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 😂

On an ep of RHoBH, LVP says that her sons first words were 'I can't'
I don't know if that's true or not but if so that's so sad. Imagining a little 1.5yo starting life his out with 'I can't'
Bless him

11 months: baby.

More (loves food - more, more, more!!) 😁

Cute thread! DS said bird at just shy of 12mo. He’s nearly 2 now and doesn’t stop talking.

Papa

it did sting a bit…

My DGD’s first word was dada followed closely by ‘google’ as they had recently got smart speakers in the house and adults were constantly saying ‘hey google’ 😂

We had a lot of this- sounded like they were talking, but no actual words.

Apart from No! Very frequently.

We count it as "bear" at almost 11 months, because that was the first time we were definitely sure he was trying a word rather than just babbling!

It was mummy 😭 mummy and reached out for me. Now it’s mummy mum mum mum

Both of mine started with the sounds they could physically make which sounded like works. So DS could say "ba" which

DS didn't really have a first word. He could babble and say "bababababa" and used the one sound he could make with pointing and context cues to show meaning. So "ba" would mean ball but "Baba" might mean "mummy", "daddy" or "biscuit" and the enunciation gradually got clearer. DD was similar - she could say "dada" which might mean "daddy" but was more often used to say "ta-dah!" during a game of peekaboo. And she could do a whole range of identifiable animal noises and also sing a little tune that meant pirate before she had actual words.

21 months is pretty old op for a first word, are you worried?

Mama for both of them, dd1 at 9 months and dd2 at 8 months. They both had a sign for 'milk' before that, though, and used the one sign interchangeably to mean milk and to mean me! On the one hand, lovely they could say 'give me back to my mummy now' when teeny rather than just screaming. On the other hand, I was very glad when I became distinct from my breasts.

"Hello"
Can't remember when was the first time, but I do remember months and months of shouting hellos everywhere we went 😂

Bum

Eldests was "uh oh!" at 11 months and youngest was "quack quack" at 10 months. For language purposes they both 'count' as words in case anyone is thinking they're not 'actual' words.

DS1 "look" at about 10 months but I didn't cotton on until he was 13 months and then realised he'd been saying it for ages.

DS2 "hi" can't remember the age. Or "tractor" was one of his first nouns. It then turned out that while we were saying tractor and looking at the whole vehicle, he thought that tractor meant "big wheel" because he loved (and still loves) wheels, the bigger the better.

DS3 "car" can't remember how old but somewhere around 12-18m.

DS1: Bubbles at 15 months
DS2: Tractor at 12 months

DD - Boobies
DS - Hiya

Dd1 Hiya at 21 months
Dd2 hello at erm... I don't even remember but it wasn't particularly early
🤣

21 months is pretty old op for a first word, are you worried?

no need to be in most cases

DD - first word was 'duck', can't remember how old, maybe just over a year. First sentence was 'this cat's rubbish!'. Can't remember age though.
DS - first word was 'light'. Again, can't remember how old, but slightly older than DD was. He also had a fascination with tennis - so would call 'Nadal' when the tennis was on.

DS1 apple
ds2 sheep

I'm quite excited by some of these, my baby is only 6 months and she might speak! Frankly she spends most of her time makin deranged pigeon noises so I doubt it 😂

That (‘dat’) at 11 or 12 months. I wasn’t really sure at the beginning because he babbles a lot of dada, mama, etc but somewhere around that time he started pointing at stuff and saying ‘dat’. He’s 13 months now and it’s very clear when he wants ‘dat’!