Seven Days of Nourishment: Day 2

What nourishes me; succumbing to my cravings. I was feeling nauseous, nauseous and finally I remembered to dial into my deepest darkest current hankerings and make it my utmost priority to appease in the most orgainic, 100 mile diet-way possible. Here is a list of what's been tapped this week. (This list is fresh from a loooong conversation yesterday on the phone with a dear, pregnant like me girlfriend, Cheechum). Items with an asterix have not been conquered. Yet.

• lemonade. The sweet and sour thing with lots of ice hits the mama spot long enough to forget about the constant car sickness I'm experiencing.
• *corn on the cob. This one was huge with my Edie pregnancy too. Unfortunately I have to wait until late August to cross this one of my list unless...
• my mom's arroz con pollo. I downed this earlier in the week; it's a Peruvian rice and chicken dish with a whole bunch of cilantro and a bottle of beer. The leftovers didn't last nearly long enough. I'll share the recipe sometime if I ever have a plate of it in front of me that will last a photo shoot. Anything my mom makes, actually. My mom's the BEST cook. I'm so glad she's almost home from Arizona. I want her to make me everything I use to love, or even hate, from my childhood next time I see her.
• asian fusion. Unfortunately we're very limited in our ethnic food selection out here. Talking with Cheechum I was pretty jealous that her living in the big city she was able to maow down on Ethopian and Vietnamese whenever the fancy striked her. I didn't even let my psyche go back to Nam until she mentioned it. Thank god for Leya's Udon Soup recipe. (Happy Birthday by the way, Sweetie!) That really hit the spot.
• quality french baguette and Manchega cheese. I'm so happy this one doesn't have a little star beside it. There's a very Franch bakery in "town" that even has authentic Franch people working in it. Do you think organic liverwurst exists? Oh, I do hope so!
• cold sugary cereal. I bought some organic Mesa Sunrise cereal. Organic cane sugar. Lots of corn (Craig's really hyper-aware of corn in ingredients after reading The Omnivore's Delimma and kind of gave me grief for getting something so processed). But it's quick, hit my spot and Edie's not a cold cereal virgin anymore.
• oranges. And toast with peanut butter and apple sprinkled with sugar pictured above. See a trend here?
• noodles. Oodles and oodles of noodles (Edie loves it when I say that with googley eyes).
• popcorn with butter sauteed with garlic and then infused with chili, cayenne, honey and salt. That was good (from Rebar cookbook that my girl Josee lent me and that also had a recipe for Pad Thai that was able to squelch a little bit of my Asian Fusion jonesin').
• ***LOBSTER!!!
• *sno-cone. Though I could probably rush out right now and scoop some straight from the sky and just sprinkle more sugar into my system. Snowing fat flakes right now.

See? View from my window right now. I'm surprised the internet's still working, the flakes are so fat. So, this list could seriously go on an on. I'm having my morning latte so it's hard for me to come up with more items that have little stars right now but I'm sure in a couple of hours I can come up with twelve. Best not go there right now.

Things that do not nourish me; nursing Edie. The midwife gave me a good talking to about this one in that miracle making session (the accupuncture treatment alleviated so much stuff it was amazing). I think the magic words that were uttered to me were "how does an uninterrupted night of sleep sound to you?". About as good as an all you could eat corn on the cob buffet! So, I had a talk with Edie as soon as I got home and said, you know what the doctor said? No more booby. And then too during her first dentist visit the next day, in front of the dentist, you know what the dentist is saying? No more booby. And now Craig's been putting her to bed, sans neeples, and it's been pretty smooth for the most part and I've been feeling much better rested and nourished.

Comments

[HandyCraftyWoman (EF)]

It kind of comes along with the second, that the first babe is weaned..I've seen this a lot. Is the right age, the right time and it just happens so naturally.

My first was 2 and a half when I was with my second and personally, I couldn't stand the booby and pregancy at the same time. Got right on my babsers, too much oxy..oxy whatever it is. Good idea to shift the bedtime routine, that tends to be a sweet way to do the transition.

[robyn]

both my kids were weaned at about 2and a half. the first went easily(although he is now 10 and still wants to get his hands on them any opportunity he can)my second i had to make an appointment with the doctor(called and told him my plan beforehand).and in front of jude he told me my boobies were broken!he then bandaged me up(plasters over nipples first)and sent us home..no more boobie.
it took much longer to get them into their own bed.

[Leia]

I'm seven months pregnant with our second , and Nora who is almost 3 and a half is still nursing. I would give an eye for a whole night of sleep, but she lovvves it. Maybe her and I will have to have a talk....

[patricia]

3 and a half for the first and two and a half for the second -- it was mostly hit and run, a comfort sort of thing and then they weaned themselves -- i was lucky...although having an articulate two year old scream in jc penney's "i wanna nurse" was rather unsettling...

[Dana]

Where are you, Kathy?
I'm waiting anxiously for Day 3's post... whenever it comes! :)