To not eat labour curry?

[cockcrowfarm]

So, like a comedy stereotype i ate a spicy curry which gave me cramps that turned out to be labour on week 39. I still have the curry in the freezer but have been quite reluctant to eat it! AIBU?

So not to drip feed: vegetable thai green curry, i froze it the next morning before leaving for hospital, curry is now two months old.

YANBU, bin it.

I had my last cup of tea for more than 10 years in labour with ds1, couldn't stomach it after that for many years.

Ds1 is now just about to turn 17 and it's only in the last year I've really started to enjoy tea again

God why are so many people on here so horrible?!

OP is just asking a humorous rhetorical question as to how it is odd that, when the curry was presumably nice, and instrumental in bringing her her beloved DC, she now recoils from it because of its association.

I often have such associations, but nothing so nice as new baby related. I had interviews for 2 part time jobs once. I bought a new top and wore it to both interviews. I got one job but not the other. After that I took agin' the top and got rid of it. Why I couldn't have seen it as "the top that I wore to get ONE job" I don't know!

I think I get what you mean OP. I had chippy the night I went into labour - my waters had broken that morning but contractions started as I was eating. It's not exactly an exciting spicy food but it took me ages to have the same again. I couldn't explain it because I knew it wasn't going to bring on another labour but something just didn't feel right about eating it again

Oh is that how you get twins and how far apart they are born is how far apart you ate the labour curry

Totally understand op. Can you give it away though rather than waste it.

I'm glad I'm not the only one! I hate to throw out good food too, I'll set a date to throw it out at first birthday if i havent eaten it by then!

@FuriousVexation Placenta curry im going to be haunted by the though of that!

I couldn’t eat anything spicy for 8 months after DD arrived - she threw up everywhere constantly and spicy food was worse. So I had to eat boiled carrots, boiled potatoes and a piece of plain meat as my dinner daily - it was sooooo boring.

Personally, the meal I ate an hour before going into labour (and threw up two hours after that) is something I have never been able to face since!

Chick it out, and never have your favourite meal from about 38 weeks.

Ha I thought this would be about curry made with placenta 😂😂😂🤢🤮

I remember quite a few years ago that Cadbury brought out a sugar free dairy milk, I had one and that day had the most terrible cramps all evening, the same happened with M&S fruit puff biscuits, and Burger King low calorie chicken fillet burger. (I now know why due to a medical condition) I have never eaten these foods again, even though I now know my cramps had zero to do with it. It's just the association with the horrific pain!

@NearlyGranny good advice! They should tell that in prenatal classes!

I don't think I could eat it.

While I was in early labour with DS1 I put the telly on to try and distract myself. I knew whatever I watched would be forever ruined so chose to watch Big Bang Theory. I'd watched a couple of early series so I knew who the characters were but I don't really like the show.

I can't watch it at all now, it just brings back memories of labour and makes me feel stressed. So I'm really glad I didn't ruin one of my favourite shows.

The curry has bad juju - I get it!

Do you have a partner? Can’t they eat it so it doesn’t go to waste.

If the thought of eating it is bringing back memories that r making u feel uncomfortable throw it away. I understand where ur coming from. You'll heat it, taste it, have a flash back of feelings, emotions and pain and you'll probably gag. Just throw it

Poor OP, as dense as I undoubtedly am about things being overly literal, even I can see this is a lighthearted thread.

cockcrowfarm, if you'd love another baby then what's the harm? Eat the curry, have your hospital bag packed ready and hope for the best.

Or, just enjoy the curry. 2 months in the freezer is fine...

@KNain Oh dear, now I am thinking of all the poor first time mothers that go into labour with their best playlists!

@Haworthia He doesn't like to eat spicy food and I don't know any one else around because we not long ago moved to a new city.

I would not want to eat it, but because I hate wasting food, I would leave it in the freezer until baby's second birthday, then declare it 'over two years old!' and throw it away.

Either than or offer in to an overdue friend!

@coralfish Good idea, I can offer it if any of the woman on the pregnancy chats need 'help'!

@ LyingWitchInTheWardrobe The curry might help some people to blast the cork out of their arse

It took me many years to stomach jelly babies again after eating them during labour with ds2 - the thought of them just made me a bit queasy.

Do what I do...leave it in the freezer for so long that you've forgotten what it is then have a freezer pot luck dinner where you defrost random dishes and have to eat them.

DP returned from a 10 week long overseas work trip 1 week before DS was due. we met at his place of work and went out for a celebratory thai. had a delicious mango chicken dish. threw it up about 2 hours later and DS was out about 12 hours after DP was officially back on land 😬 tangent but my point is i haven't been able to face that very nice mango dish since!

I'm just amazed you could be arsed to start freezing meals when you were going into labour.

@mamaduckbone I don't know anyone here yet otherwise I would definitely feed it to other people, it was a good curry!