One of my main pregnancy symptoms has hit… Aversions…
I have a slight hint of nausea lingering at all times and I am having so many aversions… food that I usually like just don’t appeal to me…
If I make a meal that needs to cook for a while, by the time that it is done cooking I can’t stand to eat it and there are very few things that I really “feel” like eating…
So a few times this week I have made a supper and have not been able to eat it…
Last night I had take out and it felt really good to actually eat a full meal and then was able to eat the rest for lunch…
Why does our body do this to us… we are growing a baby but can’t look at food to even nourish ourselves…
I know exactly what you mean. When I was pregnant with Meredith, I couldn’t eat vegetables. It was weird, normally I love almost all vegetables. Lettuce and other greens especially. It seems counterproductive, I should have been eating more veggies while pregnant, not less! Do your aversions tend to last the whole pregnant? Or just first trimester?
The same thing also happens to me while pregnant–I can’t stand to see or smell food cooking, and very few things sound good, so we end up eating processed food or take out often when we normally would eat those things rarely.
And during my pregnancy with Rosie I was also unable to eat veggies! They literally made me sick, it was so strange. My last pregnancy was the opposite. I couldn’t eat meat, or even think about it.
maybe its our body’s way to say “the next months are going to be the hardest yet most wonderful of your life… take the time to eat and drink and do and see what you want!!” the nurtitionist in me says that our bodies crave what we need the most… i say go with what you want… what you crave… what seems the most yummy for you! the wee one will get what he needs… just make sure mama is happy!!!
Me, too! I read that meat and vegetable aversions coincide with development of the baby’s organs. The hypothesis goes: Vegetables contain toxins to protect themselves from being eaten, which normally we detox just fine, but during that critical time of a baby’s development, our hyper-tuned senses tell us no. Meat is easily spoiled or infected with parasites and cooking it produces carcinogens, so the same idea.