I posted this in another group, but I thought it would help to get feedback from other moms with 12 month olds or those that have recently went through this phase already.
My 12 month old baby boy has been making me concerned. But mainly only with one "red flag".
The one concerning response to his name being called.
The positives are
He has several words and sometimes will attempt to copy words we say if we say, say I love you for instance he will start babeling something that sounds like the beginning of that sentence.
He says his words in context. Mamma, daddy, dog, ball, sissy, hey, bye bye, clap, last night he said bite bite for the first time.
He immiates things like brushing hair and teeth, drinking from a cup saying vroom while pushing his cars, eating from a spoon, stiring a bowl, watering grass etc.
He makes eye contact and smiles all the time at me. He shows me his toys, or looks up at me to make sure I'm watching. If he's eating and I say give mommy a bite he will put one in my mouth. He responded to me crying (going over the symptoms check list today) he came to me immedately and looked right in my face while in my lap and gave me a kiss and a hug.
He responds to noises and if I call his name from another room or walk into another room he will look at me.
He will point at both things he needs, wants, and is interested in. He plays hide a seek, laughs when he finds me. Laughs at us when were being silly, looks at me when I'm talking to him, and will bable and use had gestures while looking at me. He will start hide a seek himself if he spots a blanket.
No stimming behaviors that I've noticed, he bangs blocks together, uses toys appropriately if he knows their purpose. He respondes to some basic request like throw the ball, turn off the light.
He follows my point, or if I say look at something he will look.
The only pressing concern his response to his name or being talked to when he's occupied by toys or doing his new found skill which is walking.
He is teething right now cutting his canines also, and has been breastfeeding non stop. He does also let me know when he wants to nurse as well.
Getting it all out makes me feel better than being stuck inside my head about it. Can anyone tell me if I have reason for concern? I'm not sure if I'm just making it worse my saying his name way more than normal by "testing" him. The only possible reason I could find for this is that there are 3 variations to his name and no one uses the same one every time.
Thank you for reading all this.