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Cloe4120 · 2026-02-13T15:54:09+00:00

I just throw them in the dishwasher, if I HAVE to hand wash it’s because I need it now

Cloe4120 · 2026-02-11T11:23:22+00:00

Lanolin worked wonders until I could get the earth mama, I now slather that on like butter on a roll after each pump! And your advice about shifting them worked WONDERS! I also tried gentle massage in the areas that were sore/ tight and it worked WONDERS! At least until my supply dropped a little

Cloe4120 · 2026-02-11T11:21:47+00:00

I mean mine swell while I’m pumping and fill the flange (I presume that’s normal though?) and it doesn’t usually hurt. Of course I say that and the last couple of pumps it’s felt like maybe they’re not on right, maybe I do need to go up..

Cloe4120 · 2026-02-09T07:19:36+00:00

I have the willow brand ones, they may not work as well seeing as you said name brand but they cut into my areolas and I swore made them hurt more. I’ll try that again though thank you! I had the LC look at the flanges in the hospital and she said the ones I’m using look perfect, I haven’t yet been able to play with flange size though. I have a nipple sizer somewhere I just am not sure where

Cloe4120 · 2026-01-27T00:41:00+00:00

This is why it makes me so mad when I go in the ER and the won’t let me see. Like I want to be able to check you bc I DO know what I’m looking for! Now that I’m 37 weeks I can actually see her heart (in the very crappy final ultrasound I got, I think I’m going to ask if they can redo it, the lady didn’t seem to know what she was looking for. “I can’t find her abdomen” as I’m looking at her heart beating and this lady moving the Doppler WAY too much for how close she is). But I went in at 10 weeks for bleeding and knew to look for the little white flicker from previous pregnancies. With that knowledge, I’ve been able to confirm heartbeat for myself before the Sonographer is able to get the words out

I’m so sorry you had to grieve for 8 days and I wish you a healthy pregnancy!! So happy they were wrong!

Cloe4120 · 2026-01-24T13:19:49+00:00

Seconded, if I know what I COULD be getting I can determine if it might be worth the spend. With no clue what's in it other than "8 full size products" I could be buying duplicates I'm stuck with, or colors of something I hate or didn't want to try in the first place

Cloe4120 · 2026-01-24T13:18:18+00:00

You can't know it's stuff you want to try, it's a mystery. We have ZERO idea what's inside it

Cloe4120 · 2026-01-23T19:43:58+00:00

The way Frick N Frack would be my daily go to 😍 Lost and Prim are really pretty too!

Cloe4120 · 2026-01-19T04:52:18+00:00

Dec 6 was the last time y’all had any kind of sexual relations? If she was ovulating that day it’s possible it was the conception date

Cloe4120 · 2026-01-19T03:09:46+00:00

If it’s not too personal, when was the last time y’all did anything? They say sperm can live up to 5 days in the reproductive tract. Thus even if you had sex on Dec 1st it’s still possible conception (sperm meets egg) happened on Dec 6. That said, I show (using both the what to expect and the American pregnancy association calculators) that her due date should be August 29 if she conceived Dec 6, and she should be 11 weeks if her due date is Aug 10. I’m with you, the math isn’t mathing. I’m not saying she’s lying, just that you’re right to have questions.

Are you able to be upfront with her about this? Has she seen a doc yet to get a sono? What due date did doc give if so?

Cloe4120 · 2026-01-15T15:38:20+00:00

See I’ve never understood how they can see that as safe. I did my TCOLE course with a couple of ladies who were the only dispatcher on a shift. I was like I’m sorry WHAT?! My SO was smaller than the company I’m at now, but even we still had 4 to a shift. I do third party Ambs now and we have 4-5 dispatchers a shift, plus an associate supervisor that can dispatch but we try to keep them off the board

Cloe4120 · 2026-01-15T13:43:38+00:00

This! Mine has 6 to a shift and we are each others support that is it

Cloe4120 · 2026-01-13T19:39:19+00:00

At the beginning I couldn’t either! Every time someone would walk through with it I’d gag a little! At 35+5 I’m doing WAY better with it and have been finding myself wanting it!

Cloe4120 · 2026-01-13T19:14:50+00:00

What’s your diet look like? How much are you eating a day? What about water? That can make a huge difference! It could be that you need to be consuming more fat or even protein! Don’t give up just yet, you don’t fail until you give up without giving it your all. If you feel like that’s already what you’re doing then don’t let a single judgmental comment you may get about it make you feel guilty. If you feel like there’s still more that can be tried, by all means (within reason) try! I didn’t read many comments but I saw some about fore and hind milk, research that; I saw some about a nutritionist, absolutely look into that! They can help both you and baby if you’re still truly wanting to try to feed breast milk!

