My pregnancy diet is utter sh*te.

[sarah76]

Just having a moan. Have hardly eaten anything for the last two weeks that wasn't American Kraft Macaroni n'Cheese. It is less than 2% cheese, and is bright orange. Each bowl contains 100% of the sodium I'm allowed for the day. And I put seasoned salt on top of it.

This is the only food that doesn't make me feel nauseous. I'm 17 weeks.

Will my baby be an oompa loompa? Will I give myself pre-eclampsia?

I'm off to have another bowl now.

[electra]

No, if you feel sick you just have to go with the junk really!

[MrsTittleMouse]

My pregnancy diet for DD1 was cheese sandwiches, orange juice and jelly beans. For the whole first two trimesters. I could just about hold down vegetables if they were smothered in teriaki sauce, so that I couldn't taste them and could only taste the salt. I really struggled to gain any weight. The third trimester I suddenly discovered hunger and ate at least one cake a day (a family sized cake, not a jaffa cake).

It's pretty normal for women with bad morning sickness to have bad diets and my DD1 is hale and hearty. It's a good idea to try to eat other stuff, but if it doesn't work, then it doesn't work. Have you tried having food prepared by other people? Did work much for us as I was asleep in bed by the time that DH got home from work, but if I didn't have to see the food until the moment I ate it then it didn't seem so bad.

[ksld]

Don't feel guilty about your diet - eat what works for you (although make sure you are drinking enough with all that salt!). Continual nausea is depressing, horrible, debilitating, exhausting - I don't need to go on do I?
Both my DSs are fine (if not the best most adventurous eaters) and I mainlined bland food for pregnancy 1 (think mash potato and chicken nuggets) and sugar (any sort of biscuit or cake) and milk in pregnancy 2. Didn't feel great about it at the time - I love my fruit and veg but couldn't stomach it. I tried to swallow a special pregnancy vitamin on good days to make myself feel a bit better.

[LynetteScavo]

I think you have to go with what eve doesn't amke you feel sick. Just take a vitimin supliment if you can, and drink as much water as you can (I know it's hard!)

[sarah76]

Thanks everyone....I think I just need to hear it's ok sometimes! Have checked online and reassured myself that excess salt will not give me pre-eclampsia. In fact, they apparently do not even recommend reducing your salt intake if you have it (unless I read that wrong?).

Now just worried the kid will come out looking like someone sprayed it with fake tan.

[mrsgboring]

Yes, that's right about the salt intake - because you have increased blood volume, it's one of the few times where you could possibly end up having too little salt in your bloodstream. (Still unlikely but pg women are not recommended to restrict their salt intake)

My middle pregnancy I would just load the salt on like anything. It was fine. Haven't felt the need to do it this time round, but mostly I eat chocolate.

I've eaten so much choc this time round I have actually gone off Twirl bars

[Portofino]

I think I did 9 months on cheese and pickle sandwiches and sweet and sour king prawn balls. Oh and puddings. I used to go to the work canteen and ALL I wanted was stodgy sweet stuff. I used to have to force myself to eat vegetables.

[mrsgboring]

Re oompa-loompaness, don't worry balance will be restored somehow. If you're anything like me it will be just after you've laid in 20 boxes of the mac and cheese and suddenly you're so revolted by it that it is too much even to throw the lot in the bin, so one kitchen cupboard becomes a no-go zone for a few weeks. You will then eat a box of cake decorations you find in the back of another cupboard.

Truly, it's a godawful time, but the important thing is just to keep going. Baby will survive.

[MrsMattie]

I had hyperemesis with my DD. Didn't eat anything for the first 6-16 weeks (literally - would eat half a slice of bread and a glass or two of water each day). Progressed on to only being able to stomach white bread 'n' crisp sandwiches, mashed potatoes and KFC (had never touched the stuff prior to that). Even at the very end, I could only face about 5 foods. DD was and is fine. Born weighing 7 lbs 2 oz at 38 wks gestation and a chubby, healthy little angel.

[sarah76]

Actually thinking sushi might taste okay...but then realise I'm probably just after the soy sauce. Would they look at me funny if I just drank it from the bottle?

These are the times I miss London. Sushi was walking distance from my last flat. Nearest sushi to here is a 30 minute drive.

[sarah76]

MrsMattie, ooooohhhhh KFC.....that is nice and salty.

[sarah76]

and LOL at mrsboring eating the cake decorations.... I really hope it doesn't come to that.