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Has anyone taught both curriculum? Our school is applying for IB certification and trying to decide between using MYP or OpenSciEd for our students. I’ve taught neither before.

The Middle Years Program stuff looks basic but lots of room for us to make it our own. I’m new to this school but have 9 years of experience and the other science teacher has almost 20 so realistically we’ll both want to make some of the lessons our own and do some of our own tried and true labs/investigations/projects.

OpenSciEd looks more phenomenon based which I like and I also like that they have lots of labs and hands on activities though it might be harder for us to get through units generally because our classes are short and they look pretty meaty.

Curious about thoughts on either curriculum!

I’m curious if there is any research on the idea that babies “know” when they wake up in a different place. It often comes up in conversations about baby sleep, this idea that they need to fall asleep in the same space they wake up but where did this idea come from? I would imagine they can tell if their parent is no longer holding them through warmth and smell, for example, but what if they fall asleep in the car and then get transferred to a crib? Is this “knowing”’of being in a new space really what contributes to wake ups?

Baby just turned 12 weeks today (woo!) so I’m not sure if I’m fully done regulating my supply or not but I am an oversupplier and typically produce 10-12 extra ounces that what baby needs each day. I’m pretty much maintaining that having dropped 2 pumps, one overnight and one during the day. I still do one MOTN pump at 2 am though and haven’t noticed a big dip in supply since dropping.

But when I was establishing my supply early on, I heard to pump for ounces not time. I could get 6 ozs easily, like in 7-8 minutes. So I was basically just getting 6 ozs and then stopping even if I wasn’t “empty” As baby started taking more milk, I started pumping for a bit longer and getting larger volumes. Now, I sometimes even get 8-9 ozs in my first pump of the day.

But I don’t want to create more of an oversupply so I worry about “fully emptying” myself too often. Won’t that create more of an oversupply? I don’t want clogged ducts but is it fine to not empty all the way each time? To be honest, I probably don’t empty in the morning pumps at all even with getting 8+ ozs and I’d be scared to see how much I’d get if I do fully empty lol

I’m not even really sure what I’m asking for- maybe general advice from other oversuppliers or things you’ve learned about an oversupply over time? It’s definitely nice that I can pump more than baby needs and I’ll have a good freezer stash that I hope to use when baby eventually starts solids but it’s also quite annoying to have an oversupply sometimes.

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Right now, I’m pumping roughly every 3 hours. During the day that gets a little wonky depending on the events of the day but at night I always pump 9pm, 12 am, and 3 am. Baby usually is up between 6:30-7:30 and I’ve been trying to nurse him after his tongue tie release. It’s one of the only times during the day I nurse.

He’s been sleeping longer stretches (8 hours last night!) but I feel like I can’t enjoy it with pumping. I’m still pumping/nursing at least 8 times a day so I’d like to drop an overnight pump especially since I have an oversupply. I make roughly 40 oz a day and baby is eating about 30.

A few questions.

-Should I do 9, 2, and then nurse around 7? Is going from 3-5 hours too big of a jump?

-I know I’ll be engorged in between the longer sessions. How long does that take to regulate?

-Random but with an oversupply, how do you know when you’re empty? I wait until the milk droplets are really slow but I don’t want to always keep pumping because I’m afraid it’ll give me even more of an oversupply. In the morning I can usually pull out 6-7oz of milk in 10 minutes and I haven’t tested to see how long it would take for milk to completely stop. Am I risking clogged ducts this way?

Wtf am I doing wrong with these wearables? A friend gave me her Eufy S1 Pros to try because she didn’t really use them so I know they are practically new and in good shape.

They are charged and I put flange inserts in that are the same size as my flanges for the spectra (13 mm).

For the life of me, I cannot get them to pull out anything. And I generally start flowing milk within 10-15 seconds at level 5 vacuum on the spectra. Even when I put my finger into the flange to get a good seal, I don’t feel like there is hardly any suction but it’s true of both sides so I don’t think it’s that there is a manufacturing issue or that they are assembled wrong?

