Nico is three months old, and I swear to God I don't know where the time is going. It's scary, and what's even scarier is that I felt like I was pregnant in another life, it feels like it was that long ago. Reflecting on my pregnancy I remember first and foremost how sick I was in the beginning. All I wanted, all I could stomach, was citrus. The more sour the better - grapefruit, lemons, limes. And as my pregnancy progressed I consumed enormous amounts of fruit. Leafy greens be damned, I could hardly choke them down, but a banana, apple or grape - come to Mommy!
Now, sufficiently post-partum but still breasfeeding I find myself with all together different kinds of cravings. Can we say coffee? And by coffee I mean COFFEE. Stumptown coffee. Starbucks latte. Vietnamese slow drip. I can smell it in my sleep and I want it ALL DAY LONG. I do however, have some self control, and limit myself to one cup of coffee in the morning, and possibly another perhaps late in the afternoon. I also only want cookies, particularly chocolate chip cookies, or anything else that may be chocolate. We have a perfectly gorgeous bowl of plums in the kitchen, and I walk past them daily, admiring their stubborness and refusal to just go away, just to get to the Keeblers. Last night I ate a row of cookies, a ROW. Then felt bad about it after. I'm pumping this baby full of sugar and carbs, and I just don't have the strength to fight it. Sigh.
i'm sure that will all change after your hormones level out. i am 19 weeks pregnant, and a former greens lover. like you, i can barely choke them down. it's so weird! i don't even enjoy the farmers market anymore. thank goodness for fruit! congratulations on baby nico!
ReplyDeleteRenee, that is SO weird. I love greens and I seriously could not stomach them. I wonder what that is!!
ReplyDeleteMmmm...Coffee. Have you tried Gorilla? If not, if you and Brian ever make it over, we'll make you a cup (or a bowl, in your case).
ReplyDeleteAs for the cravings, I wonder if its your body telling you what it actually needs. I'd say go with it as long as you don't find yourself in some alleyway with needles stuck in your arms. Then perhaps you've gone too far.
Of course you're craving coffee. You're seriously sleep deprived, mama! Ditto on the chocolate. When Luke was around 3 months, I got into the bad habit of spreading peanut butter onto squares of dark chocolate in the evening after all the kids were in bed. Talk about a pick me up! (My thighs were not loving it though...)
ReplyDeleteWelcome back, Nicole -- and CONGRATULATIONS!
Love, Amy