To really hate cooked meals.

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Since being pregnant I've hated eating an evening meal.. All throughout I really had to force myself to sit and eat.
No matter what it was, who cooked it etc. I just hated it.

2 weeks PP and I can't shift the feeling. Only thing I want to eat.. Pizza, toast, cereal and chocolate.

Its bringing me massive anxiety that I should be eating meals but I can't face it. I don't want the kids to think I never eat withy them.

DH says he can't understand as I can't explain other than I don't want to, or don't fancy it.

In meal planning. I chose 99 percent of it. I sit and think oh I fancy enchiladas or a stew etc.. I buy the stuff. And when it comes to being cooked I just feel ill the thought of it

Today we had roast at inlaws and I've felt crap since.

Yesterday I ate. 3 Slices of toast. 2 crumpets and a cookie.. Its awful and disgusting and it's not me!

It will probably pass eventually. I seem to remember a stage when DH got very good at bringing me lots of little nibbles - eg a few cheese biscuits with cheese and some grapes. Tell yours you're not the only one!
Are you okay with cooking for him and the kids, if you don't have to eat it?

Listen to your body and don't feel guilty. Maybe you just need carbs or comfort food. The hormones do all manner of things too.

I felt much the same - found myself almost vomiting into a pan of spaghetti bolognaise on more than one occasion. Was something about the smell while it