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

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Poopyisapig · 20/08/2013 14:25

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.

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Bluestocking · 20/08/2013 21:19

Egg mayonnaise sandwiches and plain hula hoops for the first trimester. DS was a bonny four kilos with a perfect apgar. Tell your DH to naff off.

Funghoul · 20/08/2013 21:42

Saggy - I took folic acid with pregnacare, told to by midwife and we had no problems with it so you should be fine.

During the first 4 months my diet was white bread and maybe an apple every now and then. On a good day I managed crackers, on a bad day I drank ribena because it was easier to throw up. I luckily got my appetite back for a few more things around 20 weeks which coincided with Christmas quite nicely. My dd was born 8'6 and had obviously sucked every bit of goodness out of me as she could!

You know from experience your baby will be fine, but like the suggestion of throwing up on him! My dp didn't know how bad it was for me until I spent 2 weeks with a bucket on the sofa, making him hold my hair back!

grumpalumpgrumped · 20/08/2013 22:31

Tell him to piss off.DH did this, and made me spouts and fish one night (who in their right mind does that anyway).
I ate waffles, cucumber with lashings of salt and ice! Grin

SaggyOldClothCatPuss · 20/08/2013 22:34

FunGhoul were you on high dose folic acid? Normal dose is 0.4mg. As an old fat bird I'm on 5 mg.

EagleRiderDirk · 20/08/2013 22:35

I'm sure technically its not good but with DD I lived on ready salted crisps, plain bread and strawberries.

Thankfully with Ds I could eat almost anything.

My midwives were very supportive that I should try but if I can't then I can't and as soon as the sickness and nausea went I should go nuts on healthy eating. I did fine at that, until christmas at 8m pregnant and all the biscuits!!!! The fact she was nearly 9lb was nothing to do with that i'm sure Wink

Original poster
Poopyisapig · 20/08/2013 22:40

Thank you all, it's so nice to be understood.

I've had an awful evening. Lets just say that tomato soup is now a mo go area Sad

However, dh is now being a bit more understanding (it was really bad!) and went out to buy me some pototo waffles for tomorrow as he's back at work in the morning. They were the blandest thing I could think of. Bread is a no go, it tastes so sweet at the mo, so I can't even eat toast.

Hoping for a slightly better day tomorrow, today was the pits sickness wise.

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Poopyisapig · 20/08/2013 22:42

He's promised to lay off bugging me about eating fruit and veg too. I honestly couldn't be in the same room as any if you offered me a grand.

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FreeWee · 20/08/2013 22:44

Yabu if you think you'll still like Weetabix and tomato soup next week! Don't stock up is my advice. I was horrendously sick and what I could bear changed from morning to evening. My DH stocked up on tomato soup, hummus and pitta bread only for me to vomit at the thought of that and demand ask for chocolate chip muffins and canned fruit cocktail!

Even the thought of going into an Indian restaurant when suffering with all day everyday sickness would make me nauseous. If you've never felt like you are now (and your DH never will) then you can never understand how the thought, sight or smell of food could make you feel so ill. I couldn't stand the taste of water. Why not? It's so bland! But whilst my DH didn't understand he did empathise and made me a bland sandwich every night whilst cooking himself his dinner. Your DH has got 2 arms hasn't he? And tell him to go on his own if it matters that much to him. I insisted my DH went out without me so he had some semblance of a social life as I barely left the sofa for 6 months. Hope you start feeling better soon. Cyclazine sorted me out but I know drugs aren't for everyone.

FreeWee · 20/08/2013 22:45

X post OP! I did warn you not to rely on tomato soup Smile

Thanks
chickensaladagain · 20/08/2013 22:52

1st trimester I lived on dry cornflakes and Granny Smith apples

2nd trimester I found I had a 2 hour window of opportunity late afternoon when I could add a bit of variety and introduced gregs chicken pasties and cherry tomatoes

3rd trimester I ate everything!

Morning noon and night sickness is horrendous -you have my sympathies

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Poopyisapig · 20/08/2013 22:54

Thankfully, I didn't stock up on the soup!

