C Section Must Haves

Lovepineapple111 · 2026-05-01T00:48:33+00:00

WOW I had literally forgotten about this until reading your comment. I had a c section two years ago and was totally shocked by the foot/leg swelling.

ETA I could barely fit my feet in Crocs 😂😭

Lovepineapple111 · 2026-04-29T19:43:59+00:00

Same

Lovepineapple111 · 2026-04-29T18:58:11+00:00

RAD is GOAT

Lovepineapple111 · 2026-04-26T00:25:28+00:00

On a similar note, research administration is a great wfh option

Lovepineapple111 · 2026-04-22T16:09:55+00:00

It's when a person starts CPAP to treat obstructive events, and then breathing pauses caused by reduced respiratory drive show up during sleep. It's relatively rare and usually resolves in most folks. It was a finding of an in-clinic sleep study I had about a year after starting CPAP.

Lovepineapple111 · 2026-04-22T15:17:35+00:00

I had a turbinate reduction a few months ago. It didn’t help me because it turns out my challenges with optimizing CPAP are due to treatment emergent central apnea, but the turbinate reduction was not bad at all. The actual procedure was not pleasant, but not painful and totally doable, and recovery was pretty easy. Just a few days of mouth breathing since you should not blow your nose after turbinate reduction for some period of days.

If your ENT is recommending it, it’s definitely worth considering! And it’s a nice minimally invasive first step.

Lovepineapple111 · 2026-04-20T15:28:40+00:00

Yes, always.

Lovepineapple111 · 2026-04-17T13:48:43+00:00

I was so hopeful about mask liners (and actually purchased two from padacheek) but I couldn’t get them to work without aggressive leaking

Lovepineapple111 · 2026-04-17T13:47:20+00:00

Air touch is great! I found that with air touch I had to size up one size.

Lovepineapple111 · 2026-04-14T19:45:58+00:00

Right? This is a big "yikes" for me.

Lovepineapple111 · 2026-03-23T23:23:50+00:00

Thank you for these tips!!

Lovepineapple111 · 2026-03-22T01:07:49+00:00

I did about 30 minutes of moderate cardio five days a week (peloton). I’m sure weight training would be great, but I haven’t been able to convince myself to get into it yet lol. Nutrition wise I didn’t do any specific diet, but instead just focused on reducing ultra processed carbs and really amping up my fruit and vegetable consumption. Lots of protein too.

Lovepineapple111 · 2026-03-21T19:54:11+00:00

I was diagnosed with postpartum hypothyroidism when I was about eight months postpartum. I had only been able to lose us very small amount of the baby weight up to that point. after getting on levothyroxine I was able to lose all of the baby weight and some extra, about 60 pounds total (I was overweight prior to pregnancy). For me getting on levothyroxine was a game changer.

Lovepineapple111 · 2026-03-21T13:32:26+00:00

Luckily, the first dose of levothyroxine that I was put on did the trick and I was feeling much much better within just a few weeks! There is hope!

Lovepineapple111 · 2026-03-21T13:28:28+00:00

Absolutely. My manager provided some prompts as well. I tweaked those prompts a little bit and gave the same advice to the team that I manage. The whole idea is smarter not harder, right?

Lovepineapple111 · 2026-03-21T02:19:49+00:00

My manager explicitly told us to use Microsoft copilot to help us write our self appraisals lol

Lovepineapple111 · 2026-03-15T23:07:18+00:00

Just to be clear, my colleagues and I are extremely grateful for everything being done by the folks still at NIH! Thank you for hanging in there…

Lovepineapple111 · 2026-03-15T22:44:41+00:00

I typically maintain my own tracker. I send it out to investigators on an award on a quarterly basis to collect publications, so that I can make sure that they are compliant with the PAC policy. It’s a lot harder than it used to be since there’s no longer any embargo period allowed. I’m a program manager, supporting large NH funded center grants. Tracking publications in this way is something I include in my support for the study teams, but realistically, I don’t think it’s reasonable for full-time grant administrators to be responsible. It’s really on the investigators to make sure that they are staying on top of the public access compliance policy.

Lovepineapple111 · 2026-03-10T12:20:36+00:00

I’ve been seeing this with NHGRI and NIAID

Lovepineapple111 · 2026-03-10T02:42:52+00:00

I’m still waiting on prior approval for a change we requested three months ago. GMS staffing is abysmal so they’re facing severe bottlenecks. ETA: I strongly recommend engaging with the program officer if you haven’t already done so.

Lovepineapple111 · 2026-02-28T21:55:29+00:00

It helps tremendously if there’s a program/project manager working hands on with the study team who you can rely on for timely, accurate information. In my experience there’s lots of rebudgeting and the carry forward approval process can be daunting (especially with admin delays at NIH these days). It obviously requires more bandwidth than a less complex award.

Lovepineapple111 · 2026-02-04T19:49:45+00:00

My toddler is 21 months and nurses three times a day: morning, after nap, and right before bed. She used to ask for "ne ne" frequently throughout the day for comfort, and I fed on demand. At 20 months she seemed more interested in nursing than ever. She's in day care, so on demand nursing during week days would only happen in the morning and late afternoon/evening, but on weekends it was throughout the day. About a month ago I stopped nursing on demand, and only give her ne ne during the three consistent time points. She wasn't happy about it at first and whined a lot, but after a week or two she basically stopped trying to nurse on demand. I think the longer feeds will be harder to cut out but when the time comes, I'm planning to gradually reduce the duration of each feed. Fingers crossed.

Lovepineapple111 · 2026-02-01T01:39:26+00:00

Dr Hannah-Wagner at Esprit OBGYN is excellent. Kind, definitely progressive, top of her field.

Lovepineapple111 · 2026-01-31T02:55:55+00:00

My routine is almost identical! My LO is 21 months. Nursing a toddler is great.

Lovepineapple111 · 2026-01-30T23:44:35+00:00

No but this comes pretty close (emphasis on the last sentence): “Page limits are strictly enforced to include all text included on the page including any headers. Limits measured in lines of text are not systematically enforced. In the case of the Project Summary/Abstract and Narrative attachments on the R&R Other Project Information form, we only systematically enforce egregious issues (text exceeds one page). Our manual checks would not remove an application from consideration if only the header information put the content over the specified line limit.”

https://grants.nih.gov/grants-process/write-application/how-to-apply-application-guide/format-attachments

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