Alright, so you want to get started signing with your baby, but you're not sure what signs to start with or you're not really sure how even sign at all. So let me give you a couple signs to start with and then you can go ahead and start using them with your child.
Now, there are four signs that I'd recommend starting with. And I chose these four because they are probably the most important ones to your baby at this point. So one of them is milk, open and close your hand, like you're milking a cow. This is milk.
The other sign that I recommend is eat, like you have food in your hand and you are putting it to your mouth and putting it in. This is eat, it's also the same for food by the way, food and eat are the same sign in American sign language.
Now, the most popular sign is more. This is baby's first sign generally, not all the time but most babies do more for their first sign, is this tapping your finger tips together, more. Remember that babies are not always going to sign it at the correct way at first, sometimes it's clapping their hands and this is their sign for more or it's their one point of finger on the palm of their other hand is their sign for more.
Often it don't really looks like one of those two things instead of perfectly like more, but sometimes it is. In the case of my daughter she signed it this way, right after the bat, but lot of babies that I have taught it's been clapping or it's been one finger on the palm. So it's just learn to recognize your baby's signs and then you'll be communicating.
Alright, now the last sign that I recommend you starting with is finished or all done. I recommend this sign to because if you're asking for more you should also be able to tell your parent when you are all done, and when you are finished. So this is finished and actually in the case of my daughter more and all done were her first two signs. So I always recommend you'd also doing, all done.
Now remember those aren't always going to be your child's first signs but they are the great first four to start with.
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