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Hi, I'm not sure if this is how to respond, i just hit reply, but i would like
to add my two cents to the topic of "delayed speech in the eight month old."

My daughter, Ani, began making sounds on a "normal" timetable, then just stopped
"progressing" at about ten months. She didn't say ANY words at all. She would
"woof" when the dog was at the door, and that was it. I was becoming concerned
that perhaps she was deaf or hard-of-hearing, as I have some exp. within deaf
culture, and thought perhaps i was blessed with a "special" child after all.

She and I communicated beautifully, however, it was just all telepathic. She
has been E.C'd since three months, and we always made it to the potty without
her vocalizing any thing.

Fast forward to this Christmas: she was nineten months old, still not saying
any words. She'd been making tons of sounds, trying out each one, practicing
diff. pitches and tones for each new sound, incorporating the new sounds with
her reproitoire of previously mastered one, yet, no words. Then we introduced
the Santa story to her. Suddenly, everything's Santa! santa, santa,
santa...within the month, she was speaking, quite clearly, appx. 18 words.

As I looked back on the time, I realize that a lie was the reason she began
communicxation in spoken language. Our telepathy worked perfectly until that
point, because all i'd told her was the TRUTH. As soon as an untruth was
introduced, she was removed from the purity of complete truth, had fallen to
this earth and had to adopt the "normal" way of communicating, i.e., through
spoken language.

Now, at 22 months, she is stringing together two and three word phrases. She
and I are still telepathic and I feel this is the future of human
communications. As we learn to live in light, in complete openness and freedom,
we will lose the need to decieve, to hide our true thoughs and intentions from
one another. When we all begin to speak the truth, we will no longer need to
speak at all.

laura
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Laura, your post was great! I also did EC with two of my kids and I
do know what you mean about the telepathy, although I feel that their
talking was just another additional way of communication,instead of a
trade in. When they are little and you have them right there in arms
and they nurse freely without needing to ask, they sleep with you or
on you as they doze when they are tired... they do not need to talk
or cry because all of their needs are met. They are content.

In my personal experience with my four kids and my friends, some who
have many children(one family has 7, another has 5), kids will
develop outside of the range of "normal" and be just fine.One of mine
walked at 8 months, but he didn't utter a word until well after 2.
Two talked very well and early. One was "right on schedule". I have
seen an 18 month old who did not walk or talk, she just sat around
smiling. We called her the Budda Baby. Eventually she did just get up
and walk and talk. No problems at all.She was from the family of 7
kids. They also had an 8 month old walking baby, so they have had
both extremes and everything in between.

By contast, my sister has a son,her only child, who is now 4. When he
was born his esophegus was connected to his trachea, andwas not
connected to his stomach. He had surgery right away and many
complications. He stopped breathing two times as an infant. As he
has grown,he was delayed in his development in crawling, walking,
talking and eating. Yet at 18 months I saw him catch up to
the "average" child. Yet,my sister and his Dr's were still saying he
was delayed in speach , and physical development. He did talk with
few words, but more than the Budda Baby! He was walking, but didn't
like to get his hands dirty. They called this a sensory issue. I have
a kid who never liked to get dirt on his hands, not as a baby and not
now at 11. He is a very neat and tidy person.
At 4 years old a therapist told my sister that her son was not
speaking properly,that he was just repeating phrases that other
people have said to him. He tells me all sorts of things,not
repeated, but he does repeat one thing I'm sure he was told, he
says "I have issues".
Honestly, 8 months old is so little and there is still such a wide
range of development. I personally would just choose the wait and see
method.
-Kelly