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Hey Jen, we’re also running out of iv catheters, iv tubing, syringes, etc. for sick babies due to the supply chain crisis. Is that funny too?
When NYT reporter Michael Shear asks about the ongoing supply chain crisis, Psaki jokes about “the tragedy of the treadmill that’s delayed”
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Worked all day in an actual hospital. Plenty of beds, tons of ventilators, and the adult ER was almost empty the 3 times I walked by. Y’all please settle down. Thanks. Love you.
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My kids pediatrician won’t see my son with a fever until he gets a negative covid pcr somewhere else (he said he doesn’t do covid testing because the reporting is too much trouble).
The amount of brain damage covid has caused is honestly impressive.
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There are actually some studies saying a fetus can’t feel pain until 24, 28, or 35 weeks.
Fun right?
Here’s a typical day at work in a level IV NICU where we take care of babies 21 weeks and up... (1/?)
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Can anyone explain to me why I can go back to work in the NICU 5 days after having covid and parents of babies in the NICU have to wait 10 days after having covid?
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A 19 week fetus practicing suckling. Suckling and swallowing movements starts as early as 13–16 weeks in the uterus.
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My husband is trying to teach my 10 year old how to change a flat tire and she said she’ll just have her husband do it.
I laughed.
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So my 9 year old kept getting pushed on the roller skating rink by a larger girl. My daughter told her to stop twice. The 3rd time the girl pushed my daughter my daughter elbowed her twice pretty hard. The girl then left her alone. I told her I was proud of her. Bad parenting?
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As a NICU nurse I’m always going on & on about how amazing these babies in the NICU are. I make threads about 21 week babies, 22 week babies, 23 week babies, babies with Dandy Walker syndrome, etc. But here’s another thread of amazing people: People who have survived abortion. ❤️
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I could go on and on about the pain the extreme micropreemies feel just from diaper and position changes. But there’s also pain from chest tubes, endotracheal tubes, drains.
They feel pain.
We do all we can to prevent it.
Do not tell me they don’t feel pain. (15/15)
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It doesn’t get much better than when a brand new baby, who is supposed to have a major congenital heart defect, has an echocardiogram and there is no defect. Happiest parents I’ve ever seen. ❤️
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PSA: You cannot be anti-abortion and also anti-birth control. That doesn’t make any damn sense.
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Can I ask a favor of NICU parents?
Every so often can you send a pic of your NICU graduate to the NICU for the nurses/docs. The NICU staff miss you and your babies. Maybe a pic of you holding your baby in the NICU and then a recent pic & a little note about how they’re doing.
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My house will be full of extreme liberals for a party tomorrow. What Fourth of July music can I play that will encourage them to leave early?
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Stop going to the ER’s for covid testing! You wanting a test is not an emergency.
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I just texted my nurse manager asking if I could go into the NICU when I’m not working to hold a baby that doesn’t get visitors since we don’t have cuddlers now because of covid and she said yes so I’m so happy now. ❤️
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Giselle was just born on Nov. 17 weighing 15 oz after her mom was diagnosed with Hemolysis, Elevated Liver Enzymes, Low Platelet Count (HELLP) syndrome.
Doctors rushed Courtney Almazan into an emergency C-section to save her life. She could use prayers.
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Miscarriage management is not an abortion, it's called miscarriage management.
Ectopic pregnancy treatment is not an abortion, it's called ectopic pregnancy treatment.
Inducing early or an emergency c-section for maternal health is not an abortion, it's called delivery.
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If you’re the praying type could you please pray for a baby?
Thank you.
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I feel like we need all of the most premature little
#NICU
rockstars together in one thread. 21, 22, 23 weeks and up these babies are beyond amazing. 💕
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A tiny human heart clearly beating and pumping blood at 8 weeks and 5 days. 🫀
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That’s only the first 3 hrs of a 12 hr shift. The NICU nurses, neonatologists, neonatal nurse practitioners, respiratory therapists, and occupational & physical therapists constantly try to prevent pain, assess pain, & treat pain. All day everyday because they feel pain... (14/?)
