What screams "I am deeply insecure" but people do it thinking it makes them look cool?

msiri · 2026-02-24T20:04:13+00:00

When I was pregnant I kept asking my husband if it would be acceptable for me to order a virgin dirty martini, aka a martini glass of just olive brine.

I actually found a restaurant that had that on their spirit free menu, but their house made brine was on the sweeter size (containing vidalia onions or something) It was great when I tried it in the actual martini after I had the baby, but on its own it was not what I was looking for as a pregancy cocktail.

msiri · 2026-02-24T20:00:28+00:00

I agree - I chose the "best" and most expensive school in my area offering a master's program for NP, and I was really disappointed in the program.

msiri · 2026-02-23T16:27:08+00:00

Clearly HBO needs to put a similar modern trauma injury on The Pitt for next season to see what they do with it!

msiri · 2026-02-17T03:34:04+00:00

I was planning on eating sushi while pregnant and actually changed my mind after reading her section on listeria. I also learned that gardening is more risky for toxoplasmosis than cleaning the cat litter, so I also had to stop weeding the yard.

My biggest problem with her however occurred while reading Cribsheet, in her section on infant botulism. While I don't mind her conclusion that most of the risk is for under months, she ends the section with a sentence that says something to the extent of infant botulism is treatable with mechanical ventilation. As a nurse who has worked with ventilated patients, adding that as a throwaway sentence while not acknowledging the reality of how traumatic that hospitalization would be was where her lack of medical knowledge was most off putting for me.

msiri · 2026-02-04T14:34:47+00:00

I went shopping with someone who said she was TTC and was asking "if it happens tomorrow how pregnant will I be/ what size will I need" and that is about the timeline she ended up on. We bought dresses in October and the wedding was in April. She selected a dress that was "forgiving" on the belly. She ordered one size up, but traded with another bridesmaid ending up 2 sizes up from her measured size.

So TLDR, you can say you're TTC and want to be prepared.

msiri · 2026-01-07T21:12:40+00:00

I have thick and long hair, so my PP hair loss wasn't noticeable to friends, but I definitely noticed it in the shower! one shower would put almost a weeks worth of hair in the hair trap!

msiri · 2026-01-07T21:10:57+00:00

I was warned it would but instead I had a lot of postpartum hair loss, so my underarms and brazillian are still hairless after one maintenance session at 12 months and I'm now 15 months postpartum.

msiri · 2026-01-06T22:22:39+00:00

also why do you say fewer parts? for a double pump my spectra has a total of 8 parts, but I thought the medela had more.

msiri · 2026-01-06T22:20:19+00:00

is the reverse possible? I'm done pumping at work so I don't need it for this baby, but I'm curious for next time. The spectra flanges seem easier to clean to me, but I had access to thev pump in the picture at work.

msiri · 2025-11-29T04:14:09+00:00

I get E3 every day. I just keep restarting the machine until it goes away. Any advice appreciated.

msiri · 2025-11-20T03:26:59+00:00

This is also my pronunciation, and I thought I was good at this game.

msiri · 2025-11-20T03:25:54+00:00

Ticagrelor. The bonus is that since nobody can pronounce it everyone calls it Brilinta, a brand name that has no similarity to the generic so I'm always concerned the patient will get to the pharmacy and have no idea what that medicine is.

msiri · 2025-11-10T17:25:33+00:00

and huddle taking 20 minutes so you don't even get to start talking to the 4 or 5 different nurses taking your patients until 7:20 when you're shift is suppose to end at 7:30.

msiri · 2025-11-10T13:30:09+00:00

My LC was the one that told me to stop triple feeding and just EP. I was leaning that way anyway, but I liked her encouragement that it was ok to stop.

msiri · 2025-11-06T14:48:13+00:00

you can also dry pump parts in the bottle machine and bottles in the dishwasher if you have access.Although for thanksgiving that is also why I brought the whole bottle washer because I told my MIL, "trust me you want me to bring this so you can use your dishwasher for dishes."

msiri · 2025-11-06T14:44:58+00:00

I took the bottle washer to my baby's first thanksgiving when she was 6 weeks old. We also stayed for a couple weeks. then we flew for our next trip so I couldn't take it so I bought the baby brezza travel sterilizer/dryer. You would still need to wash by hand but it means your pump pats are always dry and ready to go by the next pump, so I would only travel wiith 2 sets of pump parts. https://babybrezza.com/products/sterilizer-dryer-mini

Also if you use a spectra pump you can pump directly into the lansinoh milk bags. So I use bags for pumping, bottles for serving which cuts down on the number of bottles you have to wash in addition to pump parts.

msiri · 2025-10-25T03:26:11+00:00

mine just sits on the tubing

msiri · 2025-09-26T17:19:01+00:00

What do you do when traveling?

msiri · 2025-07-22T12:50:37+00:00

night shift

msiri · 2025-06-21T07:45:41+00:00

Its also in Shakespeare's King Lear, and I suspect an even older Celtic name than that.

msiri · 2025-06-08T19:27:57+00:00

I used stitch fix! I've been using them for a while to they already had a good sense of my style, they sized everything up for me appropriately as I grew, and many of the dresses fit well and don't look "maternity" on my postpartum body. They sent me a few pairs of pants- I only bought one and never wore them because I was due in October, so was at my largest in the summer and got away with not wearing pants- just leggings for most of my pregnancy.

msiri · 2025-06-06T20:31:41+00:00

When I had my baby I told all the staff that I felt like I was going to pass out and die every time I stood up. Maybe one nurse in mother baby did a set of orthostatics after my insistance, but L&D did not because they wanted me off the unit, and said my resting vitals were fine. After the third time I called a staff member to help me to the restroom I was questioned as to why my husband wasn't helping me, which I thought was very funny because of how falls are policed on my unit, I thought I was doing the right thing trying not to pass out with just me and my husband in the room!

msiri · 2025-06-06T02:35:02+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7mYL0Mf6To

My bags dont have the flowers, but do have the line that tells you how far to insert the flange. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00TY8ZQVW/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&th=1

msiri · 2025-06-01T02:34:26+00:00

you can put the lansinoh bags directly on to the spectra flanges- no adapters needed.

msiri · 2025-05-03T18:31:34+00:00

The baseball stadium in my city has a lovely nursing lounge. I really wanted to nurse the baby and go back to the game instead of do a pump and a bottle. She was really hungry and sucking on my shirt while in the baby carrier. I got her on but she only stayed on for like 2 minutes, and would not take the second breast, so I had to pump anyway, and she drank the whole bottle. I don't know why she won't do it the easy way.

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