hormone insanity
Posted on | July 8, 2008 |
In the restaurant the other night, this is what transpired:
Me: I’ll have a Tom Ka soup and an order of spring rolls.
DH: I’ll have—(some weird unpronounced-able pork thing)
Me: He’ll have (pointing to Bean) one spring roll, please.
Waitress: So you want two springrolls?
Me: No, an order of springrolls for me and one for him.
DH: Wait, HOW MANY spring rolls do you want?
Me: (Getting anxious) Um.
Waitress: So you want three springrolls?
Me: Yes
Waitress leaves.
DH: You know you’re going to be getting THREE ORDERS of springrolls right?
Me: What? I said I wanted three springrolls.
DH: No. You said you wanted three orders. She asked you how many orders you wanted. You said three.
Me: I said… (suddenly feel hot tears at the back of my eyes. Cover my face with my hands.)
DH: You are going to be getting SIX springrolls (laughing.)
Me: (pathetic and teary eyed) Let’s not talk about the spring rolls any more.
Waitress arrives with three plates of springrolls, six in total and gives me a weird look.
Hormones. What the ef? Seriously, they are rocking my world. Also, it should be noted that I suddenly didn’t even LIKE the damn spring rolls.
What were/are your favorite foods while pregnant? And by “while pregnant” I mean early pregnant when your entire central nervous system is being drenched in HCG, thereby making almost all foods intolorable.
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July 8th, 2008 @ 9:10 pm
watermelon. granola. that was about it. hang in there.
July 8th, 2008 @ 9:15 pm
Both actually sound remarkably good right now!
July 8th, 2008 @ 9:29 pm
granola and yogurt or milk was about it for me for the first 8 weeks of all my pregnancies…hang in there!
July 8th, 2008 @ 10:11 pm
i feel for you. i spent all of my pregnancies for the first 12 weeks feeling like i should eat something, feeling a little hungry, but nothing sounding good and then waiting too long and for sure heave-hoing.
with my son, lemons in water and watermelon jolly ranchers somehow helped. with the girls, it was sweet frozen things, like smoothies, shakes, sometimes pudding and bananas. weird. a little later i craved fish sandwiches and bean burritos and spicy things.
July 8th, 2008 @ 10:21 pm
Peaches. Couldn’t get enough peaches…as in peach yogurt, fresh peaches, and of course, gallons upon gallons of peach ice cream!
Hang in there Christina, and try the peaches!
July 8th, 2008 @ 10:27 pm
lots & lots of ice water, spicy shrimp fried rice, blackberry cobbler with vanilla bean ice cream, corn dogs. but only one food at a time - the fried rice for a week, the cobbler for two, the corn dogs just for two or three days - & then they were dead to me.
July 8th, 2008 @ 10:56 pm
Congratulations on the pregnancy!
Oh you poor thing. I do remember those hormones. I burst into tears AT WORK, over something totally, totally ridiculous. It’s funny now. It wasn’t (NO IT MOST DEFINITELY WASN’T!) at the time.
OK, I live in Australia, right? I swore by toasted English muffins with lots of butter and VEGEMITE. Every morning for breakfast while I lay on the couch watching the early morning news.
And ginger tea. I swore by ginger tea. Drank it all day long. A girlfriend swears by ginger beer.
Hope the sickness eases off soon.
July 8th, 2008 @ 11:21 pm
I ate so much pineapple my mouth was in constant pain. Couldn’t stop.
Towards the end I had an insane relationship with purple cows (grape soda and ice cream). It was stupid. But it was required.
The really ironic part is that both of the girls were sensitive to dairy so I could no longer have ice cream after they popped out. Good times.
July 9th, 2008 @ 1:36 am
banana milkshakes from mcdonald’s. Oy.
July 9th, 2008 @ 2:52 am
With my first I had lots of fruit smoothies.
With my second everything made me sick - I *lost* weight the first trimester with my second. I went on a vacation to New York at about 12 weeks and I don`t know if it was the timing or the fact that I never ever had to cook but I suddenly started eating everything. French toast topped the list.