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A fun story in 4 pictures. Maybe she saw my pinned tweet? 🤷🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️❤️
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Last week we got 0.5ml syringes, 1ml was previously our smallest syringe. This week we got Huggies nano diapers. The nano diapers are smaller than the micropreemie diapers, which were the smallest diaper available.
Take a guess why we need tinier syringes and tinier diapers...
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Luckily I already have it taped. I give him a pacifier and hold his little hands and tell him I’m sorry it hurt but he has to have it so he can eat. He sucks on his binky and gives me an annoyed side eye. (5/?)
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Stop calling miscarriages spontaneous abortions.
Stop doing it.
Women are already experiencing extreme trauma when their baby passes away. But then to hear or see those words from the obgyn or on insurance forms in unacceptable.
#obgyntwitter
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0730 I assess my 32 weeker and his OGT tube is loose. I need to retape it. I gently and slowly pull off the barely stuck tape on his little chin and he cries and swats at me. (Because tape coming off hurts). (3/?)
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He whimpers and sucks on his binky. She says, “I’m sorry little buddy.” He scrunches his little eyes closed, and his heart rate goes from the 150’s to the 180’s. I tell him, “I’m sorry, almost done”. We apologize because we hate causing pain. (Because getting an IV hurts). (8/?)
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His temp probe came out from under the sticker so I carefully lift a corner of the sticker off his belly to put the probe back under. He sucks harder on his binky, furrows his brows, and his heart rate goes up. (Because that hurt a little). (6/?)
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0845 I assess my other 26 week baby. Take her pulse ox probe off her little foot (it’s taped on & removing it very gently still hurts) she cries (because it was painful). I get her footprints so I can make her mom a footprint card bc today she’s 2 pounds and that’s major. (11/?)
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0825 I settle him in and hear a nearby baby, a 28 weeker, start to desat. My coworker is busy. I go over to her and she’s pulled her nasal cannula down out of her nose and into her mouth and is sucking on it. I tell her that’s adorable but it really needs to be in her nose. (9/?)
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I swaddle him so he doesn’t ‘help me’. I suction his slobbers, dry his little chin and the tube, make sure it’s at the right depth and retape it. But he doesn’t want it in and gets an arm out of his swaddle to grab the tube. (4/?)
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I go over to him and he’s in pain. I try to calm him while his nurse checks to see when he can have his next pain med dose. Then sit down to chart everything including the PIPP’s pain scale for both babies. (Premature Infant Pain Profile). (Because we know they feel pain). (13/?)
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I carefully pull off the loose tape and she cries and kicks her little legs (because that hurts). I put the cannula back in her nares and put on new tape. Her oxygen sats come up nicely and I give her an actual binky. (10/?)
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I ask my coworker to come over while I start a new PIV & draw a CBC. She gives him a binky, holds his arms gently and holds the leg while I insert a needle/catheter into the top of his foot. I tape the new PIV. I want another nurse to help keep him calm. (Because it hurts). (7/?)
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Then move the pulse ox probe to the other foot, we rotate sites every 12 hours. And I finish up her assessment and start her feeding. As I’m leaving her bedside a recently repaired gastroschisis preemie starts to cry. (Because healing from an abdominal surgery is painful). (12/?)
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0645 Sit down to get report from the night nurse. We have a 23 weeker now 26 weeks. And a 27 weeker now 32 weeks. She gives me report and ends report telling me lab called -the CBC clotted, I need to recollect. Also his PIV’s don’t last long. (2/?)
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For anyone who thinks a preemie is not aware of their environment: I was suctioning the mouth of a baby born 2 months early yesterday and he got pissed, grabbed the neosucker, and jerked it out of his mouth. 💙
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These NP (Nano Preemie) diapers are the smallest diapers available, we use them for babies less than 2 pounds. The same babies many people say are not viable. And the same babies who come visit us at the reunions - cooing, smiling, laughing, babbling, talking, walking. 💕
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A little girl who many hospitals wouldn’t resuscitate because she was so early smiled at me yesterday. 💕
Just sayin.
