Smells, smells, everywhere and not a thing to eat
Jun 3rd, 2008 by Bethany
Okay, so there’s plenty to eat around here, just hardly anything my body is willing to let me eat this morning. Everything smells, and nothing smells good. Even the good things don’t smell good. When I’m pregnant my olfactory sense increases by a few factors and it’s pretty crazy. Those diapers I normally don’t notice until they are sagging slightly start to bother me soon after they appear. The garbage has to be taken out multiple times every day for my sanity. I turn and flee (fly?) when my husband makes eggs for breakfast. My normally luxurious bath scrub is intolerable. My hands have to be washed more often because the smells from anything I touch linger instead of disappearing. Last night I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn’t get back to sleep for a long time because of some still-unidentified scent in the house. You know you have an acute sense of smell when “nothing” keeps you up at night.
So what’s for breakfast? Wheat Thins. I’m having room-temperature crackers for breakfast. Crackers I have to ask my kids for permission to eat. Degen holds the box, I say “May I please have some more?” and he carefully considers his answer each time before answering “uuuuuhhh..sure!” and handing me one cracker (sometimes one half-eaten cracker). In all fairness, while I was typing the above he got impatient waiting for my plea and said “You want some more?” When I answered affirmatively, he of course gave me one more cracker. He’s really very generous for a three year old.
I’m sitting here trying to think of foods that sound good enough to eat. Donuts…with chocolate frosting on top. Strawberries. Waffles with syrup. Cantaloupe. I could probably eat a burrito or chicken noodle soup. And I can’t think of anything else. I don’t really have cravings when I’m pregnant–I have foods I don’t hate. And that list of foods gets smaller and smaller with each pregnancy because the foods I binged on in the last pregnancy are particularly disgusting to me this time around. Hopefully I won’t have so many kids that I run out of foods to not hate!
I’m not really trying as hard as I “should” to keep the carbs to a minimum right now. With my history of gestational diabetes I’m sure my doctor would say that putting waffles with syrup or donuts on my list of foods I can eat is totally inappropriate. And keeping up with my exercise routine would be especially helpful right now, too. The stress of moving and morning sickness, however, say otherwise. Maybe I’ll try to take the kids swimming later today…