How do you KNOW your baby is using REAL words

crackerjackprinter · July 2009

For instance, we could have sworn last night that Mady said "night night Daddy" but how can we really know? She is a babbler and has been since 9 months and sometimes it sounds exactly like a certain word. Other times it doesn't.

Where do you draw the line?

babyluv617 · July 2009

She's a genius! =D You know her best. If you can understand her and it's in context then I'd say it's a real word.

mrsjjd · July 2009

Usually if something has been said several times I consider it "real"

papagena · July 2009

I'm with you - it's hard. On Mother's day this year, it sounded like DS said "I love you, daddy". Since he was so young, I had no question about the "I love you" part being babbling that just happened to sound like it, but I wasn't so sure about the daddy part. I think I finally realized he meant mama when he actually looked at me, I knew he wanted something from me and he said 'mama'. Not that that answers your question.... I think he's starting to say 'nana' for banana, though - he's used it several times after we say banana, or when he's eating said fruit.

Dobie_Mama · July 2009

I look at the context and/or if she uses it consistently.

For example, the first phrase DD said was, "I wan cheese!" I was pretty shocked and think I said, "EXCUSE ME!?" So I went and got a piece of cheese and said, "This? This is what you want?" and she said "Yesh." I hear this phrase now approximately 5839158198531 times per day so I'm pretty sure that's what she means.

crackerjackprinter · July 2009

mrsjjd:
Usually if something has been said several times I consider it "real"

This is what I'm thinking too. I'm just so impatient, I hate to wait until tonight for her to do it again! It was really cute though. And awesome even if it wasn't "real"!

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