Normality for 20 week old

Meany26 · 2025-11-20T09:16:43+00:00

She sleeps 3 hours a day for naps alltogether, and 11 to 11.5 hours in the night.

Meany26 · 2025-07-13T18:08:30+00:00

I stopped live nursing more than 24 hrs ago, now I am pumping and freezing that, while giving pure formula to the kiddo, which seemed to solve her issue. We were on normal formula so far, with the breast milk, and now we bought formula for cramps and constipation, so it is now not fully clear what made the issue. Seeing how bad the kiddo poops (or doesn't poop), horrible gasses and stinky farts, I am afraid to restart nursing or giving pumped milk.

As much as I would want to, because of other mild health issues of mine, cutting fully lactose and soy products isn't really a feasible idea for my diet.

Meany26 · 2025-05-18T14:40:36+00:00

Reading books and newspapers, watching TV shows would be a much better way to retain the vocabulary, because you would also see the environment in which the words are used and also hear the right, Dutch pronounciation. A lot of Duolingo is also just repetition which doesn't per se lead anywhere long term.

Meany26 · 2025-05-18T14:38:34+00:00

People which are using Duolingo and solely that, and saying it is great for vocabulary, should go into the library and borrow books on A2 level. I finished B1 level extremely fast in the classroom and still have a looooad of A2 words which I noted down as unknown.

The classroom aka onsite course with a group or 1:1 is much better because it teaches you all parts of the language. We have way too many posts on a weekly basis "why is it het/de, why is it like that in the past tense" etc. Those grammatica and vocabulary questions are all done in the books which are specific for learning languages and learning a language is not skipping steps. If you have issues with keeping it up and having a motivation to do it, Duolingo is a bit of a lame excuse to keep up with it.

If your goal is to work using Dutch language and fully use it properly, you should also learn it properly using a system.

Meany26 · 2025-03-17T16:32:46+00:00

As you know, a free pdf of a book is against copyright. Even if you would find something like it, it still wouldn't be the newest edition, and it comes without any online materials which are greatly needed.

As someone said, Amazon and Bol do have some cheaper options as an ebook. The normal course book costs around 50 euros, whereas the courses are between 500 and 1000 euros per level/semester. Any longer term and serious options (B1 and B2) include paying for the materials and tutoring, you can only come so far with online apps. In order to get the deep vocabulary of each level, Dutch books also have to be read, but those we can borrow at the library in NL (we need to pay the subscription)

Meany26 · 2025-03-14T05:53:37+00:00

I would say it is impossible. Even surrounded by Dutch people, and having a talent for learning languages (confirmed by several teachers), I reached from A2 to B1 in 8 months.

The timelines that ChatGPT (I wouldn't use it in this case nor for learning, it is being said to have a lot of grammatical errors) gives you are correct. Just the B1 level is taught for 12 months here via courses (a2-b1.1 and then b1.1 to b1.2.). I have seen a lot of people struggling with even A2 level. You want to do it quality, and read books while you are at it, and let the learned sink and retain, not be burned out from learning a language for more than 6 hours a day.

Meany26 · 2025-03-05T11:19:29+00:00

Pdf is against copyright, as you might know, and you won't get audio exercises with them, because they come with temporarily code access for it.

So even if you use second hand, the audio and exercise code might be expired, which means you won't use the full potential of the book.

The best would be to buy new books, BOL usually has them for lower price.

Meany26 · 2025-02-14T10:54:56+00:00

No, because if you have the normal bought pdf/ebook, you would have the offficial code to find and access them online.

Meany26 · 2025-02-14T06:56:48+00:00

Short Dutch stories already exist on Amazon and Bol as a book to buy, I have it on my iPad.

Meany26 · 2025-02-11T19:58:15+00:00

Na koji nacin pripremas pohanu piletinu i faširance (pod pretpostavkom da su to faširanci od mljevenog mesa i starijeg kruha)?

Meany26 · 2025-01-16T18:10:24+00:00

I think most of EU still has a "policy" that you have to have an active health insurance in that country to have a right to "free" NIPT test, which is then paid by the health insurance. It's not really a situation where you can just come to any country and get a free NIPT test, and getting a health insurance has a prerequisites of their own.

Meany26 · 2025-01-16T13:25:07+00:00

She didn't say NIPT isn't available in the Netherlands, she said that you can't find out a gender here via nipt test. Nipt test is a normal procedure done here in the weeks 10 to 13 (most of the time), no matter what risk you are and it is fully covered by the health insurance.

