Nutrients? My baby spits in the face of your nutrients. Will it be born with scurvy?

[bohemianbint]

I had a really virtuous breakfast this morning: probiotic yogurt with blueberries, banana and a smoothie.

2 hours later I spewed it up - that's the first time in this pregnancy or the last that the nausea actually followed through with real vomit!

Only thing is, all I really can face is toast and marmite (lots of) and shreddies. I am worried that perhaps growing babies might need slightly more than breakfast to chuck things like spines and organs together - and also that I might be the size of a house by the time I hit 12 weeks. Will be 9 weeks on Friday.

Will it be all shrivelled if my body keeps rejecting fruit/veg? Reckon 2 hours was long enough to absorb any minerals from virtuous breakfast?

[alittlebitshy]

that's more fruit than i've managed this pg. Am almost 12 weeks, and manage the occasional OJ, and went through a tinned pears phase, but otherwise, PAH says this baby to nutrition.
from what i gather baby will be fine.... it's just poor us

[bohemianbint]

Congrats bitshy!

Why on earth, when nutrition is supposed to be so important (especially at the start when all the basic essential stuff is being made) does nature want you to eat just white bread and tinned macaroni? THere must be some reason...

[Domesticgodless]

hi boho
I vommed at the sight or smell of all food with ds2.
I couldn't eat brown bread- it was too brown- I needed totally white, tasteless food (oh, and tuna for some reason)

I gained pounds from eating empty carbs while also throwing up and getting constant migraines. Cool.

ds2 is a total angel, healthy and beautiful. They take what they need from you. Remember how small a foetus actually is up to 3m, they don't need a lot of extra nutrients.

[Domesticgodless]

I really wonder too about the empty carb diet thing

Poss something to do with blood sugar- because your body wants you to seek a quick fix all the time for survival reasons??

[bohemianbint]

cheers Domesticgodless (fab name!)

Will just keep taking the pregnacare and hope for the best...

[Domesticgodless]

I used to vom up the vitamins as well!! never fear.

[MrsKitVonD]

I could only eat cheeseburger happy meals with DS1!!

Everything else made me sick!

[alleykitten]

Love the title.

The fetus is small enough in the first trimester that its nutritional needs are negligible - it can leach pretty much anything required from you.

I found that mini-me (currently 20 wks) was unhappy with my pre-pregnancy superhealthy, mostly raw, vegetarian diet from about week 5 and couldn't keep fruit down but thrived on chips and gravy. Eating something has to be better than eating nothing at all, and often low blood suger brings on nausea imho. I just necked supplements before bedtime to deal with the guilt.

[BearMama]

Well I just wolfed down a whole pan of egg fried rice - fairly typical of the carbs I want. Am 28 wks and have had hardly ANY veg and the odd bit of fruit. I think a lot of pg women feel like this. I wouldnt worry - certainly by the way mine is kicking she's not short of energy or development!

[addictedtoharibo]

You have stores of quite a few nutrients so baby will just use those - you might end up feeling like crap but baby will happily gobble up all the minute bits of nutrients and leave you knackered, lol. They say babies are like parasites and its true - women have had babies in concentration camps and they have been fine.

I had bad morning sickness all the way through last time and could literally only eat 5 foods for 6 months - chocolate, sausages, chips, baked beans and carrots and there was a lot more emphasis on the bad stuff! I also ate mountains of haribo (hence the name) and drank gallons of lucozade.

I had to have 3 fillings after DS was born but he was fine - 7, 7 and a healthy little boy who will eat anything now!

This pregnancy is even worse and literally the only thing i have eaten and kept down this week is sugared ring donuts and more lucozade. Sure baby is fine - I on the other hand will need dentures at 26.

It is better to eat something than worry its not healthy and not eat anything.

xxx

[Surfermum]

Lol addicted - you're just like I was.

I scoffed loads of haribo too, so much so we nearly called dd Harry.

I ate mostly iced doughnuts for the first 14 weeks with dd as they tasted nice on the way up as well as on the way down.

I also drank gallons of Orange Tango.

DD also born perfectly healthy and a really good eater now.

[MrsJohnCusack]

total hijack - I ate utter shite when I was pregnant and got to such a size that I had my own climate - but just had to say congratulations to alittebitshy!

[mosschops30]

with dd I basically lived on pineapple fritters

then ds was coke (in a glass bottle) and opal fruits

theyre both very healthy

your baby will get everything it needs from you, you may start to suffer but your baby wont

[ineedapoo]

I was really sick with dd lived on toast and plain pasta the whole time she was 9lbs !!!!

[FrannyandZooey]

bint I could only eat potatoes and cheese till about wk 9 or 10. Certain fruit seemed to be particularly bad for setting off the nausea.

then was able to add such well known health foods as hot cross buns and cake, on a good day

I am now 15 weeks, feeling grand and eating everything I should be, and quite a bit more

[MarsLady]

mossy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [stern look]

[Anchovy]

I went through a phase of about 4 weeks when I could not have anything that tasted or smelled of food. That rules out pretty much everything. The only thing I could eat were Duchy Original oatcakes - they come in presealed little packs of 2 which I would eat 3 times a day (I was just like a cartoon astronaut). They literally have no taste and no smell. I wobbled a couple of times about the texture, but decided to be brave.

DD was a sturdy 8lbs+, a 10 on her birth Apgar and enjoyed food so much as a toddler she used to eat with a spoon in each hand!

[Kezza7779]

I cant eat anything healthy... im not a fruit and veg eater at the best of times but dh makesme a real fruit smoothie everyday, since being pregnant, i cant face it. He made me have veg on my dinner the other day and as soon as the cauliflower touched my lips i started gagging and heaving!!!!! I have been drinking 'INNOCENT' KIDS SMOOTHIES though as they arent thick and they are just like juice with no bits and taking pregnacare, im hoping thats enough for nutrients cuz the rest of the time im on crumpets, toast and mcdonalds plain cheeseburgers!!!!!!!!

[tyaca]

i was eating loadsa fruit til i got pg, then nothing made me churn quicker or bigger. carbs and melted cheese for me for first three months. am 34wks now and cant stop eating all things good and green

[FrannyandZooey]

I wonder if f+v are more likely to be contaminated? Well obviously in modern times they usually are - pesticides and all - but I wonder historically if it was more risky to eat fresh stuff rather than grains and so on?

[MrsTittleMouse]

The only way that I could eat vegetables when I was pregnant was to stir fry them and smoother them in teriyaki sauce until the craving for salt overcame the nausea that vegetables induced. And I'm vegetarian! DD is absolutely fine.

[Tommy]

I lived on marmite sandwiches and hula hoops for the first 12 weeks with DS1. He was nearly 9lb when he came out so I don't think he did him much harm

Perfectly normal way to feel in early pregnancy - just eat what you feel that you can ans try not to worry about it too much

[bohemianbint]

I suppose it was only 60 years or so ago that there just wasn't the range of fruit and veg. Lard butties and boiled cabbage all round and no one knew what blueberries or bananas looked like.

I suppose access to all these weird and wonderful veggies and superfoods is a very recent thing in our evolution...

[Oliveoil]

all I could eat in the first 3 months or so was plain food

jacket potato with cheese
fried egg and chips (wtf?!)
cheese sandwich

I actually gagged at the smell of dh making a thai curry (usually a fave)

then after 3 months I got back to normal

[PortAndLemon]

Toast and marmite and shreddies sounds pretty reasonable, actually. If you can manage a little bit of protein somewhere in there (how do your hormones feel about cheese?) then great, but don't fret about it. You might find dried fruit easier to manage if you really want to keep trying to eat fruit.