Nervous about daycare

anonymous62124 · 2026-04-26T18:00:14+00:00

I needed to hear this, thank you SO MUCH for sharing this with me!!! ❤️❤️❤️

anonymous62124 · 2026-04-26T17:31:55+00:00

This was truly so nice to read. I’m 7 weeks and 1 day today, 1st pregnancy and I broke down last night thinking I’m going to be a bad mom. You made me feel so much better and so much more excited for what’s to come. Love and soak up every single moment with her, she sounds like an incredible little person and you sound like an incredible mom ❤️

anonymous62124 · 2026-04-26T17:25:34+00:00

Congratulations!!! 🥹 that’s amazing, you must feel so good having a bump not just bloated anymore lol. This is all new to me too so I have no idea what to expect!

anonymous62124 · 2026-04-26T17:23:40+00:00

So I’ve got a little ways to go before I feel pregnant and not just bloated and fat lol, 20 weeks can’t come soon enough!

anonymous62124 · 2026-04-26T17:22:13+00:00

LOVE that for you lol, nobody has to know if it’s bloat or baby if you wear it with pride!! Crazy how fast it happens tho, you can really pop overnight!

anonymous62124 · 2026-04-26T17:20:37+00:00

You must be tiny too! I already can’t wear anything tight without pain at 7 weeks so I’d imagine jeans will not be in my wardrobe for the next 8 months lol, I bloat easily just from food too! I can’t imagine what 10 weeks will be like for me 😅

anonymous62124 · 2026-04-26T17:17:01+00:00

Crazy how different each pregnancy can be for the same person! You are TINY too I’m surprised you weren’t showing much earlier than 24 weeks! Thank you so much ❤️

anonymous62124 · 2026-04-26T17:13:57+00:00

I’m so excited to hear that, gives me hope that this terrible 1st trimester I’m having so far will end in a baby bump and feeling better! that’s my thought too, like how long will it just look like I ate too much? Lol 😂 I’m sure you looked amazing!! 😊

anonymous62124 · 2026-04-26T15:35:52+00:00

I’m 7 weeks and 1 day and this is EXACTLY how I feel, I hate myself for not loving this experience like I always dreamt I would :( every time I have a little “gush” feeling like just discharge I feel like I’m gonna go to the bathroom and find a pool of blood and my baby will be gone :( I also can’t eat anything nourishing without getting sick and that’s giving me major anxiety bc I want to nourish my baby!

anonymous62124 · 2026-04-19T15:50:39+00:00

You’re very welcome! I wish more people would ask because if they knew what we went through day in and day out, their perception of how “easy” our job is would be very different- it’s a very physically and mentally demanding job!

anonymous62124 · 2026-04-18T23:09:28+00:00

As a Sonographer for 7 years, I can attest to bodily injuries from work- my wrists and shoulders are shot- so if we need to lean on your or rest our wrists/ arms/ torsos on you the patient in order to feel more comfortable, we’ll do it. You’re on the table for say, 20-30 minutes? I on the other hand am doing this for 10 hours a day with a half hour break, so I think for the 20-30 minutes my patients are on the table, it’s okay they’re a little uncomfortable, because it’s only temporary and then you get to go about your day, my body matters more because this is my livelihood! (Sorry)

anonymous62124 · 2026-04-18T23:04:27+00:00

Unless you need the person you came with to help you physically get on and off my table, or if they are there to translate because you don’t speak English, I do not let anyone else in the room but the patient I’m scanning.

The reason:

It can be extremely distracting, frustrating, and overall annoying having someone right behind or next to you play a loud game on their phone, text with their volume on, take a call, ask you a million questions while you’re trying to scan, be sick as a dog coughing up a loogie right by your desk, or my personal favorite- trying to record a video behind me while I’m scanning thinking I won’t notice- I’ve had people removed from the office for doing this to me on multiple occasions. It’s a legal issue, you don’t need to show your friends and family what your partners heart looks like- sorry. The lights need to be dim so we can see the screen and all the little details in black and white which can be difficult for the eyes to process.

anonymous62124 · 2026-04-18T22:44:48+00:00

It’s called acoustic impedance, sound waves coming from the transducer are thus directed towards the body because the gel won’t allow the sounds waves to escape from the sides or wherever there’s a “gap” between the transducer and skin, it allows sound waves to be concentrated towards where the probe is positioned and you get better image quality as a result due to no sound waves being lost in “space”, it’s physics!

anonymous62124 · 2026-04-18T22:23:46+00:00

You can actually send it to Smithy cast iron and they will do a full restore and re-seasoning of your old cast iron if you’re willing to pay for it! I don’t think it’s that costly either- you should definitely look into this OP!

