Comments on: Mmm, Chocolate Milk http://www.mombian.com/2008/07/25/mmm-chocolate-milk/ Sustenance for Lesbian Moms Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:39:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ang http://www.mombian.com/2008/07/25/mmm-chocolate-milk/comment-page-1/#comment-77972 ang Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:34:53 +0000 http://www.mombian.com/?p=2332#comment-77972 During my mother's pregnancies with me, my older brother, and my younger brother she craved super spicy food. And while she was nursing, she ate a ton. We all LOVE spicy food, and have since we were really little. As a three year old I would put hot pepper flakes on my pizza. However, with my little sister she had really, really bad heartburn and ate really mild foods, and she was only able to nurse her for a couple months due to some problems. It took my little sister AGES to be able to stand any kind of spice, which made cooking really annoying. However, now she'll eat absolutely anything we do. During my mother’s pregnancies with me, my older brother, and my younger brother she craved super spicy food. And while she was nursing, she ate a ton. We all LOVE spicy food, and have since we were really little. As a three year old I would put hot pepper flakes on my pizza. However, with my little sister she had really, really bad heartburn and ate really mild foods, and she was only able to nurse her for a couple months due to some problems. It took my little sister AGES to be able to stand any kind of spice, which made cooking really annoying.

However, now she’ll eat absolutely anything we do.

]]> By: Whozat http://www.mombian.com/2008/07/25/mmm-chocolate-milk/comment-page-1/#comment-77971 Whozat Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:20:05 +0000 http://www.mombian.com/?p=2332#comment-77971 I read another recent study showing that babies seems to show a preference for flavors of foods their moms ate during <i>pregnancy</i>. I think this was newborns, so only pregnancy diet would be involved, not nursing. The idea is that the flavors get into the amniotic fluid, which baby is drinking (and peeing back out - ew) all the time in there. I'm 22.5 weeks pregnant now, and forcing myself to eat some green stuff (which I typically would not choose) so little Peeper will, hopefully, make better food choices than I do. Somehow, "spinach will make her like spinach" is more of a motivating factor for me than just "spinach will make her big and strong." Maybe because it seems more concrete? On a related note, I've also read that breastfed babies are more accepting of solid foods (and more adventurous with them) when the time comes, because they are used to the milk tasting different from day to day, rather than formula fed babies who've only tasted the same thing over and over. (Man, that must be boring for them!) All that said, my partner Shrike, who is Peeper's genetic mommy is a <i>little</i> better with the veggies than I am, so maybe I ought to be hoping for nature to win out over nurture on this one. On a more enjoyable note, I'm taking under full advisement the <i>other</i> recent study showing that women who have five or more servings of chocolate (especially dark chocolate) per week during pregnancy have a lower rate of preeclampsia. Sometimes I just love science! <i>"But, it's for the baaaybeee!"</i> I read another recent study showing that babies seems to show a preference for flavors of foods their moms ate during pregnancy.

I think this was newborns, so only pregnancy diet would be involved, not nursing.

The idea is that the flavors get into the amniotic fluid, which baby is drinking (and peeing back out – ew) all the time in there.

I’m 22.5 weeks pregnant now, and forcing myself to eat some green stuff (which I typically would not choose) so little Peeper will, hopefully, make better food choices than I do.

Somehow, “spinach will make her like spinach” is more of a motivating factor for me than just “spinach will make her big and strong.”

Maybe because it seems more concrete?

On a related note, I’ve also read that breastfed babies are more accepting of solid foods (and more adventurous with them) when the time comes, because they are used to the milk tasting different from day to day, rather than formula fed babies who’ve only tasted the same thing over and over.

(Man, that must be boring for them!)

All that said, my partner Shrike, who is Peeper’s genetic mommy is a little better with the veggies than I am, so maybe I ought to be hoping for nature to win out over nurture on this one.

On a more enjoyable note, I’m taking under full advisement the other recent study showing that women who have five or more servings of chocolate (especially dark chocolate) per week during pregnancy have a lower rate of preeclampsia.

Sometimes I just love science!

“But, it’s for the baaaybeee!”

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