Don't get me wrong, I'm really thankful to be pregnant! But sometimes I just want to eat like crap and not feel guilty that I'm feeding the same stuff to a fetus. Usually I try to balance junk food with healthier stuff, but all I want to do right now is have soda and carbs all day long!!! Rawr. Is there anything you'd really like to do/eat/engage in that you won't do because you are 100% responsible for 2 (or more!) people in 1 at the moment?
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If you feel like having a cheat day, go for it! I usually eat healthy, but I've had many a naughty cheat day too
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This was hard for me - I had a lot of projects I wanted to do that involves spray paint/paint and I got a little annoyed that the fetus was preventing me from doing them.
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You are so cute. haha! Wait till he/she comes out... then you'll realize this "being responsible for another person" is never, never, never going to end....... :'(
I remember I used to go crazy about not being able to eat sushi, and can only eat fish for only 1 or 2 times a week. Then I hate not being able to even contemplate painting the nursery.
Then toward the end of the pregnancy, I think I gave in and ate quite a bit of chocolate. Hehe.
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I want to get black out drunk on red wine!
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I'm tired of my husband worrying about everything I do. Can you take Tylenol? Can you change a lightbulb? Blah blah blah. I'm grateful for the support and accountability, but I'm tired! I doubt it will get better breastfeeding since then he can see the little bundle I'm potentially harming with every bite of food!
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Oh no, I'm a terrible mom already! I've been eating so much junk... sorry baby.
So... you're doing better than me!! At least you're trying to balance things out. Just know that you're doing a good thing for your baby so that they are healthy too! And feel free to splurge once in a while so you don't go crazy.
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Yes, I totally agree. I want to have a few glasses of wine and pass out. I won't, and I know it's not healthy even if I weren't pregnant, but I am desperate for sleep!! Even the crappy drunk kind ...
But yeah, a soda and some junk food once in a while probably will do more good for your state of mind than harm to the baby. Hang in there!
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@chopsuey119: @Adira: Haha...I do splurge on junk food, but all the time! I will eat dessert, then have an apple, then have a soda, then have carrot sticks...I don't really think my "balancing out" approach is very healthy, but it could probably (maybe?) be worse.
@autumnlove: @aprk: I would love to drink too much wine or something else festive! We are going to some friends' house for dinner tonight and I bought a bottle of sparkling cider to bring, which is not quite the same. I would love the freedom to ingest whatever I want.
@Mrs. Tricycle: @irene: @jedeve: That's a good point about random things like painting or everyday hazards...sometimes when I smell fumes from something I wonder if I should run the other way! But I don't think it's possible to avoid EVERYTHING that could be hazardous.
So many responsibilities as a prego!
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OMG yes. I miss not having to worry about how I'm laying in bed. I miss being able to eat whatever the eff I want (and I have GD, so doubly so). I miss being able to do pretty much anything without somebody grabbing it from me and insisting that I shouldn't be doing it. I can do (most) everything non-pregnant people can do -- just slower! I feel like an invalid. Grrr.
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Uhhh...you r probably a much more responsible mommy than I am already! With all my nauseau and food aversions up till recently, I would just eat carbs and sugar and have soda whenever I wanted just because it was something I could stand!
and I'm right there with the wistful winos! Oh how I would looove to drink some red wine and get a night of good, deep sleep! -
@autumnlove: lol, thank you for saying it too!!
@shopaholic: I think we should get "wistful wino" tshirts
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I guess I'm a bad mom already because all I eat is crap. But I can't keep down anything else so if baby wants food, baby gets potato chips. Like @shopaholic, I feel you gotta do what gets you through. It's been a really awful 7 weeks of food aversions and M/S (all day sickness).
P.S. BOY am I ever a wistful wino.
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@autumnlove: right??? I'm right there with you, lady.
My DH's annual company Christmas party is Saturday and, I'm not gonna lie, it's tradition for me to get full on wastey-face with his co-workers I'm really worried that I will be bored out of my mind
It's the one time of the year I can dress up pretty and dance my drunk butt off!! Gah!!
