Cravings

First off, let me preface this post with a statement. No, I am not pregnant!

I was looking at a picture of a variety of candy. It had a particular candy bar that never appealed to me pre-pregnancy w/Janae nor does it appeal to me now. But it did once-upon-a-time. So here I divulge my pregnancy cravings (probably more for my record than yours...I've been wanting to do a scrap book page of this info for some time now.)

Pregnancy for Britnee:

• Chocolate donut or Hostess cupcake along with a carton of white milk. I would stop by the donut shop or gas station every day on the way to work and get this for my breakfast. I rarely drank white milk even as a baby...my mom hated it so she gave me chocolate - always (well, after I came off formula anyway)! (In fact, I knew I was pregnant with Alita, our first angel baby, before the pregnancy test showed positive because I woke up one morning, grabbed a brownie and a glass of white milk. Sat down at the table for breakfast, took my first bite and then went, "uh oh!" But that craving ended with the second pregnancy.)


• McDonald's Chocolate Milkshake. Mid-afternoon, my doting father (much to some of my student's parents disapproval) would stop by the school and say he was on his way to town, did I need anything? Of course, my answer was, "a chocolate milkshake if it's not too much trouble". (and it never was...I was the baby :) Now, understand, I LOVE chocolate (you already knew that didn't you?) but milkshakes were FAR down the list of acceptable chocolate indulgences when I wasn't pregnant. So this was new to me.


• Any kind of sandwich (ham and cheese sub, hamburger, Whopper, etc.) had to be accompanied with lettuce, tomato and mayo.


• Spaghetti. I ATE spaghetti before I was pregnant, but only if I had to. I certainly never ordered it off a menu by choice until now.

Pregnancy for Janae:

• chocolate chip cookies. I was a strange child in that I never cared for peppermints, candy canes, ice cream or chocolate chip cookies. But bring on those pregnancy hormones and it'll do crazy things. I especially loved the big cc cookies sold in Target cafeterias.


• Hershey Bar with Almonds. I HATED any kind of nut except walnuts. But I honestly think I consumed a Hershey Bar a day while I was prego for this child! And it HAD to have almonds. I always tell her that's why her eyes are the color of milk chocolate :)
  (note of interest: I could not drink Pepsi or anything sweet at all during this pregnancy and for several months post pregnancy- to this day, Janae is the child that will choose water over other drinks 90% of the time)

Pregnancy for Kerrigan:

• chocolate chip cookies (again, but Chips Ahoy or Famous Amos, this time around :)


• M&M's


• plain chocolate chips by the handful - let 'em melt in your mouth....mmmmmmm...


• Crafts of any kind


• ice cold water in a clear acrylic glass w/beads of condensation glistening

I am sure you are finding these last two hilarious, but I was so sick with her pregancy that I would lie in bed or on the couch and dream of the day when I felt good enough to do crafts or drink all the water I wanted - liquids were as hard for me to keep down as food.
(Again, I could not do Pepsi or sweet drinks - found out it was due to gall bladder issues - but I was able to start drinking Pepsi again shortly after I had her. She LOVES pop more than water, so I have concluded that it is a learned behavior in the early months of childhood not anything to do with pregancy!)