Cravings.. or in my case aversions.
I started throwing up 3 days BEFORE I found out I was pregnant. We went to a seafood buffet (that we have since decided we are NEVER going back to ever again) and as soon as we got home that night I threw up my lunch. Actually it almost happened in a mall trash can, but I was able to hold back. We attributed it to bad food, and my predisposition for puking, and ignored it. For a week before that I couldn't get enough jalapenos. Coincidence? Probably, but I was eating those suckers every chance I got. Maybe it was my body's way of letting me stock up on the spicy flavors I loved before everything under the sun started giving me heart burn. The next few days after I found out I was pregnant was when the real puking began. At first Alex thought it was in my head, "You know you're pregnant, you know you're probably going to have morning sickness, so you're thinking yourself sick." So I started texting him a number every time it happened. #1 was inevitably when I was brushing my teeth every morning. #2 would usually be within an hour of me getting to school, and losing my breakfast. etc etc. one day I got up to 8 or 9, and three of those numbers were in suck quick succession that he realized that each in between I was only able to get to the bathroom door before I had to turn right back around. After that he realized it wasn't in my head. All of this started leading to some very odd food choices.
Safe foods:
Sourdough english muffin or sourdough toast: minimal butter, sprinkle of sugar, sprinkle of cinnamon. Would stay down 90% of the time
Yogurt: a God send. So long as it wasn't too sweet I could eat almost every flavor of yogurt. Since I was eating so little I switched to the full calorie non light yogurts (also artificial sugars have been rough on the stomach)
Saltines: I tried the crackers first thing in the morning thing, it didn't help with the nausea, but I could keep crackers down on a consistent basis.
Ginger snaps: same as saltines, didn't really help, but they stayed down most of the time.
Baked potato: honestly I usually threw up about half of it, but for some reason I didn't lose my taste for it. And for some reason I felt like I got SOMETHING from it, maybe because it was heavy and some of it stayed down.
Bad foods:
Eggs: Eggs actually caused my sister in law to call a "code round" on me a week before I found out I was pregnant. We had switched from farm fresh eggs to store bought (just wasn't making it to the farm as often) and I commented that since the switch my scrambled eggs in the morning didn't smell good anymore. That was when she knew I was pregnant. I can eat some boiled eggs, and one or two deviled eggs, but beyond that eggs are off limits. I can't even stand it when Alex cooks eggs.
Cheese: A week before I found out I was pregnant we went to Red Robin after a friend's baby shower. I ordered a cheese boca burger (meant to get garden burger, boca is NASTY) and remember thinking that if the cheese was melted it was going to be amazing, if it was just sweaty it was going to be gross. It was sweaty. After that the thought of melted/partially melted cheese is enough to send me running for the bathroom. I have been able to do cold grated cheese on a salad once (forgot to ask for no cheese) but beyond that, no thank you.
Most meats: I can, on occasion, do grilled chicken or steak but for the most part I haven't been wanting to eat much meat. I still do because I am dreadfully low on protein, but I usuallly wind up heating it up and then passing it off to Alex.
Almond milk: or it might just be chocolate almond milk, I'm not sure. On two occasions this sounded AMAZING. On two occasions I almost didn't make it to the restroom in time. I think I may have just drank it too quickly.
Anything carbonated: heartburn!!!
Water: I have started to master this one. Adding some lemon (a full capfull for my nalgenes, half a cap for a glass) a TON of ice and drinking it slow I can usually drink about half my daily amount of water. Not enough by far, but better than what I was doing in the beginning.
Most fried things: Alex made the awfulest smelling fried mushrooms the other day. He said they were amazing, I had to lock myself in the bedroom.
Most sweets: There will occasionally be an exception, and this is slowly backing off, but for, what felt like, the longest time, the thought of eating anything sweet turned me green.
Foods that have had temporary runs (aka they sounded good for a day or two, but have not really made their way back into regular rotation)
bacon, peanut butter, hot dogs/cheese dogs (nitrate nitrite free), guacamole, lime tostitos, cottage cheese, french toast, ice berg lettuce, fruit loops, ranch dressing (could not get enough of it. Still sounds pretty good but not to the extent before)
Now I am on a slightly more normal eating route. I don't know if the nausea is finally subsiding, but I have found that if I eat small meals every 2-3 hours I do much better. It is funny how foods go though. For example this morning waffles sounded amazing. It was a lazy morning and lazy morning screams waffles. We don't have waffles but I do have a waffle maker, Perfect. I did some googling and found a recipe for waffle batter that said it also worked well with whole wheat flour. Since we could always use more fiber I decided to use the whole wheat flour. But now it doesn't taste like waffles how I'm used to them, and I'm not interested. Lol. I know it's silly, and I am still slowly eating through it because I don't want to waste any. But it's just not the same.
So there you have it, whether you wanted it or not, a little insight into my brain and stomach.
Though right now I think I would do some pretty outrageous stuff for some apple juice. :)
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