Communicate With Your Baby | Intro Into Baby Sign Language

Communicate With Your Baby | Intro Into Baby Sign Language

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After having my daughter I heard a lot of talk about teaching babies sign language. I thought back to the 4 years of Spanish I took in school and not remembering a thing I thought HA yea right that's not for me. But curiosity drew me into learning more and I'm so glad I did. With a little research, I realized how easy it actually was to start learning a few signs myself as well as teaching them to my daughter.

We started signing at around 7 months, some mamas start earlier but I wasn't committed to it until around 7 months. With baby #2 I'm totally going to start earlier. I was super consistent with saying the word and doing the sign every single time! Example: anytime she wanted to nurse I would say "num nums" (our word for boobie milk) and do the sign for "milk" within just a few weeks she was signing "milk". Once I realized how much just that one sign was able to help us communicate I dove in! It eliminated so much frustration because she could tell me what she wanted before she started crying. Next, we learned hungry, food, more, all done, please, thank you, outside, & help.

Baby signs don't have to be perfect chances are they will add their own twist to a sign. Just keep being consistent with them and you will be surprised how fast they pick it up. For us, it was so great to be able to have a form of communication. She could tell me she wanted milk or food or when she wanted more or was all done. I feel like it eliminated a lot of stress around not knowing what she wanted because she was able to tell us.

How to learn? We picked up a lot of signs right on youtube! Anytime we wanted to learn a new sign we just searched "baby sign for____" and found some short helpful videos. We also LOVE @ryanandrose on Instagram! Lindsey has a teaching background in sign language and does "Sign Of The Day" in her Instagram stories with fun new signs, we have learned a lot from her.

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Stay tuned for Communicate With Your Baby | Intro Into Baby Sign Language PART TWO coming in June.