To think my youngest daughter is just bloody ungrateful.

[Twattybollocks]

She has woken me up several times a night for the last 6 months, I've changed her stinky nappies, been vomited on, had my boobs chewed to shreds, my body is a wobbly and distorted facsimile of its former self after carrying her for 9 months. She has said her first word today aged 25 weeks, and guess what it was? Dada. Bloody dada. Not mama, dada. Charming. I will remember this...
Not serious clearly.

Ds's first words were tickle, garden and something that sounded like bugger

Dd's were duck, tickle and garden - it was definitely duck

Seems to be a bit of a theme with my two

Haha! Look on the bright side, it's more than I get out of either (teenage) DSs on most days!! Congrats.

Get her to say Twattybollocks.

Now yer talking!!

p.s. congrats, a loverrrrly moment

My ds was the ultimate diplomat- his first comprehensible word was "dace"- an approximation of his big sister's name. She has worshipped the ground he walks on ever since- and that was 11 years ago!

My daughters first word was 'crash!'

I'm shit at pushing her buggy. The thing is bloody possessed and just goes where it wants, so I frequently used to hit door frames and curbs and all manner f things.

Every time I did it I would say 'Opps! Mummy crashed!'

She was about 8 months old and I clipped the wall because the wheels decided that they wanted to go right notepad of left. Before I could say anything, out f the buggy, the baby pipes up with 'Crash!'

one of dd's early words was 'bookabook' but as you can imagine, a 1 year old babbling bookabookabook as she did sounded like she was saying bugger :o

it was only when she toddled up holding a book while saying that i got it :o

I've noticed that babies often babble 'dada' when they are happily chatting and make a sad 'mumm, mumm' cry when they are needing a cuddle.

Glad it's not just me who's noticed this!

Yanbu. This is often the way (much easier to say apparently). Dd's was banana (or more like bananagnang) whilst pointing excitedly at one. Set a precedent for love of food - didn't start crawling until 10 months when she crawled to grab a slice of my birthday cake while we weren't looking

DS said mama first. Mainly because I was a single parent and bloody determined he wouldn't say dada first.

I can't remember what his second word was

My sons first word was Dora take dada people don.t judge you for it

I feel awful as I cannot remember what the firs word from either of my ds' was. Why is that? I will have to make something up if they ever ask.

According to my mum, my first word was "cardigan"!

Agree with Dancergirl - 2nd and subsequent children learn to say "no", swiftly followed by "mine".

Khaos has a good point. Once I started saying "mummy......" my son said it within a very short space of time. Up to then it was Daddy will etc etc, I...., me.. etc. so maybe the child didn't even know I was called Mummy [grin.

Anyone else's baby save their most enthusiastic dada's for when pointing at random men in shops? V. embarrassing!

DD managed to say everything up to and including 'flappy parachute' and 'lets go shopping' before she managed 'mummy'.

On the other hand she still can't say her own name....

YANBU

My DD1 left 17 months between saying dada and saying mummy - I almost left home!

She isn't saying dada as in daddy. It has nothing to do with that! Most babies say dada first purely because it is an easy word to form the muscles/lips around.

But she isn't calling for her daddy!

your op made me chuckle.
but take warmth from that

a- dadda is easier to say, so 90 percent of the time dada will be first with most babies.

b- why would she need to learn to say your name. when your allready always there... lodgicaly she has no need to say it

i think ds1 first word was dada i cant re,ember ds2... bad mum lol

DD1- her first word was 'nulla' which was the name of a friend. Unfortunately, she pronounced it badly and it came out as the Swedish (her/my first language) for fuck!

DD2- hers was Dada.

DS- bath. Baaaaaaath. Baaaaathhhh! (always shouted loudly). He used it for asking for these really soft pyjamas of his. He hated water.

DD said dada first and dh was so pleased and smug about it.. thenext day she learned mama and no more dada till a few weeks later. How I loved that!

Themagickey - my ds' first word was also Bath! Baaa Baaa Baaaa, until he could pronouce the "th." He would only say it when he could see the sea.

DS2?s first, second, third, forth............... was NO. He is now 19 and its still his favourite word,