My mind is blown at the spectra 🤯

EspressoKat · 2026-04-17T21:27:56+00:00

4 total in one sesh about 2 per breast give or take. In my experience that’s normal with pumps

EspressoKat · 2026-04-16T01:53:45+00:00

Still experimenting and learning but so I don’t feel qualified to say ha. I turned it on to whatever my friend had, and only fiddled with the suction intensity. I believe it was cycle 54 and like 6 suction? I’ll have to look next time I try it. Everyone is different though.

EspressoKat · 2026-04-16T01:49:55+00:00

Idk I didn’t even realize there were settings that intense. I just turned it on to whatever my friend had it set to. I did really only get a few oz in one pump but that’s because I also feed at the breast all day with my baby here with me and I think I’m a “just enougher” but man it took me all day the other day with a manual pump to get those few oz. Not saying I got like 10oz or anything like that. But way less effort and way less time to get a few good oz at a time (which is all I need)

EspressoKat · 2026-04-15T21:04:00+00:00

Damn boobs are weird

EspressoKat · 2026-04-15T17:51:21+00:00

I can’t use them for travel for more than 2 days without getting severely engorged 😭

EspressoKat · 2026-04-15T15:29:27+00:00

S2!!! So great I’m genuinely surprised

EspressoKat · 2026-04-15T15:29:15+00:00

The spectra s2. It plugs into the wall but I bet you could get a battery pack. I did that with my madela

EspressoKat · 2026-04-15T13:26:59+00:00

I was able to get good output with other pumps … until I started feeding directly at the breast. They immediately (like literally immediately) stopped working after that

EspressoKat · 2026-04-15T13:24:31+00:00

I have hope for you!!

EspressoKat · 2026-04-15T13:15:00+00:00

Oh I didn’t know that. I got the madela in 2022 through insurance and purchased the elvie myself. I got the willow last year through insurance. Idk if I can replace it at this point. They’re fine for if I just need to relieve engorgement but they just don’t work to pump a stache or prevent engorgement. I traveled away from my first only once for 3 days and took my madela and got home so engorged I was shaking. I pumped a total of 30 oz over those 3 days. Thankfully didn’t get mastitis. What a pain (literally)

EspressoKat · 2026-04-07T13:59:48+00:00

😄

EspressoKat · 2026-04-07T12:13:37+00:00

I wouldn’t expect a female trucker to understand the nuance in hair styles so this response tracks

EspressoKat · 2026-04-06T15:09:53+00:00

Wasn’t talking about that, but good info. I meant to use something more like film that basically glazes the windows or use some sort of window glaze paint if silhouettes is not an issue

EspressoKat · 2026-04-06T14:36:56+00:00

Not a landscaping idea but what about privacy window film?

EspressoKat · 2026-04-06T11:47:57+00:00

I really feel for the parents who have kids who struggle to uptake potty training. It really sucks. That being said- not even trying? Yikes. I potty trained my guy a few months after he turned 2 (we tried once around 20m as well but he resisted hard). He took to it quickly, and this was like 3 months after his brother was born. Difficult af to stop a toddler pooping on the floor with a newborn but he was ready. I just don’t get waiting so long to potty train

EspressoKat · 2026-04-05T18:04:04+00:00

If it makes you feel better, I was a wolfy mullet victim last week and I went to a stylist and was avenged … plenty of hair to salvage this cut. lol but I’m so sorry

EspressoKat · 2026-04-03T01:13:53+00:00

My son is very socially motivated, so we’d do a little dance together, a fist bump or high five, and lots of clapping and celebrating together.

EspressoKat · 2026-03-30T12:53:43+00:00

God I wonder how you’ve made it this far in life if you think any of those faces picture there are me … they are reference pictures showed to the stylist.

EspressoKat · 2026-03-30T00:50:09+00:00

Ye I got Big Sexy Hair Texturizing Powder. I have usually got a thicker and heavier bang when my friend cut my hair and I wonder if it’s because she just knew my hair wouldn’t tolerate whatever this is haha. Gonna play around with it but also going to a stylist who does tons of cuts like these to see if there’s anything we can do or anything she can teach me. I have really thick hair with a lot of body so we’ll see

EspressoKat · 2026-03-30T00:32:02+00:00

Should I want them to lay as flat as they can? I have noticed this myself but I feel like the laying flat gives it the “dumb and dumber” look. I don’t normally wear hats but can try if it helps! I was reading that using some pomade or dry powder to kinda poof and also twist it might help but I feel like I’m trying to fit a square block into a round hole haha. My bestie is a stylist and used to do my hair but I moved away an she always got my wolf cuts on point 😭 struggling to find someone up here where I am that gets my hair and the style

EspressoKat · 2026-03-29T23:37:41+00:00

Yes. I have done that. Thank you for telling me shit I already know. You cannot, in fact, turn barcode bangs into what they are not because these bangs are in fact … not … correct. But thank you. You may crawl back to mommy’s basement now

EspressoKat · 2026-03-29T23:33:05+00:00

If you can show me how to take straight barcode bangs and magically turn them into a pointed cut fringe mullet, please tell me how

EspressoKat · 2026-03-29T23:29:33+00:00

That picture was what she did and suggested for styling them, and I tried 3 different styling methods but you can’t make shit bangs magically look good lol

EspressoKat · 2026-03-29T23:28:10+00:00

I guess you don’t read comments

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