u/Leafontheair

I am interested in finding a daycare that would teach my child, who is not deaf, ASL. Does anyone know of daycares, especially in Brooklyn, NY, that offer ASL immersion daycare and accept hearing children?

I can't do ASL myself beyond flashcards that I am working with and online sign language resources. I am not adequate to actually teach this language by myself, especially the grammar. Besides, I see it recommended over and over again to get an actual deaf teacher as the gold standard.

However, when I look at programs (New York State Education Department Deaf Program and others), they require that a child be Hard of Hearing/Deaf, or have a family member be Hard of Hearing/Deaf. We don't fulfill either requirement.

I can't even find options that accept hearing children, even though I see other multilingual daycares available in spoken languages. So I would really appreciate any tips to set me in the right direction.

I had my second Glucose test today.

One major thing I was not warned about was that you can become hypoglycemic (low blood sugar) after a big spike in blood sugar.

When I checked my blood sugar levels with a blood stick, I had a 49 mg/dL level, which is qualified as an emergency according to Google. I quickly resolved it by eating sugar.

However, I don't think I would have known what was going on if I hadn't purchased a CGM this week and received the low blood sugar notice on my phone. Even the CGM never showed below 60 mg/dL. I did get dizzy, but not to the point where I felt faint, and honestly, without the notification, I think my first instinct would have been to drink some water, which would have actually been counterproductive.

Just a reminder to everyone to stay safe out there.

The beginning of this interview touches on the fact that Jen Montzingo was put up for adoption by her wealthy birth parents at just three months old due to her dwarfism. She was subsequently adopted by parents that had dwarfism.

I thought it was a unique discussion combining disability and adoption.

It touches on the family dynamics of growing up with adoptive parents who are dwarfs and the sort of support they gave her. It touches on her take on what parents should be prepared for before they try to have children. It touches on having a double disability, as she was injured as an adult and so had both dwarfism and a spinal injury.

It was a wide-ranging and very interesting interview. I hadn't even known Jen Montzingo was adopted before this interview.

I'm hoping that this post fits under the media category.

I'm open to anyone's comments. Especially people who didn't have initial success with metformin, but then did later.

I've actually seen my A1C rise since starting to take Metformin in Feb.

I'm a little frustrated because I thought I would be below 5.6 on this most recent reading.

I think I need to look at my workout again. At the beginning of the year, I switched from 20,000 steps a day (4 hours) to 1 hour of swimming plus incidental walking of 5,000-10,000 steps per day.

It's disappointing because the 20,000 steps a day isn't really sustainable due to time constraints, but that's what I attribute to my drop from 6 to 5.6 A1C.

History:

June 2025: A1C 6.0

Started 20,000 steps/day

Jan 2026: Switched to swimming and walking

Feb 2026: A1C 5.6

Started taking metformin in Feb. Took 500 mg for a month

Upped dose to 1000 mg metformin thereafter

May 2026: A1C 5.8

Edit:

Thank you everyone for your feedback!

I definitely got the push to examine my diet more, which I needed.

I also got good advice after I mentioned my pregnancy in the comments. So thank you all for giving pregnancy-specific prediabetes advice too. I'll ask for a referral for a dietician who works with prediabetes and pregnancy when I go for my OBGYN appointment.

When you ask your family doctor for a referral to an OBGYN:

Is it a general specialist referral, and then you go find an OBGYN?

Or do you have an OBGYN in mind first, and that name goes on the referral?

If the OBGYN you have in mind doesn't accept you because their schedule is full, do you need another referral to a different OBGYN?

Thank you for your help and advice. Just trying to understand the process.