How many words does your baby (aka toddler) use?

pinottoparenthood · June 2014

Rhys still only uses mama and dada. I swear my kid is behind on absolutely everything. How many words does your child use regularly? (I am counting a word as a sound that is similar to the actual word and that your child uses consistently and with meaning to refer to the object that it names.)

ceamac0127 · June 2014

I said 10-15. Addi says: mama, dada' papa, bubba (our dog) nana (banana) milk, more, up, cheese, no, hi, bye bye, ball, wawa/agua

Eta: nigh nigh, book, uh oh

She has also started saying "oh yeah!" And "oh no!"

JSS1002 · June 2014

None. He has his own language and we hear a lot of weird sounds / "words" repeated, but no meaning to any of them that we're aware of. He says mamamamaama and dadadadada but 90% of the time seems like he's just babbling. He'll be 15 months tomorrow.

hatroopes · June 2014

Z says mama, dada or daddy, uh-oh, nose, nana (banana), more, nigh-nigh (night night), ball, bye bye. I don't know if this counts but we named her baby doll (who she's attached to) Zaria and she calls her ya-ya.

ETA: she's also learning her numbers and can count from 1-5

ClandestineX · June 2014

-Mama

-Dada

-Baba

-Drink

-Food

-Good girl (when I praise the dogs he copies me)

-cup

-bye bye

-shoe (working on it since he still says shit lol)

-book

-up

forgot:

-ball

-nigh nigh

TuckleUp · June 2014

Miles says a lot of words. Headband, water bottle (wat bot), backpack and hungry (hunna) are the current standouts. He's also copying my infection on phrases...he says 'I know!' the same way I do, though he doesn't use it in context.

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ClandestineX · June 2014

Oh I forgot nigh-nigh.. it is so cute.

"Mama?"

"yes"

"baba... nigh nigh"

"are you tired? you want to go night night?"

"baba.. nigh nigh" -in a half whine voice-

I think I melted when he did that. lol

ceamac0127 · June 2014

melandjames14 said:

ClandestineX said:
Oh I forgot nigh-nigh.. it is so cute.

"Mama?"
"yes"
"baba... nigh nigh"
"are you tired? you want to go night night?"
"baba.. nigh nigh" -in a half whine voice-

I think I melted when he did that. lol
I cried the first night Ethan said, "nigh nigh mama"!

Oops, I forgot nigh nigh

When Addi is really tired, she will find whatever is laying on the floor (the other night happened to be newspapers) and will curl up on them and say "nigh nigh!"

TuckleUp · June 2014

@Jdubb13‌ it really is! We have a doll who has a headband, and he likes to take it off and put it back on. The little girl next door always wears one, too, so I guess that's where he picked up the word.

Lhyacinth888 · June 2014

Alice says Momma, Dada, Ben (brother), wawa (water), hi, nigh nigh, ball (favorite word by far), pat pat (when she pets the dog), read, pup pup (which is up up), dog, no no and I think that's all of them. Forgot she also says baby.

MrsHartman7 · June 2014

Jdubb13 said:

Carter was saying a lot of words, but has regressed to only saying a couple and taking non stop in his own language. Currently he only says mama, dada, up, more and his all time favorite is no.

This is us too, he was saying: Mama, Dada, Wally (dog, sounds like olly), Maggie (dog), Uh Oh, Hi, Yea. But now, nothing, maybe a Dada when i point to the dog and ask 'who's that?'.

Kate_C · June 2014

Where's my SS? We get "mama" and "Eyut" (Elliott, her brother).

Take that, DAD. (My son didn't say mama until waaaay after dada. I may have been bitter.)

bibliophileemily · June 2014

I need SS too because we still don't consistently have "mama" or "dada." Sonya has said "dada" a few times and "mama" once, but I don't think she actually knows who or what those words represent yet (if I ask her "where's Daddy?" she will point at anything except her dad).
But she does say "hi" (ai) and "uh oh" (oh oh). And lots and lots of things in what might be a new linguistic hybrid between Mandarin and Polish that I am incapable of understanding. She can point and shake her head "no," so I'm not concerned--yet.

JSS1002 · June 2014

rgrundon said:
I was just talking to my sister about all her words. She's a chatterbox! A lot of jibberish, but more and more words every day.

- hi (her favorite!), bye or bye-bye, mom or momma, dad or daddy, (she loves saying hi daddy), ball, bird (buud), belly button, I know, bubbles (sounds like ball), dog (sounds like die, lol... it's great when she yells "die, die, die"), nigh nigh (when she wants to nurse and/or go to bed), Gymbo (comes out Bo or bimbo, it's her clown from gymboree), she also says Ariel in her own language. Most just hubby and I pick up, but they are all consistent.

