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When I was heavily pregnant last summer, I hobbled to the farmer's market by my house every Saturday morning. Once I got admonished by a particularly cantankerous farmer for trying to buy honey for my tea (which, it turns out, is probably nonsense) but mostly people quietly stared at me and my girth and parted swiftly out of my way before I crushed them like a giant wrecking ball.My mission was precise and determined: to buy as many crates of strawberries, raspberries, and cherries that I could carry on my built-in belly shelf. And then to go home and eat as many of them as possible. I couldn't stop. In the last month of my pregnancy I subsisted almost entirely on fresh raspberries. If I was feeling particularly daring, I'd sometimes add a little cream.
This weekend I enjoyed taking Nolan with me to the market, and it is so much more comfortable with him riding on my back instead of inside me. I still bought a lot of berries, but I scaled it down a little, and was interested to see what Nolan would think of these new delicacies.
Well I've never seen anything like it. Nolan has always liked to eat, but he stuffed as many strawberries and raspberries in his mouth as possible and then held out sticky red hands for more. His eyes were wide with excitement and he clapped like someone who had found the Holy Grail, finally, thank heaven and I thought: he is acting just l did last summer.
From the way Nolan devours berries, I wonder if my pregnant penchant for them somehow translated to him. What do you think? Do your babies love to eat what you craved in your pregnancy?
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ReaderComments (Page 2 of 2)
7-13-2006 @ 4:22PM
jen said...My mum lived in Japan when she was pregnant with me, and I am a sushi fanatic - I can't get enough of it (they don't ban it during pregnancy over there like they do in the UK). My sister was conceived in Indonesia and we lived in Indonesia/Singapore when my mum was pregnant - my sis is totally addicted to singapore noodles & nasi goreng.
For my pregnancy, I had a thing about lamb kebabs, fish and chips, carrot cake and B&J Choc Fudge Brownie icecream. Finlay LOVES lamb, fish, potato and carrots; he's not getting to my icecream despite a taster from Grandma (he's only 11mo). The other thing is that I ate a lot of garlic and chili and heavily spiced/herby food - Finlay HATES bland food (rice cereal was spit out), and got into his food as soon as I introduced bologneses and sauces with lots of oregano, pepper and loads of garlic. It is sometimes embarrassing at playgroup when my son breathes garlic over everyone!!
Considering that the amniotic fluid 'tastes'
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7-14-2006 @ 1:45PM
Jason said...Pregnant women shouldn't eat honey because it can contain botulinum spores. That's what causes botulism. The farmer wasn't being cantankerous, he was right.
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7-14-2006 @ 2:23PM
Kristin said...Jason, I asked my doctor about this - she said it's a myth.
This is applicable to babies, in their first year of life, but not pregnant women.
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7-22-2006 @ 12:26PM
Ann said...Who knows....I made special trips to the store for green olives. Now, 25 years later, my daughter still will not touch them!
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