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Only a few months after
giving birth to my first son, Everett, I went to court to defend my employer in a contractual matter. Opposing counsel
was pregnant, and while my boss and his nemesis were trying to work things out in the hall, we chatted about
breastfeeding. This was her second pregnancy, and she told me that during her first, her breastfeeding cravings were
insane: she'd eat whatever she could get her hands on, even garbanzo beans right out of the can.
I've been breastfeeding Truman for nine months, and I'm still hungry all. the. time. But my cravings are far different than during pregnancy. When I was pregnant, I craved carbohydrates, dairy, protein, and vegetables. I couldn't get enough greens and I wanted cream cheese on everything. After I got over my initial nausea I wanted to eat sausage constantly.
I'm still in need of much protein (beef, I love you, oh, how I love you) but my major craving is sweets. I've noticed that I get these cravings most keenly right after I put Truman down from a long breastfeeding jag. Right now, as I'm typing, I'm jittery even though I just ate two macadamia white chocolate chip cookies. I need more sugar. NOW.
(And yes, I'm trying to eat fruit when I crave sugar, but it's hard: I really just want
chocolate, cookies, cake.) Did you have different cravings during pregnancy and breastfeeding? And was anyone
else such a sugar freak?
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ReaderComments (Page 3 of 3)
4-29-2007 @ 9:10PM
Karen said...I have the same trouble with sweet cravings whilst breastfeeding. What causes this?? I have managed to gain all the weight I had lost during pregnancy (Gestational Diabeties)approx 10kg.Grrrr..I cant seem to go a day without chocolate or milk...while I was on a very strict diet during pregnancy, and got the all clear after my daughter was born, I now wonder if at my 12 month blood glucose test the diabeties will show up again...
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5-11-2007 @ 9:38AM
threenorns said...oh, thank gods i'm not losing my mind! i was SO GOOD when i was pregnant - no junk food at all, i just didn't care for it. now i'm eating us out of house and home and baby's putting on a pound a month because i'm convinced that all the sugar and chocolate and cake and chocolate and cookies and chocolate (and i HATE chocolate under normal circumstances!) has made my milk nothing but liquid sugar.
i even mix up packaged cake batter and eat it from the bowl - doens't taste as good once baked.
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5-22-2007 @ 1:52AM
Gayle said...I am so glad I found this page! I have always been somewhat of a junkfood junkie but during pregnancy the only thing i wanted was healthy food.... especially veggies. I still gained about 40 lbs, all but 10 i lost a week after birth... i too was told that breastfeeding would help me lose the weight...then the sugar cravings hit... its nothing like i have ever experienced before!! It's uncontrolable! Now im thinking about buying stock in peanut m&ms and im too scared to get on the scale! When will it stop so I can finally lose weight???
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8-07-2007 @ 12:13PM
sheri said...YUM, YUM GIVE ME SOME CHOCOLATE CHIP ANYTHING. MY SON IS 8 MONTHS OLD AND I THINK I'VE EATIN' MY WAY THOUGH 85 BAGS OF CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES SINCE THEY PULLED HIM OUT OF ME. I WEIGH LESS NOW THAN I EVER HAVE. IF I WOULD HAVE KNOWN THE FASTEST WAY TO LOSE WEIGHT WAS TO BREASTFEED, I WOULD HAVE STARTED HAVING KIDS WHEN I WAS 12. HOPE MY SON DOESN'T MIND BREASTFEEDING FOR THE NEXT 18 YEARS BECAUSE I'M NOT LOOKING FORWARD TO WORKING OUT AGAIN.
SHERI
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