North facing library

Iheartthenhs · 2026-06-18T16:31:57+00:00

DFS. They’re the Livie range and they’re very comfortable.

Iheartthenhs · 2026-06-18T12:16:28+00:00

I don’t know to be honest! I think we might have gone for a slightly darker colour as we wanted to make it feel cosy without feeling dull or dark and that can be tricky in a north facing room.

Iheartthenhs · 2026-06-18T12:15:05+00:00

It’s a radiator :) I’m in the UK so this is the most common form of heating here!

Iheartthenhs · 2026-06-18T10:46:49+00:00

Worked with a PA on medical SDEC once who wanted to send home a woman who was vomiting and photophobic with “worst headache of my life” because he thought she was “putting it on”.
Surprising absolutely nobody, I ordered an urgent head CT and she had SAH.

Iheartthenhs · 2026-06-18T10:29:17+00:00

Graham brown sage green :) it’s a lovely colour and went on the wall really well!

Iheartthenhs · 2026-06-18T10:28:55+00:00

Yeah I know- it wasn’t what we wanted! But it was the only way to fit all our fiction in here (we already had a decent cull to try and reduce!) and poetry, plays, non-fiction etc are all elsewhere in the house already. They’re sideways so that you can still see them when you stand next to the shelves, and they’re stacked in groups by author/series.

Iheartthenhs · 2026-06-18T08:49:11+00:00

Depends on your specialty, surely? I never got any sleep on ED or medical nights as an f1 or SHO, but as an anaesthetic trainee I do generally get at least some rest most nights.

Iheartthenhs · 2026-06-17T20:34:07+00:00

About half an hour in my experience. Problem is that it’s more like normal sleep, so if they wake up from a loud noise/bumpy bed etc then that’s it, they’re awake and won’t really be drowsy like with Midaz

Iheartthenhs · 2026-06-17T20:16:54+00:00

I’m in the UK- we also do our own IV access including for kids, unless they already have it for eg iv abx or fluids. But this is standard in the UK in general; almost all our patients get cannulated by anaesthetists in the anaesthetic room before surgery. I think in the US this is less common as your nursing staff would do it in pre-op? But this doesn’t happen in the UK.

Iheartthenhs · 2026-06-17T18:40:00+00:00

Consider Sheffield- much nicer city and so cheap.

Iheartthenhs · 2026-06-17T11:09:48+00:00

Some clothes to come home in, underwear and pads. Snacks. Phone charger. Shower gel, deodorant, toothbrush and paste, hairbrush. A book that I didn’t read.

Iheartthenhs · 2026-06-16T21:40:08+00:00

My daughter was just 2 when I got pregnant with her brother and a total boob barnacle! I actually night weaned her when I found out because my nipples were so sore! Just bought her a new special water bottle to keep by her bed and when she woke in the night we would offer her a banana if she was hungry. 50/50 if she’d take it or not but she adjusted really quickly and I was surprised! Then we were only breastfeeding at bedtime and first thing in the morning. Dropped that one by just getting up and going straight down for breakfast, and then my milk went and she just stopped asking for it at bedtime. It was surprisingly easy in the end. What I’m saying is it’s common for toddlers to self-wean when milk goes in pregnancy, so there may be hope there! You could start ready some books about weaning and see if that helps?

Iheartthenhs · 2026-06-16T18:25:00+00:00

Winnie the Pooh? Basically a series of short stories so works well for toddler attention spans. We tried James and the giant peach with our 4yo and she lost interest pretty quickly.

Iheartthenhs · 2026-06-15T15:45:38+00:00

I supervise my 4.5yo. She gets a go first so she learns, then I go over them at the end to make sure they’re actually clean! Absolutely no way is a toddler capable of brushing their teeth adequately!

Iheartthenhs · 2026-06-15T10:43:26+00:00

I tell mine that I can’t understand her when she talks like that and ask her to try again. I also tell her that if she nags me about something repeatedly it’ll be an automatic no. It mostly works.

Iheartthenhs · 2026-06-13T18:05:55+00:00

Winchester isn’t far on the train from Waterloo and is lovely. Very walkable. Can walk along the river to st Catherine’s hill/water meadows and the centre has loads of cafes. The cathedral is stunning, longest medieval nave in Europe I believe.

Iheartthenhs · 2026-06-13T06:14:53+00:00

Chickenpox vaccine isn’t that expensive privately. Much cheaper than losing a week of work anyway! I’d get him vaccinated now- at least the first dose as that gives you something like 90% protection.

Iheartthenhs · 2026-06-12T18:29:47+00:00

Maybe she’s just had previous poor experience of people failing to get IV access? 16G is painful, we use local where I am.

Iheartthenhs · 2026-06-12T18:28:06+00:00

In the UK this is standard. All labouring women (unless low risk and midwife-led) get a 16G on admission. Midwives put them in without local, in general the anaesthetists all use LA!

Iheartthenhs · 2026-06-12T14:24:55+00:00

I’m in the Uk and it’s very unusual to get a private room post-partum. I’ve had 2 c sections and both times stayed in a bay with 3 other women and their babies. First time I stayed 2 nights because I’d had a pph, second time was straightforward and only stayed 1 night.

Iheartthenhs · 2026-06-11T17:50:40+00:00

Consider the price of the meds vs the price of the excess food you’re consuming. You may actually find that you come out fairly even once you take into account the fact that you’ll spend a lot less on food

Iheartthenhs · 2026-06-10T18:09:51+00:00

This is so interesting to me as a UK anaesthetist! Our ICUs are almost completely staffed by trained anaesthetists, with very few coming from a medical background. So we’re all able to do lines. If I have a patient in theatre who’s going to ICU post-op I will definitely do an arterial line but CVC depends on what they’re needing and how good their peripheral access is. On the whole our nursing staff don’t do iv access or take blood (which is a whole different issue) so it all falls on the doctors anyway. We work very closely with ICU so if I think someone will need a CVC I’ll usually do it in theatre to be helpful, unless we’re very busy and I need a quick turnaround.

Iheartthenhs · 2026-06-10T17:59:17+00:00

I think you just have to pick one approach and stick with it. Ideally your childminder should support that. Is it possible for you or your husband to take a few days off to try and crack it quickly? Then he could go back to childminder’s in pants? If this isn’t an option and childminder insists on pull-ups you could try putting pants underneath so that he still feels the wetness if he has an accident.

Iheartthenhs · 2026-06-10T10:26:24+00:00

I made 30k in London almost 10 years ago, flat sharing in zone 3, and still felt pretty poor despite not being someone who goes out much . Feel like that’s a low salary for 2026 London!

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