The Beginning

I am a 29 year-old broadcast technician that works in live television news by day and organizes Pagan community by night.  Baby Daddy (my husband Sean) and I met when he walked into my apartment in September of 2009 to take a class that I was offering on Wicca.  Eventually, we became best friends and realized we were in love with each other.  We started dating in November of 2011, just a few months before we found out about our little bun in the oven!

On January 31, 2012, my moon time (Pagan for menstrual cycle) was well over a week late, so I took a pregnancy test.  It came out negative.  That Saturday, February 4th, my moon time still hadn't started, so I took another pregnancy test, which came out positive!  That night, I took a 2nd test, which also came out positive.  And, then on the following Tuesday, I took another test, which also came out positive.  I was pregnant! 

What makes my husband and I different from a lot of people is that we believe that the U.S. food system and U.S. medical systems are not set up to naturally provide the proper care and nutrition that humans need for optimum health and livelihood.  We believe that good health starts with the things we put into our bodies and getting enough exercise.  Most of the foods made available are not made with real food, and in fact, they contain chemicals that are harmful to humans, cause cancers, and result in diseases and early death.  They do this because it is cheaper than making real food, and this chemical-laden food contains (poisonous) preservatives that help it last longer on the store shelf. Our water supply is purposefully poisoned with fluoride under the guise that it's good for our teeth, but it's not.  It's a waste product of industry that is cheaply disposed of in our water supply.  The U.S. has an infatuation with plastic, which leeches poisonous chemicals into our water and food.  Hospitals treat symptoms and don't look for the cause of illnesses, so they are typically only good for emergency medicine.  Doctors prescribe an ungodly amount of pharmaceuticals for little good reason, which are just chemicals that scientists say they think will treat a set of symptoms.  Those drugs come with their own list of side effects that are often worse than the symptoms they are trying to treat, and they don't actually fix the cause of those symptoms.  It is up to people to be educated and informed about the world around them.  We have to be constantly aware of what we put into our bodies.

It is every parents' wish that their newborn baby is as healthy as possible.  Sean and I think that our bun in the oven ended up with a super set of parents who are committed to optimum health in our family. Right now, everything that I do or eat affects our little one.  I am trying to give him/her the best nutrition that I can.  I think the body  makes that a little hard, because I can only eat about five foods right now without wanting to throw up.  But, my body is trying to give him/her a lot of good fat so that will grow a big baby brain!  I don't like taking supplements, because they're not real food, but Babby Daddy talked me into finding a whole food, organic prenatal vitamin.  I think that I did all right: