Cravings, Pregnancy, Pregnant After a Late Loss, Pregnant After a Loss

OMG

Yeah, that's pretty much what I'm feeling right now. My food aversion to vegan ice cream is replaced with a healthy, almost insane appetite for bacon. Not the healthy, fat-free turkey bacon I always eat. No. I want the pork. A lot of it. All of it. Just bring me a wheelbarrow full of bacon and I'll love you forever. [caption id="attachment_60" align="aligncenter" width="300"] This is a bacon funnel cake. Me
Cravings, Pregnancy, Pregnant After a Late Loss, Pregnant After a Loss

I Can’t Go For That

It just occurred to me that when I set up this blog, I didn't allow comments. So for everyone who tried to leave a comment but couldn't, I apologize. You can do so now. So today I had my first food aversion. Something that I previously enjoyed to my heart's content and well, not for a long while. Well, at least not until December. Vegan ice cream. Yes, you read that right.
Cerclage, Pregnant After a Late Loss, Pregnant After a Loss

Bittersweet Symphony

When I had a blog on myspace, I used to name my entries with song titles. I think I'll carry that tradition over here. I spoke with Dr. Davis on late Thursday evening. I give him respect for returning my call so late since I'm based in Los Angeles and he's in New Jersey. We had a lengthy conversation about the TVCIC, the different types of cerclages, and what he
Cerclage, Pregnancy, Pregnant After a Late Loss, Pregnant After a Loss

Paging Dr. Davis…Paging Dr. Davis

This pregnancy, I'm not taking any chances. I'm working from home, so there's no need for me to go into the office.  I'm drinking a ton of water, which isn't a change from what I was already doing. But the biggest change is getting a cerclage. A preventative cerclage. I know there's the TVC (transvaginal cerclage), but I just don't trust the success rate (75-85%). I need something a little
Pregnancy, Pregnancy Week by Week, Pregnant After a Late Loss, Pregnant After a Loss

My pregnancy week-by-week: Week 4

I love doing the pregnancy comparisons per week. It's neat to see a photo to see what my little Yoda looks like. Yes, I named my little bean 'Yoda'. It just fits. So Yoda is the size of a poppyseed, those little itty-bitty black things on the bagel in the picture. So crazy. I have little poppyseed Yoda inside of me. According to Parents.com: Your fertilized egg, known as a zygote, is
Acupuncture, Fertibella, Pregnancy, Pregnant After a Late Loss, Pregnant After a Loss, TTC

And so it begins…

After one year of trying, taking a break, trying again, doing away with the tempting and just said, 'eff it', I'm pregnant! A little background on me: I'm foxxy. You can call me foxxy. I started my TTC journey in December 2010. We suffered a miscarriage in April 2011 and fell pregnant again in July 2011. Our son, Ethan, was born prematurely at 22 weeks gestation on December 13, 2011