That's awesome I'm really glad for you guys, following your struggles with it for the last couple months.
biggest thing we need to introduce is regular naps... I'm pretty good at putting the baby down for a nap, but my wife struggles, often tries to nap with her in our bed, and that's hit or miss and then my wife gets stressed out/angry/frustrated if she's tired but the baby isn't.
Story folks been quite a while since I posted here ha.
Just wanted yer view on it to hopefully calm down my wife
My kid recently turned 2. He's got about 30 words or so but uses them sparingly enough. He has a good understanding of words so if for example I say go get your book he'll know to get whatever book has his fancy that particular week.
He also engages with other kids and adults when around them..
Like the development nurse (Irish requirement to see them at various stages of their life) said he's perfectly fine and she's no worries. I don't have any particular concerns myself I know each kid is different and he'll speak when he wants to probably. But my wife is freaking out a bit so naturally that worries me ha
So basically tldr any of you experienced non talkers of 2 years plus yet ha
My daughter is closing in on 18mos and she's pretty behind verbally and with gross motor skills, it's something we worry about a lot. my state in the US has an early interventions program which has been good so far, she has speech/motor development person come to the house once a week.
Biggest issue is our daughter is seemingly low muscle tone, but our big worry is it's a neurological disorder... We can't confirm either way until 18+ months. She was slow to crawl, but was standing by ~8 mos or so and doing a good job, but then completely stopped standing from 10mos to basically today. She's standing longer now han she was but still can't pull herself up onto her feet... She can pull herself onto her knees and does well playing on her knees, but can't stand... And stands awkwardly/unsure when she does. SHe *wants* to walk but can't, like if I hold her up she'll start doing a walking motion and going forward but she just doesn't have strength or balance to do it, her legs just go down.
For speech, she has some words but hasn't really advanced in speech much at all the last couple months. She'll make plenty of sounds, but not really make consistent words. She can be prompted into some of them, but isn't consistent.
We're worried but I try to stay positive with it all while my wife gets more nervous and worried. We see the specialist once or twice a week and they're not really concerned at all, she's just behind from their perspective. My wife's naturally a very anxious person which doesn't make it any easier.
Your situation reminds us of a friend of ours, his son didn't talk *at all* for like..... 24+ months, was very quiet, very shy, and they weren't sure if there was something else, but now at ~5 he's like the most social kid, very talk-a-tive and expressive. He's behind in pronounciation now and still struggles a bit with confidence, like speaking up and saying something, but when he's comfortable with someone he'll talk their ear off. He's also a brilliant little kid. THey were concerend about ASD or other learning/cognitive challenges, but so far he's really advanced with learning, but still naturally a bit behind conversationally / speech.