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I just talked my mom into moving to Texas near me and becoming a cuddler in my NICU and she can hold my babies while I chart and we can chit chat and I’m so excitedddd!!!
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Today is a fabulous day in Texas because restrictions on some elective surgeries have been lifted! ❤️
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Perfectly cooked bacon. It’s the only thing I can cook, but man, I am so good at it.
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Another beautiful reminder that viability is not 24 weeks. 👇🏻
Born at 22 weeks and weighing 1 pound. She’s going home without oxygen without a feeding tube, around the time of her due date, and her only medication is a vitamin. 💕
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I'm not using the term "pro-choice" anymore. They're pro-abortion.
LAUNCH ALERT: Planned Parenthood Votes will work to flip the US House to a pro-abortion majority. First target: out-of-touch House members who won't fight for abortion access.⤵
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@JesseKellyDC
As a woman’s age increases her fertility dramatically decreases. Other health concerns also, but young women aren’t really informed of this. Then when they try to start a family after 35 many struggle and aren’t able to become pregnant.
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I just accidentally splashed raw chicken breast juice in my eye so goodbye world.
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@literaryeric
Here’s another one… If you and my son were in a burning building and I can only save one, who do I save? Answer: My son. Sorry Eric. See how dumb this hypothetical is? Also if the fetus isn’t a human, what is it? A canine? A feline?
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Gosh, I didn’t know babies couldn’t experience pain until 28 weeks or not even up until they’re born! Wow. I’m going to have to get with my level IV NICU director so we can stop worrying about pain assessments, pain scales, pain meds... We’ve been wasting so much time!
Research has shown a fetus does not yet have the capacity to experience pain until at least the third trimester, and unlikely until birth.
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I can take care of a baby born with her intestines outside of her body, insert the smallest size IV in a baby with veins so tiny I have to put glasses on to see them, and take care of a 1 pound baby after abdominal surgery.
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Looks like I need to figure out homeschooling. We’re not doing the public school distance learning bull crap again.
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I’m going to need everyone to calm the hell down about the covid-19 mutation. Viruses mutate. That’s literally their job. It’s actually mutating slower than expected. And it’s not making anyone sicker.
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My daughter: In music I got an S, and it wasn’t in behavior, but that doesn’t even make sense because I take voice lessons.
Me: Maybe you don’t try hard in class.
My daughter: No. I sing so good that everyone just stares at me.
My daughter is
@JesseKellyDC
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The student who was with me today saw the newborn size blood pressure cuff and said, “oh that’s so little”, so I showed her a 500gm baby. She said she didn’t think babies less than 24 weeks could survive. Now she knows and I think she’s gonna be a NICU nurse soon. 💞
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Hey Obstetricians,
STOP telling moms they
need to abort their
babies because they
may not be “perfect”.
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I am a grown ass woman and I will quietly sneak off onto my front porch to drink whiskey and smoke a cigarette after a hard day at work if I want to.
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We have been planning and preparing since this started. We are prepared for the worst. What people who don’t work in the hospitals need to do is follow their medical professionals recommendations and stop causing panic.
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I really need to stop engaging with people who think death for a baby is better than a life that *might* have some degree of imperfection.
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Update: He stopped for gas and it was 3 cents cheaper per gallon than the cheapest other gas stations he passed for a total savings of 0.525 cents. He was thrilled. He said, “Well, I can buy a soda pop with that!” No dad you can’t.
My dad is on empty and keeps passing gas stations because he thinks he can find a better deal. Lordt.
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The baby I’ve been primary nurse for since he was 1lb is going home soon! I’m making him a graduation cap, but which top? Number of days in the NICU and the cute ‘lifetime ahead of me’ phrase or signatures from RN’s, NNP’s, Neos, RT’s?
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I have nothing to do for a little while so I’m posting all the cutest baby videos tiktok decided I needed to see.
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Neonatal nursing is: measuring a baby in centimeters, putting a tiny needle in a vein slightly bigger than the size of a hair, doing cpr with 2 fingers, putting baby on moms chest after a 3 week wait, comforting a baby withdrawing from heroine.
