Development question- 17 months

What words are your bubs saying? Are they saying lots or very few?
Do they do actions to songs, role play etc? Do they call you mama?
What other things are they doing at this age?

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My song says too many words and babbles all the time. It's quite funny, you can have a full conversation with him. He'll pick up flat objects to his ear and say "mama" and when you pick up your phone to answer he thinks it's hilarious.
He loves dancing to The Wiggles and will ask for them by pointing his fingers and twisting.
We're waiting until the weather is a little warmer to take him to the park. He loves climbing.
He also cries whenever we say no to something dangerous. Redirecting no longer works. We can only hug him until he stops, usually by asking for wa wa (water).

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My son trys to copy us when we say different works but can only really still get the sound of a lot of them eg banana is ba ba ba. He can say daddy and 1 syllable words like milk cheese but still can't say mamma or mummy sadly I đŸ˜„
He's only just started playing by himself and despite having loads of toys just prefers to walk about listening to music and opening cupbards, but loves the park and going down the slide, just started to enjoy the swings x

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My LG says around 40-50 words and will sing/dance along to music. She can say mummy but calls me by my name which is slightly frustrating to be called Georgia by a 1 year old! She plays in her kitchen most of the day, picks up the phone and will say “iya” or “cheese “ if she wants to take pictures on my phone camera. She can climb up and get down the sofa, walks (crawls) up the stairs, makes kissy faces when she wants someone to kiss her and follows simple commands like put it in the bin, take that and sit down (when given a snacks she will go sit in her chair), give that to

She also says na night when she’s ready for a nap or to go to bed and waits at the bottom of our stairs for the baby gate to be opened so she can crawl upstairs.
She’s shares food and toys with us and another children but will say “ta” and take things off others some times.
She still has absolutely no sense of danger and is very determined so saying no when she wants to do something doesn’t really work.

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My boy says about 13 words including mama although most people wouldn’t understand many of them. He loves to “feed” us imaginary food and chat on the “phone”. We also got him some Duplo blocks he really loves and seems to be great with. He can put 10+ of them on top of each other. He started walking at 14 months and is quite good at it although he still falls at times. He also loves soft plays and doing all sorts of crazy stuff whilst there.

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My son is almost 17 months, he talks a lot (mainly gibberish but also says quite a lot of actual words and communicates/understands well) copies words when asked (most of the time), sings along to nursery rhymes, can count to 10, has started learning the abc’s and can do signs.
Nursery have commented on how bright he is and I thought that too but didn’t know if I was just being bias being his mama!

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My little boy just basically babbles, the only words he does say is ‘yeah’ he says mama, dada, nana, hiya but not in any context.
He claps to songs and does a little dance now and again but wouldn’t say does the actions. Just holds my hands when he wants to do row your boat. But loves listening to nursery rhymes. He can throw and kick a ball about and loves sitting looking at books. He gives kisses, open mouth ones 😂

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my son is saying mama, papa, nana,hiya and shower😂 he can follow directions in the way of when i say “do you want some breakfast’ he’ll get out of bed and go to the door ready to go to the kitchen or “do you want a shower” he’ll walk to the bathroom repeating “shower over and over again” đŸ„° he doesn’t really play with anything other than he likes to stroke and kiss his teddies. he’s obsessed w kisses he says “mmm” whilst pouting for kisses or force you to kiss his teddies and toys lol

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Mine says some words, mummy, daddy, banana and has recently definitely started to copy, she really wants to talk but hasn't quite got it yet.
She understands quite a lot. Put that in the bin, go upstairs and get dressed, do you want to brush your teeth etc and will get herself to the appropriate rooms for those things. She's an effective communicator in other ways though, if she wants her nappy doing she gets her changing mat puts it on the floor (if you ignore it she gets wiped/nappies out too.... Although is then not necessary compliant with the act itself!), if she wants to go outside she gets her shoes and coat and stands pointing at the door - stuff like that rather than actual words but then I guess she doesn't need the words as much just now because she can communicate anyway?

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