GTKY: What Would You Miss If Pregnant?

URMySunshine77 · June 2014

All of our conversations about the 2WW and things to avoid inspired this post. What would you miss most if pregnant? Your answers don't necessarily have to be food- or medicine-related.

meredithcarole · June 2014

I think I would miss the ability to drive without fear. I am short (5'1"), I can only imagine how awkward driving will become as I get larger and what happens if the airbag deploys!? It makes me nervous now. I would also miss blue cheese, Brie, goat cheese and wine.

KirstenAlecia · June 2014

Wine!!!!

NeonNoon · June 2014

Awesome question. It's almost like a license to pre-whine! haha

In order of priority, high to low:

I'm definitely gonna miss the cawfee. I love my hot drinks and herbal teas are a minefield, I've discovered.

I'm gonna miss the clearheadedness. It doesn't take a lot of hormonal disruption for me to become clumsy and foggy-headed. So I share a fear of driving while pregnant with @meredithcarole, though for different reasons.

And finally I'm going to miss strenuous outdoor adventures. I'm by no means an athlete but enjoy the outdoors and would have to take care to avoid injury.

What about you @URMySunshine77?

KateLouise · June 2014

Sushi! Wine! and I miss ceroc (a form of partner dancing that's a blend between Latin and jive). I can't do it when I have morning sickness, and then there's a small window before me belly gets too big, and I get puffed too easily.

CML11 · June 2014

My first thought was wine and summer margaritas!
But more than that I think I will miss a good turkey sandwich, over easy eggs and my herbal tea (if doc yanks that) that I drink every morning like it's my religion.
And the hot tub!

lgsdesigner · June 2014

Rollercoasters and margaritas! (not recommended together)

Austrogermokee · June 2014

I would miss my body. I'm tiny like @meredithcarole, and I feel like preggo me would be a beach ball with little arms and legs sticking out.

I'd also miss martinis, raw oysters and medium rare steaks (I'm secretly from the 1960s). I don't intend on going cold turkey for things like cheese and caffeine, I don't think the science really supports it. I intend on eating healthfully, and if it's iffy just having a small taste. But we'll see if I change my mind if I get a BFP.

bumpuser10258960 · June 2014

I'm surprised at reading some of these posts thinking "wait, I can't have sushi?" then it dawns on me. DOH! "Wait, I can't have blue cheese?" Ugh.

I'm going to miss sleeping on my tummy.

Jmaddiso · June 2014

I'd miss coffee, though i've practically given it up already, so maybe that's not totally fair. I would miss sushi, salmon, sandwiches, bacon...oh for the love of gawd, BACON!!!! And Sausage!!! And all things cured! I'd also miss wine for sure, and beer. But at the end of the day, the things i'd have to give up for a while would be sooooo worth that little bundle of awesome in my arms!!

tlc35 · June 2014

Mostly wine, but also raw oysters and raw sushi as well as sports like skiing and scuba.

I am also a shorty (5ft on a good day) so I expect to look ridiculous.

lgsdesigner · June 2014

I am reading these replies, and thinking "Wait...YOU CAN have those things!" Here you go, ladies:

Turkey Sandwich - You can eat turkey sandwiches, you just have to have them warm (like a panini) until your 3rd trimester. Once in 3rd trimester when the baby is pretty much fully developed, you can have a deli sandwich cold every once in a while. It won't hurt him/her.

Salmon - You can have salmon. You just can't have shellfish. But-- since this fish is higher in mercury, only consume once a week. Same with tuna.

Bacon - Perfectly fine to still eat, just do it in moderation (once a wk and limit to 2 pieces)

Sausage - Perfectly fine to still eat, just do it in moderation (once a wk and limit to 2 pieces)

Cheese- Cheese is fine as long as it's pasteurized. They make pasteurized blue cheeses and fetas, too.

Coffee - Coffee can still be drank. There are no effects on the fetus when you drink up to two cups of coffee a day. It's only a risk when you drink more than 200 mg of caffeine a day, and coffee only has 95 mg a cup. Enjoy it!

URMySunshine77 · June 2014

I would miss not having to get up in the middle of the night to pee. That is so annoying. Like @MamaBear904, I'll definitely miss sleeping on my stomach. That's how I get to sleep at night.

