LilPeanut MSN, RN, NP

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    Watch Your Language - Breast Isn't Best!

    LilPeanut replied to FrumDoula's topic in Ob/Gyn

    My son was nipple confused. He was a 34 weeker who didn't begin PO feeding until he was 36w+ GA. He had two good nursing sessions, then a bottle feed and then after that, he started showing issues....
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    Watch Your Language - Breast Isn't Best!

    LilPeanut replied to FrumDoula's topic in Ob/Gyn

    The mode used in sucking on a finger is closer to the technique used when nursing, which is why finger feeding is often successful in helping train nipple confused babies to go back to the breast....
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    Watch Your Language - Breast Isn't Best!

    LilPeanut replied to FrumDoula's topic in Ob/Gyn

    The LC in the hospital when I gave birth to my son was pretty ignorant about how to overcome difficulties and how to start after a NICU stay. She just kept telling me to keep trying. I finally just...
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    Watch Your Language - Breast Isn't Best!

    LilPeanut replied to FrumDoula's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Obviously, most women aren't "fine" with their choice if they are feeling guilty and are upset about people saying formula is inferior (not just the 2nd choice, but the 4th choice in infant feeding)...
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    Co-sleeping?

    LilPeanut replied to amber1142's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Alcohol has already often been stated as a contraindication for co-sleeping. There are people who use rickety old cribs that are dangerous, should we therefore make such a blanket statement that if...
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    Co-sleeping?

    LilPeanut replied to amber1142's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Actually, I'm sure many of the people who coslept and inadvertantly smothered them weren't thinking at all. I can't believe there are people who have so little awareness when they sleep. I have...
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    About to give up on being a nurse

    LilPeanut replied to Lorel's topic in General Nursing

    I think you need to sit down and decide what you really want from life Laurel, and what you want to teach your children. If you are serious about Christian Scientist, then pursuing nursing is asinine....
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    New fall grad entry students

    LilPeanut replied to LilPeanut's topic in Post Graduate Students

    We're required to get a littman cardio II (some of the specialties need a higher grade) I know that by the time I'm practicing, I will not be using my steth, because the NICUs here all have...
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    New fall grad entry students

    LilPeanut replied to LilPeanut's topic in Post Graduate Students

    There are specific graduate programs called "graduate entry". It's for people with non-nursing degrees to come back for a second career and essentially take accellerated RN courses, sit for their...
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    New fall grad entry students

    LilPeanut replied to LilPeanut's topic in Post Graduate Students

    You don't wear scrubs as a grad-entry student??
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    Co-sleeping?

    LilPeanut replied to amber1142's topic in Ob/Gyn

    In general, if you have good 'bed awareness', there should be no concern for rolling over on your child. I don't fall out of bed, I would never roll over on a pet, I really don't move much at night...
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    Watch Your Language - Breast Isn't Best!

    LilPeanut replied to FrumDoula's topic in Ob/Gyn

    It's not that BF or FF babies have higher or lower IQs....it's just that if you had two absolutely identical babies and everything was the same about them, except one was nursed and one was FF, the...
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    Watch Your Language - Breast Isn't Best!

    LilPeanut replied to FrumDoula's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I only mentioned junk food because someone else said "well, what about those people who feed their child fast food when they get older" Yes, bottom line is feed the baby, but most moms, myself...
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    Watch Your Language - Breast Isn't Best!

    LilPeanut replied to FrumDoula's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I wanted to address a couple of points. 1. Milk/Formula is the only food a child receives for many months, so it is that much more important that it is as healthy as possible. Having McDonald's...
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    Anyone thinking about med-school?

    LilPeanut replied to nurseabc123's topic in General Students

    One of the reasons I am glad I'm going to be an NP vs PA, is because I can work without a physician overseeing, I think that will make me more valuable in the long
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    How Many is Too Many

    LilPeanut replied to Fiona59's topic in Ob/Gyn

    There is a difference between helping and parenting. If a child has another child as their sole responsibility, they are parenting the child. Michelle apparently will care for the baby until they...
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    How Many is Too Many

    LilPeanut replied to Fiona59's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Because the issue that many of us are taking is that they are not taking care of the children - their other children are. They are managing a child-run
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    How Many is Too Many

    LilPeanut replied to Fiona59's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Oh, this is nice from a qf site [ http://www.lotsofkids.com/LOK-Features/quiver/quiverfull.htm ] Go on, risk life-threatening complications to have more kids, because your contribution to society...
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    How Many is Too Many

    LilPeanut replied to Fiona59's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I see children as a gift too - it's rather condescending for you to assume those of us who think perhaps 16 is going too far do not. My family is happy and we would have had one or two more perhaps if...
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    How Many is Too Many

    LilPeanut replied to Fiona59's topic in Ob/Gyn

    But those children in daycare at least are getting proper supervision by adults, not other
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    How Many is Too Many

    LilPeanut replied to Fiona59's topic in Ob/Gyn

    It's not about staying home vs. daycare....it's about acceptable and unacceptable child:adult ratios. It would be illegal to have that kind of ratio in many daycares.....why? Because one adult...
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    How Many is Too Many

    LilPeanut replied to Fiona59's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I would like a real study by real scientists who say that overpopulation isn't an issue - not just opinion pieces by people who may or may not be qualified to make such
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    How Many is Too Many

    LilPeanut replied to Fiona59's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Oh, and one of the resources for "training" a child is Michael and Debi Pearl ( http://nogreaterjoy.org ) Here's a snippet from one of the
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    How Many is Too Many

    LilPeanut replied to Fiona59's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Ok, here's an interesting thought: would you think it was acceptable to put your child in a daycare where the ratio was 16:1? And need I mention the tragedies that have occurred with some of these...
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    An upsetting fetal death

    LilPeanut replied to PegRNBSN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    The only places that are claiming he ate babies are radical right wing/pro-life sites. So I'll continue to call BS on that, because places like http://www.wdn.com, covenantnews.com,...