To sign pregnant in ASL, open your dominant hand with the fingers spread and slightly bent. Hold it in front of your stomach, palm toward the body, and move it a little forward and out, as if showing a rounded belly. Hold it there for a moment, then lower the hand.
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How to sign it
Handshape: an open hand, fingers spread and slightly bent.
Location: in front of the stomach.
Movement: the hand moves a little forward and out from the stomach, then holds.
Palm orientation: the palm faces the body.
Tip to remember it
Lifeprint notes that signing it further from the body with a stronger facial expression can show a later stage of pregnancy.
Use it in a sentence
MOM PREGNANT.
Mom is pregnant.
Lifeprint shows that pregnant can be signed a couple of ways; this video uses one hand in front of the stomach.
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Description checked against AISA's own video (the reference); Lifeprint (ASL University), lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-signs/p/pregnant.htm.
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