https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 10 May 2026 16:53:07 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/talking-and-toddlers/page/2#post-1448823 Tue, 25 Feb 2014 14:48:17 +0000 bpcmarj 1448823@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would say she had a big language explosion around 19 months. Now at almost 22 months, she speaks in many full sentences when you let her ("my daddy is at the gym" "I want some more juice" "I have a wet diaper"). She has always been pretty advanced as far as language and really started parotting around 10 months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/talking-and-toddlers/page/2#post-1448779 Tue, 25 Feb 2014 14:35:26 +0000 meganmp 1448779@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS and DD, both 15 months, have about 2 words that they say, so I've been curious to find out of they're behind. The thing is, they both have 10 signs that they use unprompted and they understand verbal directions really well. Perhaps I shouldn't worry until they're two. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/talking-and-toddlers/page/2#post-1448768 Tue, 25 Feb 2014 14:32:44 +0000 mrsjazz 1448768@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO has a lot of words and has been talking pretty regularly since she could start talking. Her words are pretty clear to people beyond DH and I and her nanny, but I know that she's a bit advanced when it comes to language. Her language explosion probably happened around 18 months, she says more than 300 words, and can have little conversations with us, some in full sentences. </p> <p>We do a nanny share with a baby who is 3 months older than LO (age 2) and for a while she didn't seem to have a lot of words, though her comprehension was great. In the past 4 months her vocabulary has made leaps and bounds, so this is probably her language explosion time. I can have little conversations with her, though her words are not as clear, I can understand. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/talking-and-toddlers#post-1448748 Tue, 25 Feb 2014 14:25:45 +0000 erinpye 1448748@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No idea how many words, but she's understood and followed directions since 12 months, identified and named all the letters, colors, and counted to 10 by 18 months, and now at 22 months holds full conversations. There's been a huge explosion in the past month of using articles between words in her sentences. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/talking-and-toddlers#post-1448141 Tue, 25 Feb 2014 11:51:53 +0000 mediagirl 1448141@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No explosions yet at 20 months. She probably has 40 words and that includes animal sounds, which she uses in place of the animal name. Like @Ree723: she babbles all day long and has a language all to herself. I know they will come because I know they're in there and she understands things I tell her to do. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/talking-and-toddlers#post-1447998 Tue, 25 Feb 2014 11:05:14 +0000 2PeasinaPod 1447998@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS is almost 17 months and I would say he has about 30+ words. He really started jabbering around 15.5-16 months and will repeat almost anything we ask him to! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/talking-and-toddlers#post-1447986 Tue, 25 Feb 2014 11:00:42 +0000 mrskc 1447986@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS is 16 months and has like 2 words he uses consistently. I think we may be at the beginning of a language explosion. He is starting to parrot us a lot lately. And I've heard him say new words a lot but he just says them once. I'm not worried at this point. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/talking-and-toddlers#post-1447854 Tue, 25 Feb 2014 10:12:30 +0000 buffalove 1447854@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS is 19 mos and has about 15-20 words, so we haven't actually hit the language explosion yet. I'm not at all worried b/c he talks incessantly, just not real words, and his receptive language is great. @Ree723: it sounds like our LO's are very much alike!</p> <p>@lovehoneybee: what tips did your ped give on increasing vocabulary? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/talking-and-toddlers#post-1447436 Tue, 25 Feb 2014 05:42:46 +0000 yin 1447436@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS1 had a language explosion at 19 months. Prior to that he only had a list of 10 words that he used regularly. At that point he understood us very well but lacked the words to communicate with us. He never imitated our sounds and was more of an observer. Confidence was also a big factor. He would only attempt to say a word if he knew that he could say it properly. At 2.5 years old he is a talking machine. "Why, mommy? Why?" </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/talking-and-toddlers#post-1447427 Tue, 25 Feb 2014 04:26:51 +0000 loveisstrange 1447427@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think C is a slightly late talker, I think. She jibber-jabbers a lot but I just noticed a true "explosion" at 22 months. She's rapidly picking up words now.</p> <p>Honestly, I'm not too worried about it. She has a very high comprehension rate, she just does things in her own time. She was the same with walking. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/talking-and-toddlers#post-1447407 Tue, 25 Feb 2014 02:37:28 +0000 lamariniere 1447407@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS's language explosion was at 18 months. He's now three but has been talking like a real human since about 26 months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/talking-and-toddlers#post-1447392 Tue, 25 Feb 2014 01:35:41 +0000 MrsMccarthy 1447392@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Deer: fifteen months is still pretty young. I would give her a few more months. Especially if she babbles with intent and interacts a lot as you said. I saw a lot of improvements from my son between 15 and 17 months </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/talking-and-toddlers#post-1447391 Tue, 25 Feb 2014 01:34:00 +0000 MrsMccarthy 1447391@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My son has abou 18 words right now and a bunch of signs. He seems to prefer to say No more than anything else these days though and rarely uses his words otherwise. He signs a lot and points. I am havin him evaluated by EI next month , wa originally supposed to be this month but my husband begged me to wait till he was 18 months and give him a chance to catch up I'd he needed to. He is one of those gray area children. I figured I'd rather have someone work with him and give him a leg up if he needs it than always wonder and potentially see him get further behind if there is a delay. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/talking-and-toddlers#post-1447380 Tue, 25 Feb 2014 00:58:44 +0000 Mrs. Deer 1447380@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Confetti: I'm starting to get pretty concerned when it comes to talking (especially reading these responses). She just turned 14 months and has ZERO words :( She understands and follows commands, babbles, points things out (everything is "dah!") and is super engaging with us, but she makes no effort to try and talk or mimic our speech. Figure we'll discuss it at her 15 month appt. Still worried though :/ </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/talking-and-toddlers#post-1447347 Tue, 25 Feb 2014 00:17:12 +0000 googly-eyes 1447347@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My LO is 17 months old and I just wrote down 66 words that she says sort of regularly. However, they aren't all easily understood by outsiders. I think there are more but I can't think of them right now. And there are some that she has said sometimes but not that often so I'm not sure if I should count them or not. I feel like right after she turned one she started learning words all the time. Not sure if that is the "language explosion." She knows many more receptive words and generally strings together two words. (We count phrases like "all done milk" as two words because she knows "all done" together.) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/talking-and-toddlers#post-1447341 Tue, 25 Feb 2014 00:05:18 +0000 irene 1447341@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO just turned 2, I am guessing around 150 words in a mix of 2 languages?</p> <p>We have always been delayed compare to our peers, so when a language explosion happens it doesn't feel like an explosion because other kids are doing that a year ago (I am serious!). I would say our real language explosion is around now. He becomes obsessed in counting from 1-20 in Cantonese and I only started teaching him to do that a few weeks ago.</p> <p>We have issues with pronunciation so I am seeking language specialist help now. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/talking-and-toddlers#post-1447327 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 23:52:13 +0000 Mrs. Confetti 1447327@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@looch: It's my good friend who is a mega-lurker but refuses to post. I'm sure she saw this, so if she reaches a point of concern as the months pass (still too early to panic for her), I am sure she'll see your sweet offer to wall you for more info. Thanks so much. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/talking-and-toddlers#post-1446937 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 19:14:56 +0000 Ree723 1446937@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO just turned 20 months and I'm still waiting for the language explosion. Her receptive language is off the charts - she follows two and three step directions and learns new words after hearing them only a couple of times, but from the expressive side of things, she has maybe five words if I'm really stretching it. She talks all day long - not babbling but properly speaking a language of her own devising, but there are just not many discernible words. Our pedi isn't worried and thinks she's just stubborn, but we'll re-evaluate at 2.</p> <p>Interestingly, one of the reasons our pedi isn't worried is because kids pick up language more from their peers than adults. DD doesn't go to daycare or play group. and most of the kids we see regularly are a few years older. We unfortunately live in an area without much going on for young toddlers so most of DD's exposure to language is from other adults. Ah well. I'm not worried. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/talking-and-toddlers#post-1446719 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 17:17:05 +0000 LuLu Mom 1446719@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO is 16 months and has about 40-50 words, I would say in the last 2 weeks she's really started saying more words, but I don't think it's the explosion yet! She's definetely repeating and learning that way. (not good for car rides when this momma has some road rage and like to name call ;) ) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/talking-and-toddlers#post-1446699 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 17:06:55 +0000 stargal 1446699@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>19 months and has about 20-30 words. His receptive language picked up about 18 months and hr understands almost everything you say to him. In comparison hes a little slower in the verval dept comparedcto his receptative language but I'm not worried yet. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/talking-and-toddlers#post-1446560 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 16:25:10 +0000 autumnlove 1446560@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My LO started saying more words around 16 months but her language explosion began at 20 months. She is 2 and she has a lot to say! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/talking-and-toddlers#post-1446468 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 16:11:01 +0000 SeptMomma12 1446468@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO is 17 months and I feel like he's had a "talking explosion" in the last 2 weeks or so. Doesn't shut up, and definitely sounds like talking, but I have absolutely no idea what he's saying! He doesn't do much parroting yet, so I'm hoping the actual "language explosion" will kick in soon. </p> <p>He's such a boy though - out of the 20-25 words he knows, I would say 75% of the time he only uses "car," "bus," "truck" and "go." And "touchdown"! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/talking-and-toddlers#post-1446440 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 16:02:57 +0000 looch 1446440@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Confetti: I don't know who RB is, but if the person wants to wall me, I can share more of my son's story.</p> <p>Another useful metric is understanding. At age 2, a stranger should be able to understand half of what is being said. At age 3, 3/4, at 4, 100 percent. It's not just word count. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/talking-and-toddlers#post-1446433 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 15:59:36 +0000 Jenn23 1446433@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lovehoneybee: I'm hoping my son son is like yours. :) J only has two words and is almost 17 months. We've known for many months that he'd have verbal delays due to his hypotonia and a few other things, so I'm sure we'll have to start speech therapy at 18 months (EI doesn't allow before that), but maybe he'll surprise me and start talking up at storm in the next month. Oh and J is very non-stop on the go all the time and his physical therapist has said that because he is so focused on that, (walking, running, etc.) that could be a part of why he isn't trying to talk much. Our sons are similar I think! I'm glad to hear your son caught up! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/talking-and-toddlers#post-1446432 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 15:59:33 +0000 MrsF 1446432@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>M is 16 months and has about 75 words. She only started walking in the last month so she's definitely fallen into the late walker / early talker category! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/talking-and-toddlers#post-1446429 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 15:58:58 +0000 chopsuey 1446429@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>At 14 months DD had around 30 spoken words. Early talker.<br /> At 14 months DS has about 5. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/talking-and-toddlers#post-1446417 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 15:56:51 +0000 BabyBoecksMom 1446417@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>At 16 months she hit her first language explosion and she had about 20 words. Now, at 25 months, she speaks in 4-5 word sentences. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/talking-and-toddlers#post-1446401 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 15:52:56 +0000 lovehoneybee 1446401@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>E is 18 months, and up until a week and a half ago I would have confidently said that he had maybe 8 words. His pedi told me that the animal sounds he mimics count (even when he wasn't saying them unprompted--"What does the cow say? The cow says "moo" "Moo"), as do all of the letters that he can both physically and verbally identify (which is all of them).</p> <p>We discussed EI at his 18 month visit, but his pedi thought that he is still on track, especially since he knows all of the letters. She gave me some tips on helping him increase his vocabulary and, if I wasn't seeing any change/new words by 21 months we'd pursue EI. </p> <p>Well wouldn't you know it in the week and a half since that appointment he's added 10 new words and is copying many more! </p> <p>I was never seriously concerned, though. He's very physical, and I think part of it was just that he was always go-go-going and didn't have time/care to focus on speech. His receptive language is great, and any concerns I had have been eased. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/talking-and-toddlers#post-1446370 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 15:47:15 +0000 Running Elley 1446370@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>At 15 months I counted and DS had between 10 and 15 words. I counted again at 16 months before his ped appt and he had over 60! He's 16.5 months now and it feels like he adds a new word every day! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/talking-and-toddlers#post-1446367 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 15:46:09 +0000 Weagle 1446367@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO is 21 months now. At Christmas we decided to count her words and stopped once we reached 200. She definitely has more now and is speaking in sentences. I think there was an explosion around 16 months, but it's been a mostly steady progression. </p>