Oh baby baby

I am delirious with lack of sleep, my face looks like a reject from madame tussards and I am walking like a zombie with piles...Yes I have had a baby.  This is the first time I have been alone since Friday when I went into labour, and it feels very weird. I am twitchy without the addictive smelling small person in the room , who is being walked around by the husband and his v happy to be (grand) parents while I am supposed to be catching up on sleep...errr so I thought I'd go on the internet instead.

I have so far discovered the following:

Labour REALLY hurts...
Breastfeeding is not straightforward or as easy as it looks in the lovely pictures
I had forgotten just how peculiar I am when short on sleep
Hospital food is better than you think
Midwives and doctors at St Thomas's Hospital are fabulous
It's true that your own baby is the most beautiful thing you have ever seen.
A man who manages to find you lovely slices of cucumber when you are in labour and that's all you fancy eating is worth holding onto.

Normal (ish) service will resume soon.

askhat xx

Twitter time

Hello AskHat,

I am trying to be all multi-media ...please could you tell me how to embed a Twitter/email link into my blog? I would like to do this without having to use one of those ugly/naff Twitter buttons.

Thank you

That's Not My Age http://thatsnotmyage.blogspot.com/

The very lovely that'snotmyage (did you see her mentioned in Stella mag BTW) emailed me with this cry for help the other other day, bemoaning the clunky twitter sign she had on the website. I had a little investigation, and found that you can choose from about 16 different options - including the choice of using the royal we, or me, for you followers. It is still a naff twitter button, but about a third of the size of the one tnmya is using at the moment. The link is below, for anyone else who's had trouble linking through to twitter - but any information on better/bespoke versions gratefully received as always...

http://twitter.com/goodies/buttons#