My second pregnancy was more everything than my first - more morning sickness, more hormonal, more hot flashes. Stronger contractions, faster delivery. My milk came in fuller and faster (as is ouch) - Little Boy C GAINED weight from birth to discharge - and the uterine contractions during nursing were stronger (as in ouch). It was like pregnancy plus.
But the love is like baby plus, too.
July 9th, 2008 @ 8:09 am
There were days when all my tummy could tolerate were Kashi TLC chewy granola bars or Dole lime fruit bars. But during the first trimester my body craved the comfort food of my childhood… Spaghettios. With Meatballs. You’d think something so disgusting lokoing, something that actually stains a white spoon orange, might be bad for you, but look on the can. Lots of folic acid.
July 9th, 2008 @ 8:09 am
There were days when all my tummy could tolerate were Kashi TLC chewy granola bars or Dole lime fruit bars. But during the first trimester my body craved the comfort food of my childhood… Spaghettios. With Meatballs. You’d think something so disgusting lokoing, something that actually stains a white spoon orange, might be bad for you, but look on the can. Lots of folic acid.
July 9th, 2008 @ 8:19 am
I shouldn’t even admit this.
Pop tarts
Nutrigrain bars
Iced animal crackers
Occasionally oranges sounded good. Usually right after I was lambasted by the doctor/midwife about gaining to much!? Aye.
July 9th, 2008 @ 10:51 am
It was never one thing, it was just one thing and ONE THING RIGHT NOW at a time. The first thing I needed (and needed immediately) was pudding. My husband thought he would be smart, and bought four multipacks of the stuff, not realizing that I would find it revolting the next day and never touch it again.
Then there was the night that we had dinner plans with friends, but I really really really had to have waffles. Warm, buttery, golden, fluffy waffles that I had seen someone on TV eating. We seriously had to change plans with our friends so I could have them, all because of a two second TV clip. My DH said it was like living with a pothead.
I could go on, because the insanity didn’t stop until the second trimester. But I will add my favorite conversation at the time with a co-worker:
her “So, how are you? Do you have, like, cravings?”
me “Ohhh yes I do. I do.”
her “Aww, isn’t that so NEAT how your body and the baby have a way of telling you what you need to keep that baby growing healthy?”
me “Um, well, I don’t believe the baby really NEEDS Cheetos.”
her “Uh, oh. hmmmm.” (walks away)
Feel better soon, sweets.
July 9th, 2008 @ 11:18 am
white bread…. as white as it could be.
oranges (although maybe that was later on…)
and root beer. couldn’t get enough.
so sorry to hear you are dealing with the preggo poisoning (I hate the term “morning sickness”… as if it dissipates by noon!). Thinking of you!
July 9th, 2008 @ 11:32 am
At the beginning, only oranges. I don’t think I touched any other food for the first trimester of my first pregnancy. But later in the pregnancy, I craved loaded baked potatoes and blueberry pancakes every night at midnight. Yes, together.
Congratulations, by the way! I’m glad you’re not sticking to the “three month secret” rule.
July 9th, 2008 @ 1:21 pm
With my first pregnancy, I ate ravioli and that french bread from the freezer section at the grocery store–at least weekly. My husband ate it with me. After my daughter was born, I couldn’t wait to have that meal again. Imagine my surprise when the entire meal tasted like cardboard. I remember saying to my husband: “This is really gross!” (I was shocked!) And he answered: “I know. It has been gross for the last 6 months.” (Poor guy…) My second pregnancy ended early with no symptoms, but my third was with twins. I remember being so hungry when I was about four weeks pregnant. I ate anything in sight that wasn’t nailed down. At about six weeks along EVERYTHING disgusted me. Everything. I had to force down Kraft Macaroni and Cheese for the remainder of my pregnancy. I couldn’t open the fridge, or watch t.v. either. Needless to say my husband had to fend for himself and for our daughter. I am so happy for you. You will love having a baby again!
