©iStockPhoto.com/imagestock I'm due in about two weeks and my head is spinning. In between tying up loose ends with work and making the apartment baby-ready, I consider all the things I won’t be able to do for a while,...
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©iStockphoto.com/timsa Last Sunday Olivia Judson, the New York Times’s resident evolutionary biologist, wrote a guest column referring to a study that has been troubling me for a month or so. Apparently if you give two groups of pregnant and lactating...
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Photograph from freedigitalphotos.net I was interested in Ed’s take on peanut butter and its role in weight loss, since the spread has a similar presence in my pregnancy. Peanut butter is a virtue and a vice. When I am good,...
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©iStockphoto.com/ilmwa555 I expected pregnancy to mean constant, overwhelming, dramatic hunger. I'm growing a human being here—where is my sandwich? This has not, however, been the case for me. After all, most pregnant women need only about 300 extra calories a...
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Photograph from WordRidden on Flickr I’ve always been a little smug about avoiding anemia and iron deficiency. In my mid-twenties my primary care doctor would always explain that it was not uncommon in women my age, but that I was...
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I’ve already decided what I want to take to the hospital to share with nurses and visitors: the
whole wheat chocolate chip cookies I made for myself a few weeks ago. Unfortunately, I can’t make them again right away for myself; I ate so many I tipped the scales at the doctor’s office, inspiring a mini-lecture about nutrition, and I’m afraid I can’t trust myself to ration them out sensibly.
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We went to our first childbirth class on Sunday. Yikes! I hadn’t seen videos like that since the sex-ed unit in seventh grade life science, when I came home one day and burst into tears in front of my mother:...
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I remembered
Patricia Wells’s whole-wheat pizza crust and resolved to bring it back into the rotation, topped with whatever I bring home from the Greenmarket and can’t figure out how to use. This is a thin, delicate crust: it doesn’t do well with pools of tomato sauce and gobs of cheese but is a nice match for sautéed vegetables with just a sprinkling of cheese, or herbs, or tomato rounds, when those come along.
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Photograph from PPDIGITAL on Flickr I am not accustomed to being wary of food. My working assumption is that when I eat something in a restaurant it may, by accident or design, contain gross things that I don’t want to...
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Many people ask me if pregnancy has increased my appetite. I don’t feel as if it has, although I hear that might change in the ravenous third trimester. I was already a hearty eater, not a Diet Coke and salad...
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