Menu of a crazed parasite host….
Ok I know it is not nice to refer to the ‘child within’ as a ‘parasite‘ but the analogy of him/her (and no just cause I put him first doesn’t mean it is a boy, we really really don’t know what sex the baby is!) sucking the life out of me seems really apt quite a lot of the time.
I thought I was only supposed to be dead tired for the first few months… and hey lets not mention the spewing that I am still hit with almost every day at some ungodly hour of the morning. And while I am really not complaining about loosing weight early on, heck we all I know I had plenty to loose, but I keep thinking I should have gained it back by now.. surely? Of late I have also had that ‘bone tired’ feeling.. like my limbs are too heavy to move and even breathing takes an effort… and while I am trying to think logically as to why I am hitting another slump now, at 22 weeks, when this is reportedly the ‘good part’ of being pregnant I still get the image of my cute little parasite happily sucking the life out of me while hooning around in there! So really I mean ‘parasite’ in the most loving way possible!
So food is a major issue in life at present. Not much is appealing at the moment… though that is a step up from the beginning when nothing was appealing. My tastes have changed radically and things I used to love just taste horrible now. Other things taste ok while I am actually eating them but don’t sit well after I am done. The range of foods I desire has come down to a pretty short and weird list…
3 Minute noodles – chicken flavour.
I think this is a salt thing… I can’t get enough of the super salty super preservative laden flavour sachets that come with these. I even thought about just opening the flavour sachet the other day and dipping my fingers in.
Grapes – must be cold from the fridge.
At least this is healthy, but I do tend to eat a whole bag full in one sitting and if I leave it too late at night they don’t feel so hot coming back out early in the morning.
Banana Flavoured milk – Big M or any other artificially flavoured bright yellow milk.
My lovely husband when he couldn’t buy a large Big M at the supermarket the other day bought me two litres of the stuff! HEAVEN
1/4 Pounder – from Mc Evils.
I hadn’t eaten Mc Evils since we moved up here (good side effect of being miles from any fast food is that you just don’t go as often!) but I’d succumbed on several occasions to the pull of the 1/4 pounder. I even have to admit to taking my children into the evil place the other day and letting them eat fries.. not that they have never eaten any other less than wonderful fast food (they love the ‘Chooky Park shop’) but Mc Donald’s is evil for other reasons besides the bad food I want from there!
Vinegar – usually in the form of the dressing on potato salad so with onions and mint!
I could almost drink the stuff I reckon… though I usually resist that temptation and actually eat the potato salad and then find some bread to soak up the vinegar, mmmmmm
ice cream – any kind preferably vanilla with chocolate on the outside.
Strangely because I am not usually a huge ice cream fan, nor a chocolate fan. And made even more difficult by my total ban of ice cream for my children so this has to be consumed in secret.
And there ends there list… bit scary that most of it is total crap food… but don’t worry too much I am eating other more decent stuff even if it doesn’t thrill me! And on that note.. and since my latest consignment of icecreams has just walked in the door I am off to eat!
LOL… oh this post brings back memories… and not good ones at that.
YOu have my undying sympathy Kate, I had all day sickness for the entire nine months of both pregnacys. Both times I weighed less the day after giving birth than I did when I fell pregnant… best diet I have ever been on ;)
Wuith Jacob I would eat a kilo of grapes a day, had to be from the fridge… with Bianca it was half a watermelon.
It wouldn’t bother me now if I never ate ice cream again, but when I was pg I would send dh out at 10.00 pm to buy magnums.
Both my kids were born plump and healthy…I totally get the feeling that they suck all the goodness from you. And interestingly Jacob’s favourite food is cold grapes and Bianca’s is watermelon. Go Figure.
Hope you are feeling better soon.
{big hug}
You poor thing Kate. I remember only all too well the morning sickness that lasted a whole 9 months with Steps and I was really sick. Couldn’t keep anything down, lost toomuch wait, had tests done to make sure it didn’t affect that baby inside and it all stopped the day I gave birth to her. Oooh the cravings mine were odd as well. Rice Bubbles of all things and I hate them …..lol I am sure there were others, just can’t remember them…..oh and that’s the other thing pregnancy does to you not only zaps everything from your body but your brain too. I’m sure I use to be smarter…..lol
Anyway hugs girl as you need a few sent your way thinking of you often.
You are so brave to be willing to be an “alien hostess” again :-) It sure is a strange experience to have another living being inside you. Your story brought back memories…the nausea, the smells, the fatigue…I remember too well when the only things I could eat were eggs and steak. My poor vegan husband once prepared a big steak for me – proved how much he loved me! I never really found there to be a “good part” of being pregnant. I wanted to be one of those glowing gals who just loved being pregnant, but I finally faced my personal truth – I was miserable most of the time. Hang in there!
oooh hugs hun, totally with you on the tiredness thing, and at least you are eating from all the food groups! (snort)
I think I must be VERY lucky! 15 weeks and have not been sick once, just tired, and that has now pretty much passed.
But then, you really didn’t need to know that, did you? ;-)
Hope the morning sickness goes soon for you Kate. I reckon just eat whatever your body wants you too (hugs)
Hi Kate it’s the first time I’ve had a chance to look at your blog and you are one funny girl!!!! I am totally sympathetic about the morning sickness. Honestly being pregnant for me is far more effective than any diet ever and the weight never did go back on with the last two pregnancies. I’m still at least 10kg overweight so it’s not like I didn’t need to lose any either but it’s a nice side effect among so many crappy ones! The food thing is so weird. I survived my third pregnancy on rainbow paddlepops all day every day and now my son has acute artificial colour intolerance. I can’t help wondering now if that’s my fault!!! I survived my second pregnancy on nothing but Coke and plain potato chips with a bucket of salt added to it. I will pass on some priceless advice from my obstetrician when I had such bad morning sickness I wound up in hospital for dehydration. He said “any calorie you can keep down is a good one and it doesn’t matter where it comes from!”. Honestly I could have kissed him I was so glad because up until then I’d felt like a bad bad mummy. I’ve found with the tiredness that it seems to get worse through pregnancy with the more kids you already have to take care of. No first time mummy lunchtime naps or put your feet up all evening in front of the TV. Oh lordy no, you’re just meant to carry on like you don’t have an entire other entity sapping your vital essence every moment of every day! Hope you are feeling better asap and thanks for a great read!