When did your baby start to say actual words?

Question

My son is 8 and half months old and all he can really say is "aa!" "aa!".

Occasionally he adds a sort of vowel - ie "aa! laa! aa!" or "aa! daa! aa!".

My other half is so *desperate* to hear him say "Daddy"!! He keeps saying "He just said 'Daddy' I know he did!!" and I have to explain that it was just a random vowel noise that sounds like Daddy. He then looks really crestfallen and says "you know how to spoil the moment don't you" lol!

When did you hear your little one say their first words (or semi words?!)

Answer 1

hi, at about 9 months we had dada, then nothing for a while. He turned one last week and can say daddy,mommy (usually sounds like mommeeee when he's whinging), baby, ta, josh (his brother) all gone and hi ya. Don't worry once they start they don't stop.

Answer 2

I think my daughter started rattling off dadada around 7 or 8mths, but it's not as if she knew dada meant her daddy! Even at 22mths she occasionally calls daddy mama and mommy papa... silly girl! I could have sworn her first word was 'duck' at maybe 9 or 10mths, but I was probably just imagining it. We were by the pond watching the ducks at the time... so maybe! She didnt say too much other than syllables and mama, dada, until 13mths or so when a few words started to appear. In the matter of a few months her vocab expanded very quickly so that at 20mths we counted somewhere near 100 words she could say at will. I remember being impatient for my daughter to walk, and talk, and the other very big steps a baby takes, but each one takes them farther and farther from a baby and more into a child which is wonderful to watch but sad at the same time. No more cuddles in my arms, as she's too big and wiggles around too much! Oh, enjoy this time while you have it. I know lots will say it, but it's true.

Answer 3

There's no standard age for a child to start speaking.They usually start by saying mommy or daddy around 1 year old but you shouldn't be worried.Your son may need more time and it's natural.My daughter started by saying 2 words when she was 8 months old and then she spoke again 1,5 yrs old.

Answer 4

He's very early to have words. He will first go through the sounds you are describing and then they will start to have consonants in them -- much more like dadadadadada and mamamamama. You can certainly take these sounds to mean what you want them to but, chances are they are babbles. But from babbling real words do emerge when your child gets reinforcement for babbling certain ways. This happens around a year old or perhaps 15 months.

Answer 5

My son is eleven months and he says random words like mama, dada, yes, no, hi, bye. i know he means them as when he wakes up he shouts mama and also if i dint feed him quick enough. he started off just saying the ahh and the laa.Babies either walk or talk or so the books say! By the time a baby is eighteen months they can say around 6-20 words. The more you talk to your baby the quicker they will learn, and also if your other half feels upset when you tell him its a vow ell noise just humour him.

Answer 6

Children are so senstive. Love builds the immune system and increases mental capacity. Programming ends their emotional life and personality development at two or three and they get a personality forced on them intstead of their own. Already he's in the rat race. lol I found around two for males. I guess they get their childhood when not pushed to early puberty. That's funny, don't you think? With love the first words will come from love. We can feel and smell the world outside as it's brought into the home, videos, TV, images, toys and we get cloned.

Answer 7

The vowel sounds babbling is ommon at that age, i think - my daughter did that, and so did all the other babies we knew at that age. Consonants do get added around then, so 'mum' and 'dad' often get said by accident - certainly by a year, my daughter was uttering lots of 'mumumumum' and 'dadadadad' and 'nanananan' etc but I count her first proper, intentional word said in context as 'up' as she was going up the stairs at 14 months.

Answer 8

You can teach a very young child to say words withot hard consonants like a parrot, but your child, at 8 months, probably *is* saying daddy... the only problem is that the aaa sound is the one that *he* hears and is able to reproduce.

Answer 9

I know this wont really help, but it really does depend on the chils. My daughter said daddy when she was about 8 months old but that was after lots of baby talk first, but i bet it wont be too long now before he does day it!

Answer 10

My son is 7 months old and he said dad about 2 weeks ago, made his dad cry awwww bless. He has babbled for a long time now he is quite vocal lol takes after his mummy :)