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Honest first-person pregnancy diary· 7 posts

Week 11, Day 6: The Week I Stopped Counting📔 Journal
13 MayEmily Journal1 min read

Week 11, Day 6: The Week I Stopped Counting

Week 11, day 6: 41 tabs open about choline. Then I cried in the cereal aisle, Jake made lentil soup, and I remembered I'm carrying a person, not running an experiment.

Week 10, Day 3: The Smell That Used to Be My Favorite📔 Journal
6 MayEmily Journal1 min read

Week 10, Day 3: The Smell That Used to Be My Favorite

I used to romanticize coffee. Now I can't walk into the kitchen when Jake's making espresso. A small Monday moment about losing the smell I loved — and what my body might already know.

Week 10, Day 2: My Baby Is Forming Tiny Fingernails Right Now📔 Journal
5 MayEmily Journal1 min read

Week 10, Day 2: My Baby Is Forming Tiny Fingernails Right Now

Week 10, Day 2 diary — a productive Monday with a client deadline, until I read one sentence on the internet that stopped me cold. Tiny fingernails. Already.

Week 10, Day 1: A Quiet Sunday with Prune📔 Journal
3 MayEmily Journal1 min read

Week 10, Day 1: A Quiet Sunday with Prune

Week 10 begins with stillness. A quiet Brooklyn Sunday with Jake, a phone call from Mom, and the baby — now the size of a prune.

Week 9 Day 7 : The Cottage Cheese Tastes Like Wet Drywall📔 Journal
2 MayEmily Journal1 min read

Week 9 Day 7 : The Cottage Cheese Tastes Like Wet Drywall

Week 9, Day 7 diary entry — Wednesday morning, one spoon of cottage cheese, and the very public collapse of yesterday's perspective. Pregnancy aversion is wild, and apparently universal.

Week 9, Day 6: I Bought the Cottage Cheese📔 Journal
28 AprEmily Journal1 min read

Week 9, Day 6: I Bought the Cottage Cheese

Week 9, Day 6 diary entry — the morning after my eleven-hour choline spiral. Cottage cheese, half-caf, a window-side breakfast, and what I'm choosing not to refresh today.

Week 9, Day 5: I Refreshed the Choline Tracker 30 Times Today📔 Journal
27 AprEmily Journal1 min read

Week 9, Day 5: I Refreshed the Choline Tracker 30 Times Today

Week 9 diary entry — my brain locked onto choline at 6:47 AM and didn't let go for eleven hours. Here's the chickpea-salad spiral.

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