My 28 month old won't speak much!
Hi,
I am starting to get extremely concerned for my daughter. She is the younger of two kids. My son is 13 yrs old and I was a single mother with him, so he developed right along with every other kid at daycare. My daughter is now 2 1/2 - she has not been exposed to ANY other children ever. She was speaking along with the milstones at 1yr old saying"Mama" "Dada" and a host of other babbles. She had not gotten her teeth in yet when this was happening.
At about 16 months she got all her teeth at once. She has been chewing a lot on everything as normal, but now - her speech as gone by the way side. She no longer says things that I can understand besides "Eat" and that's more of an "EEEE" when it comes out. I try to read to her, and she pays attention for a bit then wants nothing to do with it.
Now to be clear, I have heard her call my hubby "yaddy" for daddy - and once she said "mama" as clear as a bell. Other than those two or three words, nothing. She tries to sing with her voice I can tell, and she makes TONS of verbal or audible sounds. Lots of grunts, razzberriers, jammering incoherent words or noises otherwise.
She can follow my requests pretty well, even 2 step requests. Her gross motor skills are up to par - with no problems. But, she has no interest in feeding herself, eating more solid foods(we still have her on a lot of baby foods a day). She just throws all attempts to change her food to the floor repeatedly.
She has a fixation on having 2 toys that match always. I didn't see this in my son at all. She was delivered in an emergency c-section and there was problems with my placenta as well as she was being choked by cord.
My pediatrician at her one year check up told me something was wrong with her. I didn't want to over worry about her not talking at one however. At her 2 yr old check up in a different doctor / different town, the doctor told me NOT to be worried and that she will catch up with the others when she is ready.
I am extremely frightened she has some type of autism. I looked up the info and do not see very many characteristics in her they list. She most certainly knows her name and will look right at you when called.
Is this all stemming from her staying home with me, and not being forced into daycare at a young age to swim with the others? Or do you think she really has a problem? She can stack blocks, jump up with 2 feet, gives kisses to everyone she knows, and plays with us in an interactive way.
Is anyone else having the same problem? I read the other postings and I will look into the fact that her mouth muscles may not have opened up with her delivery coming c-section. Other than that any advice to help me relax will certain be appreciated. :)
Thanks!