Many educated women appear to have accepted the idea that babies must take a back seat in exchange for establishing and sustaining a professional career. Stories about the virtues of older motherhood or that women can easily conceive at any time up to their early 40′s have encouraged successfully-employed women to forego motherhood.

The truth is women who put off trying to have children until their 30′s or later may reduce their chances of becoming pregnant – and risk losing out on motherhood altogether. Women become less fertile with age. And so if you wait too long, motherhood may pass you by.

Pregnancies are also harder to maintain in older women – whether through a fertility clinic or in an unaided pregnancy. Women in their 40′s have a rate of spontaneous abortion one-and-a-half times that of women in their 20′s. As we get older, the greater the chances of bearing a premature, or low-birth-weight infant.

By evolution and by nature, women are designed to have children early. Of course, our social and professional environment is not structured this way. And so it is up to each individual when they decide to start a family.

The best approach is to empower us with all the information we need to make an intelligent decision both for ourselves and for our family.

Using sign language with your baby can help you to communicate better with the little one. It is a great communicating tool. When babies can not talk they can make you understand their needs by using sign language.

Babies pick up sign language very fast. Making a baby learn sign language is beneficial because it increases their vocabulary and also helps them to talk earlier. As soon as you start teaching the infant sign language, you will see that both of you ca understand each other better.

Go through the tips given below to learn the effective ways of teaching children sign language.

1. It is never too early to teach your baby sign language. When your baby is as little as six month you can teach your small one how to communicate through sign language. Even if your baby is 18 months old you can teach him or her sign language. No matter how old is your baby it is beneficial to teach them sign language.

2. Pick a few keywords for your baby for sign language such as food, milk, water, apple, toys etc. But don’t use concept words when you are teaching baby to use sign language. Babies are unable to decipher concept words like happy, sad hungry etc. Since there is no object to relate to, these words become difficult for the baby to understand.

3. Before teaching your baby it is better that you learn sign language yourself. Then you will be able to use them in the proper manner. You can check websites or watch CDs to learn sign language.

4. Teaching your baby sign language is not very difficult when you keep the basic things in mind. For example if you are giving your baby an apple, say apply and show the apple to your baby. Simultaneously you should use the sign language to denote the apple. Repeat these steps each time you give your baby an apple and your small one will soon learn the sign language for the specific fruit.

While teaching your baby sign language you should have patience because it takes a few months for the baby to learn it. So enjoy communicating with your baby through sign language.