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An excellent tool for communicating with your pre-verbal infant or toddler, is baby sign language.

Even babies who have not reached one year old are very enthusiastically able to recognize simple signs. Communication is possible!

Babies that are able to give out this sign can now tell you that they need help to the toilet or to the potty. First it will be recognition of the needs or what their body should get, perhaps as they go, moments before or after.

Basically, sign language is a ‘bridge’ between our pre-verbal babies and our verbal culture. You are letting them communicate with you, through this tool. So babies readily recognize signs as soon as they are able, because our visual memories are basically older. Although earlier and later than 12 months is possible, but around that time, it is common for signing to really pick up. Look out for any recognition of signs that your baby might be giving out in order to talk to you.

Make your sign appropriate or natural for your baby. The sign you choose must always be used with the spoken word and loving eye contact, as well as it should be simple and something a baby can imitate. For you to make it easy for you to sign regularly in your day so that baby sign language and infant pottying are simply integrated and normal parts of your lifestyle, here are three guidelines.

In Combining Infant Pottying With Baby Sign Language, Here are Three Guidelines:

1. Do the sign every time you approach or go near the potty

2. It helps if you make your sign when the baby is on the potty

3. Respect their reservations, use the sign to see if your baby wants to use their potty- respond to their excitement

These three strategies will help you add baby sign language to your elimination communication moments effortlessly. Great awareness and control will sometimes be shown by your infant. Your baby will eventually sign clearly and in a timely way. Being a little person is a busy work, so there will be times that they will not do this. Your practice with baby sign language and of EC will eventually ebb and flow. Just like any natural process there will be flashes of amazing communication, the reason families get hooked on elimination communication. You may see this as a wonderful and fleeting sign of the future, and not as an expectation that they will be toilet independent at a very early age. EC is not a ‘method’ or results based activity like conventional potty or toilet training, it is a daily practice and something that is part of your lifestyle.

Parents should really give it a try, because Baby Sign Language and EC are really just great combinations that could help your baby communicate with you and anyone else who would be taking care of them. You will be helping the environment because you will be gradually reduce the use of diapers or nappies saving money and enjoying a new dimension in the bond you share with your baby.

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