"You're eating for two!"

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  • ren_ascent
    ren_ascent Posts: 432 Member
    Thanks everyone. I always post topics with caution because a public forum is a public forum. It's less like a box of chocolates and more like a bag of mixed nuts LOL! Not a single crazy person on this topic though and I appreciate the maturity you showed after reading my rant.

    Have a wonderful day!
  • tiggerhammon
    tiggerhammon Posts: 2,211 Member
    I was sleeping for two.

    Ooo, sleeping for two. I am sticking with this theory! I don't feel the need to eat for two but sleeping for two is pretty much exactly what I want to do every day lately.

    My sister drives me crazy with trying to shove food at me. "Here you need 2 cupcakes,if you just eat one the baby won't get any!" ... Seriously?
  • Bounce4
    Bounce4 Posts: 288 Member
    I ate everything not nailed down with all my pregnancies (except first part of #3 - to sick) and some of my kids are picky and some not - or picky in different ways maybe. I was horrendously picky as a kid and kinda picky as an adult so I may have more patience with it than most. ;) << Not advice btw. I ate all the healthy stuff AND all the junk. I gained 225+ pounds between the 3 pregnancies - OMG. Ugh. Whatever. My baby making days are over ;)


    Anyway - to OP. People need to mind their own damn business. The loudest mouths are the one's that have the stupidest things to say :peeved.on.your.behalf: Pregnancy really brings on the 'advice'. Ugh - don't people remember how annoying that was when they were preggers? lol. It doesn't stop either. Apparently mothers and their choices are open season for at least the first 3 years of a kids life.
  • JoRocka
    JoRocka Posts: 17,525 Member
    I'm not. I'm 7 months pregnant and the 2-3 pound baby in my tummy isn't the equivalent of an additional adult. I try to dispel the myth that expectant mothers need to eat like sumo wrestlers. What we DO need to eat is a variety of highly nutritious foods and average at around 300 calories more than our maintenance, depending on our doctor's recommendations. If you see me eyeing the cake, or cookies, or doughnuts, don't assume the baby "needs" it. My shoving that piece of cake in my mouth is not something anyone "needs" to do. Sometimes I mention the attitude they're pushing is the thing that gave me gestational diabetes during my first pregnancy. Sometimes I just smile and nod. Depends on my hormone levels that day.

    Yep, I'm whining about what people say. Yep, I'll ignore them and do my own thing.

    I don't understand that either- I get a little irritated when people say that. I mean at BEST you're eating for a 10 lb child- and how much food does one of those need.

    Glad you see this. Makes me glad YOU are having a child- common sense is a rare thing!!! Hopefully you'll be passing it on!!!
    some people- make me really question why they get to reproduce sometimes.
  • emeraldeyes_bc
    emeraldeyes_bc Posts: 200 Member
    I HATE people who feel like they're opinion is needed. For some reason, when pregnant the opinions come out of the wood works.
    I was at the gym on the treadmill once, and this older pretty overweight man looked me up and down and very shaming ly said "don't you think you should slow down in your condition?" After I picked my jaw up off the floor I said "don't you think you should speed up in yours?" He didn't have anything to say after that :p

    I think I gained about 20lbs with the last 2? I was able to wear my jeans my entire pregnancy lol. I had many people tell me to eat more, or eat a burger, or cake blah blah blah. Suuuure my baby who's carefully trying to form organs and body parts needs your chemical ridden food to do that instead of my whole foods *eyeroll* my babies were 7 and 8lbs 3 weeks early... Pretty sure they did ok.

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