Tiny NICU things thread!

Born to be a hater Forced to spend 12 hours putting pacifiers back in tiny mouths

The 5 shifts before several weeks of PTO feel like Sisyphean tasks. Please don’t make me do the job I worked hard to get and train for!!! It’s hateful to do this to me.

When the cold and gelatinous umbilical cord touches your bare arm: 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

Living in Boston rules because where else can you wait in line behind an old guy dressed as Benjamin Franklin at Dunkin’ Donuts?

The burden of competence is heavy.

What is the last book that made you cry? I'll go first:

Who is ready for some unhinged night shift postssssssss

I hate AI more than I hate Cybertrucks and that is saying A LOT.

Just saw a TT of someone saying that they chose to have a home birth to protect their child from the ~*~*horrors*~*~ of a birth certificate and social security number.

GET YER PARTY HATS

HBD @ragesinggoddess.bsky.social !

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My favorite part of boarding my cat while I am out of town is that she inexplicably smells like cinnamon potpourri upon being returned to me every single time.

If you are in graduate school: the sooner you accept that no one, absolutely no one is doing ALL the assigned reading every week, the more at peace you will be.

In lieu of current events, I am also announcing a shut down, but of my nervous system.

What it’s like being friends with me:

What’s it like to have something other than a damp overcooked noodle for a mayor?

Signed up to be on a panel for the newly matriculated students in my grad program and lol, lmao even. Motivating speeches? You won’t find that here, girls and boys!

No one: Absolutely no one: Me: if I’m on a vent for two weeks with no hope of recovery just unplug me Everyone: 😦😦😦😦😦

It’s 54° and I turned my heated mattress pad on 🔥

I think the reason Portland is such a bugbear to the right is that they are confused and upset by the idea that the whitest metropolitan city in the US hates them *that intensely*

They brought it back!!

Happy O.P.I “Lincoln Park After Dark” season to all who celebrate.

I am so sick of people vaping on public transit.

Classic night shift brain: making an appointment for your cat to get a vaccine she's already up to date on and actually showing up at the vet's office when you could have been sleeping.

Absolutely fuming at the AACN's neonatal CCRN review course for using the term "drug mother" to describe someone with a substance use disorder who is pregnant.

Catching COVID is not a moral failure. At the same time, I can tell you that it is possible to do some unavoidable travel during a surge while taking precautions and not catch it. Two things can be true.

Me, every time I watch GBBO: ROLL UP YER DAMN SLEEVES

Only those victimized by clinical research will understand

Petition for there to be a diaper size between micropreemie and preemie. Or for there to be little suspenders for babies on CPAP who have big bellies and no butt that wiggle out of their diapers and poop all over their swaddles :)))))

The minimum number of vaccines in order to attend school in Ohio through 12th grade without an exemption (not counting combination products): Hep B - 3 Varivax - 2 MMR - 2 IPV (polio) - 3 DTaP - 4 Tdap -1 Meningitis - 2 Total - 17 Not required: Hib, Prevnar, HPV, Hep A, Rota, MenB, Flu, Covid

Another day another shift being bullied to hell and back by a < 2.5 lb preemie.

This is one of the most amazing discoveries of our time.

Happy Libra season to all who love Swoon.

Good news: I finally slept more than 4 hours Bad news: It was at night and I have to go work a night shift

Is it because you aren’t waking up again after taking this, or……?

My beloved planner has been discontinued 😔

NICU babies be like:

What it’s like being friends with me:

NICU babies when their pacifier falls out of their mouth

Just got off work and my phone battery is at 93% if that’s any indication if how my night went.

AI is the future!!! The future:

Time to go pick up my psych meds at the pharmacy where I work, with the money I get from the hospital to do work that causes me moral distress and aggravates my mental illnesses 🤘

SwoonCat has a great sense of humor this morning.

stop asking me for contact info for a discount before I've even had a chance to look at the merchandise! Stop sending me messages every single day about products on your site, especially if I bought a thing that should last for a while!

STOP MAKING ME DOWNLOAD APPS TO USE YOUR SERVICE STOP MAKING ME GIVE YOU MY EMAIL AND PHONE NUMBER FOR A DISCOUNT

What else should I make my entire personality?

I think I ate my way out of lactose intolerance