You Are What Your Growing Baby Makes You Eat

by Amy Hicks

I should begin by saying that I am pregnant with my second child and due early this summer. It’s a girl and we are both doing well. With that being said, pregnancy cravings are a b****. When I was carrying my now three year old son Aaron, everyone asked me, “Are you craving anything in particular?” While I believe that I single handedly kept the peanut butter and banana industry afloat during those nine months, there wasn’t anything that I just had to have. I never had to send my husband Michael anywhere at 11:30 at night for tacos and ice cream or pickles and carrot cake, lucky for him. I do remember around the last six weeks I just had to have Corn Pops cereal, but that I have to say is really as far as it ever went.

This pregnancy is a whole other ball game. I don’t know if it’s because I am carrying a girl this time or not, but all I want to eat are sweets. Cookies, M&M’s, ice cream…you name it, I want it. Do I even have to mention that it’s Girl Scout cookie time? Everyday that my husband walks in the door from work without my coveted boxes of cookie nirvana I think, just for a second, about leaving him for someone with a better cookie connection.

The other night we were coming home from my parent’s house and Aaron had brought a bag of Fruit Loops cereal to eat as a snack on the way home. That sweet, fruity aroma filled the car and I really thought about snatching them off of him. I wouldn’t really have done it, but oh I thought about it. Guess what’s at the top of my grocery list for this week? Yep, Fruit Loops. I have a real problem.

So far I have not gained an obscene amount of weight. I had lost several pounds in the beginning of the pregnancy thanks to good ole morning sickness, and the weight that I have put on has come slowly; only one or two pounds a month. Thankfully I have not actually given in to everything that I’ve craved. But as the months go by, it is getting harder and harder to just say no. So if in the next couple of months you hear about an unexplained M&M famine that has rocked the country, please forget that you ever read this post. I swear that I had nothing to do with it. Really! Honest!

About the author: Amy, this month’s This Is Motherhood columnist, is a full-time stay-at-home wife and mother and has been married to her wonderful husband Michael for five years. Together they have a son, Aaron, who is three and a daughter, Elyse, who is due to be born early this summer. Before becoming a mother, Amy was a Histology Technician for a Pathology lab at a local hospital.

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Comments

6 Cool Kids Came To Play

pam on April 18, 2008 8:36 am
I have momnesia for all but my last pregnancy through which I craved peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and grape soda. Very adult palate.
They say you crave what your body needs so what do you need from a box of froot loops? lol
Veronica on April 18, 2008 9:47 am
I craved sweet stuff when I was pregnant, but had a hard time keeping anything down. I ended up eating ALOT of peaches.
Karly on April 18, 2008 10:34 am
I didn’t start craving sweets until AFTER I had given birth. The first thing I did (after loving on my new baby girl, of course) was ask for a snickers bar. And then another. And another. I think we emptied out the vending machine on the maternity floor.
englishgenie on April 18, 2008 11:47 am
Ohhh, for me it was RANCH DRESSING. I used to have dreams where I got to stand in front of the refrigerator and drink the bottle!
Jerseygirl89 on April 19, 2008 9:05 am
Oh my gosh, I think you just jump-started my first craving of this pregnancy. I REALLY want M&M’s now.

I did during my other two pregnancies too - and those kids turned out fine. One loves chocolate, the other could care less about it.
jenn in holland on April 22, 2008 7:48 am
Jalepenos on hot dogs. Beat that craving for weirdness…

I think my cravings were completely different each pregnancy too. Those damn kids start ruling your life early…