Recently I changed up my Twitter name from my 3 1/2 years as lifeasaSAHM to dianawrote. I love it.

I have to admit, one of my hesitations doing this for a long time was how to change a twitter name and keep followers - without unlinking my former url (twitter.com/lifeasaSAHM) from everything and therefore disappearing to anyone who clicked the old link. Which after 3+ years, was linked up a lot of places.

Many of you asked how to do this, so I’ve listed with screenshots the easy way to do it, while also keeping your old url active and linked to your new one. Take a look at this quick and pretty simple way to change a twitter name and keep followers:

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First, log into your Twitter account and click on the settings tool, then the settings tab.

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If you’re an SNL fan like me, you probably read that title in Will Ferrell’s voice. If you’ve never seen the Weshly Arms Hotel skit, you’re in for a treat. 

People, my back and hips are killing me. Let me preface this by saying I am not complaining, just trying to be honest about what is going on and how it feels lately.

My pregnancy is pretty regular physically, except for this horrible pain. A few months ago, it was just my back. Like – in my spine. A pain so deep that you knew, you just knew if you could crack/pop it you’d be ok. Yet nothing helped. I figured it was simply me getting bigger, my stomach stretching and pulling, and the fact that my back has always hurt.

But then the pain started in my hips. Really, almost switching in a matter of days. It’s mostly on the left; meaning I can’t sleep, lay, or put much weight on that side at all.

Hello awkwardly trying to get on pants.

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You want to know what the worst part of this is?

Not the heat.

Not the lack of any moisture.

Not that it’s MID MAY and the hottest is yet to come.

Not even the fact that I can’t cool off in a pool thanks to pelvic rest.

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I wrote this over on Babble, because I wanted to. I didn’t want to rehash it here again, or write it twice, so it’s there. Maybe for an audience of women who don’t know that someone else feels the same way as them. I’ve been terrified to write it, quite honestly some of the comments/emails I’ve gotten lately have put a damper on me wanting to share the other (not so lovely) side of this pregnancy. But I wrote it anyway because it needed to be said. I’d love if you’d go over and read, but understand if you don’t. 

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It’s mostly at night. The nightmares that come with a pregnancy after loss haunt me unexpectedly, at random times. I’ll wake, gasping for air, still partially caught in the unconscious of sleep.

Perhaps the dream is of my water breaking. So I’ll lay very still, convinced if I don’t move, it won’t happen. Had I not gone back to the bathroom when I lost my twins, maybe I wouldn’t have lost them. I could have just held it in. As irrational as that is (and I know it) in the dark of the night it seems completely sane. So I don’t dare move. No matter how bad I have to pee, the terror of going through a loss all over again paralyzes me.

Until I finally am able to wake fully, and firmly tell myself that, water breaking or not, I’m going to have to get up at some point. I make myself throw my weight off the bed in an effort to shake the fear. Push it away. If it happens, I tell myself, it happens. Get over it.

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Today Bella is 3 1/2.

I can hardly believe it’s been 3 1/2 years since that night she was placed in my arms. All purply and quiet, looking at me like she knew who I was.

One of our awesome nurses had the presence of mind to capture a few shots of us together seconds after birth.

She was the most darling baby ever. I could be biased on that, but I remember marveling at how tiny she was (6lbs 12oz) and how perfect she was.

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