Eating For My Baby

Toast or cereal, toast or cereal……??

Cereal! With half a banana and cherry vanilla yogurt. We didn’t have much milk left so it was a bit dry…. I just tried to google ‘dry mouth’ for a funny image but I don’t think you would have appreciated seeing what came up! I certainly didn’t!

I didn’t really appreciate the cherry vanilla yogurt either.. I’m not really a cherry fan – there I said it! I know most people will think I’m crazy but they just don’t do it for me! I just don’t like the flavour plus you have to deal with a huge pip in the middle! I like more flesh and less pip in my fruit.

Speaking of food….I was relaxing on the sofa last night after a long day at work and think I felt movement down below. I can’t be sure, it might just have been gas but it was definitely something!!! This could be the start of feeling the little sweet potato move!

Apparently my baby is about the size of a sweet potato now hence the referral to an edible, tuberous root vegetable above! There have been a few referrals of the fruit and vegetable kind throughout the weeks; bean, plum, peach, avocado, lemon, orange!

Hmmm I wonder….

Lemon Fulcher maybe???

Happy Friday!!

I think I should change the title of this blog to ‘Worrying About My Baby’!

I’m worried at the moment because I haven’t felt anything! Yesterday was quite a stressful day for me and so now I’m worrying that I’ve upset or hurt the baby in some way. Other than a small bump and larger chest I don’t feel pregnant and it’s starting to get to me…. is there anyone out there who feels the same?

So much for taking it easy.. yesterday morning I was up early with Rob to go to the hospital… not for me but for him. He managed to badly hurt his ankle playing football on Tuesday night so I said I’d go to the hospital with him. Thankfully they were lovely at the hospital and really quick. They took some X-rays but couldn’t find anything wrong, they were actually puzzled by what they found. He’s in a lot of pain and yet no broken bones and no swelling or bruising so they told us to just keep an eye on it and see what happens. He’s now hobbling around on crutches!

The rest of my day off was spent crawling around on the floor trying to figure out how to connect our new 47″ TV! This thing is ENORMOUS! I literally spent 4 hours trying to figure it out and after several calls to Best Buy, Time Warner Cable and LG I was still non the wiser, until Rob’s friend Gordon came over… he suggested the one thing I hadn’t even thought of and with a few tweaks we finally got it working!!! No thanks to the ‘Geek Squads’!! I think all we need now is a bigger apartment to accommodate our HUGE TV!

In between the hospital visits and crawling around on the floor I did manage to eat! For breakfast I had the usual cold cereal with fruit and yogurt, for lunch I was craving eggs so made myself a hard-boiled egg sandwich with an orange, afternoon snack was a banana and almond butter and dinner was my favourite meal of the day… Barbarini’s homemade lasagna followed by some delish mint chip Haagen Dazs ice cream!! My new favourite flavour! Amazing!

I also managed to squeeze in a little jog. I felt really good to get outside for some fresh air! It’s getting really cold in NY. We haven’t had any snow yet like the UK but it’s certainly cold enough!

Stay warm my friends and I’ll try and stop worrying so much!!

I had quite a rough nights sleep last night! Sometimes I can sleep all the way through and other times I struggle. I just couldn’t get into a comfortable position and then I think how will I cope when I’m 8 months pregnant and the size of a house!! Right now I have a tiny bump and I’m struggling to get comfortable… I’ve got no hope! I think I need to invest in a pregnancy pillow!

Talking about cravings yesterday… last night all I could think about was salty popcorn! Like REEEALLY salty popcorn! So I guess the sweet cravings have diminished!  Bless Rob, he got home from his Christmas work do, stinking like a brewery, and offered to go out and buy me some but it was 10pm and I thought better of it. Maybe that was why I had such a bad nights sleep?!?!?

For breakfast I wasn’t really in the mood for oats but I made them anyway…. Oats In A Jar..

Check me out trying to get all artsy with our new camera! Slight improvement on the last one me thinks! It’s not quite a canon but I’m told, by Rob, it’s the ‘hybrid of camera’s’ whatever that means.

It’s a Nikon Coolpix P100 and looks very snazzy!

It takes pretty good shots in very bad light and there is even a ‘food’ setting! Happy days!

This morning oats included:

• 1/3 cup oats, 1/3 cup milk, 1/3 cup water
• blueberries
• flaxseeds
• chia seeds
• agave
• shredded coconut
• chopped walnuts
• almond butter

We were all out of bananas and they were certainly missed in this mornings jar!

I’ve already been snacking this morning on guess what….

Salty popcorn… but it wasn’t quite salty enough! Rob suggested going to the cinema this weekend so I can get my fix to watch Black Swan and I jumped at the chance! We can both be winners… he gets to drool over Natalie Portman for a couple of hours and I get to bury my head in a bag of popcorn! I’m guessing I will look a little like this..

…but with less fur!

Help! I think I need some more sleep!!!! Happy Friday everyone!