So freaking hungry!

[yogachick79]

I am SO freaking hungry today. I had two small (homemade and VERY healthy) muffins upon waking and now I am eating some quiche from a cafe down the street. What has gotten in to me? I am also nauseas for the first time in weeks. Could it be from a baby growth spurt or something?

[Ivanhoe]

I have been like that since 8 weeks, when "The Nausea" started. In my case, nausea comes when I've ignored the first hunger symptom. If I don't eat a small meal every two (some times 1.30) hours I start to feel nausea and desperation. This made me understand what happens to small babies when they *need* to nurse every one or two hours. They really need it, if they don't eat, it aches!

[mittendrin]

Gosh, I could eat like a horse all day long. No full-signal coming from my stomach. I am hoping it'll get a bit better as baby takes up more room.

[renaissanceed]

Oh, I eat about every 1 1/2 hours. And hey, you went to the gym yesterday right? So you're even hungrier than usual (yes, you can milk that activity for as long as you want)

[Taradactyl3]

Originally Posted by Ivanhoe

I have been like that since 8 weeks, when "The Nausea" started. In my case, nausea comes when I've ignored the first hunger symptom. If I don't eat a small meal every two (some times 1.30) hours I start to feel nausea and desperation. This made me understand what happens to small babies when they *need* to nurse every one or two hours. They really need it, if they don't eat, it aches!

I never thought of the whole baby nursing thing. Makes so much sens. That's why it angers me when people try to train their babes to go longer between feedings. Recently a woman I know was nursing and I said, "time to eat huh?" and she replied "Not really, I don't know why he's hungry." I'm glad she was feeding him even though she felt he had just eatten.

Sorry that was a tangent.

I'm super hungry all the time too.

T

[GinaRae]

Sorry to hijack the thread... I was reading the one above this....

I was SO upset when my friend chose to let the baby CIO at 8pm at night and wouldn't feed him, even when he woke crying, until morning. So a baby that had seizures from being underweight and low blood sugar when born, was by two months, forced to wait 9 or 10 hours to eat during the night.

I tried to understand that this is what she needed to survive her day in good spirits and be a good mom, but I couldn't stand it. I was supportive as best I could be, but did tell her that I was worried about his brain development as babies need their blood sugar up to develop well early on. I think that's when she started letting him eat at 5am instead of 6am. *sigh*

However, she does now come to me a lot with questions and they're feeding him and their 9 year old son SO much better since we began our friendship. She's learned about High Fructose Corn Syrup, etc.. and they're all biking and losing weight together. But I still feel for that little munchkin, now almost 9 months old, who sleeps gloriously through the night... but at the detriment of what. Just brain development and who knows what else, that's all.

[Taradactyl3]

My son has slept through the night for a long while now and I never cio with him. He is a wonderful sleeper (knock wood) and I bf on demand for 19 months. Just because you feed on demand doesn't mean the babe with be a poor sleeper.

We sure did hijack the thread huh? I just loved the metaphore pp used.

So back to being hungry all the time. What are you eating or craving? I just had a piece of fish, coleslaw, and a piece of chocolate for lunch. I'm craving past for some reason lately and any Italian food like lasagne and pizza.

Tara

[*Lindsey*]

Hungry here, too. Especially today! I actually even woke up in the middle of the night last night and had to get something.

[Ivanhoe]

I ate ravioli and immediately I followed my co-workers to the street where they have organized a very 'informal' barbacue in the outside parking next to the office... I ate a morcilla (sort of cow blood sausage) sandwich first and a salad sandwich later.

I need to eat all that often, you know, if not my pregnant brain is not going to develop properly

[maisiedotes]

I was an eating machine at lunch time today. For breakfast I had a cup of decaf, some OJ, granola, and yogurt, and then I was ravenous at lunch so I had 2 bean burritoes, a DQ blizzard, a lemonade, and a salad. I am ready to eat again. eek. I can't stop thinking about food! I gained 5 lbs in the first 12 weeks, and I have it in my head that it is a ticket to eat. I know it is not but my belly is telling me otherwise....