then followed it with "Hug", reciting from the book "Hug". Shouldn't he be calling me Mummy now that he can say it?