hi all!!! i have 7month old twins liam and ryan. ryan (ds) i have to say i am totally surprised and chuffed to bits with ryans learning, and developing!!! hes turning over on his own but for some reason never when i want him to! but every morning hes hes rolled over in his cot! he says ma ma ma ma when i say it, hes also learnt ba ba ba and has said it a few times! and when i kiss him i hold him tight to my lips and say mmmmmmmm and and a loud kissing noise when i let go he hasnt quite got the kissing noise but he says aaaa really loud trying to copy me! he doesnt sit up unaided yet but were working on it! im just so surprised at the things he does his twin not (ds) doesnt say ma ma ma or anythink the only thing he does it sits up for a good while hes very near to sitting on his own! my mums always joking saying ryans gonna do the talking for both of them and when he really gets going i wont be able to shut him up!! what do u ladies think is he making good progress?????? id love to know how old your babies were when they started saying there 1st little words?? i know everythink ryan does is an acheivement but i am so proud of him!!! my precious little star!!!!!!

just realised the last post i just did was in the wrong place meant to put it in general!!!!!

my boy started saying mamamama and all that little words when he was around 7 - 11 months. and until now is when he's using it much more

Alexis started saying DADADADA at 8mths and 9 she started saying Boo for peak a boo and Ba for her bottle and she is 10 mths and doesnt say MAMAMA she says NANANANA. I try to get her to say MamA but it always comes out NANANA

You are lucky to have twins. They will learn so much from one another. I have a small daycare and I have a 8month old non DS girl in my care and Anthony is trying to do all the things she is doing. He is now trying to make some of the sounds she makes and he is rolling more so that he can check her out more. She is a mover so he has some work to do but I think she motivates him a lot. DS children learn at diffrent rate just like normal children. I am sure your DS son is just taking it all in.

Talitha isn't saying anything yet but she is watching carefully when I try to get her to copy me.

Darah said her first recognizable word "Bye Bye" when she was 17 months old. Her first sign "All done" when she was 16 months old. She started babbling Dadadad and Mamama a lot sooner, and won't stop talking even now. She just started "talking" to where she you can tell she's saying something very important, and she knows what she's saying, but no one can translate. It's too funny...she'll just babble, "Madi ooh. Ba ba ee" or some other phrase. It's too funny!!

Way to go Ryan! I think he's doing fantastic, (or brilliant as you English like to say!)

Hi Josie

I just noticed from your post that you are from England UK

the word " chuffed " made me realise you are from our side of the pond, as I had to explain what that one means when I've used it before

where abouts in England do you come from?

Great progress for Ryan

Hannah sat up at 11mths

Are you doing Makaton sign language with Ryan?

we live in coventry, in the west midlands (england)! we are not doing any signs with ryan at the moment, i have heard of this before but only on this forum, nobody has even told me about it before, i dont even know what any of the signs are, or what they even mean! is there a book?? u buy that shows u how to do all the signs???

Josie, I'd say Ryan is doing great.

With regards the signing, do you ever watch CBeebies? On there, there is a programme called 'Something Special' where they use signing. And if you go on the CBeebies website, you can download/watch a lot of the signs there too http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/somethingspecial/index.shtml
Here;s the link

Ryan's a bit young to sign yet, but it's good to let him see signs - his brother too - as kids learn by copying. And the chances are Liam will overtake with his speaking, at some stage, and signing will help Ryan to communicate before he's able to speak.

When you get a chance, post some pictures of your gorgeous little boys.