Random question - I read that it can take about 2 hours for a baby to taste our food in the amniotic fluid. Is anybody else feeling like their baby reacts IMMEDIATELY to eating?
I mean, maybe I have some kind of psychological reaction to food that's tipping him off via my hormones... but I feel like my bump becomes a bounce house within minutes of food.
Sometimes even when I'm cooking and smelling food, I get distinctly stronger kicks than I have all day, back to back. At first I thought I was imagining it... But have been keeping an eye on the kicks throughout the rest of the day and the baby is seriously very passionate about feeding time. Weird huh?
Random question - I read that it can take about 2 hours for a baby to taste our food in the amniotic fluid. Is anybody else feeling like their baby reacts IMMEDIATELY to eating?
I mean, maybe I have some kind of psychological reaction to food that's tipping him off via my hormones... but I feel like my bump becomes a bounce house within minutes of food.
Sometimes even when I'm cooking and smelling food, I get distinctly stronger kicks than I have all day, back to back. At first I thought I was imagining it... But have been keeping an eye on the kicks throughout the rest of the day and the baby is seriously very passionate about feeding time. Weird huh?
I wonder if taste is separate from the blood sugar impact, perhaps? I get lots of kicks soon after drinking coffee or eating anything particularly sugary.
My baby gets especially a time withing minutes of my drinking orange juice (which is the only consistent craving I have had the whole pregnancy). Idk about tasting it, but there is definitely something going on there!
I read somewhere that babies react to cold beverages because your stomach is pressed up against them pretty much, so they can react to temp. The sugar 'high' for baby was also deemed poor science because we don't pass the sugar in the blood to the baby that way. The other reactions are due to the noise our stomach acids make when food enters the stomach, lots of gurgles and sounds we can't hear as we begin the first part of digestion. So babies are reacting, but not for the reasons we think.
I wish I could find the article but I'm too tired and only half-assed looking it up. Zzzzzzz
Random question - I read that it can take about 2 hours for a baby to taste our food in the amniotic fluid. Is anybody else feeling like their baby reacts IMMEDIATELY to eating?
I mean, maybe I have some kind of psychological reaction to food that's tipping him off via my hormones... but I feel like my bump becomes a bounce house within minutes of food.
Sometimes even when I'm cooking and smelling food, I get distinctly stronger kicks than I have all day, back to back. At first I thought I was imagining it... But have been keeping an eye on the kicks throughout the rest of the day and the baby is seriously very passionate about feeding time. Weird huh?
I didn't know that! And this one reacts almost immediately to orange juice, but not cold water. Maybe because I gulp the OJ because it's delicious and only sip the water?
Random question - I read that it can take about 2 hours for a baby to taste our food in the amniotic fluid. Is anybody else feeling like their baby reacts IMMEDIATELY to eating?
I mean, maybe I have some kind of psychological reaction to food that's tipping him off via my hormones... but I feel like my bump becomes a bounce house within minutes of food.
Sometimes even when I'm cooking and smelling food, I get distinctly stronger kicks than I have all day, back to back. At first I thought I was imagining it... But have been keeping an eye on the kicks throughout the rest of the day and the baby is seriously very passionate about feeding time. Weird huh?
I think someone else may have mentioned it but I've read that they can react to the temperature of what you're eating and drinking. On days that I don't feel a lot of movement, I'll try drinking something cold and baby girl goes nuts!
@Knottie9983816 A labor buddy is someone you exchange contact information with and when you go into labor (or go to be induced) you let them know, they will update the board that you are in labor.
Random question - I read that it can take about 2 hours for a baby to taste our food in the amniotic fluid. Is anybody else feeling like their baby reacts IMMEDIATELY to eating?
I mean, maybe I have some kind of psychological reaction to food that's tipping him off via my hormones... but I feel like my bump becomes a bounce house within minutes of food.