I’ve tried making sure I’m lined up but could I even need 12 mm inserts for the wearables only? I am so frustrated because I really want a wearable set so I’m not tethered to the freaking spectra all day

Before pregnancy, I worked with a trainer at a commercial gym on strength training. It was so great as I was never athletic or a big gym goer before that and I worked out regularly until the last few weeks of my pregnancy.

Now that I’m 10 weeks pp, I really want to get back to lifting and not just walks or small workouts at home.

Realistically, I probably only have 2 days a week I can commit to getting to the gym so I’m trying to figure out how best to build a program without a trainers guidance.

Should I do 2 full body days with 2-3 upper and 2-3 lower body exercises? Or split all lower one day and all upper the next? I don’t feel super confident grouping exercises together to ensure I’m hitting everything major until I can commit to a 3rd day consistently.

If you have any resources/ideas/programs please share!

My flange size is a 13. How much should this be a consideration for what wearable set I get? Does sizing change at all for wearables vs a standard pump?

I know I could post this to other subs but I really enjoy the community on here and hoping to get some encouragement with my breastfeeding journey.

To start: Baby is 5.5 weeks and weight gain is not a concern. He regained birth weight in a week and between his 2 week and 1 month appointment he put on 2 full pounds. Every day we can see he’s growing chunkier lol

But from the beginning, breastfeeding has been so hard. In the hospital, I used nipple shields at the direction of the LCs to help him latch because I was engorged by day 2 and my nipples are kind of flat already. The shields were great but annoying to use each time and I knew I should ween off of the them.

I had an outside IBCLC come do a home visit the week we got home. We practiced taking the shields off and getting him to latch. All seemed well and I knew my nipples needed to “toughen up” so I pushed through until week 3. Put the shields back on a few feeds and pumped instead of nursing a few times for a week because my nipples just hurt. Everyone told me it’ll get better, my nipples need time, but things feel like they are getting worse not better. My letdown is fast so he is latching/unlatching a ton during a feed and it’s painful each time.

By week 4, I realize it’s not getting better. I make a virtual appointment and we agree it’s his latch. We talk through strategies/positioning to get him to latch better. He’s just chomping down on my nipples each time. The fast letdown doesn’t help. Some feeds he can latch fine and settle on the boob but others are torture and we both end up really frustrated. The good sessions are getting fewer and farther between. Even when he latches well at first, I can literally feel him slide back and onto the nipple directly. My nipples turn white and throb after most sessions.

It’s now week 5 and I’m dreading every single feed. I am crying when he won’t latch well and just now, probably tried to relatch him 25 times correctly before I switched boobs and just let him chomp down so at least he was fed. He was so frustrated and so was I.

I have an appointment with a new lactation group this afternoon that has pediatric OTs and feeding specialists amongst the IBCLCs and at first I was really hopeful but after that last feed i’m not sure I feel hopeful anymore.

I know they’ll check him for oral ties again and we’ll continue to work on positioning but I really just don’t want to be in pain. It makes me so sad to think about going to exclusive pumping but what if that’s my only option?

Has anyone else had a rough start to their BF journey but got support and it got better after 6+ weeks? I worry that at this point his muscle memory is just for a poor latch and it’s too late to salvage the breastfeeding journey.

Anyone else’s baby have a rash with honest brand diapers? Little guy is 4 weeks and we noticed redness in the front specifically in the shape of the diapers. We’re using size 1 right now but I was gifted a bunch of size 2 and 3. We’re first time parents so unsure if it’s just moisture redness because the diapers fit pretty snug? Or if it’s the material?

They have been great for absorbency but the material doesn’t feel soft so wondering if it’s an issue with the material. Other suggestions for what to try? He’s a long and lean baby.

We’ve also previously had luck with the Huggies swaddlers plus (the ones sold at Costco I think). We can’t afford coterie but looking for something granola-ish.