hey girls,when you were pregnant ,was there one particular food..

[Dancing Fire]

you were craving for? when my wife was pregnant with our first child,she had a craving for lobsters

i told my older daughter that she had a expensive appetite.

 

[LesleyH]

With my first son, I ate BAGS of oranges. My friends all told me he would come out orange and guess what he was !! But not from the oranges of course - he had a high bilirubin score (jaundiced). They bandaged his eyes and put him in a light box to bring the score down (it worked) but I always tell him he looked like a chicken in a rotisserie!! He is now almost 21 and no sign of orange!

LesleyH
www.whiteflash.com

 

[cflutist]

Date: 6/8/2005 8:43:05 PM
Author:Dancing Fire
you were craving for? when my wife was pregnant with our first child,she had a craving for lobsters

i told my older daughter that she had a expensive appetite.

Sauteed with ginger and green onions? Or in black bean sauce?

 

[Judi W]

All I wanted was TACOS....and that was in Cincinnati, Ohio were they WERE NOT easy to find. They other craving was bing cherrys. I ate tons of them!

 

[MINE!!]

With my first.. I craved Cheese, cheese and more cheese...cottage cheese on wheat bread, extra cheese on pizza. Cheese Cheese Cheese..

My second child I craved.. GRAPE JUICE..... But not just any grape juice. Blue Bird Grape juice!

 

[Kaleigh]

That''s funny Lesley!!! I craved salami and cheese on a bagel with both my kids. My pregnancies were totally different. I gained lots of weight with my daughter and just enough with my son. It was like a was just carrying a little basketball with my son. I ate the same amount with both kids, don''t know why I carried so differently???

 

[mrssalvo]

cereal, the kind with loads of sugar..i.e. Lucky charms, Honey Combs, Fruit Loops

 

[icelady]

I craved tuna fish salad sandwiches with orange juice AND apple fritters!! The tuna and orange juice I craved together!

I can''t think of eating them together now, but boy how I craved them then. The apple fritters were breakfast food!

 

[canuk-gal]

HI;

Watermelon!!!! By 8 months gestation I had managed (it was a challenge for me) to gain only a minimal amt of weight, so my hubby quipped that I looked like a toothpick with a..."watermelon" through the middle.....my son

is now almost 12 and is just about as big as I am (5''6'', 112").

cheers--Sharon

 

[Dancing Fire]

Date: 6/8/2005 9:00:04 PM
Author: cflutist

Date: 6/8/2005 8:43:05 PM
Author:Dancing Fire
you were craving for? when my wife was pregnant with our first child,she had a craving for lobsters

i told my older daughter that she had a expensive appetite.

Sauteed with ginger and green onions? Or in black bean sauce?

or steam,dip in melted butter with salt. lobsters were more expensive back then "86"

 

[tawn]

I had to have egg rolls...and then later, corn on the cob. We were in Italy...and guess what they didn''t have? Corn on the cob! It was all I could think about, and when I got sent back home because of complications at 32 weeks, I ate 4 cobs a day until he was born 2 weeks later! He was yellow too....another jaundiced baby!

 

[bluedawg]

with DD#1: peaches (fresh or canned, peach cobbler, peach ice cream, etc)

with DD#2: salt and vinegar potato chips and frozen cokes

with DS: comfort foods (mashed potatoes, bread pudding, etc) and jalapeno peppers

 

[IrishEyes]

I was pregnant once, miscarried but I''m ok

But I remember that I had massive cravings everyday for a Dairy Queen banana split!!! YUM!!! I was seriously there everyday having one...hahaha I seriously gained ALOT of weight too!

 

[MINE!!]

Don''t they say that your body craves what it needs the most? My doctor told me that perhaps I needed the calcium so my body craved cheese and dairy products..

 

[sjz]

With my first pregnancy, I craved hot dogs and orange soda. With the second pregnancy, I couldn''t get enough fried zucchini. With the last one, it was chinese food.

With my second pregnancy, another nurse that worked with me was pregnant at the same time. Our due dates were about two weeks apart. She was always having major cravings for watermelon. Every day she would bring in a big tupperware container full of cut up watermelon and she would sit around the nurses station and suck on those chunks of watermelon all day long. It kind of made me sick...lol. I couldn''t even stand to look at watermelon for a long time after that. I still don''t care for it anymore, not since I had to put up with months of watching her suck on her watermelon chunks all day long!

I never had any morning sickness until the last pregnancy. Even then, I didn''t get sick in the morning, but it was always at bedtime. The taste of toothpaste always made me nauseous every night. I think I tried a dozen different brands, but they all made me sick until I tried Aquafresh. That was the only one I could stand to use. Now I don''t like it because it reminds me of the nausea I felt while I was pregnant. I also got sick whenever I smelled garlic during the last pregnancy. Even someone with garlic breath made me queasy. I must be weird.

 

[jellybean]

I had gestational diabetes with my daughter so I craved protein -- any kind of meat - and I''m not a huge meat eater. My favorite dinner was mongolian beef - but it could only be from one certain chinese restaurant. I don''t think I''ve had it since my daughter was born.

With my son I craved hot dogs and ice cream -- especially strawberry ice cream. I couldn''t stand chinese food with that pregnancy -- just the thought of it made me nauseous! Go figure!

I have a funny/gross story of the night I went into labor with my son. I was in labor 17 hours with my daughter the previous year. It started at 10:00pm and I had her at 3:30 pm the following day. Thus I had had literally nothing to eat since dinner the previous night. When I went into labor with my son we stopped at Oberweis on the way to the hospital and I had a strawberry shake. I wasn''t going to make the same mistake of not eating again! If you''ve ever had an Oberweis shake, you''ll know that they are veryyyyy rich and thick.

Well, as I was pushing I felt totally sick. I told my husband to get me a bucket and he grabbed the first thing he could find - some tiny bowl next to the bed. I vomitted in that and the nurse was able to get a bedpam and I vomitted all in that as well. Obviously that shake did not agree with the little guy! I only had to push for 15 minutes as the force of the vomitting pushed him out a lot quicker! To this day I have not had a strawberry shake - or any Oberweis ice cream for that matter!

Sorry to gross you out!

 

[jaysonsmom]

With my son, I craved spicy food, especially spicy tofu (Korean style). When I couldn''t have that, spicy salsa on mexican food, or hot sauce on everything did the trick. Everyone told me that it''d affect my baby''s complexion, and that he''d have little bumps from irritation, but my body handles spicy food well, and he came out with perfect skin....but has a firey temper though.

With my daughter I craved pies all the time! at least a couple times a week I had to tell my husband to stop off after work to get me a banana cream pie, pecan pie or custard pie. My daughter is as sweet as can be (but she made me gain 55lbs

 

[mingagreen]

I can''t say I really craved anything in particular but I did eat a TON of icecream, we have a local dairy and my sister in law and I were there everynight! Maybe that is why I gained 55 lbs with her! with this pregnancy I am deffinately craving pickled things. I eat jars of capers, I am at the olive bar every other day and I eat pickles with everything!! I could even drink vinegar, which I did do with Eden!! I am also totally into Ritas Italian Ice, which I guess is better than icecream! I am getting sick a bit too, hoping maybe it is a boy since I felt great with Eden.

 

[JCJD]

When my mom was pregnant with me, she had morning sickness so bad she could only stand to eat fruits and vegetables because "they don''t taste so bad coming back up"!! I''ve never been a big fan of meat, and now I''ve been vegetarian for 11 years!
With my sister, mom craved lots of meat, and of course my sister loves meat.
When she was in labor with the older of my younger brothers, she went into labor in the early AM and didn''t deliver him until that afternoon, missing breakfast and lunch (with the rest of us, she was able to deliver between meals). He''s always been the skinniest of us all.
No fun coincidences with the youngest brother though.

 

[lmurden]

Date: 6/9/2005 12:07:52 AM
Author: IrishEyes
I was pregnant once, miscarried but I''m ok

But I remember that I had massive cravings everyday for a Dairy Queen banana split!!! YUM!!! I was seriously there everyday having one...hahaha I seriously gained ALOT of weight too!

 

[Momoftwo]

With my boys, I craved food. I actually only gained 32 lbs with the first and 27 with my second. I started out at 110, so that''s a perfect weight gain. I did eat a lot of dairy queen and taco bell with the first one.

 

[Strawdermangrl]

Never been preggers but my prof or organic chem in college was telling us about the time she was pregnant, she said that she was CRAVING dirt so bad. She said she felt OUT OF HER MIND, couldn''t fight the incredible urge nonetheless...so she called her doctor and told her that she couldn''t help it but she was craving dirt. Her doctor said that her body was obviously needing something that is found in dirt and she advised her to go out find a secluded spot in her backyard and take a spoonful. She said that she did, and her craving was gone and she didn''t crave it again. Isn''t that NUTS? I was sitting there with my jaw on the lab table I was on the verge of being sick on my lab coat.... needless to say pickles and ice cream don''t sound so strange.

My mother craved M&M''s and Bananas- she said that she had a banana every day- and to this day I can''t stand the sight or the smell of banana. Funny huh?

 

[jaysonsmom]

Date: 6/9/2005 5:27:01 PM
Author: Strawdermangrl
Never been preggers but my prof or organic chem in college was telling us about the time she was pregnant, she said that she was CRAVING dirt so bad. She said she felt OUT OF HER MIND, couldn't fight the incredible urge nonetheless...so she called her doctor and told her that she couldn't help it but she was craving dirt. Her doctor said that her body was obviously needing something that is found in dirt and she advised her to go out find a secluded spot in her backyard and take a spoonful. She said that she did, and her craving was gone and she didn't crave it again. Isn't that NUTS? I was sitting there with my jaw on the lab table I was on the verge of being sick on my lab coat.... needless to say pickles and ice cream don't sound so strange.

That condition that your teacher had is called pica, quite common actually. A lot of women chew on ice all day.

Here's the webMD description:
Pica is an eating disorder that is characterized by the repeated eating of non-nutritive substances over a period of one month or longer. Patients may eat non-edible objects such as paint, plaster, dirt, ice, or laundry starch. Pica generally affects small children, pregnant women, and people whose cultural environment is most compatible with the eating of non-food items.Mine was similar, but it was called PIE-ca. Eating of non-nutritive pies all day.

 

[Jennifer5973]

Date: 6/9/2005 6:44:57 PM
Author: jaysonsmom

Date: 6/9/2005 5:27:01 PM
Author: Strawdermangrl
Never been preggers but my prof or organic chem in college was telling us about the time she was pregnant, she said that she was CRAVING dirt so bad. She said she felt OUT OF HER MIND, couldn''t fight the incredible urge nonetheless...so she called her doctor and told her that she couldn''t help it but she was craving dirt. Her doctor said that her body was obviously needing something that is found in dirt and she advised her to go out find a secluded spot in her backyard and take a spoonful. She said that she did, and her craving was gone and she didn''t crave it again. Isn''t that NUTS? I was sitting there with my jaw on the lab table I was on the verge of being sick on my lab coat.... needless to say pickles and ice cream don''t sound so strange.

That condition that your teacher had is called pica, quite common actually. A lot of women chew on ice all day.

Here''s the webMD description:
Pica is an eating disorder that is characterized by the repeated eating of non-nutritive substances over a period of one month or longer. Patients may eat non-edible objects such as paint, plaster, dirt, ice, or laundry starch. Pica generally affects small children, pregnant women, and people whose cultural environment is most compatible with the eating of non-food items.Mine was similar, but it was called PIE-ca. Eating of non-nutritive pies all day.

A woman I worked with had this--but for her, it was baby powder. Johnson & Johnson brand. She couldn''t stop and carried it around with her.

 

[sevens one]

with
1. it was peanut butter. I also had to have Italian Ice. I remember walking for blocks and blocks in the city trying to find some Italian ice in the middle of summer.

2. Oranges, couldn''t get enough

3. can''t remember

4. peanut butter again

5. can''t remember

6. pretty much everything

7. I can''t remember

My memory sucks

 

[MINE!!]

Date: 6/9/2005 6:44:57 PM
Author: jaysonsmom

Date: 6/9/2005 5:27:01 PM

Author: Strawdermangrl


That condition that your teacher had is called pica, quite common actually. A lot of women chew on ice all day.


Here''s the webMD description:

Pica is an eating disorder that is characterized by the repeated eating of non-nutritive substances over a period of one month or longer. Patients may eat non-edible objects such as paint, plaster, dirt, ice, or laundry starch. Pica generally affects small children, pregnant women, and people whose cultural environment is most compatible with the eating of non-food items.


Mine was similar, but it was called PIE-ca. Eating of non-nutritive pies all day.

Mine was similar, but it was called PIE-ca. Eating of non-nutritive pies all day.


LOL>>>>LOL>>>> LOL>>>LOLL>>>>>> That is Hilarious!!!

 

[aljdewey]

My folks were stationed in Hawaii when she was pregnant with me, and she pretty much subsisted on sushi. Couldn''t get enough of it.

Coincidentally....(or maybe not).....I''m not a fish-eater. Didn''t eat ANY seafood until I was about 30, and it''s mostly shellfish that I eat now. I don''t mind Red Snapper or tuna steaks, but haddock/cod, etc. is OUT. Just haven''t been able to acquire a taste for it.

 

[Sunni79]

Hi! I ate a lot when I was pregnant with my son!

. I loved soft pretzels, oranges, crabs, string cheese, iced tea, choc .chip cookies and so much more!

. I deserved to gain more weight than I did

. With this pregnancy, I eat more fruits and especially vegetables as well as peppermint patties, pecan rolls, mc donald''s french fries, pretzels, iced tea, and even spaghetti o''s! Who am I kidding?? I still eat everything!

 

[Blue824]

Date: 6/9/2005 8:53:50 PM
Author: aljdewey
My folks were stationed in Hawaii when she was pregnant with me, and she pretty much subsisted on sushi. Couldn''t get enough of it.

Coincidentally....(or maybe not).....I''m not a fish-eater. Didn''t eat ANY seafood until I was about 30, and it''s mostly shellfish that I eat now. I don''t mind Red Snapper or tuna steaks, but haddock/cod, etc. is OUT. Just haven''t been able to acquire a taste for it.

Weird...that''s what my mom always said, she ate tons of sushi when she was pregnant with me and I cannot stand sea food. And its not that I was never around it growing up, my family eats a lot of it and loves to go out for it, I just cannot stand the flavors or textures and any sort of sea food smell makes me sick. I guess I never connected my dislike for sea food to what she ate while she was pregnant with me. You''d think I''d like it more because of that! Her other craving was special K and I can go a week eating only special K, love love love it.

 

[eks6426]

When I was pregnant with my son I craved spicey Mexican food. I ate tons of chips and salsa. Funny thing is spicy Mexican food is now my 8 year old son''s favorite. When he was just starting to eat regular people food we used to go to Don Pablos and he would eat the salsa with his hands if I didn''t spoon it to him. He still eats Don Pablos salsa with a spoon...almost like soup.