I was hideous during my pregnancy! (Not that I am beautiful to begin with, but I was uglier that time!) I had pimples exploding everywhere, my double-chin which I've managed to shed just before getting pregnant (with lotsa effort in controlling my diet & exercising I must add) made a huge come back and my nose! Can you see how bulbous it had become! Oh well... I wasn't aware of them until when I reviewed the pix... :-p I was in Cloud 9 at that time! I don't notice these things when I have greater things to look forward to...
I must say though that baby is very "co-operative" when he was snug in my womb. I've heard a lot about woman's cravings during pregnancy. I do have a number of them, but surprisingly despite the very strong cravings that can drive me crazy when I keep recalling the taste, smell and look of the stuff I crave, I managed to get around it. How? Well, one midnight, I had this strong crave for Chee Cheong Fun and it must be the Penang style with dark sweet sauce... not the KL Chee Cheong Fun which is normally in curry. I was salivating just picturing the plate of Chee Cheong Fun (and believe me, I wasn't even a Chee Cheong Fun fan to begin with, so I don't understand the craving) with no way of getting it. So I tried my luck by rubbing at my tummy and said "Baby... it's late and all the Chee Cheong Fun stalls are closed. Can we wait till tomorrow morning? Mummy promise, we'll get that Chee Cheong Fun first thing tomorrow morning! Deal?" After a while, my craving lessen and I can finally sleep peacefully without tossing and turning - craving after the CCF. Amazing isn't it? I negotiated with my baby even before he's out of the womb! Hehe...
So after that I've employed the same methods whenever I was hit with strong cravings. Craving for authentic thin crust pizza (not the fast food variety unfortunately... This baby has class... I tried Pizza Hut & Domino's... he's not sated). But I was in PD? Where do you get good pizza there? So again, I "negotiated" and it goes something like this - "Baby... Mummy is in PD with dede right now... There's no pizza like the ones you wanted... Can we wait till the weekend? I promise I'll get you that Pizza you wanted". So I was ok for a few days and even forgotten about it, but come weekend... The cravings came back! Then I remembered the promise. So hubby and I went to Marco's pizza in BV. That's the only pizzeria I can think of that's close to the ones we had in Rome and Milan during our honeymoon (cos' my cravings was really going for that very taste we had in Italy... but sorry... am not that cravy nor rich to fly all the way to Italy to soothe my cravings... pregnant or not...) - after that, I was satisfied and never wanted another pizza again!
Other than CCF and pizza, some of my other cravings are - Cempedak (and I want them fried... not raw... Boy that was tough... It was about nearly a month before I tracked down some cempedaks), Tau Fu Fah and... errr... can't remember... maybe that was it. I tell ya... All these cravings were postponed to a more convenient time thanks to a bit of negotiation with lil' un. Funny huh...