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@aprk: I definitely feel the same! (Totally not the same as having wine: but my doctor told me unisom sleep tabs are allowed. It does work alright but if you take it on a week night it's hard to wake up for work (groggy)).
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Only every damn time I eat. My early glucose test is abnormal - I'm only about eight weeks along - so my OB's advice is to avoid white food and sweet things, basically all empty carbs until we can look into the whole GD thing further, but sometimes, that's really all I want to eat!
I'm sure the whole "constantly responsible" for another person thing won't end even after the baby so maybe this is nature's way of telling me to get used to it now.
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@LazyLightning: Thanks for the tip. My midwife's nurse told me to try Benadryl. I think Unisom might be my next course. I am going out of my mind.
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@LazyLightning: @aprk: I take half a Unisom when I really want to sleep and it works well without leaving me groggy in the morning! Usually if I pop one about 30-45 mins before bedtime I fall asleep pretty quickly. But I still wake up to pee.
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@tororojo: @LazyLightning: Can I ask which unison tablets you are taking? I saw some regular ones and another "natural" kind at the store.
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@aprk: the regular ones. The doc said not to get the gel ones. Just 'unisom sleep tabs'. I did not see a natural option so I just got the one the doc described. It's a small blue pill, really easy to cut in half.
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@aprk: I don't think that natural work as good as the regular. Taking them was the only way I could sleep during the first trimester.
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@aprk: Regular kind here also...I would stick with that unless you hear a good reason to go for the naturals, just because you can be pretty confident it works well and is safe for pregnancy!
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@Smurfette: @tororojo: @LazyLightning: Thanks, ladies! You may have just saved my sanity. If this works for me, I'm gonna be ticked that my nurse didn't mention it, lol. It's been a week of no sleep and my husband is starting to lose his patience with me.
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@aprk: I hope it works for you! Sometimes my husband and I split a unisom...maybe if you give him half, he will at least not be annoyed by your lack of sleep.
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@tororojo: I unabashedly wake him up.
I figure if I have to deal with this, so does he! Hah. Unfortunately the frequency of my insomnia has led to nighttime anxiety and panic attacks which only prolong the cycle. So in reality, I need him to help calm me down.ETA: sorry for threadjacking!!
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@aprk: Haha, I have no problem with jacking and I hope at least you got something positive from the thread! I wake DH up sometimes when I can't sleep; not because I need to but because I'm jealous of his slumber. I may be a bad wife...
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Love all my fellow wistful winos on here! Ugh! Came up to meet DH at the ski lodge for lunch and instantly hit with nauseau (even still at 26 weeks!) I already had a Coke in the morning (bad mommy!) And DH gave me a Butterfinger candy which actually helped the nauseau A LOT! Baby Girl has a major sweet tooth! So yeah, IDK how many strikes I've already hit today for being not a very responsible baby host!
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@shopaholic: My baby girl love sweets, too! I decided on a Coke Zero instead of an apple earlier so that's 2 strikes for soda and artificial sweeteners. What are you gonna do...
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Oh boy, I'd love a glass (bottle) of wine right now!! I've not had a drink for almost three weeks (since my BFP) and I can honestly say it's the longest I've been sober for since I was 18!
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I'd love a nice cocktail and to sleep on my back. Sigh...
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Oh man, I totally ate junk food when I was pregnant! I didn't mind giving up the wine then, but I am the saddest girl now that I'm breastfeeding. I just want to drink two big old glasses in a row!!
Also, it's probably good to get used to feeling totally responsible whole you're pregnant. @irene: is right (although these sweet babies do have ways to make up for their complete neediness!) -
I want wine so badly. And to sleep on my stomach.
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Yes, I would love to take some better drugs to get rid of this cold. Sleep on my stomach and have a huge glass of wine. Most nights I don't mind not drinking, but with holiday parties coming up, I am sad that I am going to be the lone sober one.
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I totally ate junk food when pregnant..I was so sick that if something sounded good I went with it. I looked forward to delivering so that I could do more, but I'm BFing so I still can't take most cold meds, drink a ton, etc! The things we do for our babies
It's the one time of the year I can dress up pretty and dance my drunk butt off!! Gah!!
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