Baby Vocab

amymichelleh13

Hi ladies!

How many words can your baby say? Or are they still just jibber jabbering?

If they are talking, what words can they say?

Adelynn is up to 5 words now: Mama, Dada, baba, Papa, and she just starting saying dog today. )

heatherbrownm

And you are...?

redhead610

We are up to 100 words.

In actuality, I don't refer to it as "just" jibber jabbering. I am happy that he is now consistently using consonant sounds as well as meaningless vowel sounds. He isn't even 9 months old, I don't really expect him to have "vocabulary words".

WanderingA

Curious...why do you post on May, June, July, August, September and October 2013 boards?

Stacey099

WanderingA said:

Curious...why do you post on May, June, July, August, September and October 2013 boards?

Curious....very curious (Ollivander voice)

WanderingA

That would be good, this post just seems very troll-y to me. 

juliedave151 said:

WanderingA said:

Curious...why do you post on May, June, July, August, September and October 2013 boards?

Kitten80

Ah hem. That "just jibber jabber" is the fundamental building blocks for our babies to learn how to produce individual sounds and then couple them into different utterance shapes and lengths forming the basis for their future communication skills. The typical developmental acquisition includes predominately vowels and bilabials (i.e. B/P/M) in isolation as well as in couplets. CV or CVCV (consonat vowel - i.e. mama, baba, papa as well as other "easy" and early developing sounds such as "dada") are traditionally heard at this stage before they gain regular meaningful use. They also continue to play with raspberries and other faces/sounds which also aids their speech language development. Pairing these productions with meaningful things (pointing to daddy, petting the dog, rolling the ball) help the babies turn that jibber jabber into meaningful vocabulary with intent.

J13 babies are all very advanced and speaking and voice texting each other in phrases already.

EagleWife

amymichelleh13 said:

Hi ladies! How many words can your baby say? Or are they still just jibber jabbering? If they are talking, what words can they say? Adelynn is up to 5 words now: Mama, Dada, baba, Papa, and she just starting saying dog today. )

Congratulations, @amymichelleh13! Five words! You must be the most amazing mother on the board!

Please, impart upon us your wisdom so that we can all teach our less amazing LOs and raise their communication above the level of *pointing nose up* "just jibber jabbering." 

Actually, never mind. Just go away.

bobcee

Are we just counting English words?  Because my baby can speak in five different languages pretty fluently.

PrimRoseMama

Someone pour me a drink... @-)

KikiCohen

bobcee said:

Are we just counting English words?  Because my baby can speak in five different languages pretty fluently.

Only 5? You must be doing something wrong. P is up to 8.

jackson290721

Bilabial is an awesome word.

bobcee

KikiCohen said:

bobcee said:

Are we just counting English words?  Because my baby can speak in five different languages pretty fluently.

Only 5? You must be doing something wrong. P is up to 8.

Shit. I better wake him up now so he can get to studying.

valstulas

Finn's reworking the urban dictionary. He's actually taught me quite a few things.

valstulas

Oh, and congrats, OP. That sure is a Lottie of words for an 8 month-old to say.

@maryannespier‌

Pink724

Lillian has taken to writing for me rather than speaking. She fears that the handwritten note is becoming a lost art.

[Deleted User]

My baby doesn't talk, he's a fish.

valstulas

Asbromle said:

My baby doesn't talk, he's a fish.

Good thing your cat's too drunk to notice.

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Hahahaha thank you! I couldn't think of a way to involve the little bartender @valstulas

pgermain11

Only 5 words? I'm sorry, but my child has moved passed speaking and is now practicing her calligraphy. We can do your next baby shower invitations if you'd like... 

opheliainwaders

maryannespier said:

PrimRoseMama said:

Someone pour me a drink... @-)

Giles isn't talking yet but he pours a really great beer.
Priorities people.

What? Only a beer?!? We have Lyra make us cocktails. But I guess she *is* one of the older babies, so I'm sure he'll catch up.

opheliainwaders

maryannespier said:

gulickr said:

maryannespier said:

PrimRoseMama said:

Someone pour me a drink... @-)

Giles isn't talking yet but he pours a really great beer.
Priorities people.

What? Only a beer?!? We have Lyra make us cocktails. But I guess she *is* one of the older babies, so I'm sure he'll catch up.

Giles finds cocktails to be too frou frou.

Lyra told me what she thinks about that, but apparently she's been picking up profanity on the subway, so I can't repeat it here.

reallylongusername

I pity tha' babies who jibba jabba!


Penelope is taking after her mother and is not only speaking words, but will be spelling them in spelling bees.  She currently likes onomatopoeia.

lancomechica

Somehow I missed this entire thread when it began.
Lottie of awesomeness up in this piece!

JTA2426

The twins have their own language. I couldn't say for sure, but I'm guessing somewhere in the neighborhood of 75 words and some raspberries. Your LO might be a bit behind the majority of the J13 babies, OP.

michnfrankstake2

My baby just said fuck you!

karen0477

Iand LoveandYou said:

Pink724 said:

Lillian has taken to writing for me rather than speaking. She fears that the handwritten note is becoming a lost art.

