In big faded red letters, the sign reads:

PRIVATE AREA IN USE
DO NOT DISTURB
To yet another cell-phone obsessed Potentia employee, this means
STAND SIX INCHES AWAY FROM THE SCREEN AND TALK ON THE PHONE

Did you know that? I didn't know that.

The *wooshwooshwoosh* didn't tip him off, the several throat-clearings didn't tip him off. The sound of bottles ( Read more... )

This is a 1996 article regarding the vocabulary we use when discussing breastfeeding. I found it to be absolutely fascinating and suspect some of you may also find it interesting.

I came across this while investigating the circumstances that prompted tomorrow's Nurse-Out at Applebees. There are articles in both The Courier-Journal and The Herald- ( Read more... )

You're talking on your cellphone while walking through a hallway and, at the end of that hallway, you spot a 7-ft long screen and a Please Do Not Disturb sign in the nook about 20 feet to your left in a side-hall ( Read more... )

This is why nurse'n'surf is not a good idea... Oops!


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Although this isn't the most scientific way to gauge my own rationality on the issue, I ask you to help me out. Guys, just imagine you could express milk and tell me what you think.

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What a difference! In just a month, he's changed so much. In the icon, he's two months old, and he's three months old this week.

I still look at him in awe... so in love.


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these aren't options the building manager is presenting us with. Rather, these are well-maybes she's casually bandying about. My supervisor and the other ladies' supervisor are going to have to play liaison for us, which also sucks, because I like to fight my own fights ( Read more... )

1. This is second-hand, but apparently the sound of our breastpumps is "distracting" people. The person then backtracked, hemming and hawing about "know it's natural, but ( Read more... )

This blows. I was just informed that the empty office I've been using for my dairy cow sessions will no longer be unoccupied as of some time in July. Although this office had a wall of windows, the windows are nicely frosted and I can sit at the corner of the desk with my back to the world. The curve in the desk was also very handy for pressing the ( Read more... )