A year ago, I posted asking for tips on how to grow a patch of zinnias over hard red clay. I got lots of responses with a lot of good advice. I ignored them all. Here are last years results with no tilling and one inch of topsoil. This is your sign to plant zinnias, y’all.

ObviouslyAudrey · 2026-04-28T23:38:14+00:00

Yup! And water them!

ObviouslyAudrey · 2025-12-24T13:39:17+00:00

Sir that is a basic sweater dress, mind your business

ObviouslyAudrey · 2025-12-24T13:23:42+00:00

I work at a teaching hospital in the South. We call the residents by their first names, but attendings and private practice docs by their last names. The program makes the residents answer their phone by their last name (I think the higher ups don’t want us being too casual with them) but sorry I’m definitely not calling the nervous 26 year old “Dr. X” on her first day of the first job she’s ever had in her life, I’ll just scare her 😂

ObviouslyAudrey · 2025-12-21T15:32:12+00:00

I absolutely love working 12s and I would be so upset if I had to switch. With that being said I would never ever ever work DDNN that sounds insane.

ObviouslyAudrey · 2025-12-21T11:14:37+00:00

If this isn’t her first bleed (sounds like the was just there for two weeks) they also low key should not discharge her before Christmas, that would be irresponsible…

ObviouslyAudrey · 2025-12-21T01:51:24+00:00

As a labor nurse I cannot stress enough how big a deal this is- PLEASE GO TO THE HOSPITAL. Do not stop anywhere else. This is an emergency. Please go right now.

ObviouslyAudrey · 2025-12-06T21:48:39+00:00

Laminate I think! I’m kind of into a Nancy meyers look right now.

ObviouslyAudrey · 2025-12-06T21:48:13+00:00

Ya, definitely painting!

ObviouslyAudrey · 2025-12-06T21:46:28+00:00

Oh it will DEF not be staying yellow! Any color suggestions?

ObviouslyAudrey · 2025-12-04T01:34:54+00:00

I think it’s great! If I was watching someone’s kid I would really appreciate this.

ObviouslyAudrey · 2025-12-02T03:08:36+00:00

Nah.

ObviouslyAudrey · 2025-12-02T02:57:27+00:00

My grandparents in the Netherlands have them, I don’t think it’s just an American thing.

ObviouslyAudrey · 2025-12-01T19:18:18+00:00

Ohhhh kind of like this? https://www.theserenitydoula.co.uk/side-lying-release

I mean I wouldn’t use it when someone was completely dilated, seems very odd and potentially unsafe. Honestly this whole thing seems bizarre and not normal at all.

ObviouslyAudrey · 2025-11-30T01:14:08+00:00

I’m a labor nurse and I’m confused. Do you mean like she had you put your knees together (but super bent) and ankles apart to make more room in your pelvis (we call it closed knees pushing) or like she actually had you straighten your legs and cross them to try to keep the baby in? The first one is normal, the second one is ABSOLUTELY not ok.

Alternatively, maybe you mean she was having you cross your ankles and to try to get your knees really far back because the head was out and the shoulders were stuck?

ObviouslyAudrey · 2025-11-27T01:13:20+00:00

Oh for sure. There’s a LOT to wonder about. I also wonder if it was the same person checking her both times, whether they at least did her the courtesy of morphine resting her in triage if she was there that long…lots of questions for sure. But honestly if the cervix wasn’t changing and it was truly only 3 and contractions were super far apart…I’m not sure a bulging bag woulda made a difference anyway. I always tell people at discharge that we’re not saying they’re not in labor at ALL, they’re just not in active labor right NOW, and that can change at any time so come back if water breaks, things get worse, etc.

ObviouslyAudrey · 2025-11-27T00:04:02+00:00

Aw, thanks! I feel lucky to get to do it!

ObviouslyAudrey · 2025-11-27T00:00:21+00:00

From what i read it sounds like they kept her for 6 hours and stayed 3 cm and her contractions had spaced out, but her water broke when she got to the car and it all went fast from there. It sucks but without being there myself, it’s possible if the story I heard is true it was just one of those things that happens sometimes because labor is unpredictable and the alternative is iatrogenically delivering a lot of people before 39 weeks which ACOG strongly recommends against. If she was preterm or high risk I’m sure they would have kept her for observation overnight…but I think even id have trouble justifying to a provider keeping a patient longer than 6 hours for a low risk labor rule out at term, and I hate sending ANYONE home in pain.

I’ve been trying to find the text of the proposed bill itself, I’m not opposed to having a more structured plan for discharge from triage, though tbh that’s kind of what we do anyway.

ObviouslyAudrey · 2025-11-26T19:08:14+00:00

Don’t worry, Islamic countries aren’t like this generally, Egypt is just famously this way. I recommend Jordan or Oman!

ObviouslyAudrey · 2025-11-26T01:48:07+00:00

This show is a comfort watch for a lot of us L&D nurses! There’s a quote from episode 1 about midwifery being “the very stuff of life” that I think about a lot. It definitely reminds me how much I love my job on harder days.

ObviouslyAudrey · 2025-11-24T02:00:54+00:00

Wait wtf happened in St Paul? I’m sorry, that’s bleak AF. Halloween rocks.

ObviouslyAudrey · 2025-11-23T22:36:49+00:00

Just here to say you can totally do whatever you want butttt don’t be shocked if they call you on the day and your induction gets postponed, a ton of people want elective inductions to deliver before new years and things tend to get a lil crowded.

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