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Baby Sign Language is a great tool for communicating with your preverbal baby or toddler.
Even babies under one year old can enthusiastically recognize simple signs. This allows communication!
A potty cue gives your baby a way to tell you that he needs your help to go to the toilet or potty. Initially it will be the recognition of her body’s needs, perhaps as they progress, moments before or after.
Sign language is a ‘bridge’ between our pre-verbal babies and our verbal culture. You are giving them a ‘tool’ that they can use to communicate with you. Our visual memories are older, so babies easily recognize cues as soon as they can. Around 12 months it is common for the firm to really recover, although sooner or later are possible. Keep practicing, look for recognition of cues before your baby uses them to ‘talk’ to you.
Choose an appropriate signal or natural gesture. It should be simple, so your baby can crudely imitate it, and it should always be used with spoken word and loving eye contact.
These 3 tips will make it easier for you to sign regularly throughout your day so that baby sign language and potty training are just normal, integrated parts of your lifestyle.
3 Strategies to Remember When Combining Potty Training with Baby Sign Language:
1. Make the signal of your choice each time you approach the potty
2. Make your signal every time your baby is on the potty
3. Use the “ask” sign if your baby wants to use her potty: respond to her enthusiasm, respect her reservations.
With these 3 simple strategies, you’ll be adding Baby Sign Language to your Elimination Communication (EC) moments with ease. Sometimes your baby will show great awareness and control. They will sign in a clear and timely manner. Other times they won’t: being a little person is busy working!
Expect your EC and Baby Sign Language practice to ebb and flow. Like any natural process, there will be flashes of amazing communication, which is why families get hooked on elimination communication.
Consider this a wonderful and fleeting sign of the future, not an expectation that they will be toilet independent at a very young age. EC is something you *practice* regularly, part of your lifestyle, rather than a ‘method’ or outcome-based activity like conventional potty training or potty training.
Give it a try: Baby Sign Language and CE are great partners in helping your child communicate with you as soon as possible. You will gradually reduce the use of nappies or nappies, helping the environment, saving yourself money and best of all, enjoying a new dimension in the bond you share with your baby.