Wine is full of antioxidants, you know. Red wine at least, which is my tipple of choice.
Tonight I am indulging in a couple of glasses of Kemeny’s Hidden Label (their cleanskin) Pinot Noir which, the blurb assured me, retails for over $35 a bottle. All mine for just $16. And it’s pretty damn good! I usually drink Oyster Bay for a quaffing Pinot, but I may just be a convert.
I refuse to give up all of life’s little pleasures for the sake of TTC. And it’s one of the things that makes me think I’m not worthy of pregnancy and parenthood.
I don’t drink during the Two Week Wait (TWW), not on AC cycles at least, but I most certainly do on at least three of seven days when I am not TWWing. In the TWW, I eat all the things that are banned during pregnancy (soft french cheeses, caviar, smoked salmon, sushi, jamon iberico, week-old leftovers in the fridge etc etc), and I also drink one or two coffees a day.
So I’m probably not worthy, but fuck it. Life – my life – is to short to make allowances for something that may never happen. Unpregnant until proven otherwise. And when otherwise is proven, I will abstain.
I have a friend who freaking gave up CHOCOLATE when pregnant. I’m not much of a chocolate eater – I like it dark, bitter, and with a glass of port – so it’s not that much of a stretch for me to envisage, but bloody hell, I’m struggling to see what the rationale behind that decision was.
So this post was intended to talk about my Pill Regime. I have been so busy today and neglected to take the pills until now, and washed them down with the aforementioned Pinot, which made me feel guilty and hence my previous food/wine rant.
Each morning, I take a multivitamin designed for women trying to concieve, a high-dose cap of vanilla scented omega-3 fish oil, 5mg of folic acid, co-enzyme CQ10, a B complex horsetablet, zinc and a 50c sized vitamin C. I then pop the CQ10s (at nearly $1 per cap) two more times during the day when I remember.
It’s nothing really. I have a friend who is HIV+ and he has, literally, a bowl of tablets for breakfast, and my regime is nothing compared to some other super hard-core TTCers. But even so, it is full-on enough that I have had to pull over on the side of the road on more than one occasion to relieve my stomach of it’s contents via a bit of reverse peristalsis.
Dinner awaits!
July 9, 2009 at 2:12 pm |
CHEERS to you! I also embibed (is that how you spell it?) with my love, red wine also. During TTC, not during TWW, and even when pregnant. Doc says a glass a day is fine, just do it at home cuz some peeps (probably the same ones that give up chocolate – BAH!) would stare and gawk and cuss if they saw a pregnant lady drinking.
July 9, 2009 at 9:22 pm |
Kimbosue my Dr actually recommended “a nice glass of wine and a slap up meal” to celebrate my embryo transfer, but I just couldn’t bring myself to do it!
July 10, 2009 at 1:38 am |
Oh – Pinot. I’ve been dreaming about a nice glass but worried if I have one the crave will only get worse. Sounds like a lovely choice.
July 17, 2009 at 9:14 am |
Cheers! *raises glass* Well said.
I know exactly how that feels (the regime). Have narrowed it down to one super multi-v/anti-ox + coq10 +5mg folate + flax (my fish oil substitute). It’s still a lot.
Thank you for reading my blog…shocked (in a humourous fashion
) that you made it through the whole thing. I believe you have deduced correctly about the doc. Hmmmmmm.
Good luck with your FET, will be thinking of you.