first words

I'm interested in hearing what you all count as being a first word.
DS has had several words that he has used correctly for a week or
more, but then quit saying them as he moved onto learning new words.
His first was the word "up" at 8 months. He used it for several days
every time I picked him up, but then stopped saying it. He did the
same thing with "bye-bye" at 9 months, and "mama" at 10 months. He's
11 months now and doesn't use any of those words anymore, but says
several others. I'm assuming the words he's saying now will also go
by the wayside when he decides to learn some new ones. So, when would
you start counting them as official "first words"?

~ Sher

If he said them, then they are words. He doesn't have to keep them to make
them be official. I counted Taylor's first word as Dada. She blathered
"dadadadada" for a while, but then one day, she said it to him, and meant
him, so that counted as her first word.
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"sher" wrote in message
om...
I'm interested in hearing what you all count as being a first word.
DS has had several words that he has used correctly for a week or
more, but then quit saying them as he moved onto learning new words.
His first was the word "up" at 8 months. He used it for several days
every time I picked him up, but then stopped saying it. He did the
same thing with "bye-bye" at 9 months, and "mama" at 10 months. He's
11 months now and doesn't use any of those words anymore, but says
several others. I'm assuming the words he's saying now will also go
by the wayside when he decides to learn some new ones. So, when would
you start counting them as official "first words"?

~ Sher

sher wrote:
I'm interested in hearing what you all count as being a first word.

They sound like first words to me! We had a few things like 'mumum' early,
but they weren't in context, so didn't count them. It wasn't till 14 months
when she went moo, neigh and baa in relation to the relevant pictures that
we counted them as words. Even now, mum and dad are off limits, although
vacuum cleaner, overalls and alligator are regulars! (if you can understand
them).

Cathy
DD 8 Jan 03
EDD 8 Dec 04

The first word IS the first word--if baby says it and knows what it means, it
doesn't matter if he stops saying it later, IMO.


Leslie

Emily (2/4/91)
Jake (1/27/94)
Teddy (2/15/95)
William (3/5/01 -- VBA3C, 13 lbs. 5 oz.)
and Lorelei, expected 11/2/04

"Children come trailing clouds of glory from God, which is their home."
~ William Wordsworth

Sher,

I would count "up" as your son's first word, even if he stopped saying
it. When my son was 6 months old, he would say "hey" whenever someone
came in the room and spoke to him. This was not only noticed by us,
but also at his daycare. He said it with meaning and used it
appropriately. Unfortunately, Mick lost a great deal of the early
speech he acquired after suffering from repeated ear infections, but I
still count "hey" as his first word.

lisa
micksmom
Baby 2 due 2-7-05

(sher) wrote in message . com...
I'm interested in hearing what you all count as being a first word.
DS has had several words that he has used correctly for a week or
more, but then quit saying them as he moved onto learning new words.
His first was the word "up" at 8 months. He used it for several days
every time I picked him up, but then stopped saying it. He did the
same thing with "bye-bye" at 9 months, and "mama" at 10 months. He's
11 months now and doesn't use any of those words anymore, but says
several others. I'm assuming the words he's saying now will also go
by the wayside when he decides to learn some new ones. So, when would
you start counting them as official "first words"?

~ Sher

E's first word was 'woof' and she said it (let me check that baby book) just
before her first birthday. It rhymed with tooth so it wasn't quite the way
the rest of us say it. She hasn't lost any words yet.

--
Melissa (in Los Angeles)
Mum to Elizabeth 4/13/03
and ??? due early 3/05

"sher" wrote in message
om...
I'm interested in hearing what you all count as being a first word.
DS has had several words that he has used correctly for a week or
more, but then quit saying them as he moved onto learning new words.
His first was the word "up" at 8 months. He used it for several days
every time I picked him up, but then stopped saying it. He did the
same thing with "bye-bye" at 9 months, and "mama" at 10 months. He's
11 months now and doesn't use any of those words anymore, but says
several others. I'm assuming the words he's saying now will also go
by the wayside when he decides to learn some new ones. So, when would
you start counting them as official "first words"?

~ Sher

I'm still convinced that if frequency of hearing a word has any bearing,
this baby's first word will be "Meow"- because, while I talk and sing to her
(in utero, right now), the cats all seem to love to curl up next to me and
chat with her-purring and meowing all the way!


"Beach mum" wrote in message
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E's first word was 'woof' and she said it (let me check that baby book)
just
before her first birthday. It rhymed with tooth so it wasn't quite the way
the rest of us say it. She hasn't lost any words yet.

--
Melissa (in Los Angeles)
Mum to Elizabeth 4/13/03
and ??? due early 3/05

"sher" wrote in message
om...
I'm interested in hearing what you all count as being a first word.
DS has had several words that he has used correctly for a week or
more, but then quit saying them as he moved onto learning new words.
His first was the word "up" at 8 months. He used it for several days
every time I picked him up, but then stopped saying it. He did the
same thing with "bye-bye" at 9 months, and "mama" at 10 months. He's
11 months now and doesn't use any of those words anymore, but says
several others. I'm assuming the words he's saying now will also go
by the wayside when he decides to learn some new ones. So, when would
you start counting them as official "first words"?

~ Sher

"Cathy" wrote in message
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sher wrote:
I'm interested in hearing what you all count as being a first word.


At 9 months, she'd point to animals on her blanket and say emphatically,
"TITTY!"

Didn't get the K sound down for a while...

Jenrose

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"Cathy" wrote in message
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sher wrote:
I'm interested in hearing what you all count as being a first word.


At 9 months, she'd point to animals on her blanket and say emphatically,
"TITTY!"

Didn't get the K sound down for a while...

Jenrose

LOL... my 3yo still says "titty" for kitty. We always get a giggle when
she says, "I LOVE titties." or something like that. I dunno, we have a
pathetic sense of humor.
--
Joy

Rose 1-30-99
Iris 2-28-01
Spencer 3-12-03

I would say any sound they consistently and deliberately apply with
respect to a person or thing counts as a word.

I have three kids, and the usual suite of first words were Mama, Dada,
up, no, out, bye, hi. Di-di was also an early one, since that was the
code word for nursing.

One of my kids had a number of things he called ba, but he meant
different things by it - he just couldn't pronounce the words - so he
called a ball ba, a bus ba and a boat ba, but he clearly knew the
difference (i.e. he could show you each in turn if you asked him show
me the boat, show me the ball). So, it sounded like all purpose "ba"
to the world but to me it counted as conscious understanding of
distinct three words - bus, ball, boat.

Mary G.