What was your child's first word?

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And how old were they?

I think DS (21mo) just said 'book' !! He was holding one at the time and I'm sure I heard him say it

Mums DSS first word was 'barbecue' 😂😂 he just toddled to the kitchen, said it and went away again. Apparently it sounded more like a deep burp 😂

Apart from the babbling mumum/dada, eldest said cat whilst pointing at one at around a year old. Understood lots but didn't speak a lot and still doesn't as an adult.

DS2 first word was yellow and he was very young, couldn't sit up, about 6/7 months? Very precocious speaker. I have him on video saying "take it off" while struggling to get his body warmer off, he was 15 months old. Would argue black was white by age 2 and is currently studying politics! 😂

DC1: Car (14 months) but he didn't say anything else until 22 months.
DC2: DC1's name (17 months) followed quickly by mama, dada, cracker, cake, bunny and dolly.

Daughter - bath
Son - dad

No.

Duck

Dada for DD
DS has speech delay and made sounds until gone 2, apart from one word he could say crystal clearly which was ‘shit’

Not my finest parenting moment, I’ve DTs who were utterly feral when small and oh shit was said too frequently as one of them toddled off to try to kill themselves 🤦🏻‍♀️

Up

I needed physio for my back pain by the time he was 2.5yrs 😆

I'm fairly sure mama and dada were part of their earlier babble but otherwise:
DS1 - bird
DS2 - no
Can't remember their ages it was so long ago! Not early or late enough to stick in my mind obviously.

Blue. Mum was a big fan of Deal or no deal 😆 and he stayed with her till I finished work.

DD - baba (quite funny as DH and I had been joking about whether she would say Mama or Dada first - she went with herself). I think she was about 10 months old.

DS - I can't remember (the shame, poor second child!)

Girl twin. 10mths. "Dangle" (elder brother hanging her upside down on the edge of the sofa and saying it, she repeated)
Boy twin. 12mths. "Kaboom" (watching his birthday fireworks!)

DS said mama clear as anything at about 7 months. Then didn't utter another word apart from babble for months! Currently waiting for DD's first word.

Bye - ‘ba’

Hat but it sounded like 'ass' 😂

DD1 was bubble after mama and dad. DD2 is 12mo and has mama, dada, hiya and her sister's name. Mama was her first though, which I was pleased with as DD1 had dada first (and I told him that's cos D is easier to say as a first sound!)

"Eye", usually accompanied by an attempt to stick her finger in your eyeball

DD - bath
DS - mum/dad similar time

Ds said "Goal!" Still shouting it at 22!

DD's first sentence was "I not wear that!" It was the soundtrack of her childhood.....

Daughter around 18 months or so, said mama and daddy, but otherwise just babble, then one day in the car surprised us looking out at a playground, when she clearly said "could 'ave a good play out 'ere, couldn't I?" And she went on to have astonishingly good and clear speech by age 2. Some charming mistakes - impotent instead of elephant for example. And we still eat curliflower in this house. But later on academically she was pretty average. Taught her 4 years younger brother his first phrase at around 2...."Shup bim bum" which was shut up big bum. Lovely. Then of course poo, both spoken and written on their play blackboard.......

Wow 😂

Both of mine said "cat" first

"that!" Accompanied by pointing at whatever it was he wanted

DD1

Pip (pet's name)
Oh dear
Door

DD2

Other side (when switching from one breast to other)
Oh dear

Can't remember the others. Both were under a year old, but can't remember exact age

plen of babble with mumumum but then one day around 11 months said hello clear as day

DD is Deaf so her first word was a sign instead: milk, at 6mo, closely followed a few days later by bird.