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    Question about main language in extended family

    @purnhart Granted, we have more languages in the mix and that adds another level of not-understanding to it: If I was strictly OPOL during family dinners, I would have to repeat/translate everything. Same with my partner and family. That is too annoying imho, so we switch to the "family...
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    Any bike commuting moms here?

    @bdmulneaux Lets rephrase what you actually saying: The risk are accidents that result in falling. These can be caused by anything (kids, pets, toys that are suddenly in the path), but the most dangerous are cars as these can lead to worse injuries. Here it depends strongly on the infrastructure...
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    Any bike commuting moms here?

    @surendered12345678 Now at 29 weeks, my belly (in combination with my winter jacket) gets in the way, lol. But I also use a "regular" bike and quite a hill to go up in the morning, so I did not even try to adjust my seat / position to accomodate. (This actually helped me to get home office...
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    Ab separation

    @mrsbi Important to add here, the issue with diastasis recti comes after pregnancy. It is hard to tell now what will go back to normal* after giving birth. You might have a huge spearation that with the right exercises is easily treatable or a small separation that causes issues in the long run...
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    Multilingual + Baby Sign Language Anyone?

    Thank you for all of your replies! This is super encouraging, and I thing we will just try and see what happens. Thanks so much!
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    Wife feeling excluded

    @x902xxipher Since you mention PPD, I'd focus on that first. This feeling of being excluded might be amplified by it. Secondly, I totally understand your wife - if she did not pick up the language at this point, she does not understand. One thing that could help now, is to repeat things in both...
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    Multilingual + Baby Sign Language Anyone?

    We had friends over this weekend and their (non-bilingual) child (15 months) is communicating using signs, following baby sign language (see e.g. here: ). The parents are not fluent in actual sign language (i.e. the local version of ASL), but tought their child selected signs like "milk"...
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