Speech

Is anyone else’s speech with their little one delayed 🙁.

Only saying a handful of words. And not consistently.

Trying not to worry as health visitor says she isn’t overly worried and as he understands everything and his gross Motor skills are above what he should be doing.

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Our little one is bi-lingual and he is just starting to really talk. He will be 2yo end of this month and he started talking overnight roughly a month ago. Before that he wasn't even trying or repeating anything, not even animal sounds.

How old is he now? It can literally happen overnight. I would encourage with reading him books, nursery rhymes on youtube etc. Lucas never even said animal sounds and then all of a sudden he said butterfly when he saw one. If they are developing gross motor skills, they cant develop language at the same time. And boys are usually more focused on movement than speech :)

Hiya! My little boy is saying only a few words and he’ll only say when he wants 😅 if I ask him what’s this he’ll look at me but then I hear him say the word so I know he knows - he understands us but I’m not overly worried right now, covid hasn’t been great for development and as parents were just trying our hardest ay! X

My little boy is 2 next week and he's so far behind his little friend (born 1 day apart) in speaking. She's amazing. It made me feel so anxious at first. He's saying some words but doesn't copy that much. He's so independent and does what he wants. It'll come xx

My little boy is 2 next week and he was hardly saying anything two weeks ago and now he doesn’t stop copies everything you say as well. I was so worried about his speech but your wee one will chat away once he is ready 💙 I got Mummy for the first time yesterday 23M and 21 Days old 🥰

My wee one is 26 months, says very little but is as bright as a button otherwise. Will wait until he is 30 months

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Why?

I am sick of my family telling me there’s something wrong with my baby.

She is almost 10 weeks old. She was born just under 1 month early.

She is my second child, my first born was a chilled baby. She is quite grumpy a lot of the time she does smile daily however. But she’s quite whiny and she has recently been really unsettled / fussy and been having some days where she has really bad crying episodes where she screams. For instance today she’s been fussy all day on her bottle, she did a poo mid way through one - so I stopped and placed her on her mat and noticed it had gone through the top of her nappy on to her sleep suit so I had to undress her and she literally screamed like I’ve never heard before to the point I wanted to cry! I proceeded to try and change her after picking her up to soothe her and again she screamed the place down and started sobbing. She’s quite a gassy baby she is always passing wind and has hiccups all the time also. But I am so sick of my family members telling me “she needs to be checked!” Or my mother saying “what’s wrong with her?” When she comes over and she cries. They said she’s more unsettled than settled always. And I can’t help but think why??? Is it something I’m doing? They are making me question everything and it’s making me feel like I’m heading in to a downward spiral. They make me question myself and my life. I’m just fed up.

Co-sleeping

Why do people make out co sleeping is almost child abuse? My baby is almost 3 months and we sleep in the same bed. It’s the only way he sleeps a decent amount. I have many family members telling me I shouldn’t be doing it. I love the bonding you get sleeping with your baby. What are everyone’s thoughts

Anyone else's health visitor absolutely useless?

England obviously.

My health visitor is about as useful as a sieve for collecting sand.

Wake windows? Naps?

Can you tell me what your nap schedule looks like in a day?

And I say schedule lightly I don't mean it being the same every day I just mean what do most of your days look like.

When baby wakes up in the morning how long on average are they awake for before having a nap? After the first nap how long on average are they awake for before the second nap?

How long is each nap lasting?

How many naps a day are you having?

My health visitor has told me my baby should be awake 4-5 hours before her first nap... I don't feel this is developmentally appropriate for a 7 month old? My baby could never make it 4-5 hours without being extremely cranky and crying.

Please help?

Refusing to nap

Anyone having issues with getting their baby to nap during the day? Everywhere you look online and in books it talks about the wake windows being so short, but my 5 week old has literally been awake for 7 hours straight. Have done all the obvious feeding, changing, rocking.
He sleeps at night thankfully but just fighting it during the day.

Baby hitting themselves

Hey everyone, I hate going to Google because it just makes you feel very uncomfortable afterwards. My 18 month old has recently in the past week started to hit himself on the head with his hands and sometime in our play room foam floor he will hit his head against the ground. I googled (i know your not supposed to) and it said that it can be a sign of frustration of not being able to communicate. When he would hit himself i would obviously react and grab his hands and say no sternly. I dont know if my reaction has made it worse because it has become more frequent. He sometimes will go to hit me and once has went to go bite me. Can someone give me some advice.