I do this!! It's the greatest thing in the world for him to know how to communicate non-verbally through ASL to indicate he is hungry!!

Signing with your baby is a great tool for any mom, but a breastfeeding mom, in particular.

The sign for milk – opening and closing the fist vertically (like squeezing a cow's udder) – is one of the easiest signs for babies to mentally grasp and to physically perform. The trick to teaching a baby to sign is to find moments when you have their complete attention – when their gaze is focused on you and not distracted. The breastfeeding gaze that we all know and love is one of the easiest times. If you repeatedly put the sign for milk in their visual path as the milk begins to let down, they grasp the concept very quickly.

Signing With Your Breastfed Baby - Breastfeeding