The first thing that springs into my mind now is SPINACH and GUINNESS. I ate so much spinach when I was pregnant that it should have been coming out of every orifice...so why the bloody hell was I still anaemic! The doctor told me that I would have had to eat my body weight in spinach every day so it's no wonder that my one bag didn't cut it!
I know students are supposed to live off beans and whatever else is stuck to the back of the fridge but I ate like a queen for 9 months. I had the best of everything. Every week I scoured the supermarket shelves for whatever grabbed my fancy. My flatmates also took a shine to the food I was buying as they would go grazing at night and the 'oops I thought it was mine' would pop out of their mouths in the morning! Hmmm...!
My bedroom in the student flat turned into the best fruit and vegetable shop in Stirling. I was mad for it. I remember polishing my pieces of fruit and lining them up on the long shelf next to my bed. God, I must have been bored! But, I could lay back and sexily drop grapes into my mouth whenever I fancied. How decadent is that?! And no, it wasn't very sexy either!
I don't think I ate for two. That's another phrase which makes me giggle. Is it just an excuse to pig out? Do you really need to eat more when you're pregnant? Or, do you just have to eat the right types of food? My eating habits didn't change. Ok, I cut out the foods that you should avoid like blue cheese and pate, but on the whole ate the same things and the same quantities that I always had.
To me, exercise is absolutely vital when you are pregnant - if you are able. There is such a variety of classes for pregnant women out there now. I don't remember anywhere near the choice when I was carrying Bethany. So, I stuck to swimming and used to go every day and swim between 20 and 40 lenghts. Some days, Bethany objected and kicked me in the water until I got out. It's funny how as soon as I was dried and fully clothed again she would stop! The little tinker!
Oh, and GUINNESS...I drank it for the iron content you understand! I had a weekly ritual with my one bottle of Guinness Original. On a Friday night, about 8-9pm - whenever ER was starting on our pathetic excuse for a TV in the student flat, I would pour myself a glass of Guinness and enjoy every mouthful as it slid down. And I tell you, my flatmates knew that if they touched that they would have been in serious trouble!
I would love to hear what you likes and dislikes with regards to food have been whilst pregnant...
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Your cravings can at least be rationalised as iron-based, I'm
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1. Corned beef. I've never liked corned beef in any form - sliced, hashed, as a pastie, etc - until 7 months ago. I'm trying to restrain myself to 2 corned beef & tomato sauce sandwiches (classy I know) a week!
2. Jelly babies. Again, I've never been partial to them until recently & in particular the lemon & lime flavoured ones.
3. Anything fizzy - water, pop, etc - in theory it shouldn't go well with pregnancy digestion, but so far so good
No strong dislikes on the food front, but as a general aversion I can't be in the same vicinity as a plug-in air freshner without waves of nausea hitting!
Still 8.5 weeks to go so still time for more cravings/aversions to
come. Which reminds me, it's Ben & Jerry's o'clock ;)
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Yum...corned beef pasties - I like them but they have to be good ones. There is a good place up in Ashington, near the Garden Centre I can't now remember the name of...it will come to me! I find Greggs pasties now too greasy - and M&S mince ones are too greasy as well!
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