July 9th, 2008 @ 2:37 pm
Chocolate croissants - the only food I ate for two months. Amazingly I lost 20 pounds. By the time I got to my second trimester, my hormones were a bit more balanced and I expanded to pancakes with peanut butter. Thank heavens we have a bakery across the street!
July 9th, 2008 @ 9:46 pm
bananas
yogurt (vanilla yoplait)
peanut butter toast
peanut butter bagels
cereal (can’t remember what kind though)
that was mostly with my first…i was SO SICK for the first 5 months with my first daughter! then for my 2nd daughter, i don’t remember cravings so much, but i was barely EVER sick at all and if i was it was NOTHING like the first time!!! i hoPE it goes away for you soON!!!!!
but my advice, is to get through it the best you can and just eat whatever sounds good!
tara
July 9th, 2008 @ 11:34 pm
With my son, I craved lima beans. Couldn’t get enough of them.
With my daughter, Indian food topped the craving list. The spicier the better.
With both, I ate quantities of cold-smoked salmon. Today, both kids are mad for lox.
Congratulations to you!
July 10th, 2008 @ 8:40 am
Limeaid. The Paul Newman limeaid…I drank gallons of it, it was disgusting.
And I always had goldfish crackers stored in my cheeks like a squirrel.
When I made myself eat something “real”, it would be a 6 inch Subway veggie sub with extra vinegar.
Man, pregnancy is weird.
Congratulations!
July 10th, 2008 @ 10:40 am
In the beginning, all I wanted was french fries and oranges! Now (at 39 weeks) it changes every day. Right now it is anything coconut and popsicles to beat the heat.
July 10th, 2008 @ 12:30 pm
I would just like to say that I believe the waitress is an idiot - it was her, not you. Leave the poor pregnant lady alone about how many spring rolls - jeesh.
With Porter, I couldn’t get enough bacon. With Hyla, I was SOOO sick … so sick all day long. I didn’t gain any weight my first trimester. The only thing that I really wanted (all the time) is lemon italian ice. It really helped to settle my stomach.
July 10th, 2008 @ 12:48 pm
For the first month of my pregnancy I craved steamed tofu with soy sauce, ginger, and green onions on top. I ate it so often while I was feeling crappy that I couldn’t even think about Asian food for the rest of my pregnancy without feeling like I was going to vomit. My husband was terrified that we’d never have Chinese or sushi again.
Luckily it passed about 2 months after our son was born, and now I’m back to loving Asian food as much as I ever did.
July 11th, 2008 @ 12:05 am
My hubs just reminded me about my weirdest craving. One night I was so nauseous I begged him to go to the store to buy me Close-up toothpaste (you know, the red cinnamon flavored gel with the picture of the man and woman on the box?). Yes, toothpaste. I didn’t want to eat it… I just had to SMELL it. It actually made the nausea better for a few fleeting minutes. I kept it by the bed and took a whiff whenever I needed a fix. I wish I was making this up.
July 13th, 2008 @ 8:13 pm
When everything made me sick, I wanted decaf lipton tea with a tiny bit of sugar, hot as can be. Once I forced that down, I could eat a few minutes later. With my first, I ate a lot of saltines. Then, with my second, I found that graham crackers worked better. And I also LOVED ginger snaps — the crunchy sweet and spicy seemed to settle in my stomach okay.
My SIL swore by lemon wedges. And she was very sick a lot — the lemons helped her not throw up while she was teaching!
Good luck.
July 13th, 2008 @ 9:26 pm
Red Gatorade or cherry Juicy-Juice, and Puffins cereal.
I was also totally and completely grossed out by commercials that showed bubbly, cheesy sauces. I had to cover my eyes or I’d feel sick.
Pregnancy is bizarre. Amazing, but bizarre.
Congratulations.
July 17th, 2008 @ 5:56 pm
The only thing I could tolerate during my early pregnancy was watermelon and oranges. Unfortunately, they weren’t in season, so it was a rather expensive, inconvenient craving.
Good luck!