16 month old is not talking yet?
(He was born premature and stayed in the hospital for 1 1/2 months with lung and weight problems but is pretty healthy now and at a healthy weight)
Answers:
Don't feel bad at all. When I was 4 months pregnant, I was told by doctors that my baby would be retarded. They said she'd have a rare chromosome disorder due to part of one of her chromosomes missing. I heard nothing positive at all. I was stressed out! After I had her, I was still stressing, thinking of all the negative things that I had been told. Whenever she didn't do something that according to doctors and books "babies her age should be doing"...I got worried. She didn't talk, scoot, crawl, pick up objects or anything else that "babies should have been doing at her age". I didn't go out with her my other friends who have babies her age, because I they were crawling, talking, dancing and doing everything else I THOUGHT she should be doing too. It made me sad, and I was kinda jealous, and always thinking...Why isn't MY child doing that?? I finally got a doctor who told me that NOT ALL BABIES DO THE SAME THING AT A CERTAIN AGE. They do things when THEY get ready. Once I understood that and stopped worrying about every little thing that she wasn't doing according to "what's normal for most babies", I was okay! My baby is healthy and almost 2 years old now! She does a whole lot, and I can't even keep up with her! She has her own personality, and does things when SHE wants! NOT when everybody else wants her too. Your baby will be just fine. So stop worrying, and enjoy your baby actually being a baby! He will grow up before you know it, and you'll wonder what happened to the time! Enjoy the quiet time now! You'll probably be saying BE QUIET!! when he starts talking too much, and going on and on and on!!!! haha!!! =)
Maybe if you expose him to different people speaking proper English he'd catch on faster?
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