9 weeks and eating non-stop - just greed?

[rubyblue]

9 weeks pregnant with second baby (third pregnancy as ms first at 12 wks) and eating like there is no tomorrow. Is this normal or am i just being greedy? Been feeling nauseous so eating helps but also just feel genuinely hungry. Kinda scared I'm going to be enormous with this one though. Will this calm down? Can't remember eating like this in first couple of trimesters.

Hubbie is horrified as I reach for biscuits again and have no desire to eat fruit (too cold), just carbs.

[BlueChampagne]

Normal, especially if you're feeling sick! Hopefully sickness will pass soon. You may find you expand quicker to start with but hopefully it will all even up in the end. Seems to have done with me (DC2 due next week).

Congratulations!

[hettie]

i was like this in the early stages both times.....it calmed down after about 15 wks. Am now 28 weeks and seem to be putting on a normal amount of weight (19 pounds?). My theory is that I am small to start of with so it's my bodies way of getting me up to speed . Anyway it's irrelevant I was hungry so I ate.......helped with the ms too. Was worried that I was going to be enormous this time round, but it seems to ahve calmed down after initialy getting bigger quicker (slack/no stomach muscles)

[rubyblue]

Ah cheers for the support! I put on 28 pounds with ds which is normal I think but want to hide this one for as long as possible at work and don't want to be a whale as it took a year to lose first lot of weight. Typical eh, you lose the weight then get up the duff again and it piles back on.

Today, I have had:
Cereal and banana
Crumpet
Packet of nuts/seeds at work midmorning
Slice of bread
Sandwich
Yoghurt
Flyte bar

And it's not even 2pm yet!!!! Now only have tangerines and oatcakes in desk drawer. Sighs. I fantasize about food and salivate when it's on the telly. I just want cakes!

[MrsBadger]

normal

for me it evened out - from about 28wks I was eating very little as there was less and less space to put any food, so I was probably living off the blubber reserves I'd laid down in the first trimester

[rubyblue]

Bluechampagne - congrats and good luck for the birth! RB

[shalo2]

I was exactly the same! You have to eat to keep the sickness at bay and I went off lots of different foods especially meat so I just ate what I fancied when I fancied it.
My appetite dropped back to normal around 15 weeks and I hadn't put any weight on. I'm now 25 weeks and eating the normal amount, if not less. My appetite has definitely decreased which has suprised me. I'm on pg 2 with DS but there is a 10 yr gap with DD so I don't compare pg.

[crumpette]

I ate enormous amounts from about 6 weeks! I found (and still do) that unless I ate often (usually carb-laden stuff), I felt really nauseous..so fear not, you're not being greedy

[Haggisfish]

Phew - glad it's not just me! Had my midwife visit and was forced to admit I have been eating loads of crumpets and cheese on toast and hot chocolate, but few fruit or vegetables...been trying to have a banana and pear a day. Can't tell if I have a tiny bump showing or am just getting fat!

[MadameDuBain]

I'm now 23 weeks and it's got better, but I was constantly nauseous from 6-20 weeks and I just cannot believe the amount of food I put away - seriously shocking. I was eating fruit, biscuits, bread, cakes, cereal, crisps, cheese - so not low-calorie stuff and I was eating something at least every half an hour, and getting up several times in the night to stuff my face. I do have a large bump, but haven't ballooned elsewhere, even though I've eaten a lot more than I did in my first pg. (It certainly wasn't being turned into energy either - I just slept and vegged out whenever possible.)

If I'd eaten that much normally I would have put on several stone. I think making a baby really must just use a lot of calories.

[nickytwotimes]

I had hyperemisis until this week when it started easing up.
For 7 weeks I oculd eat almost NOTHING.
Being able to eat is WONDERFUL.
I am stuffing my face and loving every minute.

You are completely normal. Of course it is good to chose healthy stuff, but once the sickness is over, you will be more able to do that. Most pg women can only stomach junk during the early stages.

Enjoy it. Nothing is worse than having a starving body and being unable to get anything down and ending up on a drip, trust me!

[GhoulsAreLoud]

I'm 9 weeks and doing the same.

[tallbirduk]

I am 10 weeks and can't stop eating either - breakfast, second breakfast, lunch, post-lunch snack, snack when DS has his tea, dinner, after dinner biscuits..............

seem to remember I was the same last time around - infact, it's what gave me away to one of my friemds apparently - round theirs for dinner, scoffed the lot then asked for bread to mop the gravy

sometimes I think I am eating for the sake of it, but mostly I genuinely feel like my stomach is empty!

Scoff away I say - we obviously need it!

[Bettymum]

Normal, normal! I went to Costco today to buy washing powder and nappies and I had to physically steer myself away from the sweets aisle. Mmmmm Crunchie multipacks mmmmmmm. I never really eat chocolate but when pg I can't stop thinking about it (or eating it ). The ravenous hunger of early pregnancy has worn off though. I don't know where all the calories go, I'm 22 weeks and I've put on 10lbs.

[bigpreggybelly]

I was like that too. It wears off eventually and I haven't put excessive weight on. At least you're eating the right stuff. Keep going if it stops you from feeling sick - your body must need it.

[Morloth]

I was ravenous (when not throwing up!) for both pregnancies in the first trimester. Don't fight it just keep it as healthy as possible and enjoy.

I still have days now (at 25 weeks) where I just cannot eat enough or quickly enough for my body. Haven't gained much at all really and don't look any fatter, just a big bump.

Relax, I think we have swung too far from the "eating for two mindset" to the "you must not gain any weight!". Neither is right, somewhere in between is best.

[flybynight]

I was waking up in the middle of the night in my first trimester, with my stomach rumbling. I had to get out of bed and feed myself. There was no question of ignoring it and going back to sleep.

I'm 22 weeks now, and the urge to eat is rarely that powerful. Can still be pretty strong though. I've just had a Cheestring, for example . Hardly suitable fodder for a grown woman, is it? But it was there at the right time.