FIRST WORDS?

Michaela said "Mum" at 5mo but she was very advanced.  She was making mmmm noises for ages beforehand and when she first started saying mum I thought it was just a noise that happened to sound like a word but it soon became obvious she was referring to me.  She started saying daddy about a month later and after that she said cat.

By 1yo she had quite a repertoire of words which continued to grow until 20mo when she stopped talking except for the very basics: mum, daddy, dada (which meant nana) and animal noises.

Edited by MrsMojo

I have to admit Esme only makes that Ma noise when shes starting to get upset. It always comes out so angry sounding lol!

Mojo, I think thats how it starts.  They make the ma or da sound when they are upset and we react so they learn that that sound gets mum or dad to come and it goes from there.  Just my theory  but there has to be a reason that its the easiest sounds for them to make.

On average first words appear around 12 months - they normally quickly build a vocab of up to fifty words and then start combining words around 18 months - this is only the average through and there is a HUGE range of what is considered normal... It is really tricky with the first words to tell if they are actual words or babbling as babies babbling becomes more and more speech like as they get older... to be a first word it has intent behind it... and often first words mean many different things due to limited number of sounds they are capable of producing... (i was a speech language therapist before having my 2nd babe... ... hence why I started to ramble on then)

My wee lady is so weird her first word was "hi"... not mum or dad like others

Fay started saying hi or hiya at about 10 months, then went back to meaningless babble for a while and then daddy.....now you can't shut her up!

Well i havnt had my bubs yet, but this prompted me to ask my mum what my first word was...and it was HELLO to a parrot at the zoo lol, i was about 10 months old she thinks. and the parrot climbed down the cage and said hello to me, and i said hello back, mum said after that i learnt words very quickly and didnt stop talking I think it varies heaps though!

my friends daughter said dada first, then Nana , took a while to say mum , but as her mum died when she was a few weeks old and dad and nana were her primary caregivers, that kinda makes sense

We had mumumumumum then dadadadadadadad but after that it was ook (book) light, cat, meow at about 10mths and we stll can't shut him up

My girl can say 'hi' , she's 5 weeks, I don't think it counts yet lol

he he flissty... I'm an SLT to so know what ya mean :-) I'm constantly analysing my wee lady too!! funny how much more ya notice when you know exactly what to look for - when I had my first girl 12 years ago I hadn't trained yet...