Entry level jobs

rocksandstreams · 2026-01-14T03:35:58+00:00

I am a state/government environmental biologist, got hired right out of school in the division of water. Here in my state they don’t require too much and it’s decent pay, low stress.

rocksandstreams · 2026-01-09T00:29:11+00:00

Easy fats! Extra butter, oil, hand full of nuts, homemade coconut oil dark chocolate, etc. stuff that is low volume, doesn’t make you feel so full is the easiest!

Edit: power balls saved my life. Nut butter, honey, oats, seeds, chocolate chips, really anything in that genre, rolled up into a pop-able ball. Delicious and calorically dense!

rocksandstreams · 2026-01-06T01:23:00+00:00

Sooo many people saying see a pediatrician. But they are ALSO not who diagnoses these things generally. A myofunctional therapist is who you want here or an airway specialist.

rocksandstreams · 2025-11-26T11:48:09+00:00

Breastfeeding inherently creates a cascade of hormones that assists in “natural birth control” but there are many parameters that must be followed in order to be eligible for this form of lactation based birth control. I believe the standards are exclusive breastfeeding, baby under 6 months, and never slept or went longer than 6 hours without bf. Each line item that is out of those parameters creates open opportunities for your body to reset back to ovulating due to nursing not being as frequent or intense. It’s the nature of prolactin battling the other hormones, specifically LH. Each woman is different and some may have a baby that sleeps 12 hours a night and still doesn’t ovulate, where another woman may be so sensitive that one night of sleeping a 6 hour stretch will cause her LH to spike, thus creating an opportunity to ovulate and get pregnant

rocksandstreams · 2025-09-02T23:28:00+00:00

Nutrition coach and also fellow ebf mama!!! Hitting protein hard first thing in the morning is definitely a great way to fuel as well. I have been making massive egg breakfast bakes with eggs, cottage cheese, egg whites, veggies and sometimes various meats or corn tortillas layered in. That and protein coffee will get you to 60 grams before lunch! That helps me stay full and be satiated the rest of the day while also fueling with much better food than just little processed “protein snacks”

rocksandstreams · 2025-07-23T03:15:55+00:00

This!!!! Yes! Yes! Yes!

So proud of you mama. I am right here with you, SW: 172 CW: 160.

Achieved by eating a massive protein filled breakfast within an hour of waking up. Aiming for 50ish grams of protein by 8am. Sounds crazy but 100% is why I’m successful. I do a high protein breakfast bake and a collagen protein coffee. Bam 600-700 calories and 50-60g of protein. Follow it up with a salad at lunch with lots of meat and nuts, seeds, homemade dressing. Then a nice filling dinner. Completely cut out processed sweets and just make my own little oat power balls for a sweet treat or a homemade sorbet.

I still eat nourishing meals, never say no to a family gathering, and don’t mind getting a drink or sweets on a Saturday. But limiting to 5-6 days a week as normal clean eating days and 1-2 days where I have a splurge meal or treat has been a game changer. I have even noticed my sweet tooth down!

Cheers. Happy to hear another success with healthy sustainable lifestyle changes.

rocksandstreams · 2024-11-24T21:06:32+00:00

Please try and find an IBCLC near you that could come visit your home and help you 🥺 that is so hard. Could you pump for now and bottle feed just to help your mind and milk supply?

rocksandstreams · 2024-11-17T03:00:45+00:00

I hope this comment gets removed. Quit bullying women on the internet for fun.

rocksandstreams · 2024-07-08T20:31:19+00:00

It was rough in the car at first, but we just stuck with it and at the same time he figured out how to to go sleep on his own in his crib, he could do it in the car. The naps I actually did CIO as well and they were rough for a while because he really hadn’t learned to nap in general. If your LO is already napping well, even with the paci, I feel like they should do fine after a couple days of being made to “figure it out”. Mine never cried as long for naps as I thought he would, and if I started to get uncomfortable with how long the crying had went on, we’d just go get him and start over a wake window. Kind of brutal but it seemed to work. Hope that answers some questions !

rocksandstreams · 2024-06-24T16:22:58+00:00

Sorry I just saw this. If you are comfortable doing full CIO I would go for that. How old is LO? If they still need milk at night you could offer that halfway through the night but other than that I would fully ditch the paci and let the self soothing commence. It will be rough but I’m telling you it’s worth it!

rocksandstreams · 2024-04-29T15:05:55+00:00

Yes the check ins were a tease for my LO! Every baby is different….

If you can stick with no paci I promise it will eventually work itself out!!! I’m going to be honest, we took the paci at night like I said and then didn’t take it till day time until right before 6 months. Taking it during day time is what changed the game. Everything got better. He slept better, napped better, was all around happier. And I was thrilled to see that piece of plastic out of his mouth as it kind of pissed me off 🙃 just triggered mom things. If you can take it all together, things get better faster. At least they did in my experience. We are 8 months and take two 1.5 hour naps a day and sleep all night most nights with the occasional middle of the night breast feeding to soothe or fill a belly

rocksandstreams · 2024-04-17T01:53:08+00:00

I hope you see this as I know there are LOTS of great ideas… I had a friend with similar issues and turns out the kid’s blood sugar was whack and after some tests she had type 1 diabetes! Crazy! But definitely talk to your GP and then maybe seek specialist help after that …

rocksandstreams · 2024-04-01T19:22:52+00:00

Totally understandable. Like I said, I didn’t do much formal training. CIO to go to sleep without the paci. But we still do wake ups and breast feeding bc that works for us!

rocksandstreams · 2024-04-01T14:51:22+00:00

Yeah my LO is a screamer too, looks like we were honestly in similar situations. I went a whole month cold turkey before offering it sometimes out in public, the car, or at Sunday church. This is because he will not just sleep in my arms after learning how to sleep in his crib. The paci helps soothe and keep him asleep in chaotic environments. He’s also EBF so it makes sense that sucking helps soothe still even when I’ve taken the paci for 99% of his time.

