What you need to know about baby’s first words
Many moms report that their baby?s first word was ?mama??and Yvonne Edwards is one of them. Although, in her case, she recalls, ?it was more like ?mum-mum,?? which her baby, Bronwen, called from the crib at about six months old.
?Mama,? along with ?papa,? ?dada? and ?baba,? are typical first words of babies the world over, says Sharon Weisz, a Toronto-based speech language pathologist. But that?s not because babies are recognizing or naming their parents. It?s because those sounds are the easiest for babies to make. The m, p and b sounds?soon followed by d and g?are the first to form, and usually start as babbles between six and nine months, says Weisz. So it?s no coincidence that nearly every language has invented parental words to suit the abilities of babies. ?In most languages, the words for ?mommy? and ?daddy? use those early sounds, the lip sounds,? says Weisz, who is the director of Toronto Speech Therapy. What is my baby saying"
Although repetitious consonant-vowel words like ?mama? and ?dada? are most often seized upon by parents as baby?s first words, the initial speech sounds babies make are typically vowels that come months earlier, says Roxane Bélanger, a speech language pathologist at First Words, a preschool speech and language program in Ottawa.
At two or three months old, babies start cooing and blowing raspberries, and then progress to vowel sounds like ?ah-ah? or ?oooh.? By 10 months, they should typically be able to manage the repeated babbling of...
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