A little humour to the Blog

I am now at the 14 week mark and the baby is starting to make a small appearance. My clothes still fit, but my belly is starting to protrude slightly.
I think I have finally had enough dairy and it is no longer something I need to eat every day anymore. Phew. I started to wean myself off it slowly by having almond milk with my morning cereal and I am now slowly coming off the cereal too. I can finally and thankfully stomach nuts again which is great because I recently discovered that almonds are the most nutrient dense nut of them all.
Getting pregnant suddenly makes many women become self trained nutritional therapists. If it is possible I have now become even more obsessed with the food I consume. Not only am I a nearly qualified nutritional therapist and a long term raw foodist I am now an FOPW (food obsessed pregnant woman), however instead of counting calories and grams of fat like I did in my pre raw days, I am now obsessed with the nutrients each food contains. Did you guess? My newest obsession is almonds.
30g of almonds (about a handful) provides:
12% of the recommended daily allowance (RDA) of protein. 35% RDA of the valuable antioxidant vitamin E. (almonds are the best wholefood source of Vit E)
As much calcium as a 1/4 cup of milk.
And they are a great source of the folic acid, good news for the pregnant woman

On a lighter note I made another discovery this week. I found another pregnancy blog, but with a twist. It is called Sarcastic Journalist and is a funny view point of a pregnant woman. I haven’t had the chance to read through all the entries yet but so far the ones I have read have certainly gotten a laugh out loud. Check out the Sarcastic journalist here:
http://pregnancy.baby-gaga.com/sj/
In the meantime here are a few hilarious lines from her 14 week entry.
“That’s right: the tiny baby in your belly makes women around the world believe they can give you advice.
My personal favorites happen to be the old wives tales. It’ll happen at least once; you’ll be standing in line at the store and an older lady will approach you. She’ll tell you that since you’re packing on pounds in your rear that it is “a boy!
Wait. Did she just tell you that your butt is fat?”
I love this blog, the week 14 entry is especially funny to me because I happen to be going through similar experiences right now. Now that we are telling people I am pregnant everyone has something to say about it, some advice or their own story to tell. While most of it is interesting, other things are insanely unbelievable. My motherinlaw is especially cautious over me because she had about 3 miscarriages before having my husband. Every time I see her she tells me something else that I should or shouldn’t do. The other day at the beach she sarcastically asked me how I thought the baby might have felt when I was swimming in the Sea, in other words it can’t be good for it. Oh and when I got up to play bat and ball with my husband (our favorite pastime) she nearly had a fit telling me it was dangerous. We also went to a wedding the other day and she told me I wasn’t allowed to go into the church, I really don’t know where that one came from. Other women who have children make me laugh too, so far they have told me not go swimming in the Sea because I might get parasites, and they have told me I shouldn’t be going to the gym and even the lightest bag in my hand is frowned upon and seen as too heavy. Oh and almost everyone I tell tries to feed me something giving me the usual ‘you are pregnant it is ok’, or ‘you need to eat to keep your strength up’. A lot of people hardly believe I am pregnant because I don’t look any different yet. It makes me wonder how big they think I should be, or how big other women 14 weeks pregnant look.