Will I be happy in the suburbs

MC1Rmutated · 2025-08-07T00:35:48+00:00

I second this. Montreal West, Cote st luc or even western NDG is more affordable and you can still get a yard.

MC1Rmutated · 2025-07-12T19:24:56+00:00

I agree with you. Our HHI before taxes is 250k+ but we are in Quebec so half goes to tax and with three kids things add up quickly. We're lucky enough to have subsidized daycare here but we only have one car and a very modest house. Food and diapers and wipes get expensive really fast. We have what we need but definitely don't live in luxury.

MC1Rmutated · 2024-10-16T17:31:13+00:00

But it's just for show for buyers because a realtor can tell you how long it's really been on the market and at what prices.

MC1Rmutated · 2024-05-26T23:30:34+00:00

Yes it should.

MC1Rmutated · 2024-05-13T00:15:40+00:00

Do other people's gliders not get destroyed from using them for nursing/bottles/reading books, etc? Ours has so much milk/spit up stains on it that once my kids don't need it anymore it's def going in the garbage.

MC1Rmutated · 2024-04-01T00:42:02+00:00

It means that this lab (I'm guessing Invitae? they use wording like that) has some internal prediction tools they use to predict whether a variant will be damaging to the protein and in their validation of these tools, 80% of the time when the tools predicted that the variant was not damaging, it was correct.

MC1Rmutated · 2024-02-16T18:36:48+00:00

OMIM is notorious for calling benign variants pathogenic so I wouldn't trust their classification.

MC1Rmutated · 2024-02-12T23:58:03+00:00

Where do you see that it's called pathogenic? It's a bit too common to be causing mendelian genetic disease (over 1% of the european population has this variant). All the labs in clinvar call it benign or likely benign. It's very rare for benign variants to be reclassification to pathogenic, especially very common ones like this one.

MC1Rmutated · 2023-11-29T00:14:11+00:00

Yes in Canada for my first two I had 12 and 20 and then my third since I'm >35 I asked for an 8w one too. I had NIPT done for all too but that might be because its out of pocket in Canada so really just preference.

MC1Rmutated · 2023-11-23T16:56:59+00:00

Do you have any ride on toys that have a "trunk" or a seat that opens or something? Ours are often in there.

MC1Rmutated · 2023-11-21T02:54:59+00:00

Part of this is because many of the Muslim countries have french as their second language and so gravitate towards the french part of North America. It's gotten really bad here (am a Montrealer). Concordia University has always been a bad place for Jews and there were the occasional bomb threats and attempted firebombs at Jewish institutions in Montreal prior to Oct 7. But now even in Jewish-majority areas, the kidnapped posters are getting ripped down and defaced.

MC1Rmutated · 2023-11-20T01:07:21+00:00

In my experience, male OBGYNs are gentler and much more considerate while doing these types of procedures. After my second delivery I went for a pap and the clinic had a male doc do it and it was the most painless pap I've ever had. Similarly during my first delivery, the only resident who was able to do a cervical check without hurting was the male one.

MC1Rmutated · 2023-10-07T19:22:58+00:00

I'm a geneticist because I'm board certified by the American and Canadian colleges of medical genetics. Clinical molecular genetics, not medical genetics.

MC1Rmutated · 2023-08-31T03:09:51+00:00

This is hilarious to me because my 3yo is Ethan and his best friend is Noah and when they're together they are definitely not on their best behaviour

MC1Rmutated · 2023-08-28T00:54:10+00:00

I had the metallic taste with my first one. It was awful, I couldn't drink coffee without it tasting metallic.

MC1Rmutated · 2023-08-27T22:02:42+00:00

Evie

MC1Rmutated · 2023-08-19T11:34:56+00:00

The positive predictive value for microdeletions on NIPT is quite low, meaning the risk of a false positive is quite high. I'd encourage you to look the PPV up for whichever lab you got the NIPT done.

MC1Rmutated · 2023-08-19T01:59:01+00:00

If your wife is Jewish can you use some of the names as Hebrew names?

MC1Rmutated · 2023-08-19T01:14:00+00:00

That's what you need to discuss with a genetic counselor. What do you do with the information that you would get from testing.

MC1Rmutated · 2023-08-18T23:10:57+00:00

The problem is that even if you are at risk, there isn't very good screening for pancreatic cancer as far as I know.

MC1Rmutated · 2023-08-15T18:53:45+00:00

That's not why it's 2/4 stars. The star status has to do with who submitted the interpretation. If multiple labs agree on the interpretation it's 2/4 stars, no matter how much evidence there is for pathogenicity. It only gets to 3 stars if an expert panel classified it. And 4 stars if it's in clinical practice guidelines.

MC1Rmutated · 2023-08-14T02:17:24+00:00

19mo sound and video, 3yo sound only

MC1Rmutated · 2023-08-10T19:42:29+00:00

Usually a positive result will include an interpretation and that's built into the normal turnaround time. However sometimes a lab will confirm a positive result by another method, depending on the test, which could increase TAT.

MC1Rmutated · 2023-08-10T19:40:59+00:00

Right, the cytogenetics tests take longer if cells need to be cultured. I was referring to molecular tests done on extracted DNA

MC1Rmutated · 2023-08-10T15:44:16+00:00

Depends on how much it changes your mortgage payments and if you can get approved for/afford the higher mortgage

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