When did your little ones star saying words? Sam has started babbling (15 months) but will not copy any words. He says mamma, ta, baby and has said car and tractor once.
All my boys have been slow with talking though

Jamie always babbled a lot but never said one word, not one till 18 months, now he's rolling them out and has come on so much since 18 months, i guess they all do it in there own time and do catch up in the end

Thomas has only now started to even attempt to copy me and he is 22 months. He is saying a new word most days now but not always carrying it on - he may say it one day then not again for weeks I'm sure he will get there soon.

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Izzy started to say proper words much better when she learned to walk, so that was around 17 months

Now she can repeat things I say almost exactly..but doesnt often repeat them for a while
Good job really seeing as today I told her Dadyd is a twat...and she tried to say it back to me

They all seem so individual though. C started at 8 months and pretty much doesnt shut up, she constantly copies me but i guess she didnt walk til nearly 17 months so shes evened it out.

Tayla said her first words, Mum, Dad & Nan around 7/8months. She talks all the time now and tries to copy everything i say. Just from reading posts on here and AB i would say boys arent as talkative, us girls talk non stop

I think you could be right about that Terri (obviously there will be exceptions) I have found the same with babies in my family - the girls are all little chatterboxes and the boys seem to take longer but are little daredevils. I already think Hannah will be a much earlier talker than Thomas. Even at 4 months old she is constantly cooing and is very very vocal whereas Thomas didn't make much noise at all. She will sit and 'talk' to you for ages if you chat to her - so cute now but I can see in a couple of years time I might need a set of ear plugs

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Theo still hasn't said even one word! He makes absolutly no effort to talk, insted just pointing and grunting when he wants something . I think the problem is he knows he can get his point accross without making the effort of using words.

Callum doesnt either he will say mum when he wants something or in a mood and says daddy sometimes but i not even sure he knws what he means x
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H doesnt say words as such apart from da da, mama, ta hd makes sounds for things like shoes an socks are ssssssss and the dog is ta (taffy) x

I wouldn't worry Mara, Sam was quite quick at mastering his mobility so his language skills will have taken a back seat, but once he does start it seems to come on really quick from then.
15mth is still quite young though, he'll just be taking everything in, like a little sponge As long as he's babbling then I wouldn't worry

Oliver said his first word (mama) at 7-8mth, then dadda, Harry, doggy, Hiya before he was 12mth - Now he NEVER shuts up, he can talk the hind legs off a donkey
I'm not sure if he's advanced, behind or spot on for his age, but my friends LO whos daughter is the same age has the same sort of vocabulary too.

They were both quite late crawlers and moo was a slightly later walker, but the talking has come on leaps and bounds.

Aimee said 'dadda' really early and things like 'cat' 'ralph' and a few other words, but that was it.

But just lately she has really started talking loads and copying everything. In the last 2/3 weeks she really does say tons of stuff and even counts to ten now!

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evan barely says a word either he babbles in baby talk but only says the odd few like sam does
he to walked from very early tho first steps at 10 months and he said words before then so i think he went to jst concentrating on walking!!
until a few wks ago he barely even babbled tho my dad was starting to get concerned he was maybe deaf and thats why he didnt talk! which he is definitely not deaf jst really slow with talking

Cerys isnt showing interest in trying to talk she just babbles but i have noticed in the past few weeks she has suddenly started to point at things. so thats her first attempt at trying to communicate.

Lisa !!! I had to give you a point for your reply, it made me giggle "Daddy is a twat"

Yeah im with meg on that one. Ver funny,time to be careful, i forgot myself the other day and ended up with a small ginger person gleefully bellowing CRAP back at me after an off the cuff comment

That C is too clever for her own good x

Tay said 'oh duck' yesterday

Lol yup luckily c misheard me calling a driver a cock the other day, only now i have to say tick tock instead since she thinks thats what i said

George is not quite 17 months. He can say mama and dada but actually other than that I really don't understand anything else that he says. He's quite talkative which is good (I think) but sometimes I wonder what are you talking about.

Quite funny actually. My friends daughter is a month older and compared to my son, she could recite the dictionary. Slight exaggeration there. lol.

Tarn x

They are really all different arent they

My older 2 boys both had speech therapy for a while (although you would never believe it now ) so it does make me wonder if he will be the same.

On the other hand Chelsea could hold a full conversation at 12 months! And she hasnt shut up since

Lol it does sound like a girl thing

Caitlin has always been very vocal, cooing and babbling from about 4 months. I swore she would talk early but she's not. She still shouts and rambles on constantly but its mainly rubbish. She did say mamma, dadda, cat, stuart, sock, shoe, yes, quite a few times between about 8/9 mths and 1. Now I cant remember the last time she said them clearly. She does say NO constantly and laughs while saying it and if I say one she says two.

Im not too worried she seems to have forgotten how to talk. It almost seemed that as soon as she learnt to walk at 11.5-12mths she stopped saying words. Walking, running, climbing took over her attention.

Debs wrote:

Thomas has only now started to even attempt to copy me and he is 22 months. He is saying a new word most days now but not always carrying it on - he may say it one day then not again for weeks I'm sure he will get there soon.

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Since I wrote this reply last week Thomas has literally not stopped 'talking' - he copies everything I say now (deffinately time to be careful - he keeps saying shit ). We even had a mini sentence the other day when he said 'daddy gone work in car'

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Debs wrote:

Debs wrote:

Thomas has only now started to even attempt to copy me and he is 22 months. He is saying a new word most days now but not always carrying it on - he may say it one day then not again for weeks I'm sure he will get there soon.

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Since I wrote this reply last week Thomas has literally not stopped 'talking' - he copies everything I say now (deffinately time to be careful - he keeps saying shit ). We even had a mini sentence the other day when he said 'daddy gone work in car'

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Yay well done Thomas

braden was around 10 months when he picked up about 10 words, he's now 26 months and can count to ten, and say far too many words then im happy with
Dita has been saying 4/5 words since she was around 8 months.
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