After a less than ideal fertile window, where I came down with a cold and thought ‘no way did I ovulate this week.’ I started to feel funny. I was craving sugar and kept feeling dull cramps days before my period was even due. I don’t get cramps before my period, I really don’t have…
trying to conceive
It’s Your Body: My Experience Using Cytotec to Complete a Miscarriage
*TRIGGER WARNING* The following is a discussion of pregnancy loss and complications. In a perfect world we’d never have to discuss the possibility of miscarriage or the need for medical interventions to complete miscarriages. But we live in a fallen world and positive pregnancy tests don’t always result in bouncing babies. Between 15-25% of pregnancies…
TTC Baby #2: Losing Jelly Bean
“Though he brings grief, he will show compassion, so great is his unfailing love. For he does not willingly bring affliction or grief to anyone.” Lamentations 3:32-33 (NIV) Sometimes despite all the prayers, God doesn’t answer our prayers the way we would hope. In the moment it’s normal to feel hurt and confused, maybe even…
Slimming for the Sibling: Trying for Baby #2
I want to say that I’ve been trying to slim for the sibling since 6 months postpartum but really I was just trying to slim so people wouldn’t think I’ve been sitting around stuffing my face with cheese doodles. If you read my post last month about my body image right now then you know…
So I’m Having a Miscarriage
We hadn’t been trying really. Sure I was tracking my cycles but I had been doing that since I went off the pill a year and a half ago. I wanted to make sure that I knew when my periods were happening and with what frequency because doctors tend to want to know those things….