My middle son I did it as I didn't know about it with my oldest at the time never really thought about it being a first time mommy, and well he took to it for a few months, but of course now he is almost 3 he don't need to do it anymore.

It was helpful because I wear hearing aids, and don't always hear things very clearly

I found using sign language with Kaia EXTREMELY helpful. All we really used was "more" (that's the best), "milk", "book", "eat", and "drink", and that helped her so much to feel like she was finally able to communicate with us. She would just yell out of pure frustration before that. Later on we learned "dog" "kitty" "apple" "boat" and "banana" (kind of random), but those were more for fun. Good luck.

One of my best friends has been teaching her daughter sign language for a long long time now. I love that she was able to communicate so well when she was younger but quite a few of us think it might be slowing down her actual talking.

I didn't start teaching my daughter til late when she wasn't communicating like she should have been, in my case however it has helped her to say new things.

I used sign with my son when he was a baby- it worked GREAT! His speech was right on track and not slowed down by using sign as a crutch. I did, however, have a friend use sign with her son and he wouldnt speak- only used sign, I think it may be in how you teach it.... maybe just a 50/50 shot of speaking or signing?

I also think that it may be how it is taught cause in general what I have heard is that it can actually advance how soon a baby/child speaks....in general personally I have only heard good things from the couple people that have used it.

I started teaching my daughter when she was 10 weeks old. I know that it's really early, and she won't be able to sign back for a long time, but I just figured the sooner I started the better. I'm hoping maybe she'll sign back around six months of age. The only sign I'm doing with her is "milk".

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