Since my baby is very physical yet still only says dadadada pretty much (not with purpose), I wonder if it's true that some babies focus on the physical and some on the vocal.
Mama, dada - sometimes she says mommy and daddy. She calls Linz Beh, she calls my phone app since I always ask her if she wants to play with her app. That's all I can think of right now. Beh.
SS- barely making consonant sounds. Only real sound she makes with consonants is "MA!"
So she says MA but not DA? Interesting!
I keep trying to get mine to say Mama. It goes like this:
me: ma ma (pointing at self)
her: da da da da
me: no..mama. MA MA MA MA
her: dadada da dadada. da? da. dada
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Yep! Never had a single da. And she never strings together mamamama, just a single angry MA! Like get the hell in here MA! I don't know if she says it with meaning, but it seems like she says it when she is demanding my attention haha.
Since my baby is very physical yet still only says dadadada pretty much (not with purpose), I wonder if it's true that some babies focus on the physical and some on the vocal.
Post by skiesthelimit on Feb 26, 2013 13:30:12 GMT -5
DS will say Dada with no purpose, just says it over and over again babbling. But he will say Mama when he wants to nurse or eat. So he says mama with purpose but to him it means milk.
Post by JuliaGulia on Feb 26, 2013 13:31:26 GMT -5
Alexis calls me and DH "dada" and she also says "titty" when she sees the cats. She has starting saying other things mama, uh oh, and a few other things but those are random. She is not a physical baby she is all about talking..
Trudycampbell - Lillian does the demanding mama like she is yelling at me. Usually when I'm slow getting food on her tray.
She says mama with purpose (I walk into her room in the morning and she looks at me & says mama...heart melts everytime).. But she says mama and dada a lot at various times.
Mama, which means something is wrong and someone needs to fix it, something that means boobs, and something that I think means holden. Butt there's a lot of babbling going on.
Lots of mama and dada over here. She said mama first. She is not on the a tive train though, so I think she is working on her fine motor skills. Lydia was the same way though, I think she might have been saying more at this point, but it kind of blurs together.
Okay, so I'm not entirely convinced Emerson is saying "ma ma" referring to me. My mother is, but she's also a crazy grandma. Em does say a lot of ma's, ba's, and da's. She still growls a lot. Shrieking is also popular. She's always been somewhat verbal, but she really started with the consonant sounds consistently around the same time she started crawling. So I don't really think the theory that they focus on physical or verbal holds true for her.
Post by formerlyllizzyb on Feb 26, 2013 14:04:54 GMT -5
Graham doesn't say anything with purpose. He really doesn't have many consonant sounds. He'll try out a new one every now and then, but it only lasts a couple of days. He's still hmm-hmming, grunting, shrieking, etc. with a "ba-da-ba-da-ba" thrown in for good measure.
He says dada, mama, and most other consonant sounds. He doesn't quite get who mama or dada are yet though. The only word I can say he 'gets' is Hi (Sounds like Haa). He will wave and say, "Haa! Haa!" Yesterday he started saying, "Dat!" and looking around. So I dont know if he means like, 'whats that'? Or not. I never really say that to him, so I'm fairly certain he's just saying it for fun
I have no clue how to tell if something is on purpose and how people actually know it is because they chatter all the time?
My LO chatters a lot, dada mama dada, etc but I just assume she doesn't do it with a purpose because I feel it is really early to be talking with a purpose.
Special wordflake sometimes it's obvious that he's using dada correctly, but he also uses it as a way to say "this is fun!". He will also say mama, but it appears to be used as a way to say "Come help me!" He says "na, na, na!!!" As a way of saying "no!" Or "I don't like this!" He also says hi on command sometimes. The last couple days he has been using our sign for "all done" when he's full.