Baby Names

hahaha you're quite lucky - morning sickness runs heavily in my family :(

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anapology.livejournal.com

oh, and I think Alandra is rather ugly.
I like Alora/Alara though

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It's actually my classmate/close friends name... she goes by Ally or Al, her last name is Baer so I call her Al-Bear

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I'm 27 weeks, 2 days pregnant, and I crave wedding cake. Not just cake, wedding cake. Thankfully, way to expensive a craving to give in to :). In fairness, though, I have been craving wedding cake since I got married over 2 years ago, hehe. I'm also kind of craving a chili cheese dog, but I will resist it :).

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Why resist? If you lived where I live (Austin, TX), you could get a wedding cake cup cake which is EXACTLY like wedding cake, and it's huge and only about 4 bucks a piece. And, I'm not pregnant and still can't resist a good chili cheese dog. ;x I admire your will power. Congrats! Any name ideas yet?

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My mother, who had been so sick through her whole pregnancy she was living basically on crackers, had a craving for mocha cake that was so bad, she was in tears. She essentially told my dad not to come home without it, hehe. I don't think that'd fly with my husband, but I guess since she'd been so sick, and this was so much more than her just feeling like mocha cake, my dad did it. Wound up having to go to another town to find it!! She ate the whole thing, by herself, and kept it down :).

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Well, for one, I'm at a higher risk for gestation diabetes, so I have to watch things like cake and chili cheese dogs :). For another, something that spicy now that I'm in my third trimester might not sit well :). I had a lot of chili earlier in my pregnancy though (Wendy's chili, to be specific), which is very good for preventing GD (high fibre, high protein, beans, etc.), but it's too spicy now :).
Thanks :). We do have some name ideas, but my husband doesn't want me to tell anyone, even random people on the internet :). It's the only request he's made the whole pregnancy, so I'm going to honour it, sorry :).

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*gestational.

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I can definitely relate with you when it comes to being at a high risk for getting diabetes. Definitely so. Hmm... I think that you're quite strong for being able to resist the food even though you know it's not gonna be good for you, then again, I've never been pregnant and I'm sure that when I am I won't eat anything I know to be harmful to myself of my kiddo. Aw, don't apologize :). My best friend didn't tell anyone - but her husband - the sex or the name of her baby her whole pregnancy so it's no biggie ;). Good luck!

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wow. I've craved cheese like that before. Specifically sharp cheddar cheese but I'm not pregnant :P. My sister... oh Lord. She sent her husband 30 miles away to pick up some cheese enchiladas and some jalapeño poppers from a specific mexican food resturaunt at some odd hour of the night. Thank God for Texas and our 24-hour taquarias!

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Cravings: Grapes dipped in peanut butter, french fries or curly fries dipped in chocolate milkshakes, and the most disgusting combination ever.. peanuts, pickles, and orange juice. I was so grossed out, but it was so good. I also really liked veggie hot dogs, milk (first clue I was pregnant because I didn't like or drink it beforehand), lemonade & mass quantities of watermelon.

I really don't like Alandra. I think of laundry.

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Lol @ laundry! My librarian loved watermelon too. She had a water birth and her husband alternated in pouring warm water on her belly and feeding her watermelon. The story was so heartwarming :). Oh, I dip pickles into ranch dressing and cheese Doritos into cottage cheese. Don't feel gross ;).

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So far no weird food cravings. Unless you consider just needing to eat ALL the damn time weird! I try to listen to what my body needs: fat? dairy? veg? carbs? etc. It seems to be helpful.

As for Alandra.... not a fan.

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I'm finding that everyone dislikes the name Alandra. And I eat all of the damn time and I'm not preg. lol

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Tater tots dipped in vanilla icecream = amazing.

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cheeseburgers & pizza.
through my morning sickness they were the only things i wanted to eat.
why its weird though is because i usually am an extremely healthy eater.
eggs/oatmeal for breakfast. turkey sandwich for lunch. salmon/chicken for dinner.
with tons of fruits and veggies.
my craving was so bad the other nite i sent my fiance out to mcdonalds at 3am[the only thing open] even though i usually refuse to eat there- first time i've had it in 2 years.

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not really weird.. but for my entire pregnancy all I've really wanted was anything Taco Bell and ice(I've developped a huge problem with eating ice =/).

I don't like Alandra that much. It reminds me of allergies.. and I'm pretty not sure how I make that connection.

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I don't like Alandra, but I like Alannah which is similar.

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anapology.livejournal.com

Mine too, my mother had awful awful pregnancies. I seem to be extremely lucky at the moment!

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lneef.livejournal.com

I prefer Alana.

ANYTHING grapefruit flavored (not the actual fruit), including a craving for Squirt soda one night that was so bad I was in tears that I couldn't have it (they don't sell it in my area where I live now). My husband had to go out and buy Sprite, grapefruit juice, and lemonade to mix together, which made a passable substitute. Early on in pregnancy, during the worst of my morning sickness, I had about two weeks where the only thing that sat well was grapefruit juice.

