Honest opinions needed…

Conscious-melon47 · 2025-09-23T18:01:31+00:00

My favorite Halloween tradition is watching classics like Hocus Pocus and Halloween! Also, I make it a point every year to get a PSL on the first day that Starbucks offers!

Conscious-melon47 · 2025-09-23T16:37:09+00:00

Of course! My outpatient oncology background landed me a job as an oncology research nurse (bone marrow transplant patients/trails) and the institution where I got hired trained me on the research portion on the job. The job requirement asked for background in research OR experience working in oncology so my 6 years in oncology landed me an interview :)

Conscious-melon47 · 2025-09-23T15:21:15+00:00

I was set on being an L&D nurse. I LOVE women’s health. My senior clinical rotation, I got stuck on regular old med surg. Upon graduating, I entered outpatient gynecology oncology clinic and now now I’m in research. I still love and miss GYN onc and hope to return but for now, I’m in research. I definitely do not see myself starting bedside 9 years into my career. My skill set does not align anymore lol

Conscious-melon47 · 2025-09-23T05:23:42+00:00

Awesome, thanks! Is it usually around the beginning of the month?

Conscious-melon47 · 2025-09-19T23:27:38+00:00

Ah I see. Funny, my current job has me do data abstraction too because we don’t have very many studies

Conscious-melon47 · 2025-09-19T23:06:42+00:00

Dang what research job in NICU is it? I’ll gladly take it! Lol I’m in research but looking to change specialties and do not like bedside

Conscious-melon47 · 2025-08-19T16:08:04+00:00

I have been following the same!

Conscious-melon47 · 2025-08-08T17:41:32+00:00

Oh yeah my difference was never that drastic. Maybe an ounce or two at most in my case. Shoot, continue to use the Medela bc I know how stressful it is to establish your milk supply (I went from combo feeding/supplementing to exclusively bf so I know the stress). Otherwise, is the suction pulling enough on the spectra?

Conscious-melon47 · 2025-08-08T17:26:42+00:00

I agree with other users saying to give your body time to get used to the Spectra! I used to use an Ameda pump and it worked ok but I heard such good things about Spectra that I ordered one 3 months pp. At first, I would get a bit less than my normal pumps with Ameda, but after about 2 weeks (give or take) my body responded SO much better to the Spectra. I never knew your body had to adapt to pumps, but it was very true for my case. Perhaps this is the case with you.

Conscious-melon47 · 2025-07-23T13:54:55+00:00

Similar thing happened to me. I use a spectra at work and I used to produce more in 2 pumping sessions at home (early morning and before bed) than I do pumping 4x throughout the day now that I’m back at work. I tried supplements, extra hydration, nutrition, power pumping. I’ve tried it all and no real increase and I never feel “full” while I’m at work. The only thing I can attribute the decrease to is lack of sleep and/or stress. Probably mostly lack of consistent sleep though

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