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The last month has been full of both intense excitement and extreme grief. The post is long, because these weeks have been long and weary, but there is a sweet picture at the end.
If you follow me on Twitter, you’ll remember that one of Eric’s childhood dogs passed away shortly before we left for our [...]
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It wasn’t until I had the first miscarriage that I learned how horribly common pregnancy loss was. I was floored–it is so common, yet I felt utterly alone. I told very few people in real life about our loss. It was private and I didn’t think there was a way or reason to share it [...]
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I’m nearly at the 17 week mark of this pregnancy, and I’m leaving for BlogHer in New York on Thursday.
When I bought the pass to BlogHer much earlier this year, I did it with the intent of alleviating what I thought would be a stressful August. August is a bit of a loaded month for [...]
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Right now this keyboard is about 20 feet from my husband’s sleeping parents. 27 days ago we had 2,000 miles separating us. That’s a radical shift, no?
After the August miscarriage I felt a bit crushed by how little support we got from family even though we lived not too far from them. I do [...]
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Today is Mother’s Day, and I feel like I should have something to say about it. Growing up, it always meant scrambling the day before to find or make a card for my mom. The day of my brother, sister, and I would go to church then go have lunch with my mom’s mom while [...]
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The Geek pointed out that my last post could be seen as extra mopey, but I really didn’t mean for it to. We were both cracking up when we read it, actually. His grandma doesn’t know better, because she doesn’t even know that we’re trying to have a baby, so it made it that much [...]
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I should never mention any kind of illness to the Geek’s amazingly sweet grandma (who is mailing tortillas our way), who has no idea about the miscarriages, because this will be the response:
…People at Alamo said they would be all right to ship by regular mail, so please let me know when you get them. [...]
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I’ve never really trusted doctors.
As a kid, I used to get searing pain in my upper back. I was incredibly active–I trained several days a week in Tae Kwon Do, and I even won the state championship in sparring. So yes, active. I saw at least 4 doctors for that pain, and was prescribed everything [...]
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