The first months of a baby’s life are pretty thankless. You feed them, change them, care for them, and they puke on you, pee and poop on you, and keep you up all night. Of course there are rewards... that first smile, a warm snuggle etc, but it seems, inevitably, no matter how you care for them, regardless of the fact that you are there for them 24 hours a day the first thing they say is “dada”.
Of course, we tell ourselves, they aren’t actually saying “daddy”, it’s just the first letter they are able to form, right? They are too young to know how to really say a word. There is no reason to be upset that dada is said before mama.
But then, that first time they say “mama”, our heart swells, and we know they are talking to us.
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