Learning to speak

Mine doesn’t say anything with meaning either , I wouldn’t worry x

Mine just babbles, nana, dada, mama makes an ssss noise, none of them actual words meaning anything at the moment. 1 is still very young!

A lot of the "words" me little one can say aren't full words, and unless you spent much time with her, you'd have no idea what she's trying to say. I just encourage her by repeating what she's saying and just talking to her all the time.

It will come. Just keep narrating everything you are doing and repeat easy to say words as they are associating with that object. Don’t panic.

I’m teaching signs because that tends to be easier for a baby than verbalising. But otherwise just talk to them, using “parent-ese”

Also I have one kid who is HIGHLY verbal and one who is more delayed. Both raised the same up till 1/2years

One of the best things you can do is make sure you read to baby every day. Look at the pictures and talk about what you can see as well as just reading the words. Singing songs and nursery rhymes is also really good and making sure baby can see your mouth 😊

We still say baba dada rara (Ralph the dog) mama nana she knows who rara mama and dada is but no actual meaning behind any of it and I’ve also just taught her ‘a b c’ which she copies but doesn’t actually sound like ‘a b c’ just yet so I wouldn’t worry at all xx

My baby seems to understand quite a bit of what we say, like names of her toys etc when you say "where is x?" etc but can't say anything yet apart from Mum. I think she is trying to say up now and also "what's that". These are words I say all the time to her. I just narrate what I'm doing constantly. We also have flash cards that we play with at breakfast time each day. I just say what I see and make noises for animals or vehicles etc.

I wouldn’t worry too much my son was saying much at this age, and my daughter says loads of words already. They’re all so different I’ve not done anything for my daughter to talk more compared to my son. Perhaps she listens to her brother but she just has more of an interest of doing it then what my son did at that age.

Mine is trying to speak but he can’t say full words. Like he will try and say ball but just says ba or duck just says du. I just talk him through everything he’s doing and also read to him every night, not that he’s remotely interested 🤣