Aibu to live off weetabix and tomato soup for the first trimester?

[Poopyisapig]

Dh and I just had a row as apparently I am not looking after myself or the growing baby.

I'm 8 weeks and feeling like shit, constantly nauseous and throwing up. Actually, weetabix and to tomato soup in one day is a victory at the moment.

I hate the smell of everything else and even the thought makes me gag. He stands by the fridge shouting out "how about eggs? Tuna? Salad" and wonders why I run to the loo to throw up.

I want him to come down with a vomiting bug and then I will wave fried eggs under his nose and see how he bloody likes it.

Lucozade and twiglets were what I ate for the first 20 weeks. Anything else I risked tried came back up.

Cheese and crackers and ice cream for the last 20 weeks.

Cake since birth damn BF appetite.

4 mo DD is doing fine

DH did wonder if we'd ever eat a meal together again.

Ah, yeah, you don't need the martyr treatment. Lucky your DH can cook, eh? Keep banging on about he's such a capable person etc etc.

So I'd either do the garlic kiss trick or go out and throw up.

I went off veg and fruit when pregnant with all three DC. My meals mainly consisted of either fish fingers and mint sauce or chicken breast and mint sauce through the whole 9 months, anything else made me sick. I was 2 stone lighter at the end of my pregnancies than at the start.
My children are 10, 8 and 5, eat veg and fruit and haven't suffered at all as far as I can tell. Birth weights were 8lbs, 9.8lbs and 7.5lbs.

I actually associate the taste of ginger with feeling sick now after sucking ginger sweets for weeks in my first pregnancy!

I barely ate anything. I couldn't stand the smell or taste of anything. I couldn't have any vitamins either as they made me vomit. I could barely walk around the store from all the smelly food and people. I have been there and hopefully will pass for you soon. Sorry I don't have any advice about your DH though, you can tell him I think he's being ridiculous is sure that would go down well.

Go to the restaurant, throw up in a carrier bag, tie a knot in it, put it under your seat. Repeat until he gets the message!

I lived on Heinz vegetable soup and sandwiches made from brown bread and tinned red salmon for twenty weeks - occasionally supplemented with seedless grapes and ready salted hula hoops.

I hope your sickness eases soon.

Peanuts and lemonade lollies for me for about a month. Eat whatever you can. Was told by midwife and GP that anything, even 6 donuts a day was ok when feeling so sick. Once sickness fades you can worry about health! I did find watermelon nice actually though, always sick a while later but was refreshing to eat!

Oh and at 39 weeks I still can't bear the smell of Indian food - far too fragrant. Heave at the slightest whiff!

I lived off twiglets and poached egg (had to be runny - I KNOW I KNOW!) on toast for the first 3 months.

I had a constant watery sick taste in my mouth which twiglets seemed to counter with the salty dryness. Just the thought of one now is turning my stomach.

Tell your DH to sod off - it really is an awful feeling and you have to do what you can to get thru it. Hope it eases soon :) (i am dead btw)

Also meant to say mine got all they needed from me, they stayed put for 35 weeks and each weighed around 2.5 kilos with no health problems other than what my Dr expected for early arrival. And I didn't have any vitamins.

Your baby will do the same OP and remember you are eating, and what you are eating is food. I remember hearing stories of women eating things toothpaste and coal.

Ooh Heinz tomato soup got me through the last trimester.

Could you vomit ON dh? Would that help him to understand?

YaNbu

I normally eat a very healthy diet.

First trimester both times my diet consisted mostly of:
Crumpets
Crumpets with cheese
Crumpets with honey
Crisps
Diet coke
Mints
Chewing gum

Most other foods made me retch, particularly anything shown in extreme close up on M&S Food ads. "This isn't just ANY salmon...."

take a pregnancy multivit and eat what you can keep down I ate toast and quavers for the first few months

I also drank gallons of cream soda and gingerbeer sometimes in the same glass

Ooh yes ginger beer. Couldn't touch ginger for two years after though. You get a bit gingered out in pg.

I now turn a bit funny if i smell Cream soda now

Have you tried Burger King's Onion Rings? The food of hyperemesis queens!

Yanbu at all. I lived on 'dirt food' as my DH calls it... White bread, tinned hot dogs, plain cheese sandwiches and dry crackers.

My lovely DH cooked lots of healthy meals which I just couldn't face. One night he made a shepherds pie, with broccoli and carrots and I ate two bites then went and made myself a plain cheese sandwich...

DH used to moan about what I was (and was not) eating but would also dive in and join me in eating my dirt food. He gained a stone during my pregnancy!!

Yeah, I no longer like ginger any more after my first DC - used to love it too!

I'm nearly 9 weeks, and my diet consists of carbs such as pasta/bread and cheese. Or noodles of the instant variety. If I can face it. There's an awful lot of pushing food around on the plate and looking miserably at it. I find it easier to get a meal down if I am distracted by something e.g. I'll sit and read Mumsnet and sneak the odd mouthful here and there.

I would never survive in a takeaway restaurant, especially not an Indian with all those strong smells!

Oh god your DH sounds like my dad.

Also on my second pregnancy with HG, and people really don't get it do they?

I currently can't even go in the kitchen by the way, so applaud you for managing! That's tough to do!

I was in hospital a lot with both pregnancies with dd1 I had been craving a big mac for days I asked dh to get me one on his way in at visiting he forgot i burst into tears and said he obviously had no respect for me and sent him back out to get one I hadn't eaten properly for days

oh I also ate my own weight in those cheap onion ring crisps the 10p ones as they were at the time,

Question: if you don't mind the hijack
Everyone who is taking the pregnacare vitamins, is anyone on high dose folic acid as well? 5mg
I know pregnacare has folic acid in it, and being on a high dose anyway, I'm worried that too much might be bad?