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@Sjanderson86
@DrJenGunter
Had 3 babies and never did the OB at any point in my pregnancies refer to them as ‘embryo‘ or ‘fetus’. Not once. It was always, “your baby”. But they were wanted. When the baby is unwanted: IT IS A FETUS NOT A BABY!
🙄
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Your blood does not circulate around those little arms and legs. Your blood is separate from the babies blood. There is a blood-placental barrier. I thought everyone knew this. I guess not.
@ALReproRightsAd
@TheRaDR
Loving this. Yes. When I'm pregnant, that's not a person inside me. It's organs I've grown, like my spleen. MY second heart that beats, MY blood that circulates around these new arms and legs. If it was foreign my body would reject it.Birth is what changes that. Cutting the cord.
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I think we need a thread of quotes from liberals explaining why Roe v Wade was such a horrible decision…
“A heavy-handed judicial intervention [that] was difficult to justify and appears to have provoked, not resolved, conflict."
-Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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I witnessed a miracle today. I can’t talk about it because of HIPAA but just know that abortions after 20 weeks are just not okay.
They need to stop.
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Can y’all please pray for all the parents with covid who cannot come in and see their babies? They’re handling it really well and we FaceTimed a ton, but still I can’t imagine.
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I actually don’t know that much about ending babies lives. My job is the exact opposite. Saving their lives.
@BeccCobain
@Sjanderson86
The umbilical cord. It’s standard procedure if you knew anything at all about how abortions are performed. 🙄
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I’d rather fetishize motherhood than fetishize abortion.
My God.
Stop fetishizing motherhood and imposing your values on others
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@JesseKellyDC
Nurses and other staff can go back to work in the NICU 5 days after having covid.
Parents of the babies in the NICU have to wait 10 days.
Nothing makes sense.
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Who the hell eats dinner at 5pm??? My husband and children are literally nursing home residents.
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I asked a large group of NICU nurses in online forum what they thought about Sotomayor saying only a gross minority of doctors believe fetal pain exists before 24-25 weeks.
Here’s what they said.
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Sex is great but have you gone to a grocery store in a big liberal city without a mask? I need a cigarette now.
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PSA: Newborns do not need a chiropractor. They don’t need adjustments. Stop doing that.
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Aww, he was born 4 months early weighing less than a pound and now he’s turning 5 years old. 💙
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Man, a 1 pound baby wore me out physically & mentally today. I had to start IV’s on her, gently remove tape from her face, pull out an old suction catheter and insert a new one, change her pulse in monitoring from one foot to the next and no matter how careful I was it hurt her.
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My 1st non-living insentient ball of cells sucking his thumb at 19 weeks and 4 days. He also had the hiccups during this ultrasound. 🤗
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Talked to a manager at a clothing store that has reopened and allowing 25% of normal shoppers at a time. She said employees are calling and complaining they don’t want to go back to work. They want the store to stay closed and keep collecting unemployment. 🤨
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Mom of
#22weeker
twins in Canada was told while she was in labor, “there is nothing that can be done, the twins will be born today and they will die.”
Her twins are now healthy one year olds. Hospitals need to stop doing this. 22 week babies are viable.
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"I narrowly escaped the Titanic. It was cold. And I remember thinking, 'holy crap.'"
#BrianWilliamsMisremembers
http://t.co/cp2SAK452N
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I’m going to post this last thread about late term abortion and then I’m done for awhile. It’s too much. It’s unbearable that these babies are being aborted late in pregnancy for the same disabilities that we treat in NICU’s across the country.
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Just got home from letting my 15 year old drive on 2 different highways so I’ve earned this.
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I just read the third trimester abortion page on Dr. Hern’s website for the 1st time. He mentions Down Syndrome, spina bifida, and hydrocephalus as reasons for third trimester abortions.
Abortions 28 weeks to 40 weeks.
Abortions on babies who might have a disability.
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Good morning to everyone except the NICU’s not allowing a parent to visit.
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Raise you hand if you think Hamilton looks boring and you have no desire to watch it.
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