Did you have a pregnancy journal?

krissymac · August 2010

I picked up a pregnancy journal and filled out all of the dates all the way to my EDD about a week before I had a m/c. Thank goodness I used pencil. I'm about to sit down with a glass of wine and start erasing.........

OpheliaChem · August 2010

I was going to make a scrapbook of my pregnancy. I only started one page before my loss. However, I decided to finish the page anyway. I only have a few things to document (EDD, how I told DH, etc) but it was still our first pg and we will always remember it as such.

I also started a baby journal with the idea that I would document each step of our pregnancy in writing to our LO so that some day he/she could look back on it and know what mom and dad were thinking. I only wrote one entry to our LO before the loss :-( I'm including that in the scrapbook.

I'm sorry for your loss and for having to erase. I know the feeling...I had the weeks marked in my calendar (also in pencil) and had to erase them as well.

a&b=him&me · August 2010

I didn't and I so wish that I did. I started a blog a couple weeks before I lost Evelyn, but I wish I had the actual Journal. If I get another BFP I am doing one - Im doing everything I didn't do.

luckymrs. · August 2010

Please think twice before you erase. Just be sure; I don't want you to regret it later. Totally up to you (of course).

I had a Belly Book that I was keeping for the baby. I had written in all the weeks of pregnancy so far, and the corresponding details the book calls for. I also had already ordered the actual weekly belly photos before mc (of course they arrived in the mail 2 days after mc--great timing).

I'm keeping the Book on my bookshelf. I feel like it's a memorial to the baby, and to his/her short existence.

I had delayed in buying/starting the book at the beginning of pregnancy (because of some warning signs that said this may not be a viable pregnancy), but am so glad I decided to do it anyway.

One of my post-mc sobfests was when I realized that this Belly Book will never actually belong to a baby--only to me and DH. That did break my heart.

Whatever you decide to do, GL. ((hugs))

Karen1998 · August 2010

I don't have one, but I have been working on a miscarriage scrapbook as a way of working through the grieving process. I call it, "My Story of You" as really, that's what it is. Though my pregnancy was short, I do have three sonograms (since I was having issues from fairly early on) and I did keep my original pee stick (out of laziness as I never threw it away), so that has gone in there too. I figure it's a way for me to express my feelings about what happened and my love for the baby and to also help me work through the grief process. I'm also normally a supply hoarder but have made myself use even my most 'special' supplies on this project as a way of honoring my baby.

court2211 · August 2010

I didn't have a pregnancy journal but am starting a "Our Journey" journal that will start with baby #1 and have the sonogram and then journal until we get our take home baby.

itsmevkb · August 2010

I've had one for each of my pregnancies with the exception of the last one. Going back and reading the 14 weeks of entries from the pregnancy when I lost my son is just heartbreaking. I am glad that I have it but it makes me very sad.

With my last pregnancy I decided that I wouldn't rush out and buy a journal, as I had done the previous times, and instead would buy one once I was in my second trimester. Unfortunately, I didn't make it that far.

Hope you enjoyed your wine.

shanna82 · August 2010

I did and I used pencil also. But I decided to pack it away with my u/s pictures. I couldn't imagine trying to re-use it for my next pg.

Lorange-8 · August 2010

I started a scrapbook but haven't been able to bring myself to finish it. I did have a calendar of all the milestone and doctors appointments and stuff but that was packed away with all of her stuff.

jesslw · August 2010

I have a Belly Book I filled out in every way for every week, in pen, up until week 10 when I lost my baby at 10 weeks 2 days. DH gathered up every pregnancy book, journal, BFP pee stick and be band in a shopping bag after I blindly walked past everything and dropped into bed for a day and a half. I only mc'd two days ago so my feelings may change, but right now I fully intend to burn everything in that bag.

twig89 · August 2010

I had one. I started filling it out as soon as I knew we were pregnant and was very faithful at continuing it. I also have my weekly belly pics and a pic of my BFP. I shoved everything into a bag along with all of my pregnancy books and name books and prenatal vitamins. I will most likely keep the journal as a memory but for now it's hidden. I don't feel like dealing with any of that stuff right now.

Galena99 · August 2010

I had one that I started in pen. I don't know what to do with it. I don't want to throw it away, but it is painful to look at. I don't think I could use it again even if i did write in pencil. I feel like getting rid of it would be like getting rid of the baby and saying that it never exsisted. Maybe I will pack it away in the basement.

EEachen · August 2010

I had been writing a daily journal and the day I started mc I put it in the closet. I thought about burning it, but I couldn't bare to just toss it away like that. I may actually gather everything up and put it in a nice memorial box or something like that.

s5m9j · August 2010

I started a blog around 5 weeks that followed my pregnancy. It has now turned into my miscarriage blog. DH wouldn't let me by any pregnancy journals because we started having complications around 6 weeks. He wanted to make it to 12 weeks before we bought one.

camdenfaithful · August 2010

I kept a google doc (lame I know) of everything that was going on. I kept a little spreadsheet of how I was feeling each day and anything notable. I also kept another doc that followed the formula of polls asked weekly on the bump boards, cravings, weight gain, showing, belly button, etc etc.

I wasn't going to let myself buy a journal until after my 8w appointment but unfortunately that was the appointment where it all went downhill.

Temp38995750004016 · August 2010

I did. I threw mine away though. It was better/easier for me to deal that way.

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