I would also miss coffee because I give it up for the first trimester. I will probably drink a latte here or there starting in the second trimester.

Lastly, I would miss my over easy eggs!

mattandlora · June 2014

I would miss: caffeine. energy (because of the 1st trimester fatigue, y'all!), not feeling like i'm going to puke all day long, being able to exercise without feeling dizzy and generally crappy, wine

Pintobean39 · June 2014

lgsdesigner said:
Rollercoasters and margaritas! (not recommended together)

But I bet the 2 of them together would be so much fun!!

I'd just miss my alcohol, that's why I'm planning on drinking a lot from now until ET in August. Everything else I'd just eat in moderation if I wanted it. Then again I don't like seafood and I haven't had more than 1-2 caffeine drinks a day in years. I'm not sold on the turkey sandwich scare myself but I'd take a hot turkey sand with melted cheese over a cold one any day. I also thought the soft cheeses were only the unpasteurized ones and they don't sell them in the us. When did bacon become a part of this? By the time I ever get pregnant they are going to say pregnant women just need a feeding tube everything else is unsafe for some reason or another.

Davie813 · June 2014

Alcohol.

I don't like sushi or seek out unpasteurized dairy, etc, anyway.

I did feel kind of anxious about hot baths (not anxious enough to keep them under 100 degrees, though. Brr!)

What I won't miss while I'm pregnant: cleaning the litterbox.

lgsdesigner · June 2014

Pintobean39 said:

Rollercoasters and margaritas! (not recommended together)
But I bet the 2 of them together would be so much fun!! I'd just miss my alcohol, that's why I'm planning on drinking a lot from now until ET in August. Everything else I'd just eat in moderation if I wanted it. Then again I don't like seafood and I haven't had more than 1-2 caffeine drinks a day in years. I'm not sold on the turkey sandwich scare myself but I'd take a hot turkey sand with melted cheese over a cold one any day. I also thought the soft cheeses were only the unpasteurized ones and they don't sell them in the us. When did bacon become a part of this? By the time I ever get pregnant they are going to say pregnant women just need a feeding tube everything else is unsafe for some reason or another.

You know it.

Lesliem0901 · June 2014

@Pintobean39: When did bacon become a part of this?- Nitrates I'm guessing. But you can buy nitrate-free bacon.

mattandlora · June 2014

I ate deli meats and cheeses with DS #1 and he turned out fine. I think....

MelissaMiso · June 2014

***previous pregnancy mentioned***

I thought I would miss coffee before I got pregnant with DD but after the first couple of days (I was cutting back to avoid the dreaded withdrawal headeache) I completely lost my taste for coffee. It wasn't even due to morning sickness, just didn't care for the taste. I really think the body has a lot of wisdom and will help you eat as you should.

I will miss feta cheese and being able to see my feet

TAT2MAMI · June 2014

I will jump on the coffee bandwagon. I don't even know that it even gives me energy. I just like the taste. I'll switch to decaf when the time comes.

I will also miss running!!

downing710 · June 2014

Wine and sushi will be desperately missed! But not being able to do my regular job duties will be tough adjustment.

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KirstenAlecia · June 2014

Oh jeez, add sushi to my list……….we eat out at a sushi restaurant about once a month. wah.

coffee I wont give up……..i have to have 1 cup a day or i get migraines.

Mirgrainures are supposed to keep the same sleep/activity/caffiene schedules and not change them if possible.

kindershlitz · June 2014

previous pregnancy mentioned

Comfortable sleep and not feeling exhausted. I was sooooo tired last time I was pregnant but yet couldn't sleep. My husband will not be excited for me to reintroduce the giant body pillow that was like a third person in the bed if we are successful.

Lesliem0901 · June 2014

@kindershlitz - I LOVE the giant U-shaped body pillow! I will never give it up, even though making the bed is difficult.

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C_Girlie · June 2014

I would miss my freedom. I will be high risk again, which means frequent doctor visits

eskimozie · June 2014

Sleeping on my tummy! The rest... Wine, things like that, it's worth it... But I do me best sleeping on my tum and I'm cranky when I don't get enough sleep.

Oh yah...I trying to have a kid...I guess cranky city here I come!

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