there are a lot of myths about pregnancy out there that are propagated by media. the biggest one I found in terms of my own preggers time was the junk food craze. I did not find myself craving crappola at all. definitely not greasy, overheated fast food french fries, or heat lamp hamburgers. gross! What i did crave was fruit - almost any kind of fruit, esp grapefruit, fuji apples, cherries, strawberries or frozen natural strawberry fruit bars, blueberries, almost any berry, oranges, grapes, bananas, etc. Regina mentioned that all she wanted was salad in her first trimester.
you will also find yourself changing habits that you would never think. for me, it was ice in my drinks. i NEVER EVER drank water with ice. in fact at restaurants, i would actually sit there and scoop out my ice into william's glass. i never liked the feeling of my fillings shrinking as icy cold water hit them along with my teeth. well, turns out pregnancy raises your basal body temp just a bit. enough to make you feel hot a lot of the time, but at the same time, get cold easily i.e. indoors, i am down to a T-shirt. but step outside in 50 degree weather and even with a down jacket on, i start shivering almost right away. even now, in december, i am just fine with our thermostat at about 64 degrees. heater? who needs a heater! william walks in for lunch and is always freezing - for once, turning on the heater when i don't need it. i told him to enjoy the savings now b/c once junior is born, we'll probably have it at 69-70 at all times until he gets a little older. last night, i made myself a passionfruit/mango tea in a glass full of wonderful ice - LOVE that ice cold tea and juice!
the last thing - about all those strange combos of food, midnight pickle/ice cream runs... personally, it was not about odd combos for me, but i did crave 1) really good food and 2) variety. eating the same food for days used to be fine - esp b/c i don't like to cook every day. so when we did cook it was at least 2 days worth. plus, any time we got food from either mom, it was always several days worth. enter pregnancy! definitely do not like eating leftovers for days now. must have GOOD restaurant food at least 2-3 times per week. And variety - oh love variety. Trader Joe's has been great because they sell a lot of different types of food. My favorites to add variety to a ho humm food day have been: 1) Trader Giotto's organic vegetarian pizza 2) Tandoori Naan bread with different types of hummus 3) steamed artichokes with almost any type of dressing 4) spinach & mushroom quiche 5) chicken perogies with olive tapanade... yummmy!!
No comments:
Post a Comment