Hearing & Speach

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Hello, I have a question for the members with older kids. When did

your children begin to have first words? Marcel and Fabien are both

17 month old and they do not have any actual words. They do say mama

and dada but its not intentionally. They do not know what it means.

they are still just doing the monosyllabic babble. We just started

ST a few weeks ago and I hope this will help them improve. Marcel is

going to have tubes placed on Friday for the fluid rention in his

ears. This greatly affects his hearing right now. When he had the

audiology it showed a moderate hearing loss. So we are eager to see

if the tubes are going to make positive impact right away. Also

there are some reports out there on the net claiming that tubes do

not always correct hearing issues. Generally Marcel is a couple of

month behind his brother in development. He is only 18lb, Fabien is

24lb. They eat the same amounts of foods but it appears they have a

different metabolism. Fabien can finger feed himself, Marcel can

pick food up but can't get it in his mouth. he rather puts the food

in his hair. The daycare just separated the two cause Fabien was to

wild pulling himself up on the babychairs so he is going to the

young toddler class now. Most kids in this class started to walk. I

am not happy that they are not together cause they are clearly

missing each other. We are trying to get them to move Marcel as

well. He has not started to pull himself up but he gets bored in the

baby room. Its not stimulating for him.

Cheers, Anja. Mom of Fabien,Marcel 17mo (DS), Celine 5y.