Baby's first words

dianabeee · January 2016

So yesterday at night I could swear my 7month son said "teta" which is Spanish word for bottle. He repeatedly said it. Which I thought It was just a coincidence. Until today he said it again and again. It's a very exciting feeling although I was hoping he'd say mama first. Has anyone else experienced the joys of a first word?

alcrimmins · January 2016

My LO has been saying dada and mama for a few weeks now. I'm pretty sure she's just learning and enjoying making those sounds though.

caitlincunn · January 2016

Lo says Mama all the time. It's so cute.

staceyfern · January 2016

LO was saying mamama and da dada a lot. This past week I think he has been saying it for me. he has been calling out mamama when he upset. Such as when he wants out of the exersaucer and wants to be picked up

HoosOnFirst · January 2016

My baby is really good at saying "blppppppppfth".

btm013 · January 2016

Sometimes I swear LO says as clear as could be "Hi daddy" but I think it's just babble. He's been saying dada and ay yi yi for a few weeks now. The ay yi yi is sometimes said in perfect context too like when he drops something or falls over haha.

delujm0 · January 2016

We started with baba around 5.5 months and she's now expanded to Dada and mama as well. But we don't count them as words since it's clear that she's not referring to anything specific when she says them. Ad soon as that happens we'll count it.

janat1717 · January 2016

I think I've heard a consonant 4 times but I also sometimes think I've imagined it and we are 8 months today. He does army crawl a lot so I like to think he's just focused on that

KonaCoffeeBean · January 2016

My baby says dada, but it's pretty evident that it's not a word at this point.

moz3518 · February 2016

LO is being raised in a bilingual home. He has been saying mama for quite a while now and recently starting saying papa/dada. He hasn't made the connection specifically to me and or my DH respectively yet but he does know to say that to get our attention.

klkonwi · February 2016

My Lo says.... Nah nah nah.... I think he's trying to sing but I don't know................

KaLikeAWind · February 2016

LO has a pretty good vocal range, I think. He uses 'ba', 'da', 'ma', 'mum', 'mmm', 'ya'. He knows when he makes sounds we pay attention and talk back to him, so I'm sure he does it sometimes to engage with us, but I don't think any of his da, ma, or mum sounds are for us for specifically. He has said 'ya' a few times that were contextually appropriate, tho, which is interesting

LaurenAnn0405 · February 2016

LO keeps babbling "dadadada" but has not figured out "mamama" sounds yet. Hopefully he'll start doing that soon so I can pretend he's talking about me

mindaa · February 2016

Funny, the first word is supposed to be such a big "event," but I've been wondering how on earth we're going to know when baby transitions from just making random consonent sounds to actually saying words.

ahall0358 · February 2016

LO has been saying "mama" for two weeks now and it melts my heart every time. Still working on "dada." I can tell DH is a little jealous lol.

KaLikeAWind · February 2016

mindaa said:

Funny, the first word is supposed to be such a big "event," but I've been wondering how on earth we're going to know when baby transitions from just making random consonent sounds to actually saying words.

I've been wondering this, too

LaurenAnn0405 · February 2016

For us, we counted DD's first word as one she didn't babble. Her first word was when she pointed to a picture of herself hanging in the hallway and said "baby". It does get kind of hard to tell since they can babble a lot of things that sound like words but we counted it when she said a distinct word.

mindaa · February 2016

LaurenAnn0405 said:

For us, we counted DD's first word as one she didn't babble. Her first word was when she pointed to a picture of herself hanging in the hallway and said "baby". It does get kind of hard to tell since they can babble a lot of things that sound like words but we counted it when she said a distinct word.

Thanks!

queequeg09256 · February 2016

Mine goes dadadadadada which has been fantastic when she needs something because I say 'oh I'm sorry babe she clearly wants her dad to do this' and he does it! I'm cool if she holds out learning mama because I'm going to milk this dada thing for a bit.

corndogrobot · February 2016

ciennah99 · February 2016

queequeg09256 said:

Mine goes dadadadadada which has been fantastic when she needs something because I say 'oh I'm sorry babe she clearly wants her dad to do this' and he does it! I'm cool if she holds out learning mama because I'm going to milk this dada thing for a bit.

I do the same thing! LO has been saying "hi" & "dada" for awhile. Tonight I finally heard a "mama." I don't really care if she knows what the words mean yet it's just cute to hear her talk!

devyns2nd · February 2016

I think I'm going to count his first word when it's not mama, Dada or baba.

heidiiwa · February 2016

He says mama, dada and "key" for kitty. They could just be babbling still but sometimes when he says mama I could swear he is calling for me. Or when he says "key" it seems like he's greeting the kitty. Except when he says it at other times, lol. And when he says mama to the daycare teacher. Anyway I know how we react to those words is partly how he'll learn what they mean. So I react like they are meaningful.

janat1717 · February 2016

My first word is written down as dada at like 7 mo. Bummed as we know better now and that totally wasn't my first word. My SIL said you'll know when it is associated. One of her kids said Tuc when a truck was driving by (his older brother loves trucks)

ciennah99 · February 2016

Walked in the room after LO slept 9-6 by the way & LO said "hi mama" sure as day. Could've been coincidence but the mama in me says it was intentional.