For those who already have children...

In all my kids, I could still remeber that the very first words they mumbled were mama & papa, it's just a wonderful feeling!As to the age they first uttered words, it varied because my second child talked when he was still nine nine months old--never been a lisper! He is the "talker" now of the family.

I remember my daughter's first word was "Mimi"... that is her own version of Mommy... she was like 10 months then... after that she was able to say daddy clearly... the Mimi stayed on for a few more months... until she finally learned how to say Mommy clearly... but i would have loved it if she kept on calling me Mimi...

I think the research is true that the words of endearment to their parents is the first word that babies say, not only because they are easy on the brain but because these words are the ones they always here. like here in m household, my youngest who is now 5 months old still can't mumble anything but the first person he recognize (well except me of course) is daddy, it was like where is daddy and he would tun his face to their dad, well because we always speak of him and call him and now he also know where is his two older brother. Even in some where there are other words for mom and dad, it is still the first word babies would say, like here in my country, a term for mother is nanay and tatay for dads, and that would be hard to mumble for infants, and yet it is the first word that babies will say.