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[Ants!]

Posted an image before realizing it had a slur at the bottom so it's deleted (can't delete the entire post outright though).

 

[Ben]

Use this one to put it back on topic:

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Probably cheese curd flavor.

 

[Christina]

Other fun fact. The father's genes are what build the placenta.

How Dad’s preconception health impacts the placenta—and ultimately, his baby

The push and pull of maternal and paternal genes

naturalwomanhood.org

 

[Mark]

Actual image of Ben and Ants confronting each other in a thread.

See that tree in the bottom right corner? I’m getting stoned under it. Over there on the left by the signal? That’s where @Jon is posted up begging someone to pay attention to the topic at hand.

Little does he know…

Penis conversations are always at hand.

 

[dimmerwit]

How is sperm off topic when the topic is a baby?

Still takes a little white missile even with IVF.

 

[Mark]

How is sperm off topic when the topic is a baby?

Still takes a little white missile even with IVF.

That was a reference to him trying to get a different thread back on topic.

 

[A Baby Maker]

Other fun fact. The father's genes are what build the placenta.

How Dad’s preconception health impacts the placenta—and ultimately, his baby

The push and pull of maternal and paternal genes

naturalwomanhood.org

How fun indeed!

I also took care of the pre-placenta work required in IVF with the progesterone injections every night. Once again, my childhood being surrounded by injections for medical reasons (my mom was always in the hospital) made it so I could handle that sort of thing.


Actual question: when did you all start looking into and touring daycare?

 

[Mark]

Actual question: when did you all start looking into and touring daycare?

I didn’t utilize daycare, we just worked opposite shifts, but… of all the people I know that did, they started their homework at least a year before enrollment. You gotta lock your spot in at some places, and you want to have plenty of time to research a good fit for you and the wife.

 

[Christina]

How fun indeed!

I also took care of the pre-placenta work required in IVF with the progesterone injections every night. Once again, my childhood being surrounded by injections for medical reasons (my mom was always in the hospital) made it so I could handle that sort of thing.


Actual question: when did you all start looking into and touring daycare?

I started calling places in my 3rd trimester. I hear these days you have to start putting your name on lists as soon as you know your pregnant. I think it depends on where you live. We've had a lot of daycares close around here, so with fewer spots it can be hard to find a spot.

I would call around and go ahead and just ask.

 

[A Baby Maker]

The places near here seem to be a mixed bag, especially when looking at bi-lingual ones. I see a couple who say they currently have openings, and then one of them (the one that's over $3000 per month) says they have waitlists for various months through 2027.

 

[Mark]

The places near here seem to be a mixed bag, especially when looking at bi-lingual ones. I see a couple who say they currently have openings, and then one of them (the one that's over $3000 per month) says they have waitlists for various months through 2027.

Any kind of “specialty” care, like language services, you’re going to want to start as early as you can. They’re going to be the fewest in volume and the fastest to reach capacity.

 

[Ben]

Actual question: when did you all start looking into and touring daycare?

Didn't. I think the first daycare my oldest went to was just the closest one to our house. It wasn't that kind of "prepare like rational adults" pregnancy though, as I was 25 and her 22. We didn't know shit about fuck.

After I moved here, we'd just traded off while working from home, until we got both my daughter and youngest son into a decent one nearby.

The places near here seem to be a mixed bag, especially when looking at bi-lingual ones. I see a couple who say they currently have openings, and then one of them (the one that's over $3000 per month) says they have waitlists for various months through 2027.

Yeah, be prepared to pay a second rent/mortgage to the daycare. They're fucking pricey and have definitely contributed to be staying poor.

 

[Christina]

The places near here seem to be a mixed bag, especially when looking at bi-lingual ones. I see a couple who say they currently have openings, and then one of them (the one that's over $3000 per month) says they have waitlists for various months through 2027.

I will never understand the wait lists you have to be on before you are even pregnant. How does that work out? Like logisticly it boggles my mind.

 

[Jon]

See that tree in the bottom right corner? I’m getting stoned under it. Over there on the left by the signal? That’s where @Jon is posted up begging someone to pay attention to the topic at hand.

Little does he know…

Penis conversations are always at hand.

Joke's on you. I'm the one sipping a mai tai under the tree in the north pretending to want the thread on topic and instead watching the chaos.

Kind of like Willy Wonka telling the spoiled brats "oh no, don't touch that." But sarcastically.

 

[A Baby Maker]

Didn't. I think the first daycare my oldest went to was just the closest one to our house. It wasn't that kind of "prepare like rational adults" pregnancy though, as I was 25 and her 22. We didn't know shit about fuck.

After I moved here, we'd just traded off while working from home, until we got both my daughter and youngest son into a decent one nearby.


