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I suck at remembering to sign, but my DH successfully taught his other kids how to sign and he's in the process of teaching M (though she still looks at us like we have 3 heads when we sign). He's read books about it and told me that the first that they usually understand are more, milk, and eat (in that order). So those are the ones we're focusing on now. We basically give her a few bites of solids then sign more, then give her more, then sign more, rinse, repeat. When he gives her a bottle he does the same...gives her about an ounce, signs more, etc. Before he gives her the bottle he signs milk and before I BF I sign milk. That's pretty much all we've done so far...hope that helps!

@rahlyrah: I have a great book on signing that has some flash card type things (I'm not a fan of using them as flash cards, but they were good easy reminders for me for the different signs when I was learning them and Lorelei liked to look at them). It's just sitting with my bag of things to donate. Would you like it?

We did some signs with LO, but the only one that has stuck is more; he started doing it around 13 months, even though we started signing it around 6 months. I think starting at 9 months is perfect actually, since they're unlikely to actually sign back before that point I think. We just did the "more" sign every time we asked if he wanted more food, and then did it as we were giving him more.

@rahlyrah: I started signing to DS around 6 mos but he didn't start signing till about 12 mos. You aren't late at all. I just started with the handful that I knew from other moms (all done, milk, more...) and added them as I thought of them and looked them up. I would just say the item/action and sign it at the same time, and then give it to him. He picked up a couple of things at a time, by the time he was 15-16 mos he would learn them really quickly.