My pre-pregnancy self had a healthy relationship with food: I like food, and enjoy making yummy food from healthy ingredients with a small amount of ok-in-moderation things like butter where appropriate.
So I was quite surprised when, mere days after finding out I was pregnant, I suddenly hated all and any food. I was appalled at the food in my fridge, the food Hubby wanted to eat, the food my coworkers ate just down the hall from my office. I couldn't bear the smell of it, the sight of it, or the thought of it. I was constantly on the verge of loosing whatever measly contents my stomach possessed at the time. I felt tricked by the name "morning sickness," especially at 2am. Food was not my friend.
After 4 months of saltines, I was relieved to find that food was slowly returning to its normal status in my life. I was so worried about not getting the nutrients the little one needed, and now I could finally eat the things I knew I should have been eating. Even though I had to avoid a number of my favorites (like sushi), things were slowly returning back to normal.
Fast forward till yesterday. Normally a healthy eater and shopper, I somehow returned home from a grocery store with: croissants, ice-cream, cream-puffs, a ton of milk, and pickles. Now, this is especially mean of me since Hubby cannot eat many of these things without getting sick, and my normal self would have definitely refrained from torturing him like this. So something is clearly altering my brain. Within less than 24 hours, almost a gallon of milk has disappeared, and the pickles have gone missing too. Am I going to be craving strawberries in the middle of January?
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ahh the joys of pregnancy. I used to hate McDonalds until I got pregnant. Then I ate it ALL the time.
I wonder what it is about dairy---once I got over the "morning" (more like "all f*cking day long") sickness, I craved anything and everything in the dairy family. (I *had* to have ice cream every night before bed!) Is there some evolutionary reason for it?
I suppose of all the cravings to have, milk would probably be one of the healthiest, right?
SM - I do find myself wanting fries occasionally, although that is normally not my thing. Weird, eh?
Jane - I too wonder about dairy. Especially since our little one is likely to be lactose intolerant and I will likely have to get off dairy entirely when I breastfeed. But maybe it is just a calcium craving?
UR - milk cravings are probably ok, but what I am really craving is ice cream and other types of cream :) I just try to have a glass of milk instead whenever I can talk myself into it. (Off to have some Real ice cream Right Now.)
That sounds just like me, from not being able to even hear the word "food" in the first trimester, to relatively normal in the second, to pigging out int he third trimester. Yes, very familiar. I just let my cravings do the talking and indulged. After my first pregnancy it only took me 3 months to get back into my tight jeans, after the second it took 6 months, after the third.... well, 4 years and counting.
Makita - I am just surprised how much my experience resembles the stereotypes! I am trying to be at least a little selective about the cravings, but it is tough!
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