• Question: why do pregnant women prefer to eat bitter foods

    Asked by Doiea to Priscilla, Mel on 2 Oct 2014.
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      Melissa Kapulu answered on 2 Oct 2014:

      @Doiea hmmmm! good question.

      I am not sure if all pregnant women prefer to eat bitter foods. Personally I think pregnancy is unique for every woman. And I have heard that even between pregnancies a woman will have unique experiences, so the first pregnancy is different from all the subsequent pregnancies. In my personal experience, I never had any cravings for particular foods. You hear a lot of stories about how women will eat soil, or even bitter or sweet things. I think pregnancy is a unique experience and your body as woman experiences a lot of hormonal changes suddenly and over the entire course of the pregnancy and even after giving birth. So it is not that women prefer to eat bitter foods but they try to accommodate their current changing body environment.

      What the examples of the foods you have heard pregnant women eating?

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  • Photo: Doiea

    Doiea commented on :

    mmmmh…thanks for that with my knowledge i see pregnat women eating unripe mangoes….but thanks now i know….and why do they become so moody everytime???

    • Photo: Mel

      Mel commented on :

      @Doiea in my opinion the moodiness is also linked to the hormonal changes. It is a chemical imbalance that occurs and remember that emotions are controlled by signals sent to the brain. But I also think it is psychological. Often times women are told of all the changes that happen during pregnancy and in time one begins to believe them. The best is to try and control all the emotions and not let them get the best of you…..