Naturally Getting Pregnant

Last week was a week like no other.
Monday started off with mid-cycle mystery cramps and bleeding that sent me straight to the gynecologist. Turns out I was pregnant and this was a miscarriage. Strangely enough this was all OK with me. A miscarriage stinks, yes, but emotionally, I was relieved to know what was wrong [...]

I find myself here…again.
I’m having a miscarriage, but it may be worse – yes, there is a worse – it could be another ectopic pregnancy.
My HCG values which should be going down since I am miscarrying have decided instead to stay the same. On Monday the value was 125 and on Wednesday it was 142. [...]

Last week in my blog about upgrading my fertility diet, I wrote about the “occasional bout of fatigue” that I still had. Well it turns out that those occasional bouts of fatigue were due to the fact that I was pregnant and had a miscarriage.
How could someone who is trying so hard to conceive not [...]

Why do I want to upgrade a fertility diet that has done such amazing things for my body so far – like shorten my menstrual cycles, increase my energy, eliminate my acne and regulate my digestive system?
Because it seems like there’s still a piece of the puzzle missing.
My cycles are still too long (at 36 [...]

“We need to talk tonight.”
“About what?”
“Reviewing our fertility plan.”
Silence. A sigh. “Yes, let’s do that.”
This is not how either my husband or I really wanted to spend our Monday night – settling into an oversized movie chair for Ron Howard’s new movie, Frost/Nixon, sounded way better. But we both know the effects of making and [...]