first words?

[Evita]

When does one expect first words to appear? My 13 month old says 'knedden', 'detch', 'haaa', 'guk' and 'shoo'. I don't know what she means except that 'guk' seems to mean 'walk', i.e. I say 'shall we go for a walk' and she replies adamantly 'guk!' and 'haaa' is when something's hot, i.e. the radiator or her food. What I was wondering is when the first recognisable words appear. She can say 'dah' for her dad but doesn't use it exclusively for him and hasn't really done a 'mamma' type thing yet. They're lovely though those first weird almost words.

I get an award for consistent first word: Shoe ("sooze" from DS, 19m, and "shhhhh" from DD, 16 m). Maybe because they are barefoot most of the time, anyway.

Dd's words come and go a bit. Plus some are in Spanish and I'm not sure I always recognise them! (she's been saying "gaga" for weeks, but I didn't realise she actually meant "caca" (poo) )

Her first word was the name of our cat, or possibly dada - can't remember. I wish I written it down now!

My dd's first word was Dada, she was and still is a daddy's girl. Other words she said early were Gog (dog) wo-wo(window) mine, up, and eventually Mama, lol

ds has lots of words...most of them are obviuosly not accurate but are understandable
his current favourite word is definitely 'dolly'
much to dh's horror!

jmf2106, MY ds's first word was star too - also last Christmas, when he was a year old!

Ds1's first word was "woof", think he was about a year old too.

Ds2, at two, still can't say "Mummy" - he either calls me Bum, or by my first name (don't know which is worse!)

marthamoo, I think your first name is perhaps slightly better than bum! That's a cracker. Since my original post my daughter has added 'daaarrrk' to point out of the window when it's dark in the evenings. She's also got 'gog' for dog. But I think she uses the same sounding word for lots of different things sometimes.

ds's first word was 'button' just after his first birthday and dd said 'here' around 13 months as she would offer something towards you. Thought it interesting that dd's first word was communicating a gesture towards me as opposed to ds (who turned out to be autistic) said his word totally to himself - he would say it when looking at his cloth book (with a button) and not look at me when he said it.

Issymum, how did you come to that decision (to adopt) and how did you get to the point of "Cambodian Orphanage?" I am REALLY interested as your post just jumped out at me! Please (if you don't mind) tell.........++

My DS1 said tractor, dog and shoe at about 12 months, then DH taught him the go brrm-brrm and he gave up all words until 18 months He has only just started saying tractor again at 28 months (but nowhere near as clearly) much preferring his own word (bummel). Shoe was one of the first words he said at 18 months - he obviously likes them ! Now he talks non-stop and has a huge vocabulary, but didn't really say much at all until just before 2.

Dd's 1st words were down as in she wanted to get down but couldn't walk so it was very amusing to just put her on the floor and see what she did and at about the same time after a couple of visits to my brother bugger was a firm favourite, she said it in a farmers accent as well so it was very embarassing because you wouldn't think that this tiny baby was cussing. That was at about 9 months

Ds didn't say anything until 12 months then he said car and cat both clearly, he still loves cars at 19 months more than any other (offical for him) toys. Now calls the cat sssssssss. He has lots of other words now and we love chatting together about anything.

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my dd's first words were "cat" and "daddy", but I can't remember when she started to talk! She is now 22 months old and has a huge vocabulary, but often gets the consonants of words muddled up, so "button" is "bunt", "table" is "bittal", Noddy is "Donny". The sweetest mistake she makes is to call water "fwater", as in "drink o fwater"! We think it is so endearing that it's sometimes difficult to stop ourselves using the same words.

Stressyhead. I came home from work last night and the sluglet announced "Daddy bart!" Definately her father's child.

The pervading smell made it obvious what she meant.

We had a sort of 'oo-ser' this morning when I suggested my nudist daughter might like to put on some trousers. Reading some of the responses I begin to suspect our babies have a rather keen sense of humour ...

ds (15 mths) learned "bogey" and "willy" over the weekend. He giggles at both - it's as if he knows they're funnier words than boring old "cat" or "sheep".

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We've had "willy", "pee-pee" and "poo" from DS2 (18 months) recently, not helped by his big brother who is almost five and obsessed with bodily functions.

ds has started saying p*ssed

This morning Fimbles are the "Bum Bums" .

My DS1 could say "testicle" at 20 months (courtesy of shared baths with dad ! As far as I know he never said it in public, and it seems to have disappeared as a word now (28 months).

No way! Blimey, that's a good one. Actually I find it amusing that your partner gave it such a 'technical' name. My daughter's now mimicking a Teletubbies episode in which they say 'how now brown cow' except when she says it it comes out as 'doo da coo cooowl' but I know what she means.