Hello, my middle child turns 3 in a couple of weeks, he's pre verbal. There are no recognisable words but he babbles constantly, makes great eye contact and is getting pretty regular at responding to his name.
Over the past few weeks we've noticed a few sounds which we think are his first words. "A cow goes.....?" And he's responded with "mmmmmmmm" on a few occasions.
He's made noises that sound like daddy and grandad.
He's pulled down his brother's top which had hey duggee on it, pointed to it and said "Duggee" this was the clearest as he did it a few times in the space of a minute or two.
He said what sounded a lot like giraffe and followed it up with f..f..f noises when I'd pointed out a giraffe picture to him.
It's been little things like that which he then, of course, won't repeat!!
Has anyone had personal experience of this when their little one started talking? What happened afterwards? How long did it take for words to follow a bit more obviously rather than us second guessing. I'd love to know what his first word was, but it's not been obvious enough to know! I'm taking the Duggee one as the first word🤣