{"id":198,"date":"2006-11-27T16:46:26","date_gmt":"2006-11-27T21:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/wordpress\/?p=198"},"modified":"2011-05-28T20:53:08","modified_gmt":"2011-05-28T19:53:08","slug":"food-more-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2006\/11\/27\/food-more-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Food, more food!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThings they don&rsquo;t tell you before you start breastfeeding: how absurdly, mind-bogglingly hungry it makes you. Whenever I&rsquo;m not feeding Ingrid, I&rsquo;m feeding myself. I could eat constantly, if I didn&rsquo;t need my hands for other things occasionally. Now I limit myself to four solid meals a day (porridge for breakfast, two lunches, one dinner), frequently followed by a dessert, plus an unknown number of snacks between meals. Before I learned to breastfeed while lying down, I even ate after each nightly feeding session.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThere are no cravings and no preferences. Anything goes, as long as it&rsquo;s vegetarian and sufficiently calorie-dense. (Soup is bad. Cheesecake is good.) Eric still occasionally asks me whether I would like to eat, or what I would prefer for dinner. The answers are always the same: &ldquo;Yes!&rdquo;, and &ldquo;Anything!&rdquo;. The bare question is enough to make me hungry enough to really not care about what I&rsquo;m eating!\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFood goes in, milk comes out. I transform adult food into baby food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things they don&rsquo;t tell you before you start breastfeeding: how absurdly, mind-bogglingly hungry it makes you. Whenever I&rsquo;m not feeding Ingrid, I&rsquo;m feeding myself. I could eat constantly, if I didn&rsquo;t need my hands for other things occasionally. Now I limit myself to four solid meals a day (porridge for breakfast, two lunches, one dinner), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[745],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food_and_cooking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2896,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/2896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}