Changes in Taste
It’s common knowledge that pregnancy affects taste, likes, smells, and so forth. Here is my personal experience with it so far.
While pregnant with Hans my food preferences and taste changed very little. There were days when something particularly disgusted me and I had one craving incident (I craved salad — romaine, cherry tomatoes, hard-boiled eggs, grilled chicken & all the good stuff), but overall nothing of note except for practically constant heartburn after the sixth month — even milk gave me heartburn. I ate a whole Costco bottle of Tums in 3 months.
I had no heartburn between pregnancies — not an ounce. Heartburn recurred with Jaeger in the first couple months, then gave me a respite during the lovely second trimester, only to hit just as hard during the third trimester again. Since then, I have had heartburn after spicy meals or anytime my mealtime posture is lacking. During my second pregnancy, I had no real cravings, but a little nagging within for Chinese food. We very infrequently eat at resturants and Matt doesn’t even like Chinese, so I lived with the feeling for a month or so. I forgot lunch one teaching day and had teaching cash in my pocket, so I went across the street to Safeway and indulged in Chinese….it was not what I wanted. It was super-spicy and the fried rice wasn’t so tasty as I had been dreaming it would be. I realized that what I had wanted was piles of fried rice and teriyake chicken, but it was too late. After that incident I didn’t want to think about Chinese food anymore.
But another difference in this second pregnancy was that my food preferences actually changed: I used to prefer soft-serve ice cream (Blizzards were the best treat!), but it shifted to preferring hard ice cream (I discovered Ben & Jerry’s); I used to drink milk only with Oreos or peanut-butter-covered pancakes or under the duress of my midwife, but I came to enjoy a glass of milk, even alone — not chocolate milk (as I did with Hans), not with chocolate, not mixed with coffee, not while holding my nose. And the strange thing is that these preferences still hold; they did not leave me when Jaeger did.
So I’m curious if the next pregnancy will only wack things up some more or if it’ll cause everything to revert back to its previous state.
Are you telling us something here????
I’m telling you I am sad I can’t drink milk. :) I’m telling you I expect there’ll be a NEXT pregnancy, but I said “NEXT” pregnancy! NEXT pregnancy, Mom, I promise you won’t find out from my blog. :)
No, really, that’d be hilarious. You could write a LONG post and slide something in there about the potential baby in such a such a month, or something and see how many people catch it!! I know I tend to skim long posts, so I’d probably be one of the losers. After all, I didn’t even notice your engagement ring for about 4 hours or so!!! :-)
I realized when I came onto my own site a few hours later that “Taste of Pregnancy” in large yellow letters did give the wrong impression. :) I changed the title. :)
LoL! That’s right! You know, maybe you and I should start posting some of our fun high school & college stories while we still remember them and while we still feel like we’re those same people. :) In particular, I love hearing what you tell people who ask, “So, why did you go to U of I?” :) Mine is simple: “Because Matt did….I just had to find a major that WSU Tri-Cities didn’t offer so I had a valid excuse.” :)
LOL! Mystie! Did your mom and dad ever figure out the real reason you chose UofI?
I bet they figured it out really quickly after you started courting 3 months before! :-) Yes, you’re right – these stories need to be shared with the world. And the story of how I ended up being at U of I IS one of my favorites! :-) The one of how Michael ended up there is even more funny, although just an addendum on the first one. :-) People are usually rather surprised (maybe even shocked) to find that he chose his college because his girlfriend was going there.
Yes, that certainly doesn’t sound like typical Michael behaviour, especially when you use the term “girlfriend.” :) It sounds flaky. Really, though, if you look at it as “He saw his opportunity for changing the long-distance-relationship to a same-campus-relationship and realized it would increase the likelihood of and shorten the timeline for wedding the woman of his choice” — that sounds more like Michael. :)
Yes, I think we’ll have to make a “history” or “stories” category. :) We should make a combined timeline from courtship to wedding…possibly through childbearing…it’d be funny. :)