Hugo is a normal happy baby and perfect in all ways. But he's all but turned off his talking apparatus. He's just hit 17 months and he talks less than when he was 12 months.
Am I worried? No, the doctor said he's obviously an alert, social and happy baby and it's no sign of his intelligence and that he is absolutely not autistic do't even go there and that it is probably because my husband was a late bloomer. My man went to Oxford with some sort of special designation for being a brain bucket. But as a baby, reports from his mother (who should be biased as she thinks the sun rises on his left shoulder and sets on his right) are that he was late in everything. I think she said he was a blonde blob of a baby who didn't walk until he was 22 -- years old. Or something. But anyway, awesome, blaming his genes sounds fab.
Again, am I worried? OK, yes. But only because the doctor uttered dreaded words "early intervention" and then she reminded me again that there was absolutely nothing wrong with him and then asked the nurse to leave and asked if I was OK. Wait, you said there was nothing wrong with him? So why are you expecting me to be not OK?
Would you, dear readers, be OK? How can you both not worry and yet look into "early intervention"?
Yes so to illustrate this post I intentionally picked the one video I have of him acting a bit like an autistic potato. Enjoy! And I'll let you know how the talking and intervening and all that comes along.
