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It’s been a rough week.
Tuesday night, I had really bad cramping, but still not a lot of blood. Wednesday night, I officially miscarried. I had no idea it would be so bad. You read online that a miscarriage usually consists of “cramping worse than your period.” What they don’t say is that you have full-on […]

is what happens when you’re not knocked up anymore.
Yes, dear reader, I have miscarried. Or rather, I’m still in the process of miscarrying. It seems to be an incredibly drawn out. process for me. I’ve been spotting on and off since Saturday–not much, but enough. My hcg levels are down from 8500 to 100 and […]

None of this has seemed quite real to Steve because I didn’t have the doctor’s word that I’m pregnant–but I went in last Thursday, and it’s now official. I am about 8 weeks, not 10; the online calculators count from the date of your last period rather than the date of conception. The only worrying […]

Where has this stuff been? I’m not a milk drinker, but oh my god, I can’t get enough of it.

“So,” my mother said with a goofy grin on her face when she learned I was pregnant, “are you and Steve finally going to get married?”
“Probably not,” I said, blithely dashing her hopes to the ground. “There’s really no point.”
She was silent for a moment and then started trotting out various arguments about why we […]

It’s early days yet–I’m only about 8 weeks pregnant, but I’m not very good about not telling anyone, so why not just tell the world? (Helloooo …..) I never thought I wanted kids, but back in April had a chemical pregnancy–and then we decided why not? From then to now, I’ve been ambivalent about it, […]