[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Craven cravin'

[Mary Jennings]

Cindy wrote:

>My cravings kicked in once the child was born.  I'm not a big fan of
>chocolate.  But while nursing, I just had to have the stuff.  I hid
>bags of chocolate candy all over the house.  The craving went away
>when I stopped nursing.  Very strange!

<bg>  My mother couldn't eat chocolate for the full 9 months she was nursing 
me because it would give me gas.  I don't think she ever forgave me for 
that.

Morning sickness...lovely stuff.  I was permanently nauseous rather than 
sick.  With my first pregnancy I could only eat canned spaghetti before 
noon.  Is that disgusting, or what?  Come the afternoon I could slowly start 
to eat normally, but the mornings were a washout for me.  With the next two 
pregnancies I stuck to dry toast in the morning, just so I could say I'd had 
something to eat (if I didn't I'd feel very faint).

Most of my pregnancy cravings were healthy.  While pregnant with the first 
two I craved Weetabix, of all things.  Now I can't even look at the stuff.  
With my third it was Marmite on toast, which I still enjoy.  Nursing my 
first two was easy (I could even slip in the rare glass of wine), but with 
David I had to go on a really bland diet as everything gave him an upset 
tummy, especially anything spicy, as well as broccoli, beans, and cabbage.  
I was rather glad when I had to stop nursing him, and I could eat normally 
again.

>In the middle of the third pregnancy, however, I figured out
>something about morning sickness (for me, it was always 10:00 p.m.
>sickness, like clockwork).  It seemed to be caused by those horse-
>sized prenatal vitamins.  When I cut back on those, the nausea
>disappeared.

I once did myself in by having a breath mint in the morning.  My system 
didn't forgive me for the rest of the day.  I took my prenatal supplements 
in the evening, when my system had calmed down and I could keep things down. 
  Taking those things in the morning wasn't an option for me, either.

Now I just have the friggin' monthly cravings which sometimes drive me mad.  
My daughter loves to go grocery shopping with me during those times, because 
she can throw any old junk food in the shopping trolley and I don't tell her 
no.  She's 5 so it's not a pattern she understands; she just knows that 
every so often Mom's a really soft touch and has no willpower.  Being an 
intelligent child, she takes advantage of it ;)

Mary Ann
(low in the willpower department on a regular basis anyway)


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