If you do sign language with your LO...

JAWMIN

what do you sign for "nurse" or "breastfeeding"?

I know the sign for milk is opening and closing the hand, but it looks way too much like ds "goodbye" wave. If it doesn't confuse him, I know it will confuse me. 

I need to teach him something because he's starting to get grabby. I guess I could make up my own sign. 

And an AW... DS has been going potty on his potty every morning, and last night he saw his dad going potty and signed "potty" to him.

EcoBaby

Wow on the potty thing!

I used the milk sign. The way I was taught (I took ASL classes in college), it looks less like opening and closing the hand and more like you are milking a cow. My hand never opens all the way. DS totally made up his own version, though, and flicks his thumb across his top finger like he's flipping a coin. LOL

sunnyday016

We do the milk sign, but it's more like pumping my fist, rather than opening and closing my hand the whole way, KWIM? When we wave "bye bye" we do a full hand wave rather than an open and close. Gosh, I suck at those descriptions...hope you know what I'm talking about-lol!

EmmieB

I put the sign for "mama" before it. So it's "mama milk."

ChiShanona

I use the milk sign, too, and it does look almost exactly like her wave for Hi/Bye.  But I don't think it will confuse your LO, more likely just confusing to you.  I think you'll come to know when he means milk and when he's saying Goodbye.  I'm not sure DD really gets the signing thing yet b/c I just started a couple months ago.  But there are times when I swear she's signing to me, like when she's nursing and she looks up at me and squeezes her fingers together (milk), or when she waves her hand back and forth near her face (cat) while around the kitties at my brother's house, or waves up at the ceiling (light).  But then there's the impatient grunt she lets out when she's in her high chair which neither I nor her Dad appreciate.  We wish she would just do the "more" sign that I've been teaching her from the start.

JAWMIN

ChiShanona:

I use the milk sign, too, and it does look almost exactly like her wave for Hi/Bye.  But I don't think it will confuse your LO, more likely just confusing to you.  I think you'll come to know when he means milk and when he's saying Goodbye.  I'm not sure DD really gets the signing thing yet b/c I just started a couple months ago.  But there are times when I swear she's signing to me, like when she's nursing and she looks up at me and squeezes her fingers together (milk), or when she waves her hand back and forth near her face (cat) while around the kitties at my brother's house, or waves up at the ceiling (light).  But then there's the impatient grunt she lets out when she's in her high chair which neither I nor her Dad appreciate.  We wish she would just do the "more" sign that I've been teaching her from the start.

I know I'm the one who will be confused. He says "bye" randomly throughout the day when he sees my phone. Well, I guess I just figured out my distinction... he always says "bye bye" when he waves. 

We just started teaching him "more" today. We are trying to do one sign at a time. He learned the sign for potty really quick. We just started signing two weeks ago. 

 

Fun2Dream

I've heard that the sign for "nursing" is plucking at your shirt, near your bra strap.  

 

I've also seen moms have the baby use 2 hands for nursing and one hand for cow's milk, both using the sign for milk.  Maybe if he's using 2 hands you'll know he's not waving? 

JAWMIN

Fun2Dream:

I've heard that the sign for "nursing" is plucking at your shirt, near your bra strap.  

 

I've also seen moms have the baby use 2 hands for nursing and one hand for cow's milk, both using the sign for milk.  Maybe if he's using 2 hands you'll know he's not waving? 

i like the pluking. he actually waves with both hands. he has the weirdest wave, and i don't even know where he picked it up.