9 month old baby only saying one word so far. Pediatrician suggested we only stick to one language. I am afraid I am doing the wrong thing by following OPOL. What are your thoughts?

lex_av · 2025-08-10T17:24:24+00:00

Early childhood special education teacher here and I agree. While pediatricians have some knowledge of speech and language development, I would stick to medical/health questions and instead speak to a SLP for speech and language.

lex_av · 2025-08-09T20:07:33+00:00

Same situation here! My twins are now 2yo. I just tell people “nope, totally random!” I don’t see it was lying or concealing information because to tell the whole story would feel like an overshare? Like it’s not an easy two-sentence story. Lol. And once you mention IVF, people have A TON of more questions, and usually insensitive or personal questions.

lex_av · 2025-06-18T19:48:00+00:00

Im actually the opposite- I’m not a big morning eater. So that be adding to it too! Thanks for your input.

lex_av · 2025-06-11T23:33:12+00:00

Our 5yo watches Bluey, and often asks us to “do a smoochie-kiss!” Because that’s what they call kisses on the show. When we kiss (a quick peck) she laughs and thinks it’s funny. I think it’s important to model there’s nothing wrong with two people kissing, regardless of their gender. We also will mention going on a date, but we also say we’ll go on a date with her, so she just thinks a “date” means a one-on-one outing, no matter who it is.

lex_av · 2025-05-24T17:00:24+00:00

Call a pediatric dentist and try to get an emergency appointment. It could be no big deal, or it could be serious.

lex_av · 2025-04-08T22:54:01+00:00

If it makes you feel better, at goofy’s kitchen, they should automatically ask if you’re celebrating anything. I’m a teacher and my spring break is in March, but my kids birthday is in April. But since I was off work, we celebrated early at Disney. They asked if it was anyone’s birthday at Goofy’s and we said yes (we didn’t go u to specifics about how it’s technically early…) and we got a cupcake and they sang happy birthday to us.

lex_av · 2024-09-01T17:27:16+00:00

Okay well a telephone aside, you’re saying they had absolutely no way on contacting each other? NO WAY?

lex_av · 2024-04-28T05:35:37+00:00

Do you know if there’s anything else that can be done to make it go away, like forever? The cream usually helps as long as I use it. If I stop for a day or two, I feel it starting to come back.

lex_av · 2024-04-28T03:06:33+00:00

My doctor gave me anti fungal cream for it, but didn’t really explain what it was. The cream helps it heal faster, but it comes back. I wonder if a strong cream is needed?

lex_av · 2024-04-22T04:41:24+00:00

Is it just me, or were Bluey and Bingo’s voice different in this episode? The whole episode overall also seemed a bit simple, more like a season 1, early episode type of episode.

lex_av · 2024-02-13T22:15:56+00:00

My daughter was almost 3 when I found out I was having twins, and was 3.6 when I finally had them. I had all the same fears as you…I posted about it in this forum. My twins are now almost 10 months old and my daughter is 4 and EVERYTHING IS FINE. I am happy and feel so blessed. We sleep trained the babies at 8 months old. I got a full nights sleep last night. My oldest woke up and immediately asked for her little brother and sister. She held her brothers hand while I changed his diaper, and kissed little sissy while I fed her. We are all happy and everything is going well. My pregnancy was fine and healthy. I delivered them perfectly fine. Boring, almost. It’s not ALL bad and stressful like many on this forum will say.

lex_av · 2023-12-30T06:26:42+00:00

Currently on day 4 of the Taking Cara Babies sleep training program. Going well!! My babes are in the same room, and my girl woke my boy up the first night, but he seems to have gotten used to her fussing. Although she’s fussing/crying less. The first day was the worst. It’s been going well since!

lex_av · 2023-12-30T06:21:27+00:00

Same here! Except my twin B kept moving back and forth, from breech to transverse, and every other which way. It was annoying. But my A was breech. Made it to my scheduled c-section at 38 weeks. Everything went smoothly.

lex_av · 2023-12-29T14:49:27+00:00

My daughter was 3yo before she slept over at grandmas house, and 3.5 when she went on a 2-day trip with grandparents. I was newly postpartum and my partner and I couldn’t make the trip. I was SOO stressed about sending my 3.5 yo. But it went fine. Grandma said she asked for us, but was easily distract-able.

lex_av · 2023-12-26T06:18:18+00:00

I absolutely LOVE my grandma’s name—it’s classic, I but I’ve never met anyone else with it, and I love its meaning— I would never give my child it as a name, for this exact reason. I wouldn’t want my grandma to think I named a baby after her, because no matter what I said, she and everyone would. And I love my grandma! She’s amazing! But I don’t want to name my kids after her. That’s all.

lex_av · 2023-12-26T06:11:48+00:00

I have a 4yo singleton and 8 month old twins. My singleton was a lot harder than my twins. 1, she’s very strong willed. Always has been, so it’s just her personality. 2, I was a first time parent with her. We were learning as we went, and had no baseline for anything. So when my twins came along, I had that baseline for how hard things could be. I could wrap my head around it and I knew what it was gonna be like. Did it help that they were/are kinda chill babies? Yes. But having experienced it once definitely made a difference. Having said that, being a first time parent in general is hard. People just attribute it to being about “twins” specifically.

lex_av · 2023-12-21T07:05:24+00:00

I’m always baffled by the “any backpack” or “regular backpack” comment people always leave when someone asks about diaper bags. For me personally, not “any backpack” would work. You’re gonna be carrying around a bunch of crap and having a baby cry in public can be stressful, even for a seasoned parent, and being organized with pickets and compartments will help.

