13month old and talking.

[KarlaC]

My son doesn't try to 'talk'(mama or dada meaningful). When should I worry about it? He jabbers all the time and had no problem grunting and pointing if he wants something. He's. Also leaned to sign when he wants to nurse but that's about it.

Yea I'm being paranoid I guess, but my second dd didn't speak until she was almost 3. I was younger and didn't realize it was such a big deal so I never got her therapy.

[laughymama]

My son did not start talking with real words we could understand until around 18 months. Then it was just a few single words he would use maybe 10 times a week. Around 24 months we saw an explosion of vocabulary. It really seemed like from 20-24 months he just suddenly had a new word each day and the older he got, the more often he used his words.

He only spoke at home for awhile though. Last month he begin talking 24/7. Hasn't stopped since.

I think at 13 months he would say "Da-da" but it seemed to be just a go-to noise and not necessarily only used for DH. He would babble and point or "lead" us to what he wanted/needed.
So you basically described what our son was like at 13 months old.

[jrose_lee]

I don't think ds2 was saying much more than ma and da at about 13 months. He is 15 months now and is trying out more words
mama
dada
ba (ball)
hot
hat
he tries for some other ones every once in a while like duck or something.

Don't worry yet. Plenty of time. I nannied for someone once and they were starting to worry when their two year old wasn't speaking at all. They started with a little therapy (had him drinking from a straw- no sippy, he went in and did games). I stopped nannying for him, but saw him about three months later and he was talking up a storm! It was crazy. It may have had nothing to do with the therapy sessions, I don't know. He could have just been ready finally.

[nelson]

That sounds totally within the normal range to me. My DS seemed to talk a little late and I was worried for months, even though everything else was fine. He finally started talking a lot more around 18 months and has caught up and passed many of his peers, he is 27 months and can speaks full, complex sentences. I know it hard not to worry and this forum is to ask questions, I probably asked the same one at some point, but I really wish I would have relaxed a little more with him. So unless your gut is telling you something different, most kids really just do things in their own way and on their own schedule.

[mckittre]

My son had 3 signs at 13 months, and said his first word sometime around 13.5 months. Now he's not quite 18 months, and regularly speaks in 3 word sentences with a vocabulary of well over 100 (signs plus words). So for us, it happened quickly, but right around 13 months, I was wondering too! Give it some time.

[JessieBird]

I was also wondering at 13 mos - my DS had no words at all then though he did babble away. By 15 mos he was just starting to try out mama and dada and a few others but very inconsistently. He also had some made up words that meant specific things by then. I was still a bit worried though but determined not to investigate until closer to 2 if my intuition was still bugging me. The explosion happened around 19 mos and now at 20 mos, he has new words every day and is starting to string together some phrases. In the last two weeks, he finally started to repeat what we say and to remember animal noises when he sees pictures in a book, that sort of thing. This seems a tad late to me compared to some of his friends of the same age but still well within the range of normal and I now feel confident that it all happens when it happens!