When pregnancy cravings attack
- Two pieces of toast, buttered
- One (or two) hardboiled eggs, mashed up
- A slice of Kraft Singles cheese, torn up and melted on top
- Salt and pepper
It sounds revolting, but it is ALL I want for breakfast these days.
At least there’s an egg — protein!
Weekly re-cap of pregnancy #2: Week 27
Week 27
(Jan. 28 through Feb. 3)
Symptoms: Heartburn continues to be evil. I’m taking a pill with lunch and a pill with dinner, and the mornings are brutal. Might have to ask Dr. L about moving to three soon. This baby had better have a glorious head of hair!
Body changes: I can pinpoint the exact part in pregnancy when you go from feeling “small-compared-to-last-time” to feeling “enormous.” It is Week 27.
Baby movement: I saw a lot more contortion of my stomach, as Baby Girl twisted and moved around. Also some very, very strong kicks!
Cravings: Rice Krispies with milk (I’m almost done my SECOND family-sized box) as a bedtime snack. My new breakfast of choice is buttered toast topped with mashed-up hard-boiled egg and a bit of melted cheese (eaten with a fork). It sounds gross, but it’s delicious.
Aversions: Sometimes chicken makes me feel icky. Big meals in general are just a NO. I like eating small amounts more often.
High point: Had a great time coming into “the city” last Saturday/Sunday for a party, book club, and shopping with Best Friend. But I was so tired by Sunday evening that I didn’t know how I’d make it until bedtime. Energy is goooooooooooooing.
Low point: Financial worries. Staying at home with the toddler and freelancing = no maternity leave for me this time around. I know it’s been worth it, without a doubt, but … I still wish I was getting a maternity leave!
How does this week compare to Week 27 during pregnancy #1? Symptoms sound right on target, except I have *not* had any swelling so far this pregnancy (KNOCK ON EVERY WOOD SURFACE RIGHT NOW, DAMNIT). Swelling was a huge source of discomfort and annoyance last time, so I’m relieved I haven’t had any (yet), but don’t expect it will stay away for long.
Baby preparation: Darling Husband finished painting the hand-me-down dresser, and it’s looking fab in the nursery. Artwork is finished (except for another item I haven’t started yet). All baby clothes are washed and in the drawers/hung in the closet. It’s been a huge relief to get this done. The whole room should be finished by the end of Week 29, I expect.
Weekly re-cap of pregnancy #2: Week 26
Week 26
(Jan. 21 through Jan. 27)
Symptoms: Legs are aching every night, and I’ve now had to take two heartburn pills daily. The heartburn even starts in the morning some days!
Body changes: Still continuing to hear that I look smaller this time around, which is nice. I’m at that stage where all my maternity clothes fit really well — nothing is too big or too small yet.
Belly button: It looks like a Loonie stuck just slightly below the surface.
Baby movement: Couple of big pows this week! And more shifty-turny moves. Sometimes I look down and see her move so my stomach sticks out in different ways. Oh, and Darling Husband actually felt some kicks this week (usually he is not around when she’s really active).
Cravings: Rice Krispies with milk (finished the family-sized box). Mmmmmmm!
Aversions: Nothing really, but I also haven’t felt like eating a lot. Normal things just seem kind of gross sometimes. I remember at the end of my first pregnancy, I was just eating cereal and crackers with peanut butter and things like that.
High point: Took the toddler to the pool in our new town, and we enjoyed a mom-and-tot swim. He was very timid (not a big water fan — neither am I), but eventually warmed up and enjoyed himself. I enjoyed wearing my maternity suit for the first time (black tankini) but did not enjoy wondering if my bikini line was properly shaved.
Low point: Trying to get work done when I’m feeling exhausted!
How does this week compare to Week 26 during pregnancy #1? Symptoms sound right on target. It appears I was singing to the baby a lot at this point in my last pregnancy, and I must admit, I have yet to sing to this baby — or even really talk to her. Am I just busier? Or not as obsessed with nonstop pregnancy thoughts? I feel kind of bad. Must start talking to stomach.
Baby preparation: Continued to harrass Darling Husband to paint the hand-me-down dresser. Worked on some art projects for the nursery walls. Sorted and labeled a crap-ton of baby clothes my mom bought us at the local used clothing store — AWESOME stuff, seriously (some with tags on it). I’m getting to the point where I just want the nursery furniture to be done, so I can start organizing/putting away the actual STUFF. Nesting = a sickness.
Toddler eating habits
I tweeted this morning about how the toddler barely ate anything yesterday, and then gobbled down a feast for breakfast today.
It was weird. He continued to surprise me by eating another truckload of food at lunch (two huggge plates of pasta with meat sauce, a buttered tea biscuit (mmmmmm), a yogurt tube, milk, and a heaping bowl of strawberries with whipped cream ’cause I was having some too and OMG so good).
I have learned in these 19 — almost 20! — months of parenthood that kids really won’t starve. Really. I have read other blogs where the moms are freaking out because they don’t want their baby to starve, but I haven’t really felt that way (yet, at least). The toddler is not a crazy-huge-eater, but he has always had a good appetite.
(I would say his appetite was a little TOO good when I was exclusively breastfeeding and chained to the couch for hours on end, but whatevs.)
He eats well. Some days he barely eats anything, and although I don’t worry about him starving, I *DO* get annoyed because I worry it will affect his naps and sleep-through-the-night-ing. And really, it’s all about me. No … it isn’t, anymore. But it’s still a little bit about me.So I start handing him marble cheese sticks and ANYTHING ELSE so that he will have SOMETHING in his stomach just for the sake of SLEEP! If you wake up because you are hungry, I will CRY HOT ANGRY MOMMY TEARS.
I think the point of this post is that sometimes kids eat, and sometimes they don’t, but then you can expect a lot of backlog eating the next day. I’m not sure. Maybe I was trying to make a point that cheese and crackers is a great alternative to a meal, if your toddler isn’t eating and YOU NEED THEM TO SLEEP WITH A FULL STOMACH?
All I can really think about now is having another tea biscuit.
Not Me Monday
I have definitely not eaten an entire family-sized box of Rice Krispies MYSELF in less than two weeks. I mean, that kind of dedication would require twice-daily heaping bowls, and I just wouldn’t do that.
I did not secretly cut off the tag of Darling Husband’s Christmas gift jeans when I hemmed them last night, so he wouldn’t see that his sister bought him a pair of “slim fit” — making him automatically convinced they would be too tight.
I have not felt the urge to yell, “Take a drink of WATER, childdddd!” to the toddler in the next room who has been coughing every 10 seconds since 6:30 a.m. No, not me.
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