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S/O If your LO is talking

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So, help settle this debate between my mom and I.  DS says "dada" and "mama" but has absolutely no connection to these words.  He doesn't look at me and say mama or look at DH and say dada.  My mom says these count as his first words because although he doesn't know what they mean, they are actual words.  I say that he's just trying out these sounds and doesn't even realize that they're words so it doesn't count as a word. 

Who's right?

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Re: S/O If your LO is talking

  • sokmonkee3517sokmonkee3517 member

    Although my heart jumped when LO first said Mama, I knew that it was just part of a string of babble.  I don't think I will count her first word until I know she means what she says.

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  • awagner122210awagner122210
    I know B has said dadadada or mamama but it was mixed in with his usual bababababa's so I'm not counting it.  It's hard not to take something they say & turn it or make it sound like what we want.  KWIM?  But this is something I've asked myself many times.... exactly when will we "know" those were the first words? idk.  not counting it yet though
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  • CamilleJonCamilleJon member

    I think you're right. We haven't counted any of J's babble as his first words.

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  • Cheekers2010Cheekers2010 member
    imageSmilingMrsF:

    So, help settle this debate between my mom and I.  DS says "dada" and "mama" but has absolutely no connection to these words.  He doesn't look at me and say mama or look at DH and say dada.  My mom says these count as his first words because although he doesn't know what they mean, they are actual words.  I say that he's just trying out these sounds and doesn't even realize that they're words so it doesn't count as a word. 

    Who's right?

    You are.
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  • xxbabycakesxxxxbabycakesxx member
    i asked this same question a few months ago.  everyone said just babble.
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  • kat81again2kat81again2 member
    imageSmilingMrsF:

    So, help settle this debate between my mom and I.  DS says "dada" and "mama" but has absolutely no connection to these words.  He doesn't look at me and say mama or look at DH and say dada.  My mom says these count as his first words because although he doesn't know what they mean, they are actual words.  I say that he's just trying out these sounds and doesn't even realize that they're words so it doesn't count as a word. 

    Who's right?

    Definitely with you on this. Doesn't count until there is symbolic meaning in my mind. It doesn't have to be perfect; he could say "mama" and "dada" for all people or just you guys (but indiscriminately), or all women are mama and all men are dada and I think that totally counts as being a word. But he can't just say it randomly for it to count. It has to be assigned to SOMETHING, even if it's a little bit wrong with the assignment. Our DS does the same, and he'll just be talking to his toys saying it. It doesn't have meaning.  But the person who posted that her DS says "itta" only around the kittens, yes, that counts as a word.  


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  • SapphireKat18SapphireKat18
    Just babble here. Though he doesn't often say "mama", just "dada" and "nana" (which my mom and I pretend is him calling for his Nanny (aka grandma)). 
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