Avery

Welcome. This blog was originally intended to be our baby blog, chronicling our journey through the process from the first positive pregnancy test forward. Sadly, the story took a different course than we

So, now it's mid-December and it has been about three months since we lost our precious Avery. We are still grieving and recognize a part of us will always be grieving. It has

So, Evan and I told everyone who knew that we were pregnant about the miscarriage with in the first couple days after the first of the news. We then updated everyone that the

I have undoubtedly never in my life been so blessed by the caring of others than during this season. I am tearful just remembering it. We had 2 of our friends bring us

Since telling people of the miscarriage, Jessi and I have been incredibly blessed by a pair of sisters in law who each brought us food to last for days while we’re dealing

Over the next few days, my heart just ached at the loss of our baby, but simultaneously, I did not feel sure of the doctors decision that this was a miscarriage. They did

On September 15, we were scheduled for our second ultrasound to date how old our baby actually was. Evan has been wonderful and has gone with me to every single appointment since we

Week seven was the last week we took of pregnancy photos, so it wasn't a very long run. Jessi had wanted me to go back and do something for week five, then photoshop

Here is a precious montage video that Evan put together of all of the special moments where we told our friends and family that we were able to catch on video. They didn't

Jessi had always wanted a chalkboard, and I had always wanted to get into chalk art, so we went out and bought one for making taking Pregnancy photos with. I had to warn

We've each had friends who have had special fetus nicknames for thier babies, including Brock and Melissa Weston's Squid. We thought it would be fun to have one to, so we quickly identified

So, we have been trying to wait to tell people that we are pregnant until after our next ultrasound where they will try again to date our pregnancy. The natural question after you

We weren’t sure what kind of pregnancy reveal presentation we wanted to do or what clothes we’d want for the growth pictures, so we took 19 pictures of different clothes and

At the end of our Skype session with Jessi’s parents on Wednesday, Miss Juli ended with, “Okay, I gotta go, there’s some things I need to go, there’s some things

Friday morning, after the ultrasound, we were scheduled to have a Skype session with Emily.  We called and told her that she could be Auntie Em, but not having seen The Wizard of

On Friday morning, we had our first ultrasound.  The baby was too small to be dated.  In fact, we weren’t able to see the baby at all, just the gestational sac (dark

Note that posts from here on are written after we confirmed the miscarriage, which results in a different speaking tone.  However, I wanted to go back and complete the writing to capture the

August 25, 8:00 am – The Baystate Ob/Gyn Group is supposed to open at 8am, so we called at 8am and were treated to a message about what to do in case

On the ride back from Columbus to New York, there was plenty of time to discuss exciting facts about the baby, including the likelihood that the baby was currently about the size of

August 24, 7:58am Now confident that we have a postive prenancy test, Jessi and I head back into the hotel room and look for the right opportunity to tell my parents, one

August 24th, 7:42am The morning after Julie and Cliff’s wedding celebration, Jessi and I are at the Hampton Inn and Suites in Polaris, just north of Columbus, OH. We were getting