More breast milk mommy! Of course our baby’s first sign was ‘milk’ and then ‘more milk’! We started her watching signing videos at 5 months old and in only a month she made her first sign. I was so excited that she was signing that I started signing back and forth with her until she started crying because she wanted breast milk! Oops.

“It feels so good that I have been able to give her a way to communicate with me.”

At one year her sign language ‘vocabulary’ has really grown. She signs ‘baby’ when she wants to watch her Baby Signing Time videos. How cute is that? A baby, signing baby! We read Baby Signing Time books together too, she always points to them after nap time to indicate she wants me to bring them down from the shelf. We’re working on the sign for music, right now she points to the IPod player and waves an arm. Her new favorite sign is dog. She pats her leg as soon as we step outside and looks for Dusty, our puppy.

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Parents and children both can get easily frustrated with each other when they cannot communicate their needs. Today our daughter was so moody, I put her on the potty, offered breast milk, banana, toys, nothing was doing it. So I sat down with her and simply said “I wish I knew what you wanted. What is it that’s you need?”. She signed back to me ‘sleepy’. At first I figured maybe she was just wiping her face as she had just woke up from her nap. But I decided to go alongwith it and I repeated our nap time routine with some bedtime songs, breast milk, and sitting in the rocking chair. Sure enough, she fell asleep again! To think we could have gone on for the rest of the day with me being frustrated that I can’t make her happy and my daughter being frustrated that she can’t tell me that she simply needs some more time to sleep. It feels so good that I have been able to give her a way to communicate with me.

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