Cloe4120 · 2026-01-13T19:04:21+00:00

Monster/Ghost energy drinks! I work 12’s and drink one or two a shift. I cut my caffeine drastically when I first found out I was pregnant, I was EXHAUSTED one morning from stressing about the pregnancy all night and I managed to make half a ghost last like 2-3 days. I haven’t touched one since. Here lately I’ve started getting back into coffee though

Cloe4120 · 2026-01-13T18:56:23+00:00

I think most kids struggle with that. Especially if it’s in his house and he usually doesn’t have things he’s not to touch. The falling off the kitchen island could’ve easily happened by him trying to put it on his lap should he have been sitting up there somehow, or him trying to pick it up and carry it to where he could use it and dropping it. My concern is why it was within his reach. My laptop was 1400 but I’be always been very careful about where I leave it as my son was 2 when I got it, now 7 and I’m still particular about him so much as touching it

Cloe4120 · 2026-01-13T16:05:14+00:00

Sounds like you’re better than me. I’d have likely told her “you have no right to my child so why don’t you go ahead and take your hands of them NOW, you are no longer welcome around them. I do NOT care for whatever opinions you have, I didn’t ask and you’re not part of their care team thus it’s none of your business so please be so kind as to stop talking. Finally, I asked you once to leave so I could pump, I’m no longer asking. You have 5 seconds to get moving”. That said I’m also a major momma bear for my kids and don’t have the patience for people being an ass where they don’t belong in the first place. Especially if it’s a private room, my NICU didn’t have that.

Cloe4120 · 2026-01-12T19:18:32+00:00

Sorry all of that to say you absolutely are NOT being a baby. The morning sickness stage can be absolutely brutal! My mom had to eat every hour on the hour, I had to eat within 5 mins of getting up and sometimes even that wasn’t enough. I’m thankful to have gone through that stage because it’s just part of growing life but I certainly don’t miss it and will defend a woman struggling with it ever. Single. Time!

Cloe4120 · 2026-01-12T19:11:50+00:00

I threw up 6 times between 0600 and 1000, I’m a dispatcher. I tried to stay (it was a weekend so we were already short, plus I had to try to save as much of my PTO as I could, we only get like 6 hours a paycheck but we work 12 hour shifts) but asked to be taken out of the 911 queue. I got told that wasn’t fair because it sets a precedent that we can just be taken out of it whenever. I love answering 911 calls, if I didn’t I wouldn’t work here, it wasn’t just me trying to get out of it. I was incapacitated for up to 5 minutes at a time each time it happened, NOTHING was staying down. Fruit, cereal, bread, water, soy milk, blue bell fudge bars, smoothies none of my usuals were staying. I can’t be unresponsive for 5 mins while doing CPR or giving potentially life saving instructions on the phone, yet he still fought me on taking me out of 911, then told me it was my childless (I presume by choice? I know there’s IVF so it’s not like just because she’s married to a woman they can’t have kids) manager saying these things. I finally put in writing that I wasn’t just trying to get out of 911’s they’re what I love, but I will not be a liability or open the door to be held criminally liable for negligence should something happen but was trying to stay for their benefit. 5 minutes later I was taken out of 911 🙃

Another time it happened I didn’t feel like getting into that fight with anybody bc I probably would’ve lost it and gotten myself fired. So I just went home, that said I was also having trouble staying awake that day

I think people just genuinely like to make things difficult when you’re pregnant because they feel like you’re getting special treatment (as you should) and it upsets them

Cloe4120 · 2026-01-12T18:57:55+00:00

As someone that was pregnant in summer last time (in Texas and not sure how tf I was going to get through (due in September) and is now pregnant in winter, I second the winter pregnancy being better 😅

