18 to 24 months is the language explosion real?

Yeah absolutely, yours sounds like she’s already ahead though, and you’ve got another 5 months in that ‘recommended’ development phase 🥲 mine could only say dada at 13 months but now can do a tonne of animals and is getting really good at repeating, so he’s having his explosion I’d say. It’s another one of those that’s just so baby dependent x

In the month around the time she turned 18 months she went from around 10 words to 50ish. She’s 23 months next week and it now feels like she copies everything she hears but only when she’s a home with mum and dad. She started putting two words together around 19 months but she’s hasn’t made much more progress with that since then.

Yes! At 19 months my son said mama and that was about it. Around 2 he was like a sponge.

Almost 3 and now I can’t shut him up after so long worrying he’d never speak x

At around 2 we started getting 2 words together, she’s 2 years 4 months and this week I’d say we’ve had a massive leap and we’re getting some actual 3/4 word sentences

Yeah, from 19 months on, my kids said a new word every day, pretty much

But for some kids, that doesn't happen until 2

There is a big cognitive development at 18 months and again around their 2nd birthday

I had no idea about this language explosion and I was blown away. My son went from just saying “mama, dada, banana, water, nana, ta” and a few other words to literally saying the entire alphabet, saying colours, copying any words we say. Saying sentences. It’s insane

My daughter is 19 months, and I won’t lie, her language and communication is incredible, she’s saying 3 word sentences, and I’d say she is approaching 75-100 words/phrases, counting to 10 etc! She has definitely had the ‘explosion’ over the last month or so!
of course this isn’t always the norm, and some children don’t speak much until 2+, so definitely child dependent x

With both of my kids I have noticed this around 18 months (actually my daughter turns 18 months on Thursday). She’s just suddenly started putting more words together. Like last night she wanted my husband’s sparkling water (we basically just let her touch her mouth to it lol, rather than actually drink it). So she started saying “dada water” and then pointing to herself and saying her name.

It’s often when they’ll start saying things other than nouns. Like instead of just labeling things it switches to more trying to use language as a communication form.

It started around 16 months but yes. Before, you'd have maybe 10 new words every week or so. Suddenly they start learning 20 new words daily. It flips like a switch.

Yeah 100%. At 19 months my little girl had max 20 words and couldn’t put any together. She couldn’t count at all.
Now at 22 months she has 200+ words and can put two and three words together. She can also rote count to 20 and recognises all the digits 🙂

I’m in the same exact boat with my 19 month old I keep worrying about speech delay but I think some babies just have the boom of words earlier!

My friend said you have either a mover or a talker at one year! We have a mover so that’s been comforting hahaha

My sister said also just enjoy peace and quiet because it will come out of nowhere haha

Yesss! My little girl is 21 months and the last month or so it’s suddenly been super noticeable! I’d say she’s got at least 200 words now. She’s suddenly stringing 2 or even 3 words together and it’s just amazing to see her develop. But also remember that each child takes it at their own pace and your little one is doing just fine 💗

Take lots of videos of her talking because you'll be surprised how much better their speech gets without you realising. You'll look back on two weeks ago and be able to notice a difference.