In my experience, boys are generally late talkers. Between my nephew, cousins and working in daycare, this had always been the case.

My husband is STILL a late talker :-)

pinottoparenthood · June 2014

I can't believe I forgot SS! Epic poll fail.

Angela814 · June 2014

I voted just mama and dada, but she also says "that" when pointing to things. She signs bird, dog, more, please, eat, and milk.

I forgot that she also shakes her head no and waves goodbye.

danuli8 · June 2014

Amanda, my DS seems to be very much like Rhys, except he doesn't say mama or dada. He says "car" and "Tika" (the dog) and will echo me when I tell Tika "Good girl!" That's it. Everything else is unintelligible babble. Oh, and he still wants to hold my hands when walking 85% of the time.

woohoo02 · June 2014

DD is a chatterbox! And these are ones that are consistent and have meaning. I say it counts as a word even if she is using a particular sound for something consistently (like r-r for lion).

Mama, Dada, up, uh-oh, hi, buh-bye, nigh-nigh, na-nuh (banana), eat, more, all done, ball, r-r (lion), hoo-hoo (monkey), Mo-mo (Elmo or Nemo, our goldfish), Me-Me (Minnie - her Minnie Mouse stuffed animal), ducka (duck).

And my two favorites: look it! and ella-ella (for Cinderella).

As of a couple days ago, she's trying to say her daycare teachers names too. It's funny to hear her try and imitate me. I don't count these yet as they're a work in progress (Maria and Emily).

skidderdo · June 2014

Warner has a good handful. My personal favorite happened on Wednesday when leaving for work.
Me: "Bye Warner!"
Warner: "Buuuuy!"
Me: "Love you!"
Warner: "Bop boo!"
::::::melt::::::

ChicagoBroad26 · June 2014

We have mama, dada and Ava (ah-dah). She jabbers all the time and clearly knows what she's saying. She's just waiting for the rest of us to catch up.

shadysladyWed98470 · June 2014

My little stinker still won't say mom/mommy/mama consistently! But he does say daddy, no, soos (shoes), uh oh, cat, key (kitty). The best is when he says car, because he leaves off the "r" sound so he sounds like a Bostonian "cah"! Haha! He also signs milk and more.

Lhyacinth888 · June 2014

Oh just had to add that A just brought a book over to me and said "Hulk" and then growled while pointing to his picture. So funny!

pinottoparenthood · June 2014

Oops, double posted.

arschm02 · June 2014

Mamama (only when whining at me), uh-oh (every rare once in a while) and as of today, bye-bye

fireflyz56 · June 2014

Cortana says Dada, Mama, Nana (Grandma), Ca (for cat), wha da (what's that? and she points at the same time), and "tickle tickle tickle" while opening and closing her hands, lol.

She uses a lot more gestures though, like shaking her head no, or she makes a certain laugh for yes. She waves hi and bye, and for goodnight she opens and closes both hands. We have our own made-up sign language here, lol.

burneyonboard · June 2014

My LO repeats words but he doesn't use them regularly. I said about 6 words: mama, dada, Charli (his sister), bye, hi, and I love you. Oh I forgot uh oh so 7.

pinottoparenthood · June 2014

Grace0609 said:

eat - quote fail. I meant, "what does a snake say?" "Sssss" OMG thatis the cutest thing I've ever heard!

elbou · June 2014

We're in the 3-5 range. He says Dada, Mama (usually only when tired) da, which actually means that (like what's that?) and my favourite...yes! It comes out sounding like a cross between yet and des, and he says it for everything! Who needs to know "more" when you can just say "yes" when mommy asks if you want more?

JBDamonM · July 2014

Mama, dada and hot are pretty much her main three words. She also has said hi, by and no a few times as well as ut, but she forgets the oh after it, and du - like she's halfway to duck but she doesn't finish. Oh and she's also working on cat....pretty close on that.

JSS1002 · July 2014

As of right after I posted that he doesn't have words, turns out he has "hi" and "uh oh" when he drops something, as opposed to just randomly saying it, and "that" when pointing! His "hi" sounds more like "eye" so I didn't get it for a while!

JSS1002 · July 2014

JSS1002 said:
As of right after I posted that he doesn't have words, turns out he has "hi" and "uh oh" when he drops something, as opposed to just randomly saying it, and "that" when pointing! His "hi" sounds more like "eye" so I didn't get it for a while!

Oh and he knows the sign for "more."

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