What do you count as a first word?

[Salad]

aww wow she is a mummies girl so I can understand first word being mum.
I always thought she would just say dadda or something, actually I thought her first word would have been hello because I always say it to her when I get her out of bed etc. Probably not as easy to learn though.

[Early Kids]

Yep I'd count that as first words

For me it has to be something they understand, Brendan babbled 'dadadad' first, but he didnt understand that 'dadadad' was DP until much later.

[Indadhanu]

Yep. Jazzy said bub-bub but that was her playing with sounds, but her actual first word was mum-mum-mum, I counted as her 'first word' that she understood eg. When mum walks away and I scream MUM-MUM-MUM-MUM she'll come back! YAY! lol

What a clever little cookie!