Will try the waffles tomorrow and see how they go down (or come up).

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Funghoul · 20/08/2013 23:11

Saggy - I was on the high dose, bmi way high apparently but I am just about 6' tall so it never works in my favour. Everything was fine, I wouldn't worry about it.

SaggyOldClothCatPuss · 20/08/2013 23:18

Thanks. Ill get some vitamins tomorrow.

Cersei · 21/08/2013 00:08

I lived on coco pops until 14 weeks, they still taste chocolatey when they come back up Grin

missingmumxox · 21/08/2013 01:00

normally on posting I will try and give Dp's side but he is bur, when I was first pregnant all I could eat was fish and chip and cherries 4 months of it and I could barely drink anything not even plain water, someone introduced me to fizzy water which I hated before but in pregnancy and a delight during :) didn't matter they way the fish and chip came, so McD fish burger and chip, local chippie, home made fried fish, fish pie and chips, frozen fish and chips didn't matter, I have always hoped my cherry pips would grow trees along my line to work as I spat them out but 8 years later no such luck :)

SaggyOldClothCatPuss · 21/08/2013 01:18

God yes! Plain tap water! The devils own urine! Nothing makes me feel more bilious! Confused

MsFanackerPants · 21/08/2013 04:31

26 weeks pregnant and still puking like a champ. Lived on heinz cream of tomato soup and white bread supplemented with sour patch kids from weeks 7 to 15. The thought of rice made me queasy never mind being in a curry house.

More variety in my diet now but still days where the smells of food just make me heave.

5amisnotmorning · 21/08/2013 08:07

12 weeks and cannot bear the smell of the fridge let alone an Indian restaurant! People who haven't had bad morning sickness Do Not Get It.

I have been signed off sick for the last 6 weeks with HG and my friend keeps asking if I fancy coming out for lunch as I am off work!

Current food is appletiser (costing me a fortune) as can't keep water down, potatoes and coco pops. Even those come back up if I take more than 2 mouthfuls at once. Lost 1.5 stone so far this pregnancy.

Had it with DD too all the way through although slightly more manageable, lost 2 stone that time and she was born 9llbs.

My DH just wouldn't dare make comments like that!

CaptainSweatPants · 21/08/2013 08:10

Dh used to serve me dinner on the sofa, I couldn't enter the kitchen without heaving!

I'd eat a few mouthfuls & lie down straight away else it would come back up

Such a fun time pregnancy!

pianodoodle · 21/08/2013 08:18

I lived on coco pops until 14 weeks, they still taste chocolatey when they come back up

That could be the new coco pops catchphrase you should write to them Grin

hackmum · 21/08/2013 08:18

If you bring everything back up, what is even the point of trying to eat a proper meal? It makes no sense. Your DH has clearly forgotten what it's like to feel sick.

In evolutionary terms, it's a strange thing, isn't it? At the exact point when your developing baby probably needs loads of nourishment, many women can't keep anything down. Though they do say, don't they, that the baby takes what it needs from your reserves/

mrsjay · 21/08/2013 08:50

God yes! Plain tap water! The devils own urine! Nothing makes me feel more bilious!

It takes on a taste like nothing else when pregnant and burns on the way back up, I was told to sip on water when i was first pregnant

littlewhitebag · 21/08/2013 08:54

I lived on spreading cheese sandwiches and smokey bacon crisps when pg with my first. Mother and baby both did well!

motherinferior · 21/08/2013 09:02

There was a period where all I could keep down was Starbucks frappucinos and Starbucks muffins - clearly the totally chemical content mean there was nothing organic to reject...

DP was still living in Brussels half the week thank god - as his particular helpful suggestions centred on exercise. Yes, I swam a mile 3 times a week before he impregnated me but in the first 12 weeks all I could do was collapse into bed for the entire weekend, not saunter up the road to the pool.

MTBMummy · 21/08/2013 09:10

Poopy - I feel your pain, I hope the potato waffles stayed down.

I'm just coming out (I think) of the horrid nausea stage, which has plagued me since I was 3 weeks.