Boredom

I am sitting for the last four hours of my shift and I am so bored. But at least I won't have to run my butt off! That's kind of nice. I just hope I don't fall asleep. No I know I won't. I have a book to read but the poor girl is sleeping so I don't want to turn on the lights.

I have only 10 weeks left of school. It's hard to believe that. 10 weeks and then I am done with school for forever, if I want. Usually it's 10 weeks until summer vacation. Not this year baby. I will be done, I will have graduated and I don't have to go to another school as long as I want. What an incredible feeling.

I have so much fun on the Mother/Infant Unit, I am so not ready to leave it yet. I love working with mothers and their babies. It's just such a special time for them. I had my first triumph the other day. A girl was having a really difficult time breast feeding, she had finally given up and started to pump only. However, that wasn't going very well either. She thought she just wasn't producing any milk. I went in to trouble shoot to see if there was something more we could do besides prescription drugs to help with milk. So I watched her start pumping and found she wasn't doing it properly (I will spare the details). I showed her how to do it correctly and checked on her every couple of minutes. She ended up pumping 2 ounces, which is huge. I was so happy for her, she was so excited, she said she would even try direct breastfeeding again. That made me so happy. I am a huge advocate for breastfeeding.

So in two weeks I will start looking for an RN position. It is going to be scary but I am excited.

For now I will close and see if I can turn on a light and read some of my book (The life not wasted).