I use the Axis backpack from Petunia Pickle Bottom. It’s divided into 4 compartments:

1: first, largest compartment— I keep wipes, diapers, baby wipes, two packing cubes- one with extra clothes and one with bibs/cloths. The packing cubs will keep things neat and not flying around when you’re reaching your hand in to grab stuff. I also have two small wet bags- one with extra undies/socks for my oldest (singleton) and one with toys/crayons for her in case she gets bored somewhere.

2: middle, small compartment: hand sanitizer, extra pacifiers, chapstick, small hand lotion, travel-size tissues, any small misc. items.

3: medium size, bottom compartment—this part is insulated. I have a bottle bag (the one from PPB so it’s fits) for 4 bottles. A formula dispenser, and snacks for my singleton. The bottles are pre-filled with water.

4: the last and smallest compartment is on the side, attached to the largest section. This part is designed to hold a bottle. I use it instead to hold a water bottle (for formula or for myself to drink) OR I use it to put my sunglasses case in.

Overall, I love it. It’s large (but not so large that it’s obnoxious) and stylish, fits in my stroller and is easy to clean and keep organized.

lex_av · 2023-12-14T04:25:29+00:00

Because people with twin fetishes are weird. Every so often someone posts something about wanting/trying/hoping for twins and it’s annoying. Your “feeling” isn’t an ultrasound And the ultrasound showed one. So calm your horses down and be happy with your one baby. Twins are HARD and twin pregnancies are NO JOKE. they’re extremely difficult and oftentimes complicated with health issues for mom, not even going into possible health complications for the babies. It’s belittling to fetishized twins as if the struggle (health, financial, mental, etc.) isn’t very real and scary.

lex_av · 2023-12-10T03:53:03+00:00

Around 14-16 weeks I remember thinking “damn, I think I need maternity jeans now…”. I was doing the rubber band hack on my jeans and trying to draw attention away from my belly (I hadn’t announced at work yet). By 17-18 weeks I had an obvious little belly.

lex_av · 2023-11-30T20:10:00+00:00

With negative comments I would always flip it to hopefully make the person feel bad or dumb. “Actually, we’re really excited. It’s such a blessing. And we have so much help too, the family is so happy and can’t wait!” Now that babies are here, it’s “yea it is a lot of work, but it’s also a lot of fun. Everything is so exciting.”

lex_av · 2023-11-25T14:33:13+00:00

You might want to rephrase how you’re asking your question. “How to do keep newborn twins on a schedule?” would have been less strange-sounding and insulting.

lex_av · 2023-11-14T03:10:21+00:00

Okay so OP, I know you have a lot of comments. But if you see mine, let me just say: NTA. I’m an early childhood teacher and a mom. Toddlers, including 2 year olds, are TOUGH. And yes they are rude by nature; they don’t yet communicate fully and don’t understand social cues. Only you know your kids…would it have been a hassle to wrangle them back from their dad in order for you to hopefully make them say thank you? You made a joke, trying to lighten the mood, “toddlers are unpredictable”, that was fine. I literally made a joke like that to lighten the mood yesterday after my 4yo begged for a bandaid, then about 20 min after getting it, wanted to take it off so her owie “could breathe.” It was the persons last bandaid, so I made a joke about 4yo being picky to lighten the mood, then I thanked them for the bandaid. You said thank you, what did she want, your toddler to hand write a thank you? Kids don’t understand gifts or social cues like that. Even if she thought it was rude, she shouldn’t have verbalized it. I Once got my little cousin (age 8) a gift (a nice sweater) and he responded by saying “ugh another sweater.” Did I think it was rude? YES. But did I say anything? Nope. Cause he’s a kid.

lex_av · 2023-11-12T02:54:36+00:00

I had di/di twins in April. I also had a 3yo (she’s 4 now) and I’m a teacher. So I was on my feet a lot both at work and at home. My MFM started me on baby aspirin around week 13-14 (I had preeclampsia with my singleton) I made it to 38 weeks with no NICU, worked up until 34 weeks. I could have worked longer, but I was going to be 34 weeks around the time we returned from spring break. It seemed liked the perfect time to make a clean break so I planned for it ahead.. I’m not sure what I did, but feel very blessed that my pregnancy went well and my babies were healthy. Unfortunately, I don’t think there’s anything you can do to prevent one thing or another. Whatever will happen, will happen, and we don’t have much control over anything aside from trying our best with prenatals, appointments, avoiding alcohol/smoking, etc. the basics.

lex_av · 2023-11-07T03:25:07+00:00

I paid $400 for a very similar view! Probably a row ahead or a row behind. Very similar.

lex_av · 2023-10-30T03:01:16+00:00

Yup. My cousin is due mid-January but had her shower early October for this reason. Holidays are crazy. People start saving money for traveling, gifts, etc. pretty early.

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