Registered dietitian

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do.

As far as the hustle part or all the different moving parts, I mean, you just have to have a certain level of comfort with risk, right? And you also- find myself telling this to the newer RDs a lot now, too, and the younger folks.

Just because you have a degree doesn't mean that you need to get hired, that someone should hire you, right? So you still have to prove what you know, your ability to do things.

I still have clients thanking me for responding so quickly, which I find a little disconcerting because who's not replying? Do you know what I mean? So many

And then I stayed for my PhD with that professor who taught that one lecture and and studied how we can maintain the nutritional and immunological components of human milk for donor milk after it's being processed with heat and all that kind of stuff.

I added on my RD after I became an IBCLC.

So every single facet of everything I was learning, I wanted to be able to know more about it.

I also felt a lot like research is hard to translate if you don't know what's going on in a clinical setting.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You know, I think these questions really bring up a good point that when we think about an IBCLC or a pediatric RD, we might be thinking about just the latch or the components of breastfeeding, but somebody like you can really help dispel and clarify some of the questions that moms have about how do I approach this situation or this is what my baby is doing and they're six months old, right? So my theory is that a lot of moms just kind of think that the IBCLC is for a temporary period of time, but really, I mean, throughout the whole infant feeding to 12 months and beyond can be helpful.

Yeah.

Yeah, that drives me crazy.

So how did you get into I want you to talk a little bit about your civilian RD job with the US Navy.

Yeah, so fast forward to, it was in the later part of last year.

I saw a role had popped up and this is going to be full transparency.