Baby question

[annemehr]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, chnc1024 at A... wrote:
> Hey Moms, and well Dads too for that matter, I was just wondering
> if any of you could help me with something.  My daughter is 
> nearly 9 months old, and she still doesn't talk.  She is, and 
> always has been ahead of schedule as far as physical 
> development, but she still doesn't say any real words.
> My friend's daughter, could say Mama, Daddy, Hi, and 
> No, by the time she was 8-9 months, and I am just wondering
> if I should be worried.  Her hearing seems to be fine, and when
> her hearing was tested at the hospital at birth she passed.  
> If any of you could tell me when your kids started talking,
> it would help me decide what I should do.  
>  
> Thanks!!!
>  
> Chancie
>  
> ~~~also, I did want to add, that she does babble, and 
> the baby sites that discuss developmental milestones
> usually say babies start saying Dada, at around 6 
> months or so.

Don't worry!

Nine months would be extremely early for actual talking (i.e. saying
words and meaning them). At 6 months, when they are "saying" Dada,
they are just babbling: making the sound "da-da-da-da" and practicing
vocalizing.

My earliest talker didn't start saying words and meaning them until
just before she turned one year old; the other two began really
talking at just over a year.

On the other hand, sometimes you will find a child who never talks at
all until the age of two or three, at which point he will come out
with complete sentences -- apparently my brother-in-law was just such
a child.

Then of course, when they do start talking, they never shut up until
they hit the teenage years.  *eyeroll*

Annemehr