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    MumOfThree #158857 05/31/13 03:33 PM
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    I had the opposite happen to me.

    I hate mushrooms. When I was pregnant, I craved them and would regularly ask DH to get a pizza covered with them. Since he loves them, he was in heaven.

    When DS was born, the craving went away and I'm back to my normal tastes. DS doesn't like mushrooms.

    Smell wasn't a big problem in pregnancy. Sound, on the other hand...oh, yeah. Forks on a plate were absolutely screeching!

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    These pregnancy stories are funny.

    When I was pregnant with my first, I had severe morning sickness and all I could eat was spicy tacos or tuna (I wasn't a complete vego then). My eldest likes both, especially fish.

    With my second, I had no food-related morning sickness so I could eat everything and anything. My youngest also eats anything, and it is so east and awesome!

    Ametrine, I also had noise issues with my second! I thought I was the only one. My favourite tv show became unbearable to watch, and the intro music made me feel sick. I still can't watch it.




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    Can you believe I've seen mothers open up a can of soda (I call it that, but some call it pop in US depending on location) and unscrew a baby bottle, fill 'er up and hand it to their baby?!

    Oh, I believe it...

    A friend of mine once described a complete and total horror show of parenting that she witnessed personally. The mom was wearing filthy low-rider sweatpants, a braless wife-beater, and flipflop sandals, the sum of which did nothing to hide her numerous raunchy tattoos. With the cigarette clenched in the mouth (lit), wheeling the baby in the stroller, and loudly CURSING A BLUE STREAK because she OVERFILLED the baby bottle at the Pepsi machine there at the fast food restaurant-- and couldn't screw the lid back on the bottle as it foamed onto the floor while the baby screamed.

    eek

    The mind boggles, but the source is 100% reliable. Inner city Philly, for anyone that wondered.

    File that one under "things that make me feel like my parenting skill set is probably okay in the grand scheme of things..."


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    Wow, that is disgusting. I an lucky to have never seen a baby have soda. I have, unfortunately, seen a two or three year old frown

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    I was HUGELY picky as a child, and now eat almost anything.

    I first knew I was pregnant with DD10 when I tossed a piece of broccoli (love it!) in my mouth and then had to run to the sink to spit it out so I wouldn't vomit.

    (Interestingly, DD10 hates broccoli ;p )

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    For those who are concerned about nutrition I would recommend checking out The Sneaky Chef at the library. I got this book when DD was around 2 to try to figure out how to get more veggies into her diet. It is amazing how you cannot taste the veggies that kids are most resistant to eating in their raw or cooked form, when you mix them in more desirable food choices.

    An example would be: I steamed carrots and boiled sweet potatoes. I put them together in the food processor and pureed them. I then took a chicken breast and dipped it into egg, rolled it in a mix of wheat germ and italian bread crumbs and then coated it with the orange puree.

    I baked it in the oven and when it comes out it is the most delicious chicken tender, tastes slightly sweet and very yummy. My DD shovels this chicken down and it counts as 2 servings of veggies along with lots of fiber and protein.

    I know that it probably isn't the best thing to "trick* your kid to get them to eat veggies, but I feel better knowing that her nutritional needs are being met and continue to still offer a raw or cooked vegetable with dinner to try to get her to develop her palette for these things on her own.

    It has gotten much betrer since she was 2.

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