First words - when and what??

[JessaJam]

DS is 11mo and I swear he has his 1st word...cat...well "ta' "...it's quite specific, he sees a cat and grins and says it...

yes? no? Daft, proud-mummy syndrome?

What was your lo's 1st word and how old were they??

[sweetmonkey]

my first word was dickhead to my gran. she'd never heard of it before then

[PrettyCandles]

My dd was 14m, and her first word was 'ba' - which meant boob, not 'I want a feed', but anyone woman's boobs! Swiftly followed by 'bu' - book.

[merrily]

My DD was around 11 months when she started saying "teddy" and "daddy". She is now 15 months and now has a few words - the latest being "up" and "baff" (bath). I love it!! (though I really must stop swearing around her now...)

[mazzystar]

LOL sweet monkey...are you fibbing?

Despite DH attempting to replicate Ben Stiller in Meet the Fockers, DS first word was "bow bar" for his favourite book "Brown Bear, what do you see?" sometime around his first birthday. Second was "Dum".

[KathyMCMLXXII]

Does it count if it's not a real word? Dd's was 'nin nin' meaning milk.
Can't remember when it was though - doh, what kind of a mother am I?

[sweetmonkey]

no im not kidding. my grandparents are v straigh laced and my gran had to ask my parents what it meant.

[JessaJam]

KathyMCMetc - I think nin nin counts...isn't it supposed to be any 'word' that the child and carers can recognise as meaning something specific...?

[Tex111]

DS' was 'yum yum' for food at about 10 months, swiftly followed by 'da da'.

[KathyMCMLXXII]

That's all right then, Jessajam.
She thinks it's a word and we think it's a word so it would have been a bit sad if it wasn't