HELP! How long before she says "MAMA" ?!

[EJsMum]

DD is 9months + 2 weeks. She's been happily shouting "DADA" for over 2 months and is babbling along nicely but she is showing no signs of saying "Mama".

How long did you wait before hearing "mama" after your child said "dada" ? Should I be concerned ???

Hi EJsMum, no don't be concerned, I think this is very common. My dd said dada a lot sooner than mama, I can't remember how old she was but there was certainly quite a few months gap between saying the two. Don't worry, I think they only say dada first because it's easier to say

EJsMum - are you still tracking this?? Is it far too late (been offline for several weeks since my last visit) - if you're still out there, & still worried, DON't worry - my dd (having been saying 'Dada' more or less since 7 months!) didn't say even 'ma' until well past a year - if memory serves c. 15 months - !!! & my friends assured me this was par for the course - you're too important to need a name, like number one deity, you just ARE.

BUT with my dd, she surely made up for it eventually - when she finally got round to naming me, then said not even a vague 'ma-ma' - but a beautiful, peachy, perfectly annunciated 'MUMMY...' - in tones of deep satisfaction. Terribly chuff-making.

My lovely DD's first word was papa (we are not italian and I do not understand where she pulled that one from - her next word was ruf (we had a dog then) which migrated into Ralph (the dogs name) after that came Nana (irritated yucky MIL as she wanted to be called Grandma) and then she said No and Yes and finally she said Mama (she still calls me Mama and sounds like a spookey talking doll sometimes - illicitng strange looks in Sainsbury's). I would say not to worry too much - my friend has a son who is seven weeks younger than my daughter (3 in a couple of weeks) and he is only just saying sentences which you can actually understand. When I was a childminder I looked after 3 children from 1 - 3 and the two younger ones spoke better than the 3 year old. I think children just mature at different times and sometimes we worry too much, benchmarking them against different children and books that we have read. They are all individuals and the fact that your child is forming words shows that there is nothing to worry about. (Keep on repeating it though - sure will get the hang of Mama very soon!)

And once she does, it'll be Mum, mum, mummy, mummy - utterly lovely but occasionally wearing!

My ds, who will be 2 this month, has decided to sopt calling me Mum or Mummy and has resorted to shouting MAAAAAAM, over and over again. How annoying!?

dont worry they do always say dad first she will say mom when shes ready. My dd (who is SN) is 3 and a half has resorted to calling me snowman-lovely eh?

M2T: My ds (2) lapses into calling me Mum and calls dh by his first name instead of daddy!

We now completely ignore his requests unless he calls us Mummy and Daddy respectively He's beginning to get the message...

My ds seems to be calling both of us 'daddy'??!!

Oh, and he's 18 months and can happily ask for more milk (or rather ma mu!) so no excuses about m being harder than d!!

LOL! Georgina!

Ds calls himself Baddy!?? We just cant get him to say his name at all.