Healthy Pregnancy

[Cupcake]

Id love to walk more but the fact we live at the top of a huge hill & our neighbourhood is really hilly turns me off the idea. My lower back hurts at the best of times at the moment so cant imagine what all those hills would do to it!

Might give it a go, see what happens. Maybe a heat pack on the back afterwards would help? Any suggestions?

Elise i love our Wii - i know its not apart of Wii Fit but i play Monopoly on it a lot. They have a version of Monopoly with a lot of mini challenges and that works my arms out hehe

[Dr. Tal]

It almost feels like a mini reunion in here with Cherished, Ammaki and JLeigh!! I'll have to tell Kirsten about it and see if we can get her to join in as well (did you all know she got another BFP recently?? She'd be about 4-5 weeks now)

Cherished - Those cookies are really really good (they even passed the DH taste test, I met him for lunch and brought one along for him). I added about 1/4 cup of maple syrup to them and that made them taste really good (I have a bit of a sweet tooth!)

Ammaki - You can get pregnancy I'll call them 'girldes' (but I don't think that's what they're really called) with back support that might help out your lower back some. I've been seeing a Chiro once a week and that's helped heaps. So I would recommend that too.

Elise - My two are huskies, my boy started jumping the fence (when I lived alone before I met DH) to follow me when I sleep walk (he's a bit over protective). Now that I'm pregnant he's even more protective of me if that's possible. My girl would just jump the fence to tag along for the fun DH's dog is a mastiffXdane (weighs in at about 65kg) so if she decides to pull or go somewhere I don't want her to there's nothing I'll be doing that could stop her.

JLeigh - about everyone wanting to catch up before the baby comes. Maybe that's a secret bonus of working up until 2 days before my EDD?? I don't need to worry about eating too much??

Audax - At this rate I'm going to have to start a cook book just for your recipes. What can I call it?? Yummy Audax recipes??

MM - how come you can't have mashed spud?? I grew up in a potato farming community so know just about every way to eat a potato imaginable (did you know there is even a recipe for potato fudge? Yup, you read correctly....fudge) If I know what about them you can't eat I might be able to suggest something else to do with them. Have you ever tried twice baked? They can be really good. I can give you a recipe if you want.

AFM - Am in the middle of making pumpkin soup for dinner. mmmmmm. All the healthy food talk made me decide to slip a vego night in on DH (hehehe we already had one last night too). I don't really have a recipe per se but I usually add approximately:

2 cloves garlic
1 large onion
2-3 carrots
1 sweet potato
1 large or 2-3 small potatoes
1 pumpkin (usually make it half kent half butternut)
Some tyme (I put tyme in just about everything I cook)
(if I make the vegetable stock myself I also add a bit of salt)

cook all those in a large pan until soft then cover with vegetable stock until about 1 finger knuckle above the veggies. Boil until all veggies are soft and mushy. Blend until smooth. (optional add 1/2 cup cream)

[Cupcake]

It almost feels like a mini reunion in here with Cherished, Ammaki and JLeigh!! I'll have to tell Kirsten about it and see if we can get her to join in as well (did you all know she got another BFP recently?? She'd be about 4-5 weeks now)

I know! So awesome! Glad to be back in a thread with you ladies! I popped in to congratulate Kirst hope she saw it!

Ammaki - You can get pregnancy I'll call them 'girldes' (but I don't think that's what they're really called) with back support that might help out your lower back some. I've been seeing a Chiro once a week and that's helped heaps. So I would recommend that too.

I see a chiro too! Been going for about 18 months now! LOVE my appointments each week! Im pretty sure Cherished would be seeing one too being a Chiro Assistant?

That recipe made my mouth water! We dont have a blender at the moment! DYING to get a new one!

[luna moth]

Actually, Dr Tall, my cookbook is already planned. It will be called "HELP! There's a weirdo at my table..." and it will be full of stuff that is vegan/vegetarian/gluten free/nut free/unsweetened etc.

Ami - no idea what will help. I love walking so much, especially on hills. We used to live on a huge hill, great for walking but not so good for cycling. I hope you work something out though.

JLeigh - can you get people over for nibblies? And have stuff like plain toasted pita crisps with vegie sticks and dip? I know it's probably exhausting, but if you get them to come to you, maybe you have a bit more control over what gets eaten? We're getting into soup weather too - can you cook up a big pot for lunch? Minestrone is so yummy and pretty healthy. Let me know if you want a recipe

Me? Pretty lazy day, really. Cleaned out the sewing room, went to town (to pick up DH's bike that got left in Landsborough on the weekend! That's a story for next time, C1 ) went for a walk. Will do dinner, then super early night. I'm trying to sleep as much as I can.

[Cherished]

OMG good news all round!!!!! A BFP for Kristen too YAY.... Yes tell her about this thread It does feel like a reunion doesn't it!

