“I Eat Sand.” “Please Tell That To America!”

I think the first time I’m on national TV, I’m going to be telling the world that I eat sand. Sometimes. Just a little bit. See, when I was in California for Mom 2.0 a couple weeks ago, I had the chance to pitch a team of execs and producers and important people from HLN. [...]

My Body Keeps Having To Remind Me It’s Pregnant

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My body keeps having to remind me it’s pregnant. It’s quite inconvenient. I have stuff to do, yo. But, in the midst of this (nearly over) 2nd trimester energy surge, I tend to forget that I’m actually growing another living being inside me, and that that’s kind of a shitton of work. So then my [...]

Pica- It’s Back

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I want, I crave, I salivate thinking of eating a spoonful of wet sand. I would love to eat a couple pieces of chalk. I want these things more than anything else. More than pickles or ice cream, more than pizza or french fries. Nothing sounds as good to eat as sand and chalk. I’d even [...]

EXTREME Food Aversions While Pregnant – Was This You?

This is a post I’ve been meaning to write for a while, but I had to get out of the trenches before I felt safe enough to document it and ask about it. With all 3 pregnancies, I’ve never really got to the point of puking when I felt sick, save a couple times that [...]