Sometimes even when I'm cooking and smelling food, I get distinctly stronger kicks than I have all day, back to back. At first I thought I was imagining it... But have been keeping an eye on the kicks throughout the rest of the day and the baby is seriously very passionate about feeding time. Weird huh?
We learned in our childbirth class last night that fluids travel through the umbilical cord at 4 mph, so it takes just minutes for baby to get what your are taking in... not just foods, but smells too. And with the cold drinks, they said it's like pouring ice in baby's jacuzzi so that's why it makes them more active.
Ha ha ha, I kind of regret posting this because now I feel like I need to ask my self to be a labor buddy... or at least as myself to lunch! Sadly it's only 8:30am
UUUUUUUGH now I badly want some from our favorite pizzeria! Unfortunately the stupid place moved locations from right down the street from our house to the next town over! I actually pass it daily on the way to work...on a major highway...why, cruel world?!
What the heck is a labor buddy? Do we have to ask a labor buddy like High Schoolers ask for dates at prom??
Because this is totally how I'm asking...
I will be anybody's labor buddy for cake. Funfetti with buttercream icing is preferable. Or pound cake with an orange glaze. Or chocolate with chocolate ganache and chocolate chips. Or or or (basically anything that isn't lemon or have some form of fruit glaze/jelly in it)
@TKaiser91I am in the same boat as you and am starting to freak out. DH and my family keep telling me to relax and we will be ready in time. I pass those good thoughts to you too!!
So I am slightly obsessed with the Budweiser Clydesdales. To the point where I check the website periodically to see when they will be nearby to go see them. I just checked the site a week or so ago with no upcoming appearances near me. Then DH emailed me and said he heard a rumor that they were going to be an hour south of us tonight. Sure enough...a little sleuthing, discovered they will be less than an hour away from 4-6! I work until 4...can't get home to get DH until 4:45...an hour drive...and parking at the Downtown District...won't happen. I am SO disappointed! I seriously love those beautiful horses! I told DH the reason I am most excited for the Superbowl is to see what the latest Clydesdale commercial will be. I want to cry that they are so close and I can't see them
I stole my fiancé's lunch today >.> Now I'm eating all this glorious BBQ meatloaf and steamed squash and not feeling the slightest bit guilty! Sucks for him that he's stuck at home with barren cupboards though
I stood on a train for an hour and a half this morning (should have been a 20 minute trip, but there were massive delays ahead of us), and not a single person offered me their seat. I am visibly, unmistakeably, largely pregnant. I was huffing and puffing and shifting all over the place because I couldn't find a comfortable position and the train was stopped in a curve, so we were standing at an angle. I finally gave up and sat down on the ground (something I would never, ever have considered in any other circumstance, but i was miserable and THISCLOSE to tears)... and some skinny young thing hauling a yoga mat and a cup of coffee and seated in priority seating had the audacity to give me the stinkeye.
I tried so hard to give my fellow travelers the benefit of the doubt, assuming that they actually needed those seats more than I did in ways that aren't obvious to the untrained eye. But seriously bitch, if you're not invisibly disabled I hope you get hit by a bus. So sorry I grossed you out. Next time stand the hell up.
@AGK2015 ...oh my word. I can't even imagine. That would have made me turn into a raging lunatic. True, it would have been from the inside, but I would have shot daggers with my eyes. I got pissy when no one offered me their seat on the monorail in Disney a month ago, including inconsiderate teens with their families spread out on their cell phones, I can't even imagine that long!
@AGK2015 I would have been beyond pissed! In South Korea, someone would have physically moved one of the people sitting who didn't need to be, because you don't get away with that shit there.
@AGK2015 Ughhhhh that makes me so mad for you!!!! When I was taking public transportation, I would get up for elderly people, pregnant ladies, ladies wrangling little kids, all the time and give the stink eye to all the men who pretended not to see them coming up the aisle.
But karma is a b!tch and I hope it makes Yoga Mat fat.
