So go check her out.

you know, is that a consequence of my cancer? Well, sure.

I think it really is.

I mean, it affected all of my choices and I now see how it is empowering me.

It still affects my choices.

It affects the way I take care of my body, the way I love this physical body that I'm in, you know, which now rather than being afraid I'm going to die.

And having that be something that just kind of controls me and is this propeller in me, it's more of a inspiration.

yeah

18 month checkup.

If your child has five words or less, it is an automatic referral to speech therapy.

Now that's not to say it's okay for your child to be 15 months or 18 months and only have five words.

It just kind of takes some of the pressure off the pediatricians.

But really at 12 months, we really want them to start having maybe about 20 to 50 words.

And then as we get into 15 months, 18 months, 24 months, we know that it when a child has about 50 to 100 words they start putting two words together which is kind of why it starts to happen around 24 months of age so i would say and that's kind of like the middle like that's where the middle where we want kids to be so if your kiddo is falling and is not you know maybe 24 months and is not saying 50 to 100 words and starting to put two words together, that's when I would go ahead and reach out to your pediatrician or a speech pathologist that you know, to really kind of look at, is there something else going on here with our language development?