Baby Sign Language: 3 month old signing up / help

[uniqueandbeautiful]

What a beautiful baby!!!

[IrminsulRM]

What a lovely baby and such a sweet disposition. She must get that from her Mother. Good luck with raising her and teaching her more sign. Babies respond to encouragement and repetition more than most people think.

[TheWildheartmuse]

What a lovely baby!  Do you have a sling? She may be really happy as a 'worn baby'. When we wear our babies they are calmer and have less health issues. We can also anticipate their needs more easily. Don't let anyone tell you that picking her up will 'spoil' her. She will learn lifes harsh lessons soon enough. Right now she needs to know that you are there for her and she is safe with you.

Good luck with your adorable little girl. You seem like an attentive and loving mum.

[Lillietastic]

She is one beautiful baby! Look at her hair!

[123nickiv]

Keep signing it but say the word "Help" it sounds close enough.

[perthbabe231]

cute my bub does that with her hands but thats because shes fiddling with them so dont confuse up with her fiddling with her hands or u will be there for awhile picking her up hahaha

[liljvargas]

Keep her to do the word it's reallly cute

[blondeblueyez]

SHE IS BEAUTIFUL !!!

[MsPooh0910]

oh this is so cute

[LehGil]

GOD! That baby and Mom are stinkin CUTE!

[haleytroutman11]

let her get to the age...then try the same method..

[asimple10]

chubers :)

[HonestApril]

@germanmexicang I agree with you totally. This baby is not signing she is just doing what a normal 3 month old baby would do. I have a 4 month old who did the same thing

[germyw]

She IS trying to sign. I don't think it's a projection at all. Babies can communicate a lot more than u may realize. There are tons of vids of babies cleary trying to repeat what the parent is saying.

[meatballsspaghetti]

what a beautiful baby and loving mama! keep up the signing!

[germanmexicang]

Holding your hair is also not a "sign." Most babies, taught sign or not, grab on to whatever is nearby. Including hair.

I would advise that you use the correct signs when teaching her, specifically if you plan to have others sign to her as well. If it's just going to be you and your husband signing to her, then using the "wrong" sign may be ok.

[germanmexicang]

My husband is Deaf, we have a 6 month old, and I've been an ASL interpreter and also taught baby sign.

Your daughter, albeit very cute, is not signing "up." If you look at most any 3 month old, they hold their hands together (like yours is doing) and makes cooing sound (like your daughter does). I think you are projecting your hopes on to her. She is not signing. She just does what most 3 months olds do.

We are teaching our son to sign too, and he started to sign "milk" at 6 months.

[aliwds]

Knowing sign language... I would transition to the correct sign and if she uses the help sign and says uh uh I would respond and continue using the correct sign.

[TheSexyColours]

awwwww so clever~~

[IsabellaBorgward]

That's so nice! Why not be your daughter's slave and do everything she demands? It's so much easier to please than to educate a child, I totally agree...

[sr71f14f18]

@IsabellaBorgward I bet you're one of those who lets her baby cry it out. Ugh.

[nikkengkay]

hey mommy are you a filipina?

[gaek86]

we started day 1 and she was signing bottle dummy nappy and sleep by 5 weeks old, she started making thing up by about 4 months I would teach people the signs she knew but they made up different ones just to shit me with her and it all got abit confusing thy didn't support it because they don't know anyone who is hearing impaired and neither was she i think they were pissed coz I haven't learnt their language so didn't want to be learning this, the damage was done .

[lacey2682]

Teach her both

[roglows]

your baby is gorgeous, really cute. also, it's so fascinating how she communicates like that!

[0ShinyStar0]

if u have a problem for help because u did it for up, just make a new sign language for her to show you she needs help

[Curtism14]

FIRST OF ALL, YOU'RE BABY'S BEAUTIFUL!!!!!! i laugh so much when she does the sign of ' i don't want you to put me down'!!!! i think she'll have the same sense of humor of her mum. I don't know what advise give to you, cause i agree with the already given ones to you. How is she progressing? How did all go on?? Thanks for sharing with us this precious video. I hope i'll be as successful as you when i'm a mum (in 10 years more or less) :) (i'm just 20 jaja =D )

[mogjohns1]

Hello, I am Deaf, and use ASL, and I also speak due to a progressive hearing loss. I have a little advice, I say your daughter has the correct concept of help as in "help I want up" You can introduce her to the concept of "up" by signing up and pointing to something up over her and saying "look up there." or later on when she plays with toys and you notice her moving it up and down sign "up" and "down" along with that concept.

[maxwellshunt]

Too cool - luv her progress.

[GalinaXiong2]

she is so beautiful..

[NikeshalovesCasey]

what a pretty baby!!!!



[M30WM3]

In many Deaf & ASL speaking households, there is also a common practice of speaking something called "home signs" (basically, made up words/signs which are spoken between family members whose meanings are not necessarily understood by people outside of the family unit). Something which can also be quite useful when in public you want to communicate privately in a situation where otherwise you might not be able to. In some ways the sign "help" could also be used to mean,"help I want up".

[M30WM3]

P.S. I think it is awesome that you are teaching your baby sign language by the way!

[reeb23]

If you are wanting to teach her ASL, then teach her the proper signs. If you are just using the signing for around the house, then don't worry about it.

[LaRueffer]

Pardon our unkemptness, but both Malynn & I just woke up when Jennifer started video taping.

Anyway, we're looking for some advice...should we just keep having her use the sign for "help" to indicate "up"? or how should we undo what we've done & re-teacher her the correct sign for "up"??