Cravings

As most of you know. Baby #2 is on it's way!
This pregnancy is SO different from L's. Almost immediately, once my body knew it was pregnant; I have been nauseated all the time. Things eased up once I hit the second trimester, but even still almost everything I eat gives me a sour stomach. I can't figure out if it is one thing in particular. Like with L it was bread. The smell, taste or even looking at it made me sick. I also pretty much became mostly vegetarian and it is the same for this one. I really dont' like meat, well full portions of meat. I don't mind if it is in something with sauces or something. But chicken in particular I find gross in any form. Beef and pork are ok if they are prepared in the above method. Fish pretty much in any form is fine. I just don't like smelling it cooked.

I've decided to create a list of odd cravings from my pregnancy with L and the current one. I don't think I ever wrote them down with L. And these cravings for #2 are just so crazy that I have to make a record of it.

With L I craved/loved eating:
Weirest: Brazil nuts with milk and hot dogs,
Ate most often: we ate spaghetti at least 3 times a week in my final months,
First few months: Orange Juice, cool ranch doritos, chili from Wendy's

Honestly there really wasn't much craving going on. I remember being kinda disappointed that I really didn't have any crazy cravings my first pregnancy. Well no problem in the craving department with #2....

With #2 so far I have craved the following:
cocktail sauce just by it's self, cocktail sauce in place of cranberry spread for thanksgiving, cocktail sauce on fresh watermelon, orange juice and lemonade (hot dog on the stick has the best lemonade!!!) milk by the gallons, fruit or fruit flavored candies helped ease my nausea, shrimp (with cocktail sauce) crab (with cocktail sauce) sweet and sour sauce on anything chinese, cheese, fish almost always sounds good; I've eaten a lot of tuna, well more than usual and with caution to help keep clear of overdoing the mercery levels, blue cheese! Oranges, cuties, ice cream, juices and vitamin waters.

Also eating too many grains seem to kick in the nausea.

NEVER have I gagged so much in ANY time of my life. Anything remotely gross sounding, smelling or visuals will set my gag reflexes off. Sometimes so bad, that I have to lay down for a few minutes to avoid throwing up. I mean it is so bad that some of the mildly grosser stuff on Mythbusters will set me off. It is pretty funny to watch L while I'm having a gagging fit; she copies the sound I am making and stands next to me with her hands on her knees and head down, while I try and focus on not having everything come up. She says "Mom, I want to throw" meaning she wants to throw up. I was sick on Christmas and had a bowl next to me, which she pretended to "throw up" in.

Regardless of all the wonderful joy's of being pregnant, we are super excited to welcome this new addition in our home. I can't say I am looking forward to the sleepless nights, but here's to hoping the new baby will be a great sleeper right off the bat! L has never been a good sleeper, so somethings got to balance out. Right?