Baby curiosity
While I still don't aim to get a baby I have been fascinated by it all since I was a kid. We have a wonderful pregnancy book I read way before such things should have interested me. I think I was mainly attracted to the beautiful very natural ('70 style) pictures of the central woman. You could see her body change and she had that pregnancy aura.
The book centered around the diary of that woman with added doctors comments and advice. There were technical things and diagrams too. I still have the book though I think it must be outdated by now. There are awesome pregnancy documentaries on TV now with the new advances like 3D scans where you can see exactly what your baby looks like. Through that they found out that things babies like before they are born carry on afterwards, they are already learning and have personalities.
One of the most amusing things I find how amazingly your body works through it all. Like with cravings, your baby signals somehow it wants something, your body translates that into a food....or even non-food that you then want to eat. This one made me laugh this morning;" When I was pregnant with my last two I craved dirt, not like brown dirt, like the white cloudy dirt off of rocks, I am telling no lies, my husband looked at me like I was crazy when I said man that rock sure looks good..lol."
As I have mentioned before my mother craved gravy with bread every night with me and a kind of whipped cream and chocolate covered pastry with my brother. We still like those things now so I don't doubt that was one of those things we made mom eat. Research shows that what the mother eats flavors the amniotic fluid and the baby swallows that. It's reasonable to assume that influences the babies sense of taste and could be preparing it for the same tastes in the mother's milk it will be drinking later.
I can imagine I would have found another mother's milk rather bland, we like spicy. I think my cousin's baby had that same thing happen, he was still just drinking milk when he was happily sucking the flavor of some BBQ meat (sate, spiced pork on a stick) whining when one side was out of flavor so someone could turn it around for him.
Things like that make me curious, if I get pregnant, would I be craving what I already like? Or would I be wanting what the baby wants, maybe it inherited some tastes of the father and I would be craving sushi? I hate shrimps and bananas. Even as a baby I rejected shrimp flavored things. A while back my brother made me try some nondescript fried thing and the taste was horrible, I couldn't even identify it but it turns out it was banana. He cracked up obviously but it shows I still have that aversion to banana. I just hadn't eaten it in so long my brain forgot to recall the taste. My baby may love all those things though and I would have to eat it, not too bad if I actually craved it I guess.
And then there are just the regular things like wondering what a baby of mine would look like and act like. As I get older I think I am taking after my mother a alot but I know I had little in common with her personality when younger. A baby of me and winterforth would have a definite scary potential, his brain with my forceful curiosity toward people? Both our nervous natures? It is like an experiment I know I shouldn't do but if it happens...well after the freak out I would be eager to satisfy my curiosity.
I'm not curious about the work though....nooo way. Dirty nappies endless crying and having no free time. Yuck. Now if this was Farscape I could get a preview of my babies, perfect solution.
~Iflie
The book centered around the diary of that woman with added doctors comments and advice. There were technical things and diagrams too. I still have the book though I think it must be outdated by now. There are awesome pregnancy documentaries on TV now with the new advances like 3D scans where you can see exactly what your baby looks like. Through that they found out that things babies like before they are born carry on afterwards, they are already learning and have personalities.
One of the most amusing things I find how amazingly your body works through it all. Like with cravings, your baby signals somehow it wants something, your body translates that into a food....or even non-food that you then want to eat. This one made me laugh this morning;" When I was pregnant with my last two I craved dirt, not like brown dirt, like the white cloudy dirt off of rocks, I am telling no lies, my husband looked at me like I was crazy when I said man that rock sure looks good..lol."
As I have mentioned before my mother craved gravy with bread every night with me and a kind of whipped cream and chocolate covered pastry with my brother. We still like those things now so I don't doubt that was one of those things we made mom eat. Research shows that what the mother eats flavors the amniotic fluid and the baby swallows that. It's reasonable to assume that influences the babies sense of taste and could be preparing it for the same tastes in the mother's milk it will be drinking later.
I can imagine I would have found another mother's milk rather bland, we like spicy. I think my cousin's baby had that same thing happen, he was still just drinking milk when he was happily sucking the flavor of some BBQ meat (sate, spiced pork on a stick) whining when one side was out of flavor so someone could turn it around for him.
Things like that make me curious, if I get pregnant, would I be craving what I already like? Or would I be wanting what the baby wants, maybe it inherited some tastes of the father and I would be craving sushi? I hate shrimps and bananas. Even as a baby I rejected shrimp flavored things. A while back my brother made me try some nondescript fried thing and the taste was horrible, I couldn't even identify it but it turns out it was banana. He cracked up obviously but it shows I still have that aversion to banana. I just hadn't eaten it in so long my brain forgot to recall the taste. My baby may love all those things though and I would have to eat it, not too bad if I actually craved it I guess.
And then there are just the regular things like wondering what a baby of mine would look like and act like. As I get older I think I am taking after my mother a alot but I know I had little in common with her personality when younger. A baby of me and winterforth would have a definite scary potential, his brain with my forceful curiosity toward people? Both our nervous natures? It is like an experiment I know I shouldn't do but if it happens...well after the freak out I would be eager to satisfy my curiosity.
I'm not curious about the work though....nooo way. Dirty nappies endless crying and having no free time. Yuck. Now if this was Farscape I could get a preview of my babies, perfect solution.
~Iflie