My babies' first sign

I remember when my children were born and I was trying to teach them sign language. I was fully committed to the idea, as I had read up about it and was really looking forward to having it pay off in allowing me to communicate with my baby.

With both of my daughters, they signed at about 6 months of age, which is phenomenal!

I nursed each of them and when I would nurse them, I would say "milk" and make the sign for "milk" at the same time. Then, I would nurse them (you would do the same with a bottle). It didn't take much effort at all and I was rewarded with my baby crawling over to me and holding up her hand to sign "milk". WOW! No more crying, all she had to do was ask.

And so our sign language for our babies began!