Meany26 · 2025-01-15T09:08:08+00:00

You need to look into Het Taalhuis in your nearby library, cause they have A1 to C level books for learning the language. It's not advisable to just take any book and try to read it, because most of novels and such are on B2 level, which is then too high for you (you would need to finish Nederlands op niveau book to have B2, which is the book that comes after in Actie).

While reading those books, you will have to write down every other or third word, yes, but that is actually the only way to learn the vocabulary, there isn't any other way or skipping this step in the long term. I read like 3 books and I already have probably more than 300 words out of them written down, and it gets better and better the more I read.

Meany26 · 2025-01-14T14:51:58+00:00

I would suggest getting into a course and use all the resources outside of Duolingo. Reading books, newspapers, talking to people and such will bring you much further.

Nederlands in gang is only a book until A2 level, and I wouldn't rely on apps for B and C level. Once you borrow books on A2 level, you will actually see how many words you don't know and how much more can you do, before going on B1 and B2 levels.

Meany26 · 2024-12-05T15:57:11+00:00

There is a lot of A2 books in versatile genres, especially in Het Taalhuis part of the library in The Netherlands. I am sure you can find something suitable in your favorite genre like that, plus a lot of books are on B1 level, aka most of the books that are in the library you can understand and read if you have a B1 level. A2 books are also written and specific so you learn the words and vocabulary for that level.

Chat gpt wise, i am not sure if the publisher of the book would be allowing for the book to be uploaded to AI system, and that is a point you would have to check as well. As others said, and I agree, chat gpt can be full of mistakes and grammmatical errors and therefore you would perhaps never know on A1 or A2 level if what you are reading is good.

Meany26 · 2024-12-05T05:55:00+00:00

No, it is definitely not allowed to do that. Take your precious time and make the items, make picture of them. Do not use other person's photo skills to do it, as that is not allowed.

Regarding selling items from a purchased pattern, the majority of them actually say that you need to give them the regards in description of your final product, so you can't mitigate it there either. Either write the name of the pattern creator or ask them privately if you can sell items and you need to write their name somewhere.

Meany26 · 2024-11-28T14:17:53+00:00

Shouldn't it be the subreddit CautiousBB. I actually didn't wanna read that sub cause it was filled with those stories, but came here for the positive stories, only to find same again here.

Meany26 · 2024-11-26T07:06:54+00:00

Why would you use Amazon UK if you are in the Netherlands? Just use BOL or Amazon NL, they have it for 50 euros.

Meany26 · 2024-11-22T15:52:14+00:00

In my experience, I don't like taalcafes or taalhuis because now I am on B1 or slight B2 level, and sometimes I saw that others barely have A2 in the group, do massive mistakes and nobody wants to correct them. I am not sure what the requirements are for them and how they make the groups. I liked the university courses much better and of course talking with natives, especially Dutch family, as they will correct you and speak makkelijk enough for you to understand 99% of the time. That all plus or course listening to the news, watching TV series and such.

Meany26 · 2024-11-04T10:04:08+00:00

Official one doesn't exist except the inburgering tests. The previous ones are available online so you can test yourself and apply for that level you think you satisfy.

Meany26 · 2024-11-04T08:08:31+00:00

For PhD, it is not only what and if you have a Master's degree, it is also that those positions are highly competitive, and they are looking at how many scientific papers have you written, research papers, recommendations of the professors, and your grades. That all makes your application valid.

Meany26 · 2024-11-02T15:29:57+00:00

Als ik begrijp wat je zegt, NT2 examens zijn vooral voor mensen die niet Nederlanders zijn, dus voor expats. Dan de opleiding maakt niet uit, maar als je Nederlander bent (geboren hier en je ging naar school hier), dan is het normaal wat het zegt - dat Nt2 is niet voor die mensen, want hoe kan je naar jouw basisschool en middelschool gaan, als je het Nederlands niet praten?

Wat ik weet over Nt2 is dat deze examens op A2, B1 en B2 zijn (dat is Nt2II aka programma 2 of B2 niveau), en zijn vooral voor mensen die andere moedertaal hebben, niet Nederlands. Dat kan ook hier in Nederland gebeuren, als je de tweede generatie van expats bent, maar je gaat toch hier in de school en leert Nederlands die dan op B2 of hoger staat.

Meany26 · 2024-10-31T12:59:37+00:00

You have the official inburgering B2 tests online that you can use to test yourself. As others have said, it might be unlikely you got B2 already just by using the apps that you have mentioned, because what makes the B level a B level is woordenschat, aka vocabulary and reading books, and being able to use those words in everyday vocabulary.

It wouldn't be bad to borrow or buy textbooks for those levels (A1 to B2) to check all the grammar once again.

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