Sandy Knibbs thought nothing of it when she gave her newborn daughter Georgia a bite of her almond butter sandwich.
But, it was Georgia who told her mom that this was not a good idea. While this newborn cannot speak yet, she had been taking baby sign language classes, so she was able to signal something very important to her mom.
“She went off to play and eat the sandwich. The next thing she had come back to me signaling the hurt sign, which is a shaking of the hand as if you’ve touched something that is hot,” Sandy told Wales Online. “I could see her lips had started to blister and she had blisters and hives on her hand where she had been holding the sandwich.”
Sandy gave her daughter an antihistamine and took her to the doctor, where Georgia was later diagnosed with a nut allergy.
Sandy credits “Tiny Talk,” Georgia’s baby sign language class, for assisting in saving Georgia’s life.
Mom initially admits she wasn’t sold on the idea, but she wanted to get out with her daughter and meet new people. By 10 months old, Georgia proved to be a fast learner and she was able to use sign language to ask questions and tell her mother what she needed. Georgia was even able to alert her mom when it was too hot in her crib at night and she was having trouble sleeping.
Sandy even went on to become a Tiny Talk teacher, after seeing how much signing helped her daughter in a medical emergency. Sandy is now helping other families in Wales communicate with babies.
Georgia, now two-and-a-half years old still uses signs for things and it’s helping her with her speech.
Sandy told Wales Online, “I always know exactly what she wants.”
Below is a video of a mom teaching her child how to sign during mealtime.
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