Yeah, be prepared to pay a second rent/mortgage to the daycare. They're fucking pricey and have definitely contributed to be staying poor.

There are all kinds all around us. The trick for us is finding one that can help with Mandarin.

The first (hopefully) month or so my mother-in-law will be around, but that's obviously not the key learning time.


There are some options that are more affordable near us, including a home daycare that has at least one opening that does both Mandarin and Cantonese. So we'll likely want to start reaching out to a few of those places. We thankfully live just next to the largest population of Chinese people north of Boston. Just over a quarter of the population is Asian, actually, with most of them being Chinese or Taiwanese. This helps a bit with having that available with more than a few options.

 

[Ben]

Joke's on you. I'm the one sipping a mai tai under the tree in the north pretending to want the thread on topic and instead watching the chaos.

Kind of like Willy Wonka telling the spoiled brats "oh no, don't touch that." But sarcastically.

So you're just watching Ants and I joust? Pervert.

There are all kinds all around us. The trick for us is finding one that can help with Mandarin.

The first (hopefully) month or so my mother-in-law will be around, but that's obviously not the key learning time.


There are some options that are more affordable near us, including a home daycare that has at least one opening that does both Mandarin and Cantonese. So we'll likely want to start reaching out to a few of those places. We thankfully live just next to the largest population of Chinese people north of Boston. Just over a quarter of the population is Asian, actually, with most of them being Chinese or Taiwanese. This helps a bit with having that available with more than a few options.

I have experience with East Boston, where my ex moved with our son, and it's largely Hispanic people, so I can imagine similar for an Asian community. Weird how segregated those groups are.

Then you go slightly further East to Winthrop where I had a girlfriend who's dad was on the town council or something, and it becomes white AF again.

 

[Jon]

So you're just watching Ants and I joust? Pervert.

If it makes you happy, I have my money on you because you'll just butter him up with AI images of ants and eggplants.

 

[The Eye in the Sky!]

For daycare you have to start as soon as you can and see if you can find one you like that will save a spot.

My wife gets frantic calls from parents a month or two away from birth desperate for a spot. It can be hard out there to get into a daycare that you want.

If Mandarin wasn't a deal breaker and you want to commute over an hour, 2 with traffic, my wife only charges $900 per month! Meals and potty training included! Most of the children are walking by 8 months! We have one spot remaining!

 

[dimmerwit]

Does she take adults? I wouldn't need potty training!

 

[A Baby Maker]

For daycare you have to start as soon as you can and see if you can find one you like that will save a spot.

My wife gets frantic calls from parents a month or two away from birth desperate for a spot. It can be hard out there to get into a daycare that you want.

If Mandarin wasn't a deal breaker and you want to commute over an hour, 2 with traffic, my wife only charges $900 per month! Meals and potty training included! Most of the children are walking by 8 months! We have one spot remaining!

If I could find one for that price in the area I might sign up a second kid just for fun.

 

[shortkut]

For daycare you have to start as soon as you can and see if you can find one you like that will save a spot.

My wife gets frantic calls from parents a month or two away from birth desperate for a spot. It can be hard out there to get into a daycare that you want.

If Mandarin wasn't a deal breaker and you want to commute over an hour, 2 with traffic, my wife only charges $900 per month! Meals and potty training included! Most of the children are walking by 8 months! We have one spot remaining!

For $900 a month, I would consider driving from NYC

 

[The Eye in the Sky!]

I keep saying she should raise it. Opened in 2018, still charges the same price.

Instead she offsets it by increasing vacation time each year. No parent has complained.

Dunno how she does it. She's had 5-6 kids on roster pretty consistently. I choose to go to office for work, that's more valuable than WFH for me.

 

[Nae'blis]

Shit, you guys have to pay for daycare? Damn.

So you're just watching Ants and I joust? Pervert.

Is this like one of those flatworm things, where you guys fence/joust with your dicks and the one who loses gets pregnant?

 

[Ben]

Shit, you guys have to pay for daycare? Damn.


Is this like one of those flatworm things, where you guys fence/joust with your dicks and the one who loses gets pregnant?

... It is now.

 

[Nae'blis]

 

[Ben]

Prepare to get pregnAnts!

 

[Benzine]

another participant for the gwf childrens wolf game

 

[Benzine]

has anyone done a naming joke yet

 

[Smacktard]

has anyone done a naming joke yet

No you get the first one, go

 

[Crystal]

Now that the thread's totally off the rails, here. A song about how awesome it is to bond with your baby. From someone who knows nothing about that and never will (me)...still a cool song, though

 

[Benzine]

No you get the first one, go

hey alu you have lots of names will your child have lots of names

 

[Crazy Jamie]

Very late to this by the standards of this site, but congratulations! I am obviously no help with daycare, but my household is bilingual. I don't know if this has been covered, but do you speak Mandarin?

