What age did yours say mamma?

[hercules]

Or whatever they call you?

mine is 1 next week and has been dada-ing for england for some time now.
the only time he has said mama it was clearly a slip of the tongue. I'm still waiting!

by actually calling me by name as mama and not just uttering the lovely muhmuh sound, dd was about 13 mths I think...
ds was a lot earlier... 9 mths or so, but he was a chatterbox from the off, hmmm wonder where he got that from then...

Dd did dadda, then 'dice' for dog (?!), then mamma by around 11 months. She switched to mummy at around 18 months overnight. Shame really, I loved being called mamma.

Why are you interested hercules?

Mine is nearly one and seems to be calling me by my first name for some reason !

DS was about 6 months. I'm sure he called me rather than just made the sound as he wanted to get out of his cot and said mama, he too is a chatterbox. I can't remember how old DD was!

Both dd's said mama around 7 months

Mine started fairly early cannot now remember what age exactly, however she says, abba, dada, daddy, papa all of course mean daddy. She is 18 months and I have yet to hear her say mummy, she has a pretty good vocabulary it just doesn't include any variation of mama. My nephew calls his mum by her first name.... he calls every woman he meets by my sisters first name, he's almost two now.

Mollie started saying mumum TOWARDS me from about 7 months, and dadad TOWARDS DH from about 7.5 months. Before that she said similar sounds but not actually directed at anyone.

Still nothing from ds aged 18months. Maybe he doesn't need a name for someone who is always around. dh is "deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee"

Ds twins first called me bap! That was at about 12-13 months, then it graduated to not mamma but my mummy. Never just mummy but my mummy.

Daddy was their first proper word at about 12 months but they would call other people dude! Still do sometimes and I can't figure out where they got it from!

Ds1 was 3yrs 2mths when he first called me anything. I think his first proper word was actually "fish" - and we don't even own any! Ds2 is 19mths and still doesn't call me anything. I could start to take this personally.

Ds, at 14 months, is 'muh,muh'-ing and slapping me on the chest, so I guess that counts. He has been saying 'dada' for ages though. First proper word was 'duck', for any bird, but especially when the duck and chick come on the tv during Friends!

Ds has been able to say mummy for a very very long time, but never had a name for me at all. The child had names for DP (Daddy) his friends (Ben and Fraser) his teddy and his granparents' dog, and he could say words such as feather, mirror etc. etc. ... but he still wouldn't call me mummy. Then last week he went on his own to stay with my parents for a week, and since he came back it has been his most overused word. He points to me, my clothes, my car, my photo and exclaims "mummeee!" He even called himself mummy in some photos today!

PS Coppertop - this amazing transformation happened in P'boro - maybe you should try the Netherton water, might do the trick!

Oh, and he's 19 months.

LOL fisl, the sluglet was saying 'brie' before mummy

My dd now 14mths wont stop saying dadeeee dogeee jay (my ds is called james) and oooh ninner but still absolutly no sign of mummy/mamma. Still waiting

LOL Fisil! I'll head down to Netherton right now.

My eldest was over 2 before she said it. She could say Daddy months before that, and even called him Jim sometimes. But she refused to say Mummy. It became a bit of a joke between the two of them. Jim would try to encourage her to say mummy by going "M M M Mummy", and she would say "M M M Daddy!" or "M M M Elmo!". It was quite funny although my feelings were kind of hurt, especially as she evidently preferred being with Daddy to me.

Now, at almost 5, she makes a big thing about calling me "Mom" with a real southern drawl.

The little one started calling me mummy at a little over a year. But now she thinks it's funny to call me mom like her big sister does.

Hannah was about 16 months when she said "mommy" (she says it like the orphan girls in Annie!!!) She could say daddy for a while before that.

actually quite a nice memory for me, ds said mama on my birthday when he was 8 months! He pulled himself up in the cot and started calling me really cute

No 'mamma' here yet.

She is 12 months old & can say 'cat,dog,fish,horse,duck,good girl,grandad,daddy,all gone,up,out & toast'.But no 'mamma'yet.I'm not worried though,at least if she wakes in the night & calls for daddy,he'll have to go in to her.

Thanks for replies. DD is now 11 months and just says "bye" hence why we are a little worried. She's never blown raspberries and doesnt point. She is taking a few steps now though and is very alert, active etc.

My ds said mama at around 17 months - I think?! Time flies

My dd was making the noise 'mumum' at about 13-14 months but only started calling me 'mummy' clearly at 17 months. 'Daddy' came first. She didn't really have any clear words at 12 months - everything was 'duh'! - although she was doing lots of pointing, nodding and shaking her head by then.