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- Welcome to The Preggo Show.
I'm Asia. - And I'm Krista.
- And we are regular moms who have been pregnant,
and are here to talk with you
about any and all things pregnancy
in hopes to make your journey a little bit easier.
- Today, we have our special guest, Mara,
who is five months pregnant with her first baby.
- [Mara] Hi, guys.
- [Krista] Go ahead and have a seat our pregnancy throne.
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- So, how are you feeling at five months?
- You know, I feel like it's getting better.
Like, I'm still waiting for that burst of energy
that everyone's talking about
that has yet to arrive (laughs).
- So, what are you craving now?
- I want tomato sandwiches like 100% of the time.
- Describe a tomato sandwich.
- It has to be like very cheap Wonder Bread,
a large amount of mayonnaise,
a bunch of slices of tomato, and salt and pepper.
And then, you have to cut it in a triangle,
or I'm not gonna eat it.
- We've done a lot of posts
where we talk about crazy cravings,
and we have people send in their crazy cravings,
which some of them are insane.
- We wanna explore some of those cravings.
So, let's check them out.
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- Would you like first dips? (both laugh)
- There's no like appropriate way to eat this.
- Again, with the crunch. (laughs).
- I don't know what that did in my mouth.
It did something weird in my mouth,
and I don't know if I'll ever
taste the same again (laughs).
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- I just like the pickle.
- It's kind of weird.
But not the worst thing I've ever had.
- I think this could be a solid Ben and Jerry's flavor.
- Oh. - Pickles and hot fudge.
Kind of like Chunky Monkey. - Yeah.
- Yeah. - Suggest it.
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- (laughs) Don't do this.
- Oh, my God.
- This one's really soaked.
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- One, two, three.
- It's cold.
- I don't think this is any worse
than the pickle and the chocolate.
- Terrible. - Strawberry fish.
Strawberry fish. - Oh, God (laughs).
- It's no pickle and fudge, but it's not bad.
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- Okay, this is very juicy. - I hate mayonnaise so much.
- This is my favorite.
- [Krista] Oh, God.
- Oh, God, I shouldn't have smelled it (laughs).
- Pregnant people like this?
- It's really good. - Yeah.
I'm not a fan of the mayo.
- Ew, I heard that (laughs).
- I can't do it. - No.
- (chuckles) I think we're craving right now.
- I definitely got like a big whoosh of mayonnaise,
like squirting out from
around the tomato. - Oh, God.
- We love you, Mara, can't do it (laughs).
- It's the mayo, it's like oozing out of my mouth.
And also, coming out the other end.
I don't even wanna think about that.
- Ew. (Krista laughs)
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- So, we just came from our taste test.
And we are ready for a delicious cocktail.
This is a mocktail recipe, faux-jito
that we got from our good friends at Tasty.
And we're gonna check it out.
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So, Mary Jane, we know a lot of pregnant woman
go by the one glass of red wine a week rule.
Is that something that's okay?
Is that really safe for the baby?
- The answer is don't know.
Okay, let me tell you what we do know
about alcohol and pregnancy.
That's probably a good place to start.
We do know that women who drink
two or more glasses of alcohol a day
are putting their babies at risk.
That we have very good data on,
and we can show bad outcomes there.
The problem is that nobody has exact data
on what's the absolute lowest limit that women can handle.
We just don't know this.
You know, my standard line that I say to my patients
is if you're going to your cousin's wedding,
and you're pregnant, and you wanna toast the bride,
I think a glass of champaign to toast the bride is fine.
But I don't want you drinking the rest of the bottle.
So, you know, on a special occasion,
I think it's quite reasonable.
- And what about caffeine?
- That's another very important area
that women are concerned about.
That basically the feeling is that you can
do one 12 ounce cup of coffee a day.
The limit is at 200 milligrams of caffeine
is sort of what's felt to be contained
in one of these 12 ounce cups of coffee,
and that that's probably safe.
There are some papers out there
that will say even that's too high.
There are some people that will say you can go higher.
But that's sort of a reasonable ballpark to use.
- Well, this was all such great information, Mary Jane.
Thank you so much for your time.
We'll talk to you soon. - Thank you, thank you.
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- We've been around for over 30 years.
And we think it was about 1987
when a past due mother ate the salad,
and started having contractions at the table,
and giggled and said,
"Oh, this salad is putting me into labor."
She actually went to the hospital,
and she delivered that day.
She told her friends, they told their friends.
And just word of mouth, it has it own legs.
It's just been an organic thing.
And there's no other way to describe it.
It's just kind of a phenomenon.
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- So, tell us a little bit about--
I told you.
She was like, "I don't think we're gonna see any."
And I'm like, "Oh, no, we're going to."
(laughs)
How many pregnant women would you say come in in a week?
In a week?
Let's do a day because-- - A day, really?
- Yeah, in a day, we probably have,
a slow day is maybe 10.
And an average day is maybe 20.
And a busy day is 30 pregnant ladies a day.
That doesn't count the to gos.
Because you could always tell
when it's a to go order when a man comes in
and he looks really tired. (laughs)
- So, there is a little bit of
it sounds like science behind it too kind of.
- My doctor implied that there could be science behind it.
But he did not say anything definitive.
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- We're trying to be sneaky.
- There's a pregnant girl over here (laughs).
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Krista, what do you think?
- It's crazy. - It's bananas.
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That's a wrap for today, thanks so much for joining us.
We had so much fun discussing
all things pregnancy with you.
- And thanks so much, Mara, for being here.
We look forward to being updated about baby Sonny,
and we hope everything goes smoothly
for the rest of your pregnancy.
- Thanks, guys, I'll definitely keep in touch.
I really appreciate all the tips.
It was really fun. - Absolutely.
- Should we grab a selfie? - Yeah.
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