I have enjoyed the first part of my morning with a warm cup of coffee in complete silence… before the kids woke. Why I was up so early on a Saturday morning is beyond me– okay, so actually it’s not; it’s that internal alarm clock thing that refuses to stay set on snooze. But that’s okay, because like I said, I enjoyed a warm cup of coffee in complete silence.
One of the sweet parts of my morning was enjoying all the puppy kisses I was getting. It’s so sweet to be greeted by three happy little pups who are very excited to see you awake. Ahhh, the love of a puppy.
These three little cuties have been keeping me busy all morning… and all week! Aren’t they so sweet?
I don’t mind the busy-ness at all because for the first time in seven weeks now, I feel like being busy! I have finished my meds (I was a good girl) and am feeling better than I have in almost two month. Praise God! Hopefully I won’t have to have a second round of antibiotics like so many others have. I can still feel some ‘crud’ in my lungs, but it’s so much better than it was!
Now I’m off to get back to being busy. My to-do list is so very long and, of course, catching up on my blogging is on that list!
I hope you have a fabulous Saturday!
I’ve heard all sorts of stories about the crazy cravings some women get while they’re pregnant. I’ve probably read a few stories about theses crazy cravings, here and there, and for the most part they don’t seem all that crazy. I’ve heard of women who actually do fit the idea of ‘typical’ pregnancy cravings– those associated foods that we’ve all heard at least once in our lifetimes. Those aren’t bad cravings, though I don’t think I’d want to actually eat them together… at the same time. That would give a whole new meaning to sweet and sour, I think.
I’ve heard some doctors day that the cravings one has during pregnancy are indicative of something that the pregnant woman’s body is lacking… some sort of vitamin or mineral. I could maybe see that with the pickle and ice cream craving thing… I mean pickles are cucumbers, and cucumbers are good for you, right? And ice cream… well, that’s dairy- milk, calcium, etc. And that’s good for you too, right? And let’s be real here, who doesn’t love a nice bowl of ice cream, pregnant or not?! (I know I do!! even if my body doesn’t!)
But what about those strange cravings? The ones you KNOW you wouldn’t have if your body was in its ‘normal’ state and your hormones weren’t doing somersaults on a tumbling mat during the Summer Olympics! What could your body possibly want from them? Vitamins? Minerals? Or is it just the smell that has you craving these not-so-good-to-eat things? Mmmm, maybe. I could probably believe that… after all, doesn’t your sense of smell multiply by like a million along with every other sense while you’re pregnant?
Well, every other sense except maybe your ‘common’ sense. Because sometimes you just crave things that you know you can’t have… but at the same time you’re thinking “Oh what could it possibly hurt?” Sometimes when we’re drooling over the strangest of things, our common sense goes right out the window. But then again, sometimes that toss-out of common sense is backed by a doctor saying not to deprive your body of whatever it is you’re craving. But, hello, you’re not supposed to leave off the part where you’ve been craving the glue holding the magnets on the back of those adorable little refrigerator decorations the kids made at summer camp last year! Or those wonderful pink erasers at the end of your favorite pencils, no matter how good they smell! Oh yeah, I’m pretty sure doc didn’t mean those cravings, at all!
Good ole doc doesn’t mind when your cravings involve actual food, because what’s the worse than can happen? You eat like a bear and gain another ten pounds? Meh, who cares. It’s not like you’re ever going to have your pre-pregnancy body back anyway. And who cares if you go back for seconds, or thirds, because.. the baby is hungry. Right? You’re eating for two! No matter that your hips are as wide as that big brown truck, you’re eating for two. TWO! (or three, or maybe even four) And your craving is overwhelming your senses… you can taste it before you even take a single bite! You know you’re supposed to eat healthy, but how unhealthy can it be? It’s in a food group…. heck it’s ALL of the food groups rolled into one! Couldn’t be any healthier than that, right?
Oh if it were only that easy. It would have been so nice to have actually had such normal cravings. Cravings that don’t go so far out of the realm of your normal everyday menu that people don’t look at you like you’re crazy. Cravings that hit you at every inopportune moment of the day so hard that your mouth waters and all you can think about is sinking your teeth into every yummy morsel. But, what if you can’t sink your teeth into something that is so deliciously tempting because it’s not good for you or the baby, and isn’t even edible? Oh the disappointment.
That is the kind of craving I had. I didn’t crave food. I didn’t crave anything edible. Nope. I craved soap. But not just any soap. I craved a certain ‘flavor‘ of soap. I craved it so bad it was hard not to at least taste it. I craved it so bad I bathed no less than five times a day just so I could lather up and smell it; if I couldn’t smell it on my skin, I’d bathe again. I craved it so bad… I cut up bars of it like it was my favorite cheese and melted it into a candle jar so I could place it on the warmer and have the whole house filled with the smell of it. I used one solid bar in two days flat. I bought bar soap and shower gel and everything related I could get my hands on. I even washed my hair with the soap. I would walk into the bathroom just to grab a bar and smell it. WHAT could my body have possibly wanted from a bar of… soap? Soap? Really? Couldn’t my body have wanted something good… like say chocolate? But, soap?
Naturally, I had to be the one the doc would say “In all my years as an OB, I’ve never heard of anyone craving soap” to. Coffee grounds, sure. Dirt, sure. Even metal. But not soap. Of course. Because I can’t do anything normally. Not even pregnancy. 
What about you? Did you have any crazy cravings during your pregnancy? I’d love to hear about them if you did. (Really, I’d just love to know I’m not the only nutcase out there who craves totally inappropriate things during pregnancy. We could a form club! A crazy cravings club! 
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