@AGK2015 Ughhhhh that makes me so mad for you!!!! When I was taking public transportation, I would get up for elderly people, pregnant ladies, ladies wrangling little kids, all the time and give the stink eye to all the men who pretended not to see them coming up the aisle.
But karma is a b!tch and I hope it makes Yoga Mat fat.
Maybe she'll smash her face into the ground the next time she tries to downward dog.
@AEG84 - She was pretty little... I might have broken her. Which actually may not have been a bad thing.
@emgee27 - I'm with you! For the first 20-odd weeks, I'd happily have given up a seat for just about anybody, including other pregnant women (and even now, I wouldn't take a seat over someone elderly or on crutches or something, because I may be uncomfortable but at least I'm generally pretty steady on my feet). And if it had just been a 20 minute trip, I'd have probably grumbled a little bit, but been fine. But an hour and a half and you're going to give me shit for sitting? Do not mess with me, I will cut you.
So I am slightly obsessed with the Budweiser Clydesdales. To the point where I check the website periodically to see when they will be nearby to go see them. I just checked the site a week or so ago with no upcoming appearances near me. Then DH emailed me and said he heard a rumor that they were going to be an hour south of us tonight. Sure enough...a little sleuthing, discovered they will be less than an hour away from 4-6! I work until 4...can't get home to get DH until 4:45...an hour drive...and parking at the Downtown District...won't happen. I am SO disappointed! I seriously love those beautiful horses! I told DH the reason I am most excited for the Superbowl is to see what the latest Clydesdale commercial will be. I want to cry that they are so close and I can't see them
Is this a traveling attraction then? And the beer company owns these horses? I just assumed they hired random horses for ads.
Done with my darn glucose screen! I didn't almost vomit this time around! Probably because I didn't have to fast, get blood drawn, drink the nasty, wait an hour, and then get my blood drawn again.
Re: **The Everything Random Thread for April Mamas**
I mean, maybe I have some kind of psychological reaction to food that's tipping him off via my hormones... but I feel like my bump becomes a bounce house within minutes of food.
Sometimes even when I'm cooking and smelling food, I get distinctly stronger kicks than I have all day, back to back. At first I thought I was imagining it... But have been keeping an eye on the kicks throughout the rest of the day and the baby is seriously very passionate about feeding time. Weird huh?
The other reactions are due to the noise our stomach acids make when food enters the stomach, lots of gurgles and sounds we can't hear as we begin the first part of digestion. So babies are reacting, but not for the reasons we think.
I wish I could find the article but I'm too tired and only half-assed looking it up. Zzzzzzz
Me- 25,DH-28
It's like I'm 8 again. wtf is this???!!
Because this is totally how I'm asking...
That pizza looks amazing. Now I really really need some pizza
ETA: I find prom-posals obnoxious but maybe it's because it wasn't a 'thing' in my day. I'm an old fart.
UUUUUUUGH now I badly want some from our favorite pizzeria! Unfortunately the stupid place moved locations from right down the street from our house to the next town over! I actually pass it daily on the way to work...on a major highway...why, cruel world?!
I may say differently if pizza is involved. Or donuts.
If you can't tell, I've been in a gif happy mood recently.
I tried so hard to give my fellow travelers the benefit of the doubt, assuming that they actually needed those seats more than I did in ways that aren't obvious to the untrained eye. But seriously bitch, if you're not invisibly disabled I hope you get hit by a bus. So sorry I grossed you out. Next time stand the hell up.
But karma is a b!tch and I hope it makes Yoga Mat fat.
@emgee27 - I'm with you! For the first 20-odd weeks, I'd happily have given up a seat for just about anybody, including other pregnant women (and even now, I wouldn't take a seat over someone elderly or on crutches or something, because I may be uncomfortable but at least I'm generally pretty steady on my feet). And if it had just been a 20 minute trip, I'd have probably grumbled a little bit, but been fine. But an hour and a half and you're going to give me shit for sitting? Do not mess with me, I will cut you.