Category: Tweets

• Izzy is home! #
• My new motto, adapted for the postpartum condition: “Put on your big girl diapers and deal with it!” #
• World, I promise I will post some proper baby pics on Flickr & Facebook tomorrow! #

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• Let’s hear it for lactation consultants! #
• @smalljones http://twitpic.com/2yh1y – Heh, nice. #win #
• http://twitpic.com/2yngc – Izzy #
• Great news! Izzy is off antibiotics now and if he stays well he comes home tomorrow! (Instead of Friday.) Joy! Exclamation points! #Win! #
• Congrats, @nlargent! Welcome to motherhood. Here we go… #
• Izzy enjoying his first grandma time. #

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• Watching Carolina play in the NCAA Championship and hanging out with my son. (Don’t worry, he’s not allowed to watch TV yet.) #win #
• Ahem: w00t. Go heels! #

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• Started to check e-mail, saw “N. Korea has launched…” Closed e-mail. Something about being a parent has killed my tolerance of bad news. #
• I can hardly express the amt of gratitude I am feeling for all the people who helped and supported me (us) in the past week. Love to all! #
• @dcm And as a *breastfeeding* mother, of course I find the nip-slip hysteria so wrong on so many levels. #

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• Good news: UNC hosp’s Newborn Critical Care Unit is really nice. Bad news: my son has to stay there for 6 days (just to get an antibiotic). #
• Baby being in the hospital instead of at home is the absolute pits, but we are going to stay there with him. #

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• Guess what? IT’S A BOY! 🙂
  I still can’t believe I did it, and with no drugs or intervention! Midwives rule. #
• Googling “tachypnea.” And the parenting worries begin! #

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• Midwife tied a sheet around my belly – tight! – and said it’s time to buy some castor oil. Holding off the other midwives who want to induce #
• Thanks @noneck! I doubt I’ll be tweeting when active labor starts, but while I’m in marathon early labor there’s not much else to do. #
• @nlargent Thanks, Nancy and right back atcha! Hope pregnancy is treating you well. in reply to nlargent #
• Note to people who don’t want to hear me grunting during a contraction: stop calling every day to see if I’m still pregnant. Thx. #
• Also: cats make decent little mini-doulas, for the money. #
• @ludovicspeaks Yes, pestering by Twitter is preferable. Plus if you read it, you’ll already KNOW whether I’m still pregnant. 😉 in reply to ludovicspeaks #

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• Getting ready for the most awful and wonderful experience of my life. It’s getting closer. #chilbirth #

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• Sorry to disappoint, but I’m not tweeting a play-by-play of labor & delivery. I promise to let you know when it starts & ends, maybe more. #
• @davidb Depends on who’s calling, natch. I hardly ever answer any of my phones, anyway. in reply to davidb #
• @craignewmark Congrats on joining the board of @IAVA. Way to put your “money” where your mouth is. #veterans in reply to craignewmark #
• This is cracking me up a little: http://www.linkedin.com/in/barackobama #

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• So many things to worry about, so little time… #
• In limbo, not in labor. (But getting there, really.) #

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