So glad you found us to Ammakmi, JLeigh & Dr.Tal ohhhh YAY I just knew I would have friends to share this thread with

I have had everyone wanting to come over and visit or meet up for lunch 'before bubby arrives' so have lots of morning/afternoon teas and lunches, which make it hard (but jam and cream filled lamingtons don't count as unhealthy, do they???!!!! Cherished???!!!)

shhhhhh You're making me look bad <insert smack on the bum icon here> I didn't have any friends in this thread for support when I bought us those

Some great food ideas in here ladies! Thanks so much for sharing.

I was going to make pumpkin soup for dinner too but I forgot to make some bread today so I don't want to have soup with out it.... Not sure what will be on the menu instead? Maybe healthy home made pizza on flat bread wraps... we are kinda celebrating today cause our only debt is our home loan

I've gone to pilates today and had acupuncture and tomorrow will be my weekly chiro adjustment cause yesterday and today I think I've had a bit of sciatica, it's not a usual problem of mine so I guess it's pregnancy related. It's not too bad now after all the movement but it's prompted me to look into a brace/support so I will research them on Wed, any suggestions of brands etc?

to all the other healthy pregnancy mummas who I haven't mentioned.

[Cherished]

Morning chickies

So I ended up making tom yum last night with a bit of rice to go with it and it was yummmmmy.

Q who is needing to eat when they wake up during the night? just last week I started needing a snack as I was waking up really hungry. If you do to what do you snack on? Last night was a banana and a few spoon fulls of yogurt. Any other good ideas?

[JLeigh29]

Cherished - OK, night time snack ideas:
*A glass of milk was good (and comes in handy later on when the heartburn/reflux hits )
*Oatmeal bikkies were great because I could have them right next to the bed and didn't have to move if I was feeling nauseous.
*Yep, bananas! One of my faves.
*Handful of nuts/sultanas/dates/dried apricots.
*Toast.
*A piece of cheese.

Nothing terribly exciting, I know. I'm sure others have some more interesting suggestions.

Audax - Everyone is insisting on bringing food with them or taking me out because someone 'in my condition' can't cook! Lol, it's about the only thing I can do! Will definitely be doing that when bubby arrives and everyone comes for a sticky beak though.

Dr Tal - Your pumpkin soup is almost exactly the same as mine but I've never done carrots and I use whatever fresh herbs we have - chives, parsley, thyme, basil etc. Yum!
I also do a bacon and vege soup, which DH loves. I also love the vege version without the bacon, but the meat disguises the veges for anyone who needs that! I don't follow a recipe, just use whatever veges I have. You can do it on the stove or the slow cooker.

Bacon and Vege Soup
Prepare 1 or 2 bacon hocks by covering with water and boiling for about 1 hour to soften. Remove hocks and take meat off the bone, keeping some of the liquid to use in the soup (depends on the depth of flavour you want and how healthy you want to be - I let it cool and skim off the fat, then use about 1 cup!).

Chop a whole pile of veges - pumpkin, sweet potato and potato for the base, plus any combination of carrots, onions, turnip, swede, parsnip, celery, beans, peas, cauli, zuchini etc. Add lots of garlic (OK, as much or as little as you like!) and herbs.

Put the veges in a pot along with the bacon. Cover with vege stock (sometimes I dilute this too as we don't use salt and find it a bit too strong!) and simmer for around an hour, until the pumpkin, sweet potato and potato start to disintegrate and it looks like a chunky pumpkin soup!

Hello and healthy eating and exercising to everyone else. Off to find Kirsten and congratulate her on her BFP...

[Dr. Tal]

JLeigh - That's funny that you make your pumpkin soup almost the same way I make mine. I don't really follow a recipe either. I tend to just chuck in anything that I have hanging around that is orange or white LOL. I know I'll often put cauliflower in it too
(Kirsten can now be found in the Dec 16-31 BB group pretty sure her EDD is Dec 26)

Cherished - OOO healthy Pizza! I know what will be on the menu tonight! I LOVE pizza, I'm just usually too lazy and buy it at the shops, but it's really not that hard to make. I'll have to have a think about what I'm going to put on it. Maybe pumpkin and sweet potato with feta (we can eat feta if it's cooked right?? I'm pretty sure it's a 'cheese to avoid' but from memory they are okay if they are cooked??)

Audax - When you finally get your cookbook written, mark me down for one! I'm not a vegan or even a vegetarian, but I LOVE different recipes!

Ammaki - bummer about not having a blender. That having been said...if you boil the veggies until they are super soft you can mush them up with a potato masher (they don't get as fine as with a blender or processor, so you'll have some lumpy bits) as it basically tastes the same. You'll just need to make sure you press your garlic (or chop it really fine) and finely chop the onion, but most of the other stuff, including the carrot mashes fairly well that way.

AFM - I had to make a second batch of those oatmeal banana cookies last night. DH ate nearly all of them (he's such a guts). I hid these ones so I can dole them out to him a couple a day. Today I plan to make the White bean dip when I get home from work and feed it to DH with veggie sticks YUM!