Of late, baby-related reading has mostly been flipping through Baby Talk by Greene Alan and Monica Beyer. Jon's cousin Cheryl has been using sign language with her child, and, apparently, it's going over like gangbusters. It provides a way for the baby to communicate with his or her caretakers long before he or she develops verbal skills. It can eliminate the frustration some babies feel in not being able to get their point across, so to speak.
Apparently, you can start with a baby as young as six months old. You're supposed to start off slow with just a few signs -- for things that have the greatest importance for the baby. Such as "milk" and "mother." It turns me off a little that the sign for milk is the motion you would make with your hand when you're milking a cow's teet. But then again, I've always been a little squeamish :)
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