Anyone started signing to baby?

cupcakes710

I know "all done" and "more".  What other signs should we do with our babies?  I don't have a DVD or anything (yet).  For now, I'm just teaching her.  I saw another thread a couple days ago and a bumpie was talking about starting at 3 months.  So here we goooooooooo.  

Anyone else starting now?  If so what signs do you know / are you doing? 

canthardlywait426

You can start now but don't expect them to really understand it for a couple months. We did baby signs with my niece and it was a god send. The 4 main ones we started with were more, hungry, all done and tired.

JulietL129

We do 'more' 'full' 'Mom' 'Dad' 'Dog' I did order a DVD that's coming in this week so we'll start watching that once it gets here. I spoke to a couple who started around the 3/4 month mark and their son started signing back at 8.5 months or so. Some take longer though from what I've read.

tiffanyp

I read a book about it, and the book said to start signing at 7 months, so no, I have not started yet.

cupcakes710

canthardlywait426:

You can start now but don't expect them to really understand it for a couple months. We did baby signs with my niece and it was a god send. The 4 main ones we started with were more, hungry, all done and tired.

Yeah I won't expect her to understand for a while, but it'll be good to get in the habit.  I'm really excited!  Did your niece learn from a DVD?  Do you think it's necessary?

::Going to look up signs for hungry and tired:: 

cupcakes710

tiffanyp:

I read a book about it, and the book said to start signing at 7 months, so no, I have not started yet.

I thought it was more like 6-7 months too.  Oh well, couldn't hurt.  What book do you have? 

canthardlywait426

cupcakes710:

canthardlywait426:

You can start now but don't expect them to really understand it for a couple months. We did baby signs with my niece and it was a god send. The 4 main ones we started with were more, hungry, all done and tired.

Yeah I won't expect her to understand for a while, but it'll be good to get in the habit.  I'm really excited!  Did your niece learn from a DVD?  Do you think it's necessary?

::Going to look up signs for hungry and tired:: 

No, she learned from us. We used the corresponding signs for everything we did. Everytime we SAID "more" we signed it.

lulu3061

I have a friend who teaches baby sign language and she started her daughter around 6 months.  Obviously though, it's not going to hurt if you start early.

I have started teaching my husband eat, more, milk, all done, tired/sleepy, play, I'm pretty sure it's going to take him longer to learn than the baby. 

AllSmiles1210

C_mo:

funny you should post this because I was JUST researching this. Does anyone have a good DVD to reccomend? I've started with hungry, bath, diaper, mom, dad, grandma, grandpa and I love you so far... he just smiles at me

We've watched Signing Time a few times with A. Wee Hands is another one that I'm thinking about buying. The Signing Time DVD teaches mom, dad, more, ball, eat, water, milk, cat, dog, fish, flower, shoes, want .. I think that's all of them. I read you can start at 3 months so we're going to be watching it more often now.

Blondangel

We have the Baby Signing Time DVD and it teaches drink, milk, water, juice, more, all done, hurt, types of common pets, family members, eat, cracker, cereal.We most often sign milk, eat, drink, more, all done,cat and dog throughout the day to him.

Kristi221

I don't really think a DVD is the best way to go about it. Babies learns by doing and having things done with them in context, so just by you doing the signs with them while going about your day will teach them. When you're feeding them, do the signs associated with that (milk, more, all done, thank you) and when they're playing or sleepy, you do those signs and when you're on a walk, you do signs for what you see (dog, tree, cloud, etc.)

ETA: I've taught babies sign language at child care centers (just simple signs like you're talking about) and we never used a DVD and they still picked it up just fine.

GrayGhost13

We're doing "eat," "milk," "mommy," "daddy," "cat," and "dog." I keep meaning to do "more" since its a useful one, but I keep forgetting.

We just started in the last couple weeks, so we don't remember to do them all the time, but we're trying to work them in any time we remember.

TheDreamingTree

I haven't started with DD yet, although I did print off a chart with all of the basic baby signs at this website (I just did a google search to find it): https://smartbabysignlanguage.blogspot.com/search/label/baby

I didn't start baby signs with my son until he was 6 months old, and he first signed back around 9 months old. The first sign he used was "more", to tell me that he wanted me to play "this little piggy" with him again. It was awesome!

cupcakes710

Kristi221:

I don't really think a DVD is the best way to go about it. Babies learns by doing and having things done with them in context, so just by you doing the signs with them while going about your day will teach them. When you're feeding them, do the signs associated with that (milk, more, all done, thank you) and when they're playing or sleepy, you do those signs and when you're on a walk, you do signs for what you see (dog, tree, cloud, etc.)

ETA: I've taught babies sign language at child care centers (just simple signs like you're talking about) and we never used a DVD and they still picked it up just fine.

Thanks!