The Mommy Panel – First Words!

Our question this week is:

Michaela – My little miss is 13 months old. She “talks” all the time. However, we’re not at actual words yet. My husband and I are placing bets as to if it will be “mama” or “dada” first. Part of me still thinks it will be “Fudge” {our cat}. Emma is in love with that cat!

Liz S.  – All 3 said Dada first : ( then Mama.

As soon as they started making real sounds, my husband started coaching them.  

It’s ok though, since I was home with them while he was working, I got (and still do get) more hugs and snuggle time.

Karen – Kitty cat at 12 months, but he stopped using it by 15 months. At some point later on (17 months or so) “mama” made it’s appearance. Like music to my ears that was!

Meredith – This makes me laugh!  Jackson is now one and he still doesn’t really have any words yet.  He does say dada and mama, but not often, and not intentionally.  He ALWAYS says BAAA!  Everything is BAAA (his milk, his bear, taking a bath, changing his diaper, eating food).  I keep thinking he’s just going to surprise us one day and speak in complete sentences out of no where.  Until then, it’s BAAA!

Emily – Dada!! Of course, he was thrilled 🙂

Natalia – Daddy!  I think both of their first words were daddy.  And a close second being ‘ball’ and ‘no’!  

Liz B – Olivia’s first word was “cat” that she’d say while signing it.  Althought, now it seems like her first word was probably “no.”  Avery’s first real word was “dog.”  She has yet to consistantly call me Mom, however.  But the pets, they’re covered in our house!

Pamela – Seems like all my babies first word was dada! But I taught my 2 year old sign language starting at 7 months old, and her first signing word was more, and then dada 🙂

Tonii – With all 4 of my kids the answer has been exactly the same…“Daddy!!”  No fair, right?! 😉

Tricia – Da-da!  (for all 3 of my kids!!!)

Janette – With my first two babies, they both said Da-Da in a hurry.  It broke my heart because I spent hours practicing with them when their Daddy wasn’t around.  When I would practice in front of my husband, he would follow up with say DA-DA! So when my third baby came along, I gave up.  I was very surprised to hear her call my name first!! Finally MA-MA!! Its a close tie with Bubba which is what we call my oldest.  I still claim Ma-Ma was the first with her.

Jelli – Papa. She only really uses it when she wakes up in the morning and wants a quick ticket out of her crib.

Reading all the answers to this question cracked me up!  We want nothing more then their first word to be mama!  [Or ‘Mama I love you Im sorry for putting you through all that back labor’ would be nice.. but that is wishful thinking.’]  Both of my kiddos said ‘dada’ first too.. although we practiced mama more then dada.  Avery still [at 15 months] wont say mama, unless is he hurt and wailing.  Then its a cry/whine mama.  Ahh the joys of motherhood!