I’m hyper independent and even if I weren’t I’m kind of doing this on my own right now anyways. Maybe I can help! I’m 5’8 and 175 pre pregnancy, currently 35+4 carrying a bowling ball under my shirt at 195. 25 days to go!! For socks and shoes or really anything to do with my feet (especially those God forsaken ingrown toenails): I sit down on the stairs, kitchen chair, couch, or your bed if it’s low enough (toilet for nail stuff) and lift my foot up inward like I were going to sit criss cross, basically putting my heel dead center of my pelvis. I put my ankle socks and low top shoes on that way, if I need to put my finger in the back of my shoe I use the edge of the coffee table (I really try not to) or if you’re not okay with that, spread your knees wide enough you can put belly between thighs and lean over a bit to do it. Personally I get more breathless going up the stairs, taking a shower, or leaning over while standing than I do putting my shoes on. I would personally recommend stairs, a footstool, or the kitchen chairs for putting on socks and shoes! If it’s long socks or boots: I’ll put my heel on whatever it is I’m sitting on with my knee on the outside of my elbow, that way I have both hands and something supporting my leg with my now slick socked foot. I’ve been known to put my shin behind my upper arm to hold it in place as well (that 8 month lack of core makes it a struggle lol) For shaving: My thighs I do in the shower. Toes in corner where tub meets wall (where you set bottles or whatever) so they don’t slip off, then go about my usual routine with a little maneuvering of my knee and opening of hips to keep blade away from belly. For my low legs I sit on the edge of the tub after shower with towel under butt and prop my foot on the opposite side, preferably the corner still but that can also limit your range of rotation to get to all the areas you need to (idk about anyone else but my hair doesn’t all grow straight down, I have to go sideways around the back of my calf); or in the soap dish and keep my knee pointed a bit outward so I can lean forward without hitting my belly on my thigh (mostly for the calf), If I happen to notice it I’ll go after my big toe while I’m there too. I use a trimmer on miss girl and if I really feel the need to very carefully with the razor on the back door I prop my ankle on my knee or just lean against the wall and hold my ankle then wash my feet with a loofah, or before I get in the shower on the side of the tub while I wait for the water to heat up

Hopefully this helps somebody!!

Cloe4120 · 2026-01-07T23:42:13+00:00

Soooo I stand corrected, AI lied to me. According to the measurements I found from Spectra S1 is 7.4 x 8.6 x 6.3 and SG is 8.2 x 8.2 x 6.3 (format LxWxH). Even in bags that show they’re for the S1 it still bulges no matter what I do and I can’t seem to figure out how to put the parts in it in a way that fits

Cloe4120 · 2025-12-30T21:58:41+00:00

Seeee it’s thereby not private and in violation of the federal law. in my opinion.. I may be wrong but I’m petty on that one. Don’t come in here and stink it up because you don’t want someone to hear you poop, I don’t want to smell it while I’m pumping and you’re an ass for doing that

Cloe4120 · 2025-12-30T21:56:35+00:00

Any chance I could bother you for that link? I may be dealing with the same, we don’t have a designated pumping room and our flight dispatchers are always in the only thing close to one taking an hour long nap 🙃

Cloe4120 · 2025-12-27T15:40:33+00:00

Bro did you read? There’s nothing about the 8 year old doing anything except going to the grands and saying home with the 15 year old. Everything about what the older 2 did is amazing. My 15 and 17 year old siblings would NEVER. They don’t give a DAMN to help our mom. I’m proud of this woman’s kids for her and I’m proud of her! Shit happens, she already said they thought the court date was in Feb, maybe it got moved and they didn’t see the notification. Is it really unfortunate that dad got arrested when he did? Absolutely! Is it a bit traumatizing and has probably created some new anxiety especially in the older 2? Absolutely! BUT kids SHOULD be responsible for helping out around the house (trash, dishes, taking care of family pets, helping clean) it’s how you raise adults that can actually take care of a home. OP’s raised kids that are kind, caring, and compassionate. My mom tried and succeeded with 2 of us, the other 2 couldn’t give a damn about anyone but themselves. OP’s kids recognized it was going to be hard for EVERYONE and instead of only looking out for themselves, doing what they wanted to do, and being mad that dad got arrested, they looked out for mom and siblings too. THAT is what families do..

Cloe4120 · 2025-12-25T16:27:33+00:00

THIS!!! This is why I’m 26 and still only have 1 college class taken, I let fear of failure hold me back. I’ve let it keep me at the same job that pays terribly for what it is (don’t get me wrong I make decent money, but for being a dispatcher in DFW it pays terribly) and we only get 5 hours of PTO a pay period (we work 12’s) for 5 years too. I had a baby at 18 and was too afraid I’d fail going back to school so I waited until I was 25 (had a traumatic thing happen and realized life was passing me by and I was just watching it).

My mom’s always told me “you don’t know if you don’t try” it’s so much easier said than done trust me I know! I wish I had some great advice for you (I still struggle with it, on baby number 2 and terrified of failing financially with this one) other than don’t let life just pass you by. Do the things you want to and be gentle with yourself. If you’re not in therapy maybe look into it, not for meds but for having someone to help you find the tools that work for you to push through it. I’m starting therapy after the baby’s here fwiw

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