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My daughter has never been a talker she has probably around 20 words but won’t use them in context. Only grunts. and the last few days she has been simply angry at home. She is fine at daycare happy at daycare. When she is home from the second she wakes up she is mad until she goes to sleep. I am struggling to figure out her needs and what she wants. She has been doing so good for the last month that I honestly got too lucky and now I’m at a loss.

To try and understand her wants I bring her to areas she’s looking and pointing at and let her pick out what she’s wanting. This sometimes works other times it’s like she doesn’t even know what she wants.

I try and keep her belly full. She gets hangry.

Otherwise the only time she’s content is when I put on I am groot. I don’t like her watching a lot of tv I know at daycare she watches a good portion of ms Rachel.

Anyone have tips on trying to understand your nonverbal 18 month old.

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Has anything drastic happened or a big change ?

the only thing different is I changed her toothbrush. No big life events. She’s not teething

My 3 year old went through this same thing. My 18 month old is to a degree, but my 3 year old was more like you're describing. He's now very articulate for his age. It was extremely frustrating for us (especially given that I was finishing up the first trimester with my now 18 month old). All we did was exactly what you're doing. We took him where he was gesturing and we spoke out loud to him sort of narrating everything we did all day, every option we gave him, every thing we did. It suddenly clicked one day and he has not stopped talking since 😂 it gets better, this is just a rough phase that typically comes just before true speaking (provided that your child is typically developing, that is).

I know my son is 1 and he is very sensitive to change even little things like if his daily routine doesn’t stay in line but good luck momma 🦋‼️ hope things improve

that’s what I was wondering is happening. She said bye guys and here lily yesterday. I feel like she has some major talking milestone brewing and is wanting to say something but can’t figure out how. I’m trying to be patient

taking it one day at a time!

@Gabrielle it's ROUGH but it will be worth it in the end! Just keep using as much correct language with her as you can and it will click. You're right, she does have a major milestone brewing!!

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