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@justgivemetruth After observing multilingual kids for many years at work and with my own, I think at the end of the day, the way some folks handle languages can be a talent/gift- some people just have an "ear" for things like imitating accents (my husband is like this, his English for instance...

@rdtoo So in observing a lot of kids at the schools I worked at plus friends' kids as well (we have a ton of multilingual families where we live and the vast majority of our kids' friends are actually at least bilingual) this is also really dependent from kid to kid- some kids are more resistant...

@stormboy1 I think it probably comes down to your lifestyle and what type of surfaces you'd be using it on, etc- I'm in an urban European city and virtually no one uses wagons here for three reasons: lots of narrow sidewalks and sometimes cobblestones makes them not very easy to pull, they're...

@bbyers07 It's actually Hebrew and he's doing really well with it! Considering he's only been learning it for a year and a half with just a few hours a week of instruction, he's already able to say some full sentences and understands quite a bit and can write in the alphabet.

@devonte07 No prob! We have a bit of an odd sitch because my middle kid is hyperlexic and taught himself how to read in all of our languages last year, so actually both of the older kids read now in all the languages (plus now my oldest learned a new alphabet/language starting last year in...

Quick background: my husband and I do OPOL, English and Czech respectively. The community language is German. My husband and I use English to talk to each other but only use our native languages with the kids. We will speak German to the kids only if they have a friend around who doesn't speak...

@catholic2001 If it helps to hear, I pushed for 2 hours as well with my first kid and my second and third births had much shorter push phases (13 minutes and 9 minutes) which I think is pretty common- might be reassuring! My second baby was my unmedicated birth. I tried to prep with...

@ashtonbriscoef2w In our country the drugstore brand disposables is what I tend to go for when buying disposables for our toddler (daycare requires disposables)- they are perfume, lotion, chlorine and phthalate free which for me personally are the biggest no-no's, particularly perfume/fragrance...

@olivemcr 20 months pp for my first, 18 months with my second, 21 months pp with my third and nothing yet. Third kid nurses maximum twice a day/night for like 5 minutes each time. I wouldn't be worried. I do admittedly run underweight, so that might be a factor for me personally

@joyful111 I say this with a very sweeping caveat that everyone is going to have their own opinion about must haves, etc. A lot of it just comes to things like lifestyle, space, budget, and personal preference. With that said: I have three kids. We live in an urban apartment, no stairs. We don't...

@alearose I totally get that this is frustrating, but I'd chalk a lot of it up to normal 3-year-old behavior: I used to work in a bilingual preschool and every so often we'd have a kid go through a similar phase. I think that's the key way to try and mentally frame it, like so many other things...

@superpeople It's a bit basic but whenever I put on pure cocoa butter it does smell great (the kids agree too!) as you basically lightly smell of chocolate :)

@poopdog Hm, I don't have a good method per se, but I can usually tell when our PUL covers are at the end of their rope- they smell like pee immediately once they get peed in (and/or it starts to get tough to get smells out), they're thin, the elastics are usually totally worn out or really...

@christianguy2121 It's really a crapshoot. We have three kids, our older kids are in preschool and elementary school and despite their fluency in the community language and their everyday immersion in it, they generally still speak to each other in our (my husband's and I) native languages at...

@dol1lbabyzs My middle kid was a chonk- a lot of brands that are cut for cloth diapers are great for chunky babies! I mostly know Euro brands, but I think you can still get them in North America (these are all organic cotton): Frugi, Maxomorra, Piccalilly, Little Green Radicals

@alenharry Nope, 4 is fine as long as there's some level of consistency and frequency! I used to work at bilingual schools and we had a few kids at each place that were quadrilingual and overall it was fairly successful. They admittedly had at least one language of the 4 that was significantly...

@miltonjs For me personally it means truly sleeping through in terms of they go down for the night at bedtime and then don't wake up (or at any rate, are loud or upset enough to wake anyone else up) till it's either time for daycare/school in the morning or on the weekends till a reasonable-ish...

@proxile I was strep B positive and had PPROM in week 36 with my third baby so I did end up with a pitocin induction (wasn't progressing). So not the same scenario as I was way further along, but I did have those two factors. What is your care team recommending? Are they leaving the decision...

@jamesmason10 Absolutely, and it's always lovely to acknowledge it! But I would be really surprised if parents sending their kids to a monolingual preschool would have any expectations for a minority language to be somehow reinforced there in any significant capacity- that would be a tall order...

@mica_ For sure! I worked at a bilingual preschool for a few years and the kids always loved hearing songs from around the world :) Music is such a great way for kids to pick up language organically.