So, how are things with you?
It’s been an eventful number of months for us.
Anyone that has read our previous blog posts has read about our difficulties we have had with our pregnancies. Shortly after the last post I made, we had another miscarriage — our third. I had posted before how I thought that changing our diet enabled us to get our hormones back in check and was probably responsible for the pregnancies. We had tried for many years without becoming pregnant, and then suddenly two pregnancies in just a few months, something seemed to be different. We could now get pregnant, we just were having problems after that.
The third miscarriage was rough on us. We had been to the OBGYN and even heard the heartbeat of our baby just a few days before it happened. It seems that it wasn’t meant to be. I did not want to come on here and write about it again. It was depressing. I didn’t feel like coming on and cleaning out the hundreds of spam comments this blog receives each week. I just kind of gave up on it.
In April of this year, Amanda got pregnant again. We were nervous. We had been through it before, and were hoping for the best but expecting the worst. Our three prior miscarriages had occurred right around 6 weeks. We waited for the 6 weeks mark. Then 7 weeks. Then 8 weeks. And as time went on, our nervousness waned and turned into excitement. Months passed without incident. We heard our baby on the doppler and saw the baby growing on the ultrasounds.
As I write this, Amanda is 6 months pregnant. We’re expecting a little girl named Ava at the end of the year. Here’s her pic:
I was wondering where you guys had wandered off to, not blogging for so long. However, I understand your reasons.
Glad to see a post from you! CONGRATS on your bun in the oven! You will be awesome parents!
Hi Erin. Thank you very much.
To be honest (and I know it seems kind of silly), but the whole situation kind of made us feel like failures. We were having all this great success with the diet, and we still had such a terrible problem. It was depressing to think about posting about it, but ignoring it seemed like doing a disservice to people who may be reading and struggling with the same issues.
Right now we’re very hopeful and very happy with the way things are going.
CONGRATS! that is quite incredible.
Thank you Chuck. We’re thrilled.
What wonderful news! Thanks for sharing it, I will be sending all the love and prayers I can muster for a smooth, happy birth for all 3 of you!
Wow that is just excellent! Congratulations to you guys! Can you talk a bit about what kinds of changes you made to your diet and lifestyle that might have played a role in precipitating this?
Congrats! I seriously get so excited when I read about other couples who are able to get pregnant after going primal. I had tried for 6 years with no luck, went primal in February of 2011, and by April I was pregnant. I had a little girl in December of last year and she is almost a year old now. It’s so hard to find much information about eating primal during pregnancy and raising children on a primal diet. So, it makes me smile when I run into others who are doing it too. Best of luck to you both!
Hi Carrie,
When we first started paleo we really weren’t thinking that it would help with getting pregnant. We were just trying to lose weight and get healthy. It seems to have helped though, as within a few months we were pregnant.
Congratulations to you too.
While we still ended up having two other miscarriages after going paleo, I think the diet gave us the opportunity to get pregnant to begin with. We’re really excited and really looking forward to having our first.