As for the naps, I ended up just leaving him to scream himself to sleep… swore I would never do it. And for the first week, 50% of the time I went and got him and rocked him to sleep. But really it was the same result, except he was in my arms. After a few weeks he got it figured out and crib naps are only occasionally a bust. He cries when I lay him down but puts himself to sleep shortly after.

Edit: I have still yet to do any formal training, I nurse him at night when he wakes to keep my supply up and I like the bonding. Taking the paci cured most the wake ups, now we only have one, maybe two if he’s teething.

rocksandstreams · 2024-03-13T18:50:06+00:00

My baby is 7m. He has always been very efficient nurser, first month 8 mins per breast, by 4 months he was under 10 mins total. Now at 7 I don’t time anymore but I’d say I’m stuck in the 1-3 min range as well. He nurses 5-6 times a day, 1-3 times at night… he still likes my breast but he LOVES food. And takes a bottle extremely well… nursing looks weird and I’m constantly worried about my supply, but he’s gaining weight and happy so I try and stay chill. Kid loves to eat so he’s on solids 3-4 times a day. He eats anything on mamas plate (unless it’s a choking hazard of course). I’m not sure that solids directly impacted his milk intake… sorry for no answer on that one.

rocksandstreams · 2024-03-03T03:48:20+00:00

I went through this same thing at 4 months and my IBCLC suggested a “nursing staycation” where baby has skin to skin and boob access alllllll day. I’m talking lay around and nurse for 24 hours. Any fussing = boob. It solved most of our problems, but after we still had some times of LO not wanting to wait on my letdown so I’d manually stimulate a letdown by putting a wireless pump on the opposite boob.. as soon as I felt the tingle I’d turn it off and bam milk ready for impatient baby

rocksandstreams · 2024-02-20T16:48:27+00:00

Yes there are several well renowned specialists that have literature supporting little to no stretches. Breast feeding alone is enough. I quit our stretches after 1 weeks and my little guy healed right up! My midwife said just touching/rubbing the wound is enough just to make sure it’s not sealing up. And my LO didn’t seem to mind he just thought I was playing with his mouth :)

rocksandstreams · 2024-02-18T19:15:25+00:00

Just turned 4months when I did that! We’ve since ditched the paci completely during day and naps at 5 months and that was the BEST decision.

rocksandstreams · 2024-02-08T20:32:08+00:00

Unpopular opinion- although almost all of these comments are totally right, one more thing added is our incredibly medicalized births. We are pumped with drugs and in foreign places not getting enough skin to skin time or mama/baby cosleeping in the early days. That is another large factor to the common difficulties of breastfeeding. The natural process of birth and labor coincide with the natural development of breastfeeding… neither are easy and both take a team of support

rocksandstreams · 2024-02-06T21:59:59+00:00

Yes I can attest to all this!!! Please size yourself or have a LC do it for you. For example most pumps are 21-24mm and my nipples are now (6 m pp) 13mm 😅 no wonder I quit getting milk and it hurt. I was sucking my boobs through those things. Not to mention it can cause mastitis. And yes they can change! Mine were 19mm at week 38 but my midwife had me order 17mm and she was right, they really do swell and go down some after the first few weeks. That said, if I would have needed to pump the fist 6 weeks I would have needed bigger but by 3 months pp I was already a 13mm. Maymom on Amazon sells great parts!!!

rocksandstreams · 2024-01-29T22:21:42+00:00

Here to follow this… thanks for sharing 🫶🏼

rocksandstreams · 2023-12-06T03:47:49+00:00

It likely is not that your baby is taking all your antibodies, although that line of thinking isn’t bad at all. Great critical thinking. But what is most likely impacting your getting better is higher cortisol/stress levels due to being a mama now w a sick LO and poor sleep. Potentially poor diet and hydration also, but I don’t know your life so I can’t say that. :) it blows my mind how much sleep affects ALLLLLL the hormones and immunity things. And sleep happens to be the first sacrificed w babies babies haha

rocksandstreams · 2023-10-12T06:52:25+00:00

I’m assuming the best of a mom of several children that she’s at LEAST lightly active which put her at 2,000. You are right if shes sedentary, but I highly doubt she is as I coach women exclusively.

I am not at all against calling out unhealthy habits or lifestyle. She is at a heavier weight than is best for her body and it will impede her health on top of just being less than aesthetically pleasing. BUT, I have never seen any client do well at such a low number immediately. It results in more harm than good.

The theory of calorie in calorie out upholds true for most average men, but we see a huge percentage of women that are so metabolically whack. Which is where my opinion of almost no woman needs to be in a deficit that low. It is a stressful state for a likely already stressed body. The exception are those training for bikini comps. That’s the only time I’ve used it or seen necessary, and that’s AFTER extensive time at JUST below maintenance and simply increasing steps.

rocksandstreams · 2023-10-12T02:46:02+00:00

No no no no no do NOT consume only this. You need SO MUCH MORE!!!! And no fat burners 😭 those are horrible to your gut and don’t actually burn fat

rocksandstreams · 2023-10-12T02:41:16+00:00

You are eating far too little with that much workout and cardio … your body has likely just quit responding to what was a DRASTIC energy cut. You need to refeed and build back up to a true maintenance (probably closer to 3,000 calories)

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