Craving chocolate and sweet crap?

[Cheekychops84]

EBF 3 week old but I can't stop thinking about sweet stuff :/ but bad sweet stuff like choc, cake, ice cream etc is this normal????

Low blood sugar triggers cravings for carby crap like that. Are you eating enough generally?

Or, from another petspective - you have a 3 week old. Set up camp on the sofa with tea and cake and enjoy it :)

I dnt no? I had toast this am with nutella and then a wholemeal roll with ham about 2 pints of water a cup of tea and will have dinner later which will consist of a lot of veg ? Then would love cake in the evening but I don't buy it as I know I will just scoff it all

Scoff away I say! For the first 4 months of ebf I was so hungry I could kill. Then it went back to normal. But never been so hungry in my whole life than those first four months!

I jus found biscuits woops

I've never eaten so much chocolate as i have in the last 8 weeks since DS was born! I didn't eat any really while pregnant. And I baked flapjack on Thursday and it's all gone now...

Belinda, today is sunday- your flap jack actually lasted that long?! Poor show lol

I'm so glad it's not jus me! I didn't want choc I pregnancy (most unusual) wish I bought that multipack of gold bars now!

You're not eating anywhere near enough I say! Your breakfast and lunch would barely keep my 4yo going :)
Add a yoghurt or fruit to breakfast, have flapjack for a snack maybe? Better to eat plenty of decent food than get low blood sugar cravings and ending up eating a whole packet of biscuits.

I used to have 2 lunches when BFing :)

I think that is normal, just don't get into a habit with it and continue when you stop breastfeeding, or you will get huge. Get some good orange juice and stuff in.

I dont eat a huge amount but I'm about 4 stone overweight so can't really afford to go mad. But will keep my fluids up !