14 month old had a bunch of words, seemed even a little ahead for his age. Now it seems like everything is "eh" or at most "dis."
Before he was saying
Bebe = airplane
Bebe = belly
Meme = give me or more please
Momo = sibling name
Ba = bath
Nana = banana
Up
Mama
Dada
Bye
A few animal sounds
Not sure what else but it felt like a nice list. Now he really isn't saying words. It's been maybe a week? Everything is just a kvetch and pointing. He used to go into the bathroom and beg for a bath saying "bah! Bah!" and now he just points at the bath faucet and says "eh, eh."
I've tried prompting him to say what he wants when I know he knows the word but he just either gives up or starts crying.
I'm not sure whether to worry
Other than this he seems pretty normal. He has a couple of molars coming in that I think are making him a little out of sorts but he's pretty happy most of the time. He still makes nonsense sounds as expected. But his actual words vocabulary is down to "dis." Even "more" which he'd been saying for months already seems to be gone.
He has been touching his ears a lot which I thought was related to the teething. But his receptive language seems fine so I doubt he has any hearing problems.
If it is a regression, what could that mean? What can you do about it?
I'm going to take him to get his ears checked and talk this over with a doctor but I always like to gather as much information as I can first. Sometimes there are things you don't think to ask until after.
I think this is normal. my daughter recently did the same thing it’s when she learned how to point I think she just got a little lazy and stop talking after a few weeks though she’s talking tons. I just stopped responding to the points and giving the words instead.
This. My son's speech regressed considerably and that's when he started walking (he was teething as well) only after walking was established did his speech continue to pick up speed
