A pregnant Sea Wench

Miscarriage, pregnancy and a solid meat and egg aversion!

Welcome February, and welcome you! January was slow for me in all parts of life, but especially the cooking and writing corners that I usually mull in regularly. I’ve been focusing on a wee baby that I’ve been growing for almost 8 months, and even though this little one is still womb-side they are taking up most time! Do you know how many naps and snacks a pregnant woman needs? It’s a lot, and it turns out growing a baby is a pretty much full time job. I am very grateful that I get to be home for a large part of this pregnancy and really could not imagine being a nurse on 12+ hour shift work in her second and third trimesters of pregnancy. My bonnet goes off to those wonder women, you are another breed of amazing.

So, thank you for being patient with me, and I sincerely hope to get you some recipes in the next week or so while I tackle postpartum meal prep, which I’ve been very keen to get started on. Call me a prepper, or perhaps a textbook Capricorn but nothing brings me quite as much joy as having all of my ducks in a row and a freezer full of nutritious food for any event, whether it be the birth of our first babe or the last days on Earth as we know it.

Pregnancy loss

I waited a long time to announce this pregnancy after 2 years of trying to conceive following the loss of our first pregnancy. No one can prepare you for the heartache of losing a pregnancy at what ever stage you are at. Not only is there the gut-wrenching physical loss of the baby you loved from the second you knew you were carrying them, but there is the loss of everything you assumed would be; all of those sweet daydreams of your baby that sent you to sleep each night, all of the ideas you had about how your future was going to unfold with your little one in tow, yet most of all, and one I struggled with, was the robbing of that blissful naivety that comes with a first issue-free pregnancy that I knew I would never experience again. That was hard, thick and gloopy grief to navigate.