Nursing Manners

[Liz]

Tallon learnt the baby sign for milk, and he never lifted my top for a feed.

Kayla i think has learnt the milk sign now, but she does occassionally go digging down my top LOL.

Baby signing is great

[Gabi]

Where can I learn how to teach the baby sign for milk? I love that idea. I have been getting into the habit of talking to my son about milk. I don't want him coming up to me saying 'booby booby booby' (not my style). So as we sit down to nurse I ask 'would you like some milk? Yes please? Okay.'

Just in the last couple of feeds my little one has started to get distracted (Daddy doesn't help lol, talking and playing while we're nursing). It's cute!

[*charmalea*]

baby sign lanuage is great .. i taught ds the sign for eat , and he uses it with anyone so they know what he is saying , there are signs for heaps of things and getting started early is the best time , but you can start anytime , i will be teaching dd to ask for boobie , but how do you sign a pair of boobs

[Liz]

Lea - both hands out front with a squeezing action? PMSL. Think I'd rather have my kid running around asking for booby!

The proper sign for milk is the action of milking a cow LOL. But ours is modified to just opening and closing one hand.

There are plenty of books on baby sign language. It's loosely based on auslan, and simplified.

[~clover~]

I think I'll teach DS 'Ky'. The maori word for food.
It's discreet & I'll know what he wants.
My neice & SIL are maori & when my neice sees me feeding him she says to me 'Bubba having his ky hey.'
So I'll just stick to that I think.

[Michelle71]

The baby sign for breastfeeding is to pat the chest (eg right hand patting the left side of the chest / breast) The sign for milk though is the motions of milking a cow. I know which one I prefer but now that DS has weaned he uses the single hand milking sign to indicate he wants a drink of milk.

[Liz]

aah.. none of my books had one specifically for breastfeeding, so we just used milk. By the time he was drinking cows milk he could talk anyway

I tended to use that patting chest as my own sign for bib. LOL.