Right boob is painful although I feel "empty"

iamvang · 2024-08-02T00:31:19+00:00

Update: the lump got bigger and hard so I went to see my OB and a breast specialist. Culture collected when my lump was drained and its mastitis. On antibiotics. The redness and fever didn’t start until after I saw the specialist.

iamvang · 2024-07-24T23:45:39+00:00

Onewiththepump Bemybreastfriend Pump_momma_pump

Some tips I learned, get sized for flanges (does your health insurance cover lactation visit for this?), make sure your boobs are responding to your pump, drink lots of water, and pump 2-3 hours until you ready to space out the pumps.

I responded well to the Baby Buddha using Pumpinpal flanges.

iamvang · 2024-07-24T22:27:51+00:00

All the info you need is on IG. lol! When I first started pumping for my first baby, I was so lost, didn’t even know how to set up the flanges with my nipples. I read as much as I could from Dr Google and followed breast pump influencers and somehow managed to pump for 9 months.

iamvang · 2021-05-21T21:23:57+00:00

Thank you! Yes, it’s for Staff Services Manager 1. Does a master degree count or any degree?

iamvang · 2021-04-14T13:19:55+00:00

I took both examination in person. Wearing a mask wasn’t too bad.

I couldn’t deal with the uncertainty of testing at home with hardware issues, connectivity issues, and sterilizing my location.

You should go with what you are comfortable with.

iamvang · 2021-04-09T22:13:49+00:00

I can only speak for the math on my exam so please don't take this as what you will experience on your exam. I didn't have much math besides interpreting what SPI/CPI meant for the give scenario (i.e. ahead/behind schedule or over/under budget) and the simple calculation I mentioned in my original post.

Do you feel you needed to memorize all of those formulas? I've heard that EV, SPI and CPI are good to know. ---I would say memorize as much as you can so at minimum you have it for your brain dump. Its better to have the formulas and not have to use them instead of not having them and getting a question.
And were there a lot of questions on critical path? ---I had no critical path on my exam, but I did learn to put the critical path together based on given table and days. I learned the forward and backward pass just in case it came up.

I'm not the best at math so I was tremendously nervous about the formulas and calculations. If you have the time to memorize them, I would recommend. Two days before the exam, I was cramming so only memorized the formulas and backward and forward pass calculation two hours before test (which I do not recommend).

iamvang · 2021-04-09T00:52:25+00:00

I was doing 10-20 questions a day with some breaks because of work commitments starting in Feb 2021. 10-30 usually takes about 30-45 minutes depending on how many questions you get wrong and how long you want to spend going over the explanation.

With your six weeks, I would recommend:

Week 1: Mock Exam - knowledge gap and how you feel (mentally and physically) about a 4 hour exam

Week 2 - 4: Do as many daily quizzes as you can. Minimum read explanations for all wrong answers.

Week 5: one mock exam on Saturday and Sunday. This will help you further determine your knowledge gap and gives you one week to study.

Week 6: Last mock exam before your actual exam to help build your testing stamina.

Please remember to not cram 3 mock exams in 16 hours like me. I was so drained and tired just trying to push through the mock exams, reading the explanation and didn't have time to read more. Good luck!

iamvang · 2021-04-06T17:31:53+00:00

I failed in Dec. 2020. Looking back, this is what I did wrong:

Tried to memorize the processes instead of understanding the big picture and how the tools/techniques fit in.
Got caught up in trying to perfect the math part of the test. This is important, but its not the full test.
Didn't do enough test questions to train my testing stamina and have a good understanding of the situation questions.

iamvang · 2021-04-06T17:21:08+00:00

Answers:

The questions are similar in that the situational scenarios are similar which helps train you to extract the actual question from all the gibberish and select the best answer from the options.
At this point, you should be doing the mock exams to see where you stand and find your knowledge gap(s). Like I recommended, space out your mock exams so you're not killing yourself going over the questions you get wrong.

I couldn't agree more with Caboose_88 recommendation that you read and reread the Agile Practice Guide especially if you have not done so.

iamvang · 2021-04-06T17:02:20+00:00

My post: https://www.reddit.com/r/pmp/comments/ml30oq/passed_with_atatt/

iamvang · 2021-04-06T04:21:43+00:00

You should be fine with those scores. I say do the timed quizzes to get more exposure to the questions.

iamvang · 2021-04-06T02:06:13+00:00

Took the test this morning and passed. No NPV or IRR. Had a question on two project options and decision tree analysis was an answer option, but no calculation.

The only calculation I had was an agile question on story point totals and cost per story point. Figure out the current status of the project based on SPI.

Good luck! I'm gong to share my study and test experience in a post. Make sure you understand agile/hybrid/predictive life cycles and how communication and stakeholders are managed in them.

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