Once could be a coincidence, but twice?

[89th]

This reminds me, my daughter's first word was "quack" (rubber ducky in the bath, etc) but before that she would say "dada" all the time! However, I never counted it as the first word since she said "dada" to everyone and everything.

[LuFins Dad]

@89th said in Once could be a coincidence, but twice?:

This reminds me, my daughter's first word was "quack" (rubber ducky in the bath, etc) but before that she would say "dada" all the time! However, I never counted it as the first word since she said "dada" to everyone and everything.

We’ve heard dadadadadada and mamamamama for weeks, but just him learning to make sounds. Think this was different, even Karla agreed.

[89th]

Awesome man! Next up, Anakin!

[Mik]

My daughter's first word was Dada too, but that's because her 7 year old cousins sat on the floor with her saying it over and over and over for a weekend.

[taiwan_girl]

[Aqua Letifer]

Very cute.

(Mine was "shit")

[George K]

@Aqua-Letifer said in Once could be a coincidence, but twice?:

Very cute.

(Mine was "shit")

G2's first word was "cock."

[brenda]

Congrats, LFD! Next thing you know, he'll say the word keys.

[Larry]

@George-K said in Once could be a coincidence, but twice?:

@Aqua-Letifer said in Once could be a coincidence, but twice?:

Very cute.

(Mine was "shit")

G2's first word was "cock."

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[Horace]

Well if we're defining "first word" as "first vocalization that sounds like a word", I guess everybody's first word was "a".

I wonder how one would go about defining and attempting to observe the first intentional word.

[jon-nyc]

My kid said DaDa and just Dad too.

He would say it to everyone, but I took that to mean ‘hey you, go get my Dad’

[Friday]

@Horace

You sort of just know when it's intentional. Like LFD said, the baby was saying "dadadadada", but then he started saying "Dadadadadada". My eldest's first word was "Okay", but honestly can't remember what my second child's first word was.

[89th]

@LuFins-Dad Maybe you cut him off before he could finish saying, "Dadadadadadadada...BATMAN!"