 

[Ants!]

Prepare to get pregnAnts!

hey alu you have lots of names will your child have lots of names

I thought we agreed to name him/her Ants to keep up with the letter A thing.

 

[A Baby Maker]

Very late to this by the standards of this site, but congratulations! I am obviously no help with daycare, but my household is bilingual. I don't know if this has been covered, but do you speak Mandarin?

I sadly do not speak it. I took classes at one point, but I could never get beyond just knowing a few things, because I have no reason to attempt to use it daily.

 

[Ants!]

I sadly do not speak it. I took classes at one point, but I could never get beyond just knowing a few things, because I have no reason to attempt to use it daily.

I'm slow to learn French, which I want to do because of my mother and her family, and also from living in Louisiana that has a larger French-speaking population than the rest of the country. I'm still making progress though, however slow, because I got my daily streak on Duolingo up to 720 days so far. I've read that a few minutes a day does better than an occasional big long binge.

 

[A Baby Maker]

I'm slow to learn French, which I want to do because of my mother and her family, and also from living in Louisiana that has a larger French-speaking population than the rest of the country. I'm still making progress though, however slow, because I got my daily streak on Duolingo up to 720 days so far. I've read that a few minutes a day does better than an occasional big long binge.

Duolingo is also not great for trying to learn Mandarin, even my wife said I probably shouldn't bother with that. I was using another app for a while, but you need to pay for that one.

 

[dimmerwit]

Learning Mandarin is just very difficult full stop. I regret not making more of an effort of it when I had the chance, but hey ho.

 

[Ants!]

Duolingo is also not great for trying to learn Mandarin, even my wife said I probably shouldn't bother with that. I was using another app for a while, but you need to pay for that one.

Have you checked your local library to see if any of the online databases they offer has a language-learning one? Ours for example has Muzzy which is for kids, but also has Mango which isn't as flashy as Duolingo but is also better in some areas, for example showing the french sentence next to the english sentence with the words color-coded to help them match visually, for visual learners.

But most importantly: completely free because our library subscribed to it for its patrons. I literally just have to access it from the list of databases from the library website and put in my library card number and could use it free from home or my phone if I wish.

 

[Ants!]

Learning Mandarin is just very difficult full stop. I regret not making more of an effort of it when I had the chance, but hey ho.

Yeah, some languages are harder because they are more different or have fewer similarities than your native one. I think having a different alphabet for example would probably be an indicator of that. At least with French I only need to learn like maybe five accent marks that aren't used in English words.

 

[A Baby Maker]

Yeah, some languages are harder because they are more different or have fewer similarities than your native one. I think having a different alphabet for example would probably be an indicator of that. At least with French I only need to learn like maybe five accent marks that aren't used in English words.

Of note:

Earlier in this thread Ben was talking about steamed buns known as bao. I responded and mentioned that when voiced differently bao also means hug.

 

[Ants!]

Of note:

Earlier in this thread Ben was talking about steamed buns known as bao. I responded and mentioned that when voiced differently bao also means hug.

Fair. I know we often hear how English is similarly difficult for non-native speakers to learn. Like "lead" and "lead" can also mean two different things depending on how you pronounce it, like in your example.

 

[Ants!]

You did a lot more than bao her to put that bao in her oven.

 

[Ben]

Of note:

Earlier in this thread Ben was talking about steamed buns known as bao. I responded and mentioned that when voiced differently bao also means hug.

Mmm, bao bao.

Chick, chicka-chicka

EDIT: Autocorrect is dumb.

 

[dimmerwit]

Don't forget bing chilling!

 

[Nae'blis]

Also, the baby should be named A Name Haver.

 

[shortkut]

Also, the baby should be named A Name Haver.

Name the baby: A baby

Then when it gets older: A toddler

During the terrible twos/threes: A hellspawn

And so on and so forth. It keeps up with the tradition of name changes

 

[Crazy Jamie]

I sadly do not speak it. I took classes at one point, but I could never get beyond just knowing a few things, because I have no reason to attempt to use it daily.

I'm going to follow up on this later, but don't have the time right now. Just replying to acknowledge it. Classic Jamie-esq long post with a story incoming. But later.

 

[Smacktard]

Fair. I know we often hear how English is similarly difficult for non-native speakers to learn. Like "lead" and "lead" can also mean two different things depending on how you pronounce it, like in your example.

I often hear from native Arabic speakers that learning English is easier for them than learning Arabic in school. The sort of Arabic that the Quran is written in. I think an equivalent would be like us learning how to speak and write in Old English. It seems like a completely different language.

 

[shortkut]

I'm going to follow up on this later, but don't have the time right now. Just replying to acknowledge it. Classic Jamie-esq long post with a story incoming. But later.

 

[Benzine]

I know mandarins as well