Delay speech.

My daughter yesterday went to her 2 year old check and they told me her speech is slightly delayed. They want to refere her to a speech specialist just to make sure. They put me on the waiting list. She does talk but her words are not clear and she doesn't say more then 2 sentences. It's only one words. For example if she want a biscuite. She will say biss. Instead of I want a biscuite. I thought this was normal as she's still a baby. As anyone else's gone through this.

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I had a friend and her babygirl was the same after she went to speech therapy she is talking way better and clearer now. I will say every baby develops differently. I wouldn’t stress too much as long as you’re making time to sit down with her on your own to help her.

I agree, One word sentence at her age isn't completely normal, as I work in a nursery I see many 2 year olds. In the mean time while you wait it might help to do flash cards with her and readings lots of stories, narrating your every day actions. That's what we tend to do at nursery when kids have speech delay. Just lots and lots of modelling speech. Hope you get your appointment soon.

My little girl was like that she is now 4 and can speak really well just give it time

One for walking, two for talking. That's what I've heard. My boy is the same as your little girl though & the HV is coming out to assess him soon for speech delay. I'm not worried though as his words are definitely coming. I would be more worried if they weren't saying anything at this point.

My little girl didn't really speak till 3 but now can say nearly anything does have trouble with b p t letters but she getting there an yours will too xx

My almost 3.5 year old had a mild delay as well at 2 but they didn’t want to see her till 3. She’s getting better every day.

My 2.5 yo is in speech therapy and it has made such a difference! He wasn’t speaking much at all and now he’s right on par with his peers!

Sounds like my son at 2 and half. Speech therapy has helped him a lot.

Ask you health visitor about chatterpillars, my eldest was recommended at 2 when we lived in London it’s a stay and play group run by a speach therapist for 3-6 weeks and it’s very relaxed play session that teaches parents techniques to get little ones speaking more words with correct pronunciation gently and you meet one to one with a specialist at the end to see if further intervention is need. My daughter started babbling then single words then stalled out at 18 months and kept just grunting and gesturing with the one word when it was picked up by the health visitor. It’s gotten a lot better now she’s at school but with a move as well she had trouble communicating with her teacher and has a learning delay because of it. But why really made it worse was she was on the top of the lists for everything in London then we moved and she had to wait a year in Scotland to see a speech therapist when speech wasn’t even the problem anymore

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circumcision

are we circumcising our boys? or leaving that to dad?

Should I be concerned or am I overthinking?

My little boy is 15 months old, he’s recently taken his first steps and he says mamma and dadda and baba (he has said these for months) we’ve filled out the paperwork for his 12-14 month review and it looks like he isn’t meeting many of his milestones.

He doesn’t copy actions, point, clap etc. He doesn’t react when being spoken to, or to his name. He actively avoids eye contact.

He was so unresponsive to sound that we just had his hearing tested concerned he was deaf. They found that he could hear so he is just choosing not to react to any noises or sounds.

Has anyone else had similar experiences with their little ones? Should I be raising this with the health visitor and ask to be assessed for neurodivergent issue or a social communication problem like autism?

I don’t want to just slap a label on him, but I do feel that there are real concerns. All opinions welcome!!

Routines?

When did you start to introduce your baby’s routine? Do they just have a night routine or full day routine? Wondering when I should start this e.g naps at the same time everyday.

Any routines you have that work for you, please let me know them with timestamps. my baby is 6 weeks and just wondering when we should start them?

Does anyone else’s baby spit up breastmilk but not formula?

I’m seriously considering seeing a lactation consultant because I don’t understand why he can’t hold down breastmilk but can formula. I use soy formula since I’ve used it with my daughter and I’m thinking it might be due to not getting milk coming in for a few days so I had no choice but to give him formula, but now even if I take breaks in between feeding him breastmilk to burp or try to mix breastmilk and formula, he spits it up sooo much. I’m ready to just give him just formula because I’m worried about him not eating enough

Reflux

I need some help my baby is 6 weeks old and recently when I try and wind him after his bottle he’s not bring any wind up and just keeps being sick, I’ve tried infacol but that doesn’t seem to be doing much.

I think Motherhood has made me more bitter than I realized…

This is such a ramble but I don’t know where else to put it all.

I’m four months in and I don’t really have hobbies right now. I don’t do anything for myself except maybe doomscrolling or listening to a podcast while I breastfeed my baby. I used to craft and have game nights with friends. Activities that usually are at least 2 hour stretches. Now if I have an hour free my mind immediately goes to baby, or doing something in the house for baby.

And I thought I didn’t mind. Like I knew postpartum could be very mentally consuming. But I think it’s altering how I view people around me and it’s prodding at my relationship with my husband.

He spends most of his time making food for us, looking after our dogs, playing with the baby, ect. But he still has time for his hobby. Spends maybe an hour a night on it. Even adapted to using a bot for shopping for his hobby after a certain incident where we had to have a heart to heart after he left me home alone with the baby for hours during a busy workday (I work from home) to shop for his hobby.

And yet there’s like this little green eyed monster in me that rages every time I know he’s running off to start up the bot. Even though I’m the reason he does it this way.

We took a family trip last weekend to see his best friend and their kids and let them meet the baby. He brought the laptop. He’s always brought a laptop on trips and it’s never been a problem to me before. But one night we both woke up while the baby was still asleep, and he wandered out of the room. I tried to fall back asleep but couldn’t. So I went to the kitchen to try having something warm to drink to settle me. And he was there at the table running the bot from his laptop. I flipped out at him. But there really wasn’t reason to. It’s not like I needed help with the baby and he was ignoring me. He wasn’t avoiding our friends. He was just awake and unable to sleep and found something to do with his time. Yet my snap reaction was “why the hell would you do this on a family trip?”

I don’t know what it is. Maybe it’s the less complete sleep from baby’s middle of the night feed? My brain being just consumed by baby? Maybe I’m not as over that shopping incident as I thought? But I’m just so annoyed at his hobby right now. The green eyed monster thinks “you could be using that time differently” but realistically to do what exactly??? Stare at our baby in the dark???

I spent probably an hour apologizing to him after I snapped. And he’s of course hurt and frustrated because I said some very mean things in the moment.

I don’t want to be this jealous, angry person. But I also don’t know how to find time for myself in this right now outside of basic hygiene. It’s like I’ve forgotten how to be myself, even if just for an hour.

Maybe I need a therapist.