Taste Changes

I knew pregnancy came with things like cravings but I am surprised by this subtle effect of changes in the way things taste.

It's a little frustrating.

I've spent the last few months building up meal plans and lists of menus that will be healthy for me and give my body everything it needs to function properly.

Now a lot of those foods I loved are not tasting right.

It's extremely subtle but it's like just about everything I eat tastes a shade or two to the left. My go-to sweet potato fries are no longer good.

And trying new foods is a mixed bag because I know that if I like it then I probably/might not when I'm not pregnant!

It's the Progesterone

Now thanks to The Mother of All Pregnancy Books I know that what I thought could be crazy early pregnancy symptoms are actually symptoms of high progesterone, which is a hormone that rises every second half of your cycle.

Exhaustion, nausea, soreness, appetite, all of it can be attributed to rising progesterone.

It doesn't mean pregnancy but it doesn't mean not pregnancy either. It is the body preparing to be pregnant.

So now when I feel those symptoms I'm happy and thinking it shows that my body is doing what it should be doing.

I never recognized these symptoms before because I was having long cycles and not ovulating often at all.

I'm 3 DPO today and wondering why it has to take so long for a fertilized egg to implant!