CRAVINGS!!!
One of the most common questions I have since I've been pregnant has been: Have you had any weird cravings?Well, nothing really out of the ordinary like peanut butter and sardine sandwiches, but I have had a NEED for certain foods I normally wouldn't want. And when I want them, I can't get enough!
Last month, my cravings were hot cocoa, rocky road candy bars, Mint n Chip icecream, rice dream, soymilk, milk, oreo cookies, chocolate- especially dark chocolate. Anyone who knows me well, knows that I really don't care for chocolate or sweets like that, but last month, I could not get enough! Peanut seems to really love dark chocolate- especially Hershey's special dark, because she/he moves like crazy whenever I ate it! I started to get scared thinking I was getting our baby addicted to caffeine, and stunting his/her growth (and our child is already destined to be short). That is, until I found out that scienfic research shows that consuming chocolate during pregnancy, could later have positive effects on baby’s moods, and that the trace amounts of caffeine in chocolate would not harm Peanut. So it was all over from there! I ate tons of chocolate, and felt darn good about it… until I started feeling like I was getting fat, not just prego fat, but FAT fat- I could feel my butt getting wider. But by then, it was too late, I was addicted. I was up to 4 pieces a day, and mint n’ chip icecream almost every night. I even had to give Dave control of my stash so he could limit my obsession. But working in an office environment, I had plenty of opportunity to cheat. It doesn’t help either, when people are bringing cookies, brownies, candy and other chocolately goods to your desk and insisting that you take one because “the baby wants some.” Resistance was futile. I had been assimilated.
Last month, my cravings were hot cocoa, rocky road candy bars, Mint n Chip icecream, rice dream, soymilk, milk, oreo cookies, chocolate- especially dark chocolate. Anyone who knows me well, knows that I really don't care for chocolate or sweets like that, but last month, I could not get enough! Peanut seems to really love dark chocolate- especially Hershey's special dark, because she/he moves like crazy whenever I ate it! I started to get scared thinking I was getting our baby addicted to caffeine, and stunting his/her growth (and our child is already destined to be short). That is, until I found out that scienfic research shows that consuming chocolate during pregnancy, could later have positive effects on baby’s moods, and that the trace amounts of caffeine in chocolate would not harm Peanut. So it was all over from there! I ate tons of chocolate, and felt darn good about it… until I started feeling like I was getting fat, not just prego fat, but FAT fat- I could feel my butt getting wider. But by then, it was too late, I was addicted. I was up to 4 pieces a day, and mint n’ chip icecream almost every night. I even had to give Dave control of my stash so he could limit my obsession. But working in an office environment, I had plenty of opportunity to cheat. It doesn’t help either, when people are bringing cookies, brownies, candy and other chocolately goods to your desk and insisting that you take one because “the baby wants some.” Resistance was futile. I had been assimilated.
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