my son said 1st word at 6 months old!!!

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  1. annabegins

    annabegins Member

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    he kept trying to say something, and my sister started freaking out, saying that it sounded like he was saying "baby". the next day my boyfriend noticed that he was trying to say something too. then skyler looked up at me and said "baw-baw" (bottle) and i got him a bottle. and this morning, he looked up at me and said "baw-baw". i said "what, skyler? what did you say?" he replied "baw-baw". and i got him his morning bottle. im so proud!!! hes only 6 months old!!!!!!!
     
  2. hippychickmommy

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    That's so awesome! Isn't it just fantastic when you can make out what they're saying?

    Awww, first words. Just so cute! Congrats! :)
     
  3. mynameiskc

    mynameiskc way to go noogs!

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    neato! maybe this one of mine won't wait for full sentences...
     
  4. Maggie Sugar

    Maggie Sugar Senior Member

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    ENCOURAGE him! Yes, many babies do begin to imitate words around this age. Good for you for noticing and encouraging him. It makes me sad when I see babies TALKING and their mama just think "he's just making noise." Many 6 month olds are trying to say words, they approximate, or do the best they can with sounds they hear often. The more encouragement they get, the more they talk.

    With my kids (all saying words around 6 months or so and starting sentences around a year) I would use ANY excuse to think they were talking (and the babies LOVED it, they KNEW they were talking, even if most people thought I was crazy) If one of my babies saw a dog and said "Da!" I'd say, "That's right. DOG! Good job. Say DOG again." And they would say "DA!" or maybe even put a consenent on the end "DAT!" ANY thing they try is worth encouraging.

    The other day, I was taking Moon to the doctor , and saw a really adorable baby who was looking at me, and I was waving at him, and he was waving and he said "buh buh." And I said "Oh, he said, "Bye bye." And the mom said "no he's just making noise." And I said, "listen to him, he said it the same way every time, while he was waving." and she goes, "But you weren't leaving, you just came in. Why would he say Bye Bye?" (ARGHHGH Because he's six months old!!!!) details like this don't matter to a 6 month old. So, I went to the baby and waved and said "Say bye bye." And the baby said, as clear as day, "Buh buh." Waving. So, finally, the mom said, "Maybe he is talking. It really isn't very clear." I tried to tell her "HE'S TRYING." and I hope he would be noticed for his efforts in the future. It kinda made me sad that his mama wasn't really noticing and he was trying so hard.

    Good job for you, Anna, I am so glad you are giving your little one the detailed parenting that every baby deserves. Kudos, mama. One of my favorite things to do with babies this age was have them talk. I loved it.
     
  5. HippyFreek2004

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    Congrats, Anna! This is SUCH a cool age. They're beginning to explore and put things together in their little noggins, and making sense of the world...It's amazing!

    I remember when my god-daughter said one of her first words. She was playing with some little toys, and get saying "dug" and then would look up at me. I was trying to do homework and didn't pay much attention the first few times she did it. But then I noticed she was holding a toy goose in her hand, a little rattle thing. She looked at it, said "dug", looked at me and waited. I was so excited, because she was saying DUCK! I didn't care that it was a goose. She had it narrowed down to a type of fowl, that's all that mattered. I pointed to the rattle and asked her what it was, and she said "Dug" again. I picked her up and said, "YAY! It's a duck!" And she beamed, like she had just made some great discovery and had it approved by a senior scientist. After that she kept repeating Duck over and over, trying other words with every toy she picked up. Was amazing to witness. :)
     
  6. mynameiskc

    mynameiskc way to go noogs!

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    kai was so totally silent that we had her ears checked over and over again. then we were worried that she might be developmentally impaired. it was sorta scary. but now you'd never know. she has such good diction and grammar.
     
  7. teeny_tiny_little_me

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    wow! That's awsome!
    I can't wait until Leane is 6 months.....just 2 more to go. She coos at us all the time, and I make noises back to her like we're having a conversation, and she loves it! Every few days, I start saying something different, and she starts to catch on! It's so much fun!
     
  8. tikoo

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    i believe when saying baw-baw he was not trying to say bottle . his word baw-baw means more like ' home , togetherness ' . the kid is not speaking english , but still , giving him a bottle is not at all any sort of mistake . home and togetherness do equal sharing food in a way - better yet though , is a family hug .
     
  9. Sage-Phoenix

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    Awww that's so wonderful, way to go Skyler. Babies are so much more knowledgeable than most people give them credit for.


    Totally agree with Maggie. :)
     
  10. tikoo

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    yaya , babies know more than maggie . they make sense before they make english , and really , never do need to learn english to make sense or even to survive . intelligence is indeed the ability to use symbols , and conformity does not necessarily equate with survival . life is more pure than that . society does not define life , it manipulates it . disrespecting a child's babble is a pointless manipulation of free and natural human intelligence .
     
  11. annabegins

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    its really exciting, thanks for your inputs guys, it IS a fun age, hes trying to learn and take everything in, and its so great to be a part of it!. (i'm working on Ma-ma, lol)


    oh and tikoo......Huh?????
     
  12. Maggie Sugar

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    I found that in most of my kids "Mama" was later. I was with my babies all the time, so I thought maybe they didn''t need to say it all that often. Even Sage, who said "mama" younger than her sibs, said Papa, Tata, (Sunshine) Memem (Lennon) Baba (Moon, we have yet to figure out why, yet) (these are Sage's siblings) before Mama.
     
  13. tikoo

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    huh what ? huh , by the way , is the one word most common to all languages world-wide . it means what you think it means . so do i . i'm saying that children are born with the inate ability to talk and that this babble speech has real meaning quite independent of whatever tribal/social language that is going to be taught by the parent . it's more provable than not . with an open mind you can experience this with your child .
     
  14. tikoo

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    .

    bida~ , witi , a~da~ , a'a~ .... these are all babble words
    of considerable sophistication and thus , intent . the vowel
    and consonant construction is intelligent and varied . especially
    when a child assigns an invented word consistantly to a certain
    context , consider the word's meaning .

    bida~ is a child's word that was spoken as someone would enter the
    common living space . b means togetherness . i means goodness .
    da~ means our place of oneness .

    bida~ . (bi-dah) .
    welcome home .
     
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  15. Maggie Sugar

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    Hmm, interesting, all my kids said something that sounded like Bida as babies. They all also said "Ah Bmmmm." I know a lot of babies who say "Ah Bmmmmm." and I am not sure what it means, but I always say it back to them, so they will say more things.

    My kids also would say "Ah Ma" or "Ah Ba" to nurse. When they were really tiny, like a few months old. It is close to "mama" which is Universal for "The Womyn Who Feeds Me." So that makes sense.
     
  16. tikoo

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    isn't the mmm phoneme rather most connected to

    the baby's nursing action ? and the ah sound is open-throated , mouth wide open : the meaning can be
    relational to just that ... space , of the womb .

    mah-mah

    ma~ma~

    i do keep a diary of kidwords that come my way (and hand-signs too ) . you mama's could do this here i suppose . what's important is to notate the
    words phoneticly and the immediate context in which the child has spoken the word(s) . first words are that precious , eh ? i just wanted to give you a theory to think about . bye . oops , i mean bi .
     
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