One of the most common questions I have been asked is, “What do you crave?”. I honestly didn’t believe I have craved much. I have wanted a burger or steak maybe once or twice, even wanted carrots at one point, but nothing consistent… or so I thought.
Recently I have been drinking more milk than I normally do, but I just chalked that up to being lazy exhausted during my third trimester and eating cereal rather than cook anything. But I have also been drinking milk with my dinner each night and almost cried once because I wanted chocolate milk (ridiculous I know). I thought maybe I might be craving milk, but didn’t really think much about it. Until today.
I am a pretty lazy person when it comes to research so the reading I have done about pregnancy has been either through my friends answering texts or from the weekly updates sent via e-mail from BabyCenter.com. I figure in the old days they just had each other to learn all about pregnancy so I really have one up on moms from 50 years ago… right?
Anyway, I get my weekly e-mails every Thursday. When reading today’s update (I am 29 weeks ya’ll!) I read that this kid is sucking 250 milligrams of calcium out of me each day. I am waiting for my hip to break while just sitting here typing this due to my bones no longer getting any calcium. Not really, I am just being overly dramatic. What? I am pregnant…. and me.
So yeah, I would say that I have had a craving during this pregnancy: milk… and cheese. (Side note/tangent: Could I be anymore obsessed with cheese? I won’t go to Cootie Brown’s until after I am pregnant just b/c avoiding the place all together is as far as my discipline goes in not eating their Blue Cheese Chips – apparently you are not supposed to eat Blue Cheese while preggers. If I went there to eat dinner, I would undoubtedly just say, “Screw it, I am ordering some”. Sorry mom, I know that was crude).
What about you? What were/are your cravings?
With Nolan, I couldn’t get enough pineapples. I would buy the flip top cans and sit in the parking lot and just devour them!
I can’t really say if I had many more cravings with the rest of my pregnancies…I had many more food aversions than actual cravings.
With Judson, I did crave Cootie Brown’s Key Lime Pie…..so John bought me a whole one home….that I kept in the freezer and would cut off a slice when I wanted some, lol.
I can’t believe your closing in on the last 10 weeks of your pregnancy!! If you have any questions or anything about impending labor…..message me!!!
Oh me, I craved green apples with Daniel, nothing much with Samuel, but with this pregnancy, I’m craving baked apples. It’s weird because I do not like apples at all. I don’t do well with their texture, so I never eat them… only when pregnant.