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@ahedderick / ahedderick.tumblr.com

The collected nonsense of an Appalachian farmer
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Tremor

Just hit by a Very Random memory. When I was pregnant (many years ago) on of the things I was supposed to be doing was 'kick counts' where I'd count how many kicks or movements I felt in an hour. This was supposed to make me aware if there was no movement for a worrying amount of time. However. Kick counts, for me, were impossible. My daughter seemed to be moving all the time. In fact, sometimes I could feel my whole belly vibrating with unbelievably rapid movements. I couldn't imagine what was going on in there.

Finally my little bundle of joy arrived. She was pretty active, all right. But one day, shortly after her birth, my husband was holding her while she slept. And in her sleep she proceeded to have leg tremors. I mean just twitching and kicking up a storm. Didn't even wake her up. A-HA! I told him, I told you something weird was going on in there!

Fortunately, the tremors tapered off rapidly, and never created any problems for her. But, damn. That was a feeling, for sure.

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friendly reminder that if you have a hard time eating due to nausea or other chronic illness ickies, just eat what you can eat. even if it’s not particularly “healthy,” getting calories in your body to help it function is more important.

this applies to fat people, folks with eating disorders, and autistic people who can’t eat certain foods!!!!!!!! we need to eat. it’s okay to eat “unhealthy” foods, sugary foods, processed foods. especially if it’s the only thing you can eat.

It doesn’t have to be “bad enough” to justify eating the food you wanna eat, either. Eat the food. You deserve to be nourished and that includes eating the foods you like.

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Also applies to a pregnant person who really wants to eat healthy for the baby’s sake, but can’t for whatever reason.

@crystaline-knowledge   I saw this ^ post right after seeing yours about pregnancy/food issues - it felt relevant. Eat whatever you can, whenever you can. I had two healthy babies; my cravings or food aversions did us no harm!

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