ma ma and da da?

singingsea · October 2013

I'm not sure if he's directing it toward us exactly but we're getting a whole lot of mama dada going on here. Anyone else?

tremolor · October 2013

"dada" all the time! barely any "mama."

CamMyMan · October 2013

Dada has been happening for awhile, mama just happened yesterday! :x DS will actually look at my husband and say dada though, mama is just babbling. Still so sweet to hear!

singingsea · October 2013

Also yesterday I said "Kisses?" and he gave me a kiss on the lips.

Squeee!

tdmd09 · October 2013

LO just started babbling last week and ma ma is the babble of choice. It's SO CUTE. And since I had always heard that babies usually do da da first because it's easier, I'm extra excited that ma ma is first instead. Especially when he looks right at me and says it.

CamMyMan · October 2013

singingsea said:

Also yesterday I said "Kisses?" and he gave me a kiss on the lips.
Squeee!

omg i would die!!! how sweet! :x

singingsea · October 2013

CamMyMan said:

singingsea said:

Also yesterday I said "Kisses?" and he gave me a kiss on the lips.
Squeee!

omg i would die!!! how sweet! :x

LOL I thought I was hallucinating but my aunt witnessed it as well

eriannc22 · October 2013

Neither here. He just started babbling with consonants last week and he does ba ba ba.

stacrb98 · October 2013

We have had alot of undirected mums and dada babble the last few weeks. Last night when I got home from work she looked and me and said mum excitedly! I was awesome!

octobermama87 · October 2013

Mama was his first word. He's been saying it for over a month now. Next was bababa and he finally started saying dada 2weeks ago. He definitely says mama to mean mama, not just babbling - but bababa and dada seem like babble still. Although about half the time he says dada while looking at DH so, who knows. Lol

kleigh926 · October 2013

She says mama a lot but I think it's mostly just babble. No dada yet. She has been sticking her tongue out and babbling at the same time, which makes it sound like she's saying "bla bla bla." It's so cute!

Puck1182 · October 2013

singingsea said:
Also yesterday I said "Kisses?" and he gave me a kiss on the lips.
Squeee!

DD's latest game is to open her mouth and lean toward me when I ask for kisses, then at the last second turn her face away and giggle. Such a tease!!

tamarar5 · October 2013

Kisses and talking? I'm so jealous! All we are getting is a lot of screaming when he doesn't get something.

mishka29 · October 2013

Other than LO asking if she could have a beer, we've got nothing over here!

Puck1182 · October 2013

mishka29 said:
Other than LO asking if she could have a beer, we've got nothing over here!

A girl after my own heart! One of my first words was beer. ;-)

We were at a picnic a few weeks ago, and DD grabbed a beer bottle right out of one of my friends' hands and started sucking on the top. Guess I can't really blame her, seeing as I use to do the same thing aaaaall the time. :-p

Drea926 · October 2013

DS looked right at me the other day when I came into the room and exclaimed, "Maaaaa!". I have no idea if this was intentional or not, but I'll take it!

DublinMama · October 2013

We've had mama for a a couple weeks now. I wasn't sure at first, but now he's saying it as he crawls towards me or when he's climbing up on me so I'm pretty confident it's intentional now. A few days ago he was saying, "dadadada" but DH wasn't home, so I can't say for sure yet what that was. I was just happy I beat DH to the punchline lol.

It sounds so ridiculously petty, but it has been mostly DS and I solo for most of his life, until I went back to work. DH had work and school, and spent many nights getting a full, blissful night's sleep on the couch while I was up all night with a screaming newborn, closed in our bedroom with tears running down both of our faces. It was he and I through all the really tough stuff, and I would have been a little 'hurt' if "Dada" came first, after everything we sort of went through together as a newborn and a FTM. Even though I would have obviously known it was nothing personal or intentional lol.

froggystomper · October 2013

@singingsea OMG I LOVE those curls!

Freya has said Mama but only when she's really upset and crying. This leads me to believe she's equated it with comfort more than me but daddy lets me get all the mama calls so I think we're working the right way. The dada is much more of a babble thing but I think we've had a handful of intentional ones.

tamarar5 · October 2013

@DublinMama Yes! That was my life with DD, only her bio-donor wasn't involved (still isn't). I was alone and her first word was "Gamma."

Can you tell I'm still upset? LOL

I'm still waiting for E to take an interest in talking at all. But his sister won't. EVER. SHUT. UP... so I don't foresee it happening too soon.

holly321 · October 2013

DS says mum mum, abut usually only when he is mad, but I still think it is directed at me, the other day he was babbling and said da dee, and looked right at dh, so I assume it's as on purpose. He has said it once or twice since. He also crawls after the dog going "dig dig dig".

AimnJus917 · October 2013

DS1 said da da around this time. He started saying "flavors" of mama such as "baba" and "vava" after 1 year. I heard the first mama from him after 2 years.

DS2 says dada and DH "claims" he said mama the other day but I didn't hear it so it doesn't count. I'm not optimistic it will happen again before 2 years old.

edited for spelling