Ok, here goes. And I pinky-promise that this is a true story!
Now, I'm sure you've heard lots of pregnancy cravings...weird combinations such as this:
or how about craving THIS:
...with
AND:
Yes...a can of sardines. With the Cheerios AND the onion! I'll give you 3 guesses of who that weirdo was..
That weird pregnant lady was moi, moi and moi (:
And I must say that that is the best breakfast I ever ate in my entire life! I actually woke up craving exactly that! It was dee-lish!! (:
That isn't the worst of it! Throughout both of my entire pregnancies, I craved ice and dirt! I clearly remember driving to the fields at the edge of town with my ziplock bag so I could put my dirt clods in. My cravings were so bad that...Thank God it never happened!, but had someone actually wanted to mug me, I would have said "Take the purse with money/credit cards, just leave me with my ziplock full of dirt clods!" I would suck on those dirt clods and actually lick my fingers when I finished them!
For those of you that "clean" beans so you can cook them, you know how you find small clusters of dirt from the field in a bag of beans? Wow. That was like finding gold to me! I would eat them right up. I would savor the taste!!
And the ice?? Wow. I L-O-V-E-D it! I didn't just crave any 'ole ice either. You know these freezers you see at the gas stations or at Wal-Mart that are open on top and the ice collects all the way around the inside of the freezer?
Yep. That was the ice I just had to have. I had the hubs buy me a very old model of refrigerator for our house so I could eat the ice that collected all around the freezer. And I never gave it time to actually collect ice. I hate to admit it, but I actually broke the freezer one day that I poked it with a knife to get all of the ice off. I KNOW! So my sweet hubby bought me another one...
My cravings were so bad that when I was pregnant with Tita, and Marko was just a baby, he would actually wake up from his naps and crawl straight to the refrigerator because he was so used to seeing me standing there eating ice! I used to carry one of those huge cooking spoons in my purse, just in case I ran across one of those freezers, I would have the spoon to be able scrape the ice off of the sides! I remember sweet Laura helping me gather the ice.
Looking back on that, I can't believe my doctor never thought anything of that when I would tell him what I would do. He never seemed concerned, so I didn't think I needed to worry about it either. I didn't know it at the time, of course, but my body actually craved those things because I was anemic! I had no idea!!
I thank God that my children were born healthy. I'm not sure how, but they were.
Needless to say, I never struggled with losing my pregnancy weight after giving birth. How could I gain weight with living on ice and dirt??!! I ate during my pregnancy, of course, but I ate tons of dirt and ice. Every single day. Within 2 days, I would drop to below my "before pregnancy" weight. My cravings were very real and I hated it because I would constantly worry about my unborn baby, but I couldn't help myself. And again, my doctor never told me that this wasn't normal.
These are some other weird tidbits of my pregnancies:
One thing that I definitely was not a fan of, was the fact that my feet would grow one shoe size after each pregnancy. Again, I promise that this is true.
Another thing I must mention is that I am very grateful to not know what morning sickness is. Never had it.....Don't hate!
I love my children dearly, and I always wanted more biological childen, but I believe God only blessed me with 2 biological children so I wouldn't end up with feet like Paris Hilton. And for that I am very grateful.. (:
Happy Thursday!!
Disclaimer: All photos via google.
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