{"id":640,"date":"2007-09-24T10:30:33","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T10:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jwalking\/2007\/09\/appreciating-pregnancy.html"},"modified":"2007-09-24T10:30:33","modified_gmt":"2007-09-24T10:30:33","slug":"appreciating-pregnancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jwalking\/2007\/09\/appreciating-pregnancy.html","title":{"rendered":"Appreciating pregnancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think I am a pregnant woman. No, I think I appreciate what it is like to be a pregnant woman. Sort of.<br \/>\nSo I finished another <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jwalking\/2007\/08\/my-period.html\">round of chemo last week<\/a>. For two and a couple days afterwards I was still feeling kind of queasy and not very hungry. But then Kim&#8217;s breath.<br \/>\nWe were sitting upstairs in the baby&#8217;s room and she came over and gave me a quick kiss. I smelled<a href=\"http:\/\/store.drsoda.com\/welgrapsod.html\"> Welch&#8217;s grape soda<\/a>. She was drinking gatorade but I smell Welch&#8217;s grape soda and at that moment I <em>had to have<\/em> Welch&#8217;s grape soda. I mean I <em>had to have<\/em> Welch&#8217;s grape soda.<br \/>\nIf, at that moment, I could have had the most marvelous sex of my entire life or Welch&#8217;s grape soda I would have chosen the soda. If I had been offered buckets of money or Welch&#8217;s grape soda I would have chosen the soda.<br \/>\nKeep in mind here that I do not drink soda. Ever. I think the last soda I had was three or four years ago. Eww, I hate the stuff.<br \/>\nBut at that moment&#8230; yes, Welch&#8217;s&#8230; grape&#8230; soda.<br \/>\nMy beloved got me some of soda and I drank it and I drank it and I drank it and it was sooooooo good. I mean smoke-a-cigarette-after-it kind of good.<br \/>\nAnd then hunger. Massive hunger. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Very-Hungry-Caterpillar-board-book\/dp\/0399226907\">Very Hungry Caterpillar<\/a><\/em> kind of hunger. After eating? More Welch&#8217;s grape soda.<br \/>\nI write all of this because I realize what a true craving is like.<br \/>\nGuys talk all the time about how they &#8220;have to have&#8221; a (burger, steak, beer, etc.). But guys, you have no clue what a real craving is like. Pregnant women know real cravings. And now I do too. Do I look fat?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I am a pregnant woman. No, I think I appreciate what it is like to be a pregnant woman. Sort of. So I finished another round of chemo last week. For two and a couple days afterwards I was still feeling kind of queasy and not very hungry. But then Kim&#8217;s breath. 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