At home, it was a struggle too. Jayden was having more mood swings and temper tantrums and I remember also that one night, Jayden was crying nonstop in bed, tears of pain. And I couldn't understand what was going on with him. We, we didn't have a way to communicate. And I saw, he wasn't able to express to us what was going on. Was it a bad dream was it a tummy ache, and in that moment, I doubted my own ability to be a good mother for my son because I couldn't take his pain away. I didn't know how to help him fix it. And I just felt so disconnected from him. There was nothing else I could do but hold him tightly until he fell asleep. That was when I decided to go back to my original instinct. In that moment, I saw how important it would be for Jayden to have access to a more visual language, one that uses his natural ability to see. And so his dad and I started taking American Sign Language classes A S L. And we started teaching him signs like, I'm hungry, I'm thirsty, I'm tired. This hurts. Time to sleep. Stop, please. And thank you. And after a few weeks, it was amazing to see Jayden signing these back to us. At two years old, we were finally able to know and see what Jayden needed in the moment, I was so happy to finally better understand him and connect with him in this way. And so I started to do more of my own research, I was finding more families who were adopting a bilingual approach with their deaf and hard of hearing kids who were signing and speaking with their children. I started meeting more amazing deaf people who use sign language as their primary mode of communication. And it just it was beautiful to see how they were living out full lives. They had community they went to university got jobs, had kids get married, raise families, despite all their hearing challenges and being exposed to these lived experiences and conversations planted started to plant a beautiful new vision in my mind for life that we could be building with Jayden. And all of them reassured me that there was nothing wrong with Jayden, which was a thought provoking idea for me at the time. But that's when I accepted finally that being deaf is part of who Jayden is, and he didn't need to be fixed.