by Melissa Willets posted in Pregnancy

After being pregnant with four girls, I considered myself an expert. Not just on girl pregnancies, but on pregnancy in general. But I've recently been humbled to learn that carrying a baby boy is different in some ways. While the pregnancy aches and pains are largely similar, there are some distinct ways expecting a baby of the opposite gender is making me feel like a new mom all over again. I'm way more hungry. I'm not talking an extra few pita chips hungry. This is teenage boy, ravenous, scary, animalistic hunger. This is devour a sub sandwich and feel like it was an appetizer kind of hunger. It's a scarfing down more food than my 6-foot-4-inch husband hunger. That husband, by the way, agrees I'm eating way more than I did while I was pregnant with my daughters.
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