Talking?

Is your little one talking yet? Like they know what basic objects are? And can pronounce them (in their baby talk)

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Not fully pronounce them, but she CAN say certain words, although she chooses not to a lot 😅

My son is talking quite a bit but I’m not sure if you mean by fully pronounce that they say the word correctly and in that case, no. They aren’t really going to say all words perfectly anyway at this age. If they are attempting to say the word, that’s perfectly okay. My son can point out objects I ask him to point to and he’s saying about 30 words

My son says about 11 words pretty well. He’s starting to say “over” bc he turns cars over a lot .

Not fully pronounce them. I saw a great TikTok from a speech therapist the other day about what speech and words are At this age. Let me see if I can find it

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1ADaT5e5aC/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Here it is!

My son has over 150 words but can fully pronounce only some. They're not supposed to be fully enunciating words yet! Like "buh" for bus counts. "Boo buh" is school bus. "Roro" is Robbie. At this point, really only the parents understand the majority of their speech!

My daughter is starting to get a little more verbal and seems to be learning new words by the day. Today she actually startled me when she said “I hear dada” as he was coming up the street 😂 i have been saying that to her since he went back to work at 5 months old I mean there was no confusion what she said cause it was clear as day.

I spoke to a speech therapist briefly while at a pt appointment for my youngest and at 18 months they are considered on target for normal speech development as long as they say mama, dada and ATTEMPT 3 other words. But should be closer to a 25+ word vocabulary and 2 word phases (more milk etc) by 2

well I didn’t mean fully pronounce them like we do but I probably should’ve worded that differently lol.
My daughter is only saying a few words. But she understands most of what I’m saying to her. I’m just wondering when she will say more words lol

idk how many words she can say but now I’m on a mission to count lol. Her new words are “thank you” and “please”

ooh ok good. She can say a few words but now I want to actually figure out what she can say lol. Her new thing is “please” and “thank you”

thank you!!

Nope he's only says odd words and needs prompting a lot to say word any one he say on on his muma

Their speech usually takes off sometime between 18 and 24 months!

yay excited for this. Mines been such a babbler lately lol

I've lost count. I stopped my list like 3m ago and I had 50 then, that she said regularly. Shes spitting out so much I honestly can't believe it 😭 literally repeats every. (I always say I'm gonna get you before I tickle her .. now if she wants me to tickle her she says it in her little baby way 😭😭)

in our community

Is it cheating

My husband just told me that at work he and his male friends/coworkers pinch each others nipples as like a joke, I think it’s inappropriate and it’s cheating in a way and he does not agree he thinks it’s just funny and nothings wrong with it

Front sleeping

My baby is 9 months old and I was told a while back that the sleep should always start in there back, is this true and why?
My baby always wants to front sleep now and I’m fighting every night to get the sleep to start on his back or side

Too much pram time?

LO is 15 months old. He's not walking yet. We've always gone for 2 walks a day, for about 30-45 mins each. I've found this helps LO's mood and also my own mental health. It's occurring to me that perhaps this is too much "container" time. When we're home, I encourage loads of floor time and he enjoys pulling to stand and cruising on furniture. His only other "container" time is in his high chair 4 times a day for meals, and for about 10 mins at a time when I'm getting his food ready, unless someone else is there to watch him (our flat is small and not open plan).

Is nursery a bit out of line?

Today I learned that my son was “seen by someone” when picking him up. Apparently speech therapist saw him in the nursery to evaluate him and I only learned about it on pick up.

No warning, no even proper explanation of what triggered it. With one staff member saying “he is not speaking at all”, and another dismissing it and saying it’s completely normal.

And everyone seem to dismiss my shock as he is the most chatty happiest child at home.

So it triggers me that instead of finding a way to get him “open up” and make him feel secure so he starts speaking naturally. They now decided he needs to be “fixed” and probably push him into more anxiety with it. Without even consulting us.

Witching hour??

Pretty sure my 7 week old has a strict “lose all chill at 6pm” policy 😅

Evenings = crying, pacing, questioning my life choices 😂

Fed, burped, cuddled… still a bit of a mystery. Any tips from mums who survived this stage? How did you get through the evening chaos?!

Naps!

My 12 (almost 13) week old little boy has only had two 30 minute naps today😢 he wasn’t fussy or crying, but would lay there grinning at me instead of sleeping. I tried rocking him but he would cry when being held… only wanted to be in his crib.
We finally got him to sleep when we went out in the car this evening and has gone down well now. Is this normal that he is fighting naps so much? He normally naps well during the day, either contact naps or in his crib! Any tips for if this happens again tomorrow?