- My daughter will eat anything. Tonight I made a vegetarian dish: stir-fried buckwheat noodles with garlic, shallots, roasted hazlenuts, goat cheese, and arugula. She cleaned up her plate. Also, she will eat any kind of sauce if I tell her it is either jam or ketchup.
- I’m not actually a vegetarian, but when the baby is born I’m going to try to go vegetarian two or three days a week. But maybe not for a while – found out this morning I’m quite anemic, which explains why I can’t so much as sneeze without feeling like I need a nap to recover from the exertion.
- I also found out that I failed my initial glucose tolerance screen (have to lay off the cookies) and I have pretty bad pitting edema (have to lay off the Cheese-its). And my heart rate is too fast (have to lay off the Pepsi). So basically I can’t eat anything that keeps the morning sickness at bay. Yay me, I’m pretty awesome at being pregnant. I’ve put Cami in charge of my personal nutrition plan to make sure I don’t starve, since I don’t actually remember what real people eat. I’m pretty sure it’s not arugula with goat cheese.
- I won an award at school . I’ve gotten second place about a finity times, so they finally just took pity on me this year.
- Tim puts the baby to bed every night. I am obsessed with said baby, so sometimes I listen in on the baby monitor. It makes me smile. They read stories, sing songs, and seem to do a lot of tickling or other silly playing. Last night I overheard:
Tim: I’m going to eat your piggy toes.
(hysterical baby laughter)
Squiggles: NO NO eat my piggy toes!
Tim: Okay, I’m going to eat your brains.
(hysterical baby laughter)
Squiggles: NO NO eat my brains!
Tim: Okay, I’m going to eat your kidneys.
(hysterical baby laughter)
Squiggles: NO NO eat my kidneys!
(silence)
Squiggles, in an almost whisper: Daddy, eat my kidneys again…
(hysterical baby laughter)
etc. - I also watch my child sleep on the baby monitor. I kind of like her.
Friday, May 4, 2012
Miscellaneous weekly musings
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Oh Laura! Anemia? I've had chronic anemia since I was born I think - I don't remember a time when I didn't have it and completely sympathize with your pain/exhaustion/dizziness. Have they put you on iron supplements aside from what you're getting in your prenats? I have to take a liquid form of iron with about 3000 mg of Vit-C in order for it to absorb effectively enough. If you're allowed to do that, you should - it helps A LOT! I hope you start to feel better soon. Since I'm a stay-at-home-wife now I have time -- let me know if I can help (cook you a meal, etc.).
CONGRATS on your award! You failed to mention what it was for, because you're too modest. I bet it was for something like finding the cure for the common cold; because you rock at microbiology like that. You must share!
YAY, you won!!! I knew it would be you.
I'm so glad I'm your nutrition coach. Here's what I ate for breakfast: frosted carrot cake cookies. I mean...quinoa spinach and wheat berry salad.
Congratulations on your award. That's great! What was it for?
Love that conversation with Squiggles and Tim.
Laura - I swear by chlorophyll for iron deficiency during pregnancy. I was also anemic - iron pills made me burp sulfur and weren't working. Two weeks of 2 T of cholorphyll and my iron was up 3 points. You probably have to buy it in a health food store and it's really green. But it really works. Let's talk soon - I really miss being your roommate. Though I am happy we have husbands and children to call our own.
Congratulations! You are so awesome! I'd love to hear more about it.
Ugh, anemia is rough. If you do end up taking iron supplements, take Slow Fe - It is much gentler to your system than regular iron supplements. But, I'm intrigued by the chlorophyll suggestion. I want to look into that myself!
I love how you slip in a single sentence about winning an award. Congratulations! Your baby is going to be an anatomy expert by the time she is three. How many two year olds know what kidneys are.?
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