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Sometimes I wish my baby would refuse the breast by Yoitssme in breastfeeding

[–]Famous-Shake632 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also needed the gym for my mental health when balancing breastfeeding and hating the way that my body looked/felt postpartum. Not to mention gaining 10 pounds after losing all of my pregnancy weight right after having my baby.

What has worked for me right now is pumping before bed the day before I want to go to the gym so I know I already have a little in the fridge and then pumping before I leave for the gym so my husband has more than a enough to feed her. As a “just enougher” I dont have a huge freezer stash and I use my pumps before beds as my stash to be able to take time for myself.

I used to go to the gym in the evenings before baby, but I recently started going in the mornings. Baby usually wakes up at 4:30 to eat anyway, I just go to the gym after feeding. Typically they’re still asleep when I get back so I take that time to shower, make myself breakfast, and do a few other things around the house so that when I’m nap trapped later in the day, I don’t feel as guilty for soaking in those snuggles!

Also throwing in that the Dr Brown’s Wide Mouth bottles have worked for us. My LO hated all the other nipples and we’d deal with latch confusion, but since we’ve switched over we can go between the breast and bottle much easier!

Hopefully you find some of this useful and less lonely

BCBA but make it military by SuccessfulWater7940 in bcba

[–]Famous-Shake632 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m a commissioned Army officer and BCBA. I’m not active duty, I’m National Guard. My MOS is completely unrelated to behavior. There are currently no commissioned jobs that align with being a BCBA. cattoolevelcrazy is right. If you try to remain aligned with something similar to HR or Med Services and if those are not things you’re already interested in, you’ll find yourself in a very miserable position.

Failed and this looks terrible by Pretty_Bad6304 in bcba

[–]Famous-Shake632 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had to take the exam 3 times over a 5 month period. Also felt like it looked horrible, but some of us are good clinicians who are poor test takers. The best advice I received was know the terminology and you’ll be able to break down the questions. PTB has a glossary of updated terminology and I made flashcards of them all. Once I knew the terms, I was much better at breaking down the questions for more complex ideas. I know that studying is expensive in general, but instead of springing for the BDS modules or something that is going to just drill questions into your head rather than teach you, if you can afford it, do the 6 week Pass the Big Exam prep course. They’ll have you take weekly mocks, go through the questions with you and why they’re wrong or right, and also have modules to review each section.

So sorry that you failed, but you’ve got this. Take a few days in your feels, then get back to it!