My tweets

• Fri, 12:01: I was having a tough enough time with Mother's Day weekend as it is, and this is just making is so much shittier.
• Fri, 12:23: Had a chance to step away and have lunch with the teenager so I feel less totally triggered, but I'm still livid and reeling.
• Fri, 12:25: Triggery, #pregnancyloss #stillbirth #NICU #grief tweets ahead, so be gentle with yourself okay?
• Fri, 12:27: And here's the NYT article that has me all freaked out: http://t.co/n2xiUhTPVG
• Fri, 12:28: My oldest, who I just had a lovely lunch break with, was born at 26 wks and was in the #NICU for 16 wks. He's so gorgeous, you guys.
• Fri, 12:28: But the road of being a NICU Mom, and of being a NICU survivor, is long and arduous and leaves lasting impressions. Many of them traumatic.
• Fri, 12:30: His issues are minor. He has asthma (been hospitalized for related issues after leaving the NICU) and has moderate vision issues.
• Fri, 12:31: He also has some developmental and learning disabilities / delays that are not as clearly related to his prematurity, but it seems to fit.
• Fri, 12:32: We are SO fortunate that we have the resources to tend to his special needs. Now. I wasn't always so financially stable.
• Fri, 12:33: He was born with his TEETH, you guys. His gums hadn't formed over his tooth buds, so his baby teeth were exposed. It was SO creepy looking.

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