to be slightly jealous that DS MIGHT have said DaDa as his first word?

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He has been mumbling away for a few weeks now (he's 7 1/2mo) and almost said mama a couple of times but tonight he (almost certainly) said Dada, we think - and I am a bit peed off and .

I spend 90-95% of DS's waking time looking after him and although he loves that, and me, he is always overjoyed to see his daddy, which is lovely but also slightly off-peeing.

• I'm probably just being a mean cow but it would have been nice if he had said mama first...

Most babies do my sixth month old is always saying 'dadadadada' and 'hiya' but never mama, mum or mummy.

My god daughter's first words were 'No! Hot!' they didn't have a fire guard.

I was told that they don't say a proper word ie - referring to daddy or cat or whoever they see until they are about 10-11 months and then often much later than that. before it is just them playing with sounds ( my polish cousin said hiya though it means nothing in polish!) -

totally agree about the need for men to think the first word is them - also that the babies look like them, and respond more to them... apparently studies have shown women over play these massively probably to help confirm that they are the dad... though of course with jeremy kyle we no longer need to do this and can just do a dna test on national telly! .

dada is much more common as first word. 'd' is a much easier sound to make. It's a question of language development, not emotional attachment

Hey - be thankful he's said a word!

DD's first word was Dada too, but now she calls him Mummy and me Mummy and hasn't said Dada for months!!

LOL at bumdiddley and FallenMadonna.
Hey, I never said it was rational to be a bit jealous - and I certainly won't be resenting it - as IF!

His burbling used to take the form of mumumumumumum for a while cos he sucked in his lower lip, so it wasn't that unreasonable to think that mama might be the first - anyway, it doesn't really count until he says it twice.

FallenMadonna - my DD was also a late talker! Her second word was 'more'

I share your jealousy. DD is now 22 months, she can say lots of things and spend loads of time pointing round the room saying the names of things she knows i.e. fish, bear, Daddy, baby, trees, car, nose, eye etc etc.

But she still won't say mummy, or even anything like it.