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I'm finding that pretty much anything I crave, I can keep down. Anything I'm indifferent to is a 50/50 chance. Only exception was craving a cola, and anything fizzy was a definite no for several weeks there.

My husband drove everywhere to find me Fruity Pebbles, but wouldn't go out of town when no one had them. *sigh* I ended up with Fruity Cheerios instead. Just not the same!

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I crave strange combinations/things like ice-cream and pickles ALL THE TIME already...I can't imagine what I'll crave when I'm pregnant!! haha

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Alandra reminds me of a friend's fictional roleplay character, Alondra. I like it, and I like ah-LAN-dra, too, if you were to go with a more phonetic pronunciation.

Weirdest craving so far (at 12 weeks 5 days): Fish'n'chips...and an egg roll. Together. I'm sure it'll only get weirder from there.

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Where are you now?

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A+ for being fortunate :D

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Mm. Chinese food sounds divine right now.

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haha a greesy McMoo burger is the only thing that'll hit the spot sometimes, eh?

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Allegra v. Alandra. That's how I think :).. I ate TB today and I have a huge problem with eating ice too - it's horrid for my teeth but I can't stop

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I like Alana

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Wow, that's really odd too because it's so acidic.. but I love Amy's Ice cream (local ice cream shop) because they have grapefruit ice :D

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I have fruity pebbles... want me to ship 'em to ya :)?

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Seconded :x

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What sort of egg roll? That actually sounds quite pleasant right now. I'm starving :(.

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Vegetable. Only kind the Chinese place a block a way sells. Now I want one, too. I never did get one, at that was about two weeks ago.

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Oh no. Hopefully your husband will forgive me for stirring up a craving.

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Hehe! My mom offered to mail a serving in an envelope; big help, huh? I'm not even craving them anymore, but my sister-in-law has promised to send a box along with her hand-me-down baby gear.

I hate how different areas don't carry all the foods I want. I can't get my favorite canned comfort foods here; don't the grocery store chains know they must cater to my appetite?!

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I know. It irritates me. I'm not even pregnant and I search the city for the things I'm craving! hahaha

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*g* He doesn't have to know you were involved. I asked for one with pizza last night, too.

I swear, one of these days, I'm just going to go down and get a carry-out order for five or six egg rolls, and have nothing but egg rolls for dinner.

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Get like smaleventy of them and have left overs.

BTW, smaleventy = the best number ever. Lmao @ keeping me a secret ;)

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LOL! He just got home from work; I'd better close the page!

I'm not sure how well these egg rolls would reheat; they're uber-fried. Egg rolls I'd had before were always just in their little egg-roll-wrapper and then fried; these are wrapped up in their wrapper, battered, and then fried. Even worse for me, but probably why I like them so much.

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That's different. Still sounds really yummy though.

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Often, the body craves what it needs. When I had gallstones, before I got pregnant, I very quickly learned to listen to my body when it told me what to eat. If I didn't, I often had an attack. Sometimes it told me to eat things that didn't seem like what they tell you to eat (they say eat bland, low fat foods. I often craved fast food), but I tell ya, we were delayed going to Wendy's to get dinner, and I had an attack in the car. Now, I can't see anything in Cola that your body would need, unless your blood sugar was low or something, hehe. But as much as I try to watch what I'm eating right now, if I'm really craving something, and it's actual food (i.e., I don't give in to cake cravings most of the time), I'll eat it, even if it's not perfectly in line with my "diet" (i.e., Chef Boyardee, baked potato, etc.). So, in short, it makes sense that you can keep down the foods you crave, your body sends pretty good signals :).
Funny story, though, years later (when I was about 17) my mom had a bone marrow transplant (she's doing well now, this is a better story once you know that, hehe). She was SO sick during it, could not keep a thing down. They were actually watching her intake versus outtake, because NOTHING was staying down. One day, she told my father, in a similar manner as the mocha cake, that she needed chips. She NEEDED chips. Well, my dad figured if she was craving them that badly, maybe it's work, so he got them for her, and she ate them all, and kept them down. She wasn't supposed to have outside food, as they were monitoring her carefully, so my dad figured he'd better let a nurse know she'd eaten them. Know what the nurse said? She said she wasn't surprised at all, cuz my mother was taking marijuana pills. She had the munchies!! hehe.

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Hahahahaha! Marijuana pills!

MARY JANE FTW!

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I think it was synthetic, I don't think it made her high per say, but it did give her the munchies :).

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that's really funny.. I'm starving :( We're still talking about food!

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N'Awlins. That was cute :D. I live in Austin.. gonna go to TX State :]

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A Frosty from Wendy's is even better than a chocolate shake--thicker, so more frozen yumminess per fry.

That sounds really good about now, but I don't think I can blame it on pregnancy, since I was introduced to frosty-n-fries in high school.

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