My baby also believes in the gesture of hand written notes!   Should we set up a J13 Pen Pal program?!


My baby is also into gestures, but not the handwritten kind!!

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You ALL are a bunch of mean bishes.

coco2787

Well I totes did not know that saying "mama, dada, baba, and papa" meant my kid was talking.


*runs off to FB to brag about how smart my kid is*

KMRR86

Oh. Sorry i missed this thread earlier. I had to take Lily to the university so she could deliver her lecture on the province's economic action plan.

bobcee

somerandomchick said:

Cfreymc said:

Well I totes did not know that saying "mama, dada, baba, and papa" meant my kid was talking.


*runs off to FB to brag about how smart my kid is*

This is exactly what I was thinking. WTF is "baba" and how did you decide it counts as a word?

And I refuse to believe that a baby would pick up both Dada and Papa as first words, because they're both the same thing! Maybe a BTDT can correct me if I'm wrong here but I feel like if baby actually knows what dada means she's just going to call DH dada and not start throwing in other words for variety.

Maybe I'll be proven wrong when Rosalind's first sentence is "Yo pops, give me some milk"

To be fair here, DD calls my H daddy and my dad (her grandpa), papa. So dada and papa do refer to different things, not like she was interchanging what she was calling H. Though in the case of OP, I'm sure her child is bright enough to do just that.

amymichelleh13

Wow, seriously?!  My original post was not meant to brag, just wanted to see how many other babies my DD's age were doing the same thing... such as recognizing people in their fam and saying their names.. i.e. Mama, Dada, Papa (grandpa), etc.  I work full-time outside of the home, so I am not able to join play groups, etc. and do not know many other parents with babies my DD's age.   I enjoy reading most of the posts on this board, even if I don't reply to every single story I read.

I do not have much free time to get on The Bump, maybe during my lunch break once a week if that, and that's it.  I am not a frequent poster, but I do comment if I feel like I have useful information that might help someone else...or if I have been through something similar. I don't revol in drama, so don't look for me to comment on your posts if all you're doing is bashing someone or complaining about something.

It is ridiculous that grown women can hide behind computer screens, acting immature and bashing other people who have the same interests.

Rise above and be a bigger person, and for goodness sakes, grow up!!!

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I'm usually hiding behind my phone screen.

EagleWife

amymichelleh13 said:

Wow, seriously?!  My original post was not meant to brag, just wanted to see how many other babies my DD's age were doing the same thing... such as recognizing people in their fam and saying their names.. i.e. Mama, Dada, Papa (grandpa), etc.  I work full-time outside of the home, so I am not able to join play groups, etc. and do not know many other parents with babies my DD's age.   I enjoy reading most of the posts on this board, even if I don't reply to every single story I read.

I do not have much free time to get on The Bump, maybe during my lunch break once a week if that, and that's it.  I am not a frequent poster, but I do comment if I feel like I have useful information that might help someone else...or if I have been through something similar. I don't revol in drama, so don't look for me to comment on your posts if all you're doing is bashing someone or complaining about something.

It is ridiculous that grown women can hide behind computer screens, acting immature and bashing other people who have the same interests.

Rise above and be a bigger person, and for goodness sakes, grow up!!!

So you admit that your comments need to be risen above and come from a small minded person, @amymichelleh13?

And as to "hiding" behind screens - have you found the secret key to enter the lovely interwebs in person? Please, have your baby tell us how to interact in person without our computer screens.

EagleWife

NKaeding said:

Preach @ncchnat‌

Amen.

KMRR86

Wait! Let me get my bingo card out first......

sparkymcgeee

maryannespier said:

Someone pour me a drink... @-)

Giles isn't talking yet but he pours a really great beer. Priorities people.

What? Only a beer?!? We have Lyra make us cocktails. But I guess she *is* one of the older babies, so I'm sure he'll catch up.

Giles finds cocktails to be too frou frou.

We don't drink beer. Do you think he can pour me some Pepsi or diet coke?

gutsymama

amymichelleh13 said:

Wow, seriously?!  My original post was not meant to brag, just wanted to see how many other babies my DD's age were doing the same thing... such as recognizing people in their fam and saying their names.. i.e. Mama, Dada, Papa (grandpa), etc.  I work full-time outside of the home, so I am not able to join play groups, etc. and do not know many other parents with babies my DD's age.   I enjoy reading most of the posts on this board, even if I don't reply to every single story I read.

I do not have much free time to get on The Bump, maybe during my lunch break once a week if that, and that's it.  I am not a frequent poster, but I do comment if I feel like I have useful information that might help someone else...or if I have been through something similar. I don't revol in drama, so don't look for me to comment on your posts if all you're doing is bashing someone or complaining about something.

It is ridiculous that grown women can hide behind computer screens, acting immature and bashing other people who have the same interests.

Rise above and be a bigger person, and for goodness sakes, grow up!!!

:-/ ) )

gutsymama

Also - Luke's first word was "gastroschisis," followed closely by "bilirubin." 

He has recently added "poop" to his vocab list. He is one of those advanced babies who understand that one thing can have many names, however, because from time to time he also calls it "stinky-stink" and "shit."