Obligatory pregnant lady post #2
One thing my mother’s been asking me is if I’m having any strange pregnancy cravings. Apparently they can happen at any stage. I don’t know if this makes me weird, but I’ve always been about food cravings. Some days I have needed fish, or chicken, or beef. It’s almost always savoury — I’m not a chocolate and cake kind of person, never have been.
So craving something isn’t a new experience for me. But these days, I’ve started wanting to eat things like ice cream relatively often (about once or twice a week). Do you know how hard it is to get plain old chocolate chip ice cream at the supermarket? It’s either vanilla or something super-fancy. Very uncool.
And to top it all off, as I was wolfing down a pretty big dinner (by my standards) recently, I suddenly started thinking — pancakes, I want pancakes. And tinned peaches. So although it was freezing and we don’t have a car, we walked the 30 minutes to the supermarket. And then we went home and I had pancakes and tinned peaches. Neil is so good to me. Heh.
(I suspect I do not normally eat much sugar, so my body is needing extra calories to keep my energy up. Gummy bears and cola bottles are pretty popular with me at the moment, too.)
Yeah, I wanted avocados and meat (esp hamburgers) when I was preggo with Alexander. I don’t remember anything as specific with Suzanna. Glad to hear you have a healthy appetite and I think it’s very sweeeeeet that Neil is accomodating your cravings :)
I think I’m being very suggestible with food at the moment. Both you and my sister have mentioned avocados in the last two days, so now I want one. With bacon.
Neil is secretly very sweet and concerned about me. Heh.
Try to moderate it a little with a steady stream of healthier stuff. A few years ago I read about a study that seemed to imply what pregnant women eat can influence the type of foods the child craves. Poached chicken breast and bok choy, yum! ;)
I read (or saw on TED) something similar recently. This kid is going to love cheese.