Breast Milk

Breast milk is signed by making the sign for milk near your breast. Take your dominant fist near your breast, and open and close the fist, as if to pump some milk.

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The sign for milk is typically used to indicated breast milk. If you wanted to distinguish between breast milk and formula or cow's milk, you can improvise some signs. For breast milk, you can use the sign milk directed toward the breast. For formula, you could use the compound cup and milk. For cow's milk, you could compound cow and milk. For goat's milk, you could compound goat and milk, and so on.

RELATED SIGNS

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If you wanted to distinguish between breast milk and formula or cow's milk, you can improvise some signs. For breast milk, you can use the sign milk directed toward the breast. For formula, you could use the compound cup and milk. For cow's milk, you could compound cow and milk. For goat's milk, you could compound goat and milk.