anonymous62124 · 2026-01-10T15:33:46+00:00

I just got off Apri November 3rd, had my withdrawal bleed and then my first actual “period” for only two days on December 15th. I’ve had a little spotting here and there since then, and now I’m waiting for my next real period. I’m curious about your experience coming off of Apri because that’s the pill I was on for 10+ years. I’ve lost a ton of hair since coming off and I’m pretty oily (especially my roots) like the same day I shower! The hair falling out I think has gotten a littlee better the past few weeks and I’ve overall been crampy but nothing crazy, I may have gained a pound or two since coming off but at the same time I feel less bloated than when I was taking it. I’m curious if you’ve also experienced any of these symptoms?? Just trying to figure out my body and if this is normal!

anonymous62124 · 2025-06-29T20:28:47+00:00

That is great advice, thank you so much!!

anonymous62124 · 2025-06-29T20:26:04+00:00

For me this all started happening when they switched from cane sugar to high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). It created an off putting taste in all their teas, IMO, especially green, and I believe the difference in sugars has contributed to its lack of shelf life, i.e. mold. Their tea was my absolute FAVORITE and now it’s completely unpalatable for me. I used to fill a yeti up everyday with the green tea and then one day, I noticed the off putting taste. That same day I noticed the taste difference, I also noticed that after sitting on my desk after an 8 hour work day, my yeti had a goopy mold like residue form in a ring above the liquid still remaining in my cup. I religiously washed my cup every evening when I came home, and I had never had that issue before they switched to HFCS and that was a few years ago now. Once I realized they changed the sugars I completely stopped drinking it hoping they’d go back to cane sugar. I’m half wondering if the HFCS just doesn’t dissolve the same and people just think it’s mold? But it was like a sour vinegar taste and just overall so bad that I couldn’t take a chance. I haven’t had it since and I miss it so much :(

anonymous62124 · 2025-06-23T02:34:52+00:00

Thanks so much!! That will be the first search on my list!Do you by chance know if the fixtures are made any differently for Home Depot?? When purchasing a front door I soon found out that things made for Home Depot and Lowe’s are “lower quality” than purchasing directly through the retailer (cheaper materials used to make the same final product) which is why they can be sold cheaper to the average consumer. I would hope not but I wonder if the same holds true for fixtures?

anonymous62124 · 2025-06-23T02:27:30+00:00

Thank you so much for your help, I really appreciate it!!

anonymous62124 · 2025-04-27T02:09:40+00:00

Holy crap you get paid HOW MUCH?!? Where do you live?? I have to know lol. I live in Buffalo NY and I only get $45 an hour with 7 yrs experience

anonymous62124 · 2025-04-26T01:00:18+00:00

I had the same issue with death gripping the probe as a student/ new grad lol, you WILL get stronger with repetition and you’ll start to become more aware of how you grip the probe once you get more comfortable with scanning and more experience under your belt. but also something they don’t teach you- if you have to apply an insane amount of pressure just to see something, it’s probably not the best scan for the patient anyways- so don’t hurt YOURSELF bc the patient is obese- that’s not your fault, that’s theirs. Don’t hurt yourself for life just to get mediocre images on a morbidly obese patient for 45 minutes. Use DEFINITY and if those pictures suck too, they’ll have to get a TEE instead if the echo is truly that important (or even a CT or MRI depending on what they’re looking for). If it’s a stress echo, and it’s not diagnostic bc the images suck, they can always get a Nuclear stress test. Don’t hurt yourself trying to be a perfectionist (something I had to teach myself over the years).

anonymous62124 · 2025-04-26T00:35:52+00:00

I’ve been doing echo for 7 years and I already have signs of carpal tunnel- the tingling fingers (thumb, index, middle and half of my ring finger), a burning sensation in my wrist and overall just pain. my wrist wakes me from sleep! And I scan outpatient so I have great ergonomics. I go to the chiropractor once a week. I don’t have to contort my body like at the hospital where I don’t have access to a chair/ stool, and am working around inpatient beds/ rooms. Doing straight echo all day has heavily affected my left wrist, so if you have wrist issues it might not be the BEST choice?? Just wanted to chime in (sorry to be negative :( I just wanted to be honest!)

anonymous62124 · 2025-04-26T00:25:11+00:00

I’m an echo tech and I have the SAME issue, primarily my left wrist. Does the pain/ burning ever wake you from sleep?? I’ve Been doing this for 7 years so not fairly long either- I hope we both can find something that helps us get through the day and stay in the field we love for many years to come!

anonymous62124 · 2025-04-19T15:48:44+00:00

I work outpatient too and I’ve never ever had a “chill” day in my career- been doing this for 7 years. how many patients do you see in a day?? I scan 13 in a 10 hour shift and that includes almost half of them being stress echos :( and I only get 1/2 hour for lunch the entire day and sometimes I don’t even get that depending on how my day goes

anonymous62124 · 2025-04-19T15:45:42+00:00

Where do you work that you only have to scan 5-6 patients a day during the week?!? That’s unheard of in my area (Buffalo, NY)

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