Baby faves
9/06/2010 Edit This 0 Comments »
I documented my pregnancy cravings when I was pregnant with both children and it's very interesting to compare them with the likes and dislikes each child has as they grow.
Willow takes after her Daddy 100% as far as food preferences go. The simple, basic, starchy & sweet foods are their top picks. Pizza, burgers, hot dogs, beans & weenies, mac & cheese, rice, rice, rice, cookies, ice cream, milk. That about sums up their requests. Of course neither would be the thriving, energetic kids (yes Brian is still a 'kid') I know if I actually allowed them to survive on those things alone. I was taken aback when Willow made the following statement in regards to the broccoli she was eating with dinner tonight, "I wish I could eat broccoli every day." Um...did that just come out of my daughter's mouth? Yep. She explained that the broccoli helps her grow big and strong. Atta girl!
It probably is way too soon to judge since Brendan's still in the process of trying many foods for the first time. His favorites, 5 months since he moved beyond milk, are still squash, avocado, peas and bananas. If that isn't a sign he takes after his Momma, I don' know what is!
What's interesting to note is that when I was pregnant with Willow, I craved bananas like mad but every time I ate one I would vomit. It took me awhile to put two and two together, especially when my craving for bananas was so strong but I suppose after 5 tries, I gave up on eating them for the rest of the pregnancy. Vomiting is not my forte. It was quite surprising to find that they were all the rage when Willow had her first banana. I thought for sure she would hate them or they would possibly even make her sick as they did me. Nope. She regularly asks for them every time we're at the grocery store. I was all about veggies the entire time I was pregnant with Willow, especially salad & eggplant. I didn't go for corn or beans much then but pretty much everything else considered a vegetable was on my plate at one time or another. Fast forward to now, Willow despises lettuce, she can't even have a speck of it on her sandwich & will tear a sandwich apart to ensure she doesn't consume it. Same goes for eggplant as well as most other vegetables with the exception of corn, peas and beans.
When I was pregnant with Brendan, at first I assumed it would be the same as when I was pregnant with Willow. How naive I was...it was FAR from similar in many ways, not just with food cravings. I steered clear of bananas regardless. I didn't crave them but considering I could only have a few in the 5 years since I was pregnant with Willow due to my fear of getting sick,I wasn't about to try one for the heck of it. Whaddya know, they are one of his favorite foods now. With Brendan in my womb, just about everything I normally ate (mostly vegetables) was unappetizing. Instead I was a carb freak, I craved rice and pasta most every night, along with sandwiches on the biggest slices of bread I could get. It really is too early to tell but when I give Brendan any of those, he balks. He is a potato junkie though yet I don't recall eating potatoes when I was pregnant.
I suppose that children tend to like things a woman doesn't like or cannot tolerate while she's pregnant. Okay, maybe it's just theory, but at least with my two kids, that's how it goes.
Willow takes after her Daddy 100% as far as food preferences go. The simple, basic, starchy & sweet foods are their top picks. Pizza, burgers, hot dogs, beans & weenies, mac & cheese, rice, rice, rice, cookies, ice cream, milk. That about sums up their requests. Of course neither would be the thriving, energetic kids (yes Brian is still a 'kid') I know if I actually allowed them to survive on those things alone. I was taken aback when Willow made the following statement in regards to the broccoli she was eating with dinner tonight, "I wish I could eat broccoli every day." Um...did that just come out of my daughter's mouth? Yep. She explained that the broccoli helps her grow big and strong. Atta girl!
It probably is way too soon to judge since Brendan's still in the process of trying many foods for the first time. His favorites, 5 months since he moved beyond milk, are still squash, avocado, peas and bananas. If that isn't a sign he takes after his Momma, I don' know what is!
What's interesting to note is that when I was pregnant with Willow, I craved bananas like mad but every time I ate one I would vomit. It took me awhile to put two and two together, especially when my craving for bananas was so strong but I suppose after 5 tries, I gave up on eating them for the rest of the pregnancy. Vomiting is not my forte. It was quite surprising to find that they were all the rage when Willow had her first banana. I thought for sure she would hate them or they would possibly even make her sick as they did me. Nope. She regularly asks for them every time we're at the grocery store. I was all about veggies the entire time I was pregnant with Willow, especially salad & eggplant. I didn't go for corn or beans much then but pretty much everything else considered a vegetable was on my plate at one time or another. Fast forward to now, Willow despises lettuce, she can't even have a speck of it on her sandwich & will tear a sandwich apart to ensure she doesn't consume it. Same goes for eggplant as well as most other vegetables with the exception of corn, peas and beans.
When I was pregnant with Brendan, at first I assumed it would be the same as when I was pregnant with Willow. How naive I was...it was FAR from similar in many ways, not just with food cravings. I steered clear of bananas regardless. I didn't crave them but considering I could only have a few in the 5 years since I was pregnant with Willow due to my fear of getting sick,I wasn't about to try one for the heck of it. Whaddya know, they are one of his favorite foods now. With Brendan in my womb, just about everything I normally ate (mostly vegetables) was unappetizing. Instead I was a carb freak, I craved rice and pasta most every night, along with sandwiches on the biggest slices of bread I could get. It really is too early to tell but when I give Brendan any of those, he balks. He is a potato junkie though yet I don't recall eating potatoes when I was pregnant.
I suppose that children tend to like things a woman doesn't like or cannot tolerate while she's pregnant. Okay, maybe it's just theory, but at least with my two kids, that's how it goes.
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