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For example, some toddlers concentrate on other skills first and move on to talking later. While others hold off talking until they're more confident and then suddenly catch up with their peers.

Toddlers are saying more words and some are beginning to put words together to make short sentences. They need you to keep giving them those tools for talking to help expand their language.

My first top tip for talking with your baby would be to talk to them from the first day they are born. So talk to them right from the off and make sure that they get used to you as a communicator.