My body also chose Week 9 as the week to reject any type of prenatal vitamin. The one I've been taking this whole time with NO problems, my body is all of a sudden treating like arsenic and sending it back up, much to my dismay. I also tried a new one, but that was worse b/c it was like regurgitating battery acid. SO... I now am taking Flintstone Vitamins (the gummy kind) and Folic Acid (thanks, Ellen). So far, so good.. and look how cute they are!
Dino, Pebbles, and Fred.
All though the pre-historic gummy gang taste good (and stay down), I'm kinda concerned about not getting enough iron. Supposedly, that's something you need, but go figure, it's supposedly the culprit in sending my lunch back up. So, I'd like to try and get it through the foods I'm eating, but considering anything "healthy" these days is completely revolting, it will be a challenge. So what foods contain iron? Isn't that why Popeye ate spinach? I guess I should do some research online, but if you have any suggestions, please let me know! (I really hope candy corn contains iron).
So, yes, I have a life beyond pregnancy. Donald and I went to go see The Kingdom on Friday night, and we both highly recommend it. Just make sure you don't get up to go to the bathroom anytime in the last 25 minutes. Donald got to play paintball yesterday with a bunch of high school guys...he had a blast, and I had to sit this one out. Instead, I enjoyed a wonderful meal at Cracker Barrel with Ellen, after which we checked out some furniture stores and discovered the prices at Wood You are a fraction of the cost of Pottery Barn (and it's real wood!). I'm talkin' 1/4 the cost. You just gotta have painting/staining skills since it's unfinished.
We will be traveling to Charleston next weekend to see family, which we both are looking forward to. My niece and nephew, Salley Kate and Rhett, will be staying with my parents, so it will be great to see them, and it's been eons since we've seen D's family. Kevin is having a huge Redskins party on Sunday, so that will be fun.
Okay, back to pregnancy for a second. There are a few things I want to remember about this time in pregnancy, so I will jot them here: waking up at 3am absolutely starving!, the rubber band trick on your pants (Thanks, Andrea!), wanting to sleep forever and ever (which is quite the opposite of my non-pregnant self), and wanting to eat pancakes for every meal.
Does anyone know of any websites that tell you what size your baby is, week by week? I know that Jenn had one that compared her baby to fruit, but I can't find it (you know, from a grape, to a plum, to a lemon, to an apple, to a grapefruit, to a watermelon). I think right now we are somewhere between a large grape and a medium-sized strawberry.
The rubber band trick pictured below.
Give yourself another inch before buying new pants!!
Give yourself another inch before buying new pants!!
3 comments:
so the iron thing has been a problem for me too, not that I throwing mine back up but I can't seem to get enough. Since yours doesn't seem to stay down I guess a supplement is out of the question. But here are a few foods that have iron:
any kind of liver (no thanks), spincah, red meat, lamb, pork, chicken (has a little), green beans, broccoli, cauliflower, all berries, shredded wheat, check your Whey protein, raisins, hummm. I'm drawing a blank on the others. I have a list at home that I will scan and email to you. And a web address that I will send to you for pictures of you babies size.
i've heard chick peas were pretty high in iron, but when i examined a container of hummus one time, i wasn't too impressed. i did a search when i became a vegetarian to make sure i didn't become deficient. i think you're onto it with the popeye thing-dark leafy greens. and of course red meat. (which you can eat my share of :) )
so what are you eating these days, besides flinstone gummies? and, ps, i take those too!
Guess what? I stumbled across two cereals that have 40 - 45% of the recommended daily value of iron!! I brought home Cinnamon Life and Honey Bunches of Oats with Almonds, just b/c I like them, and apparently hit the jackpot with iron. The last two cereals I bought only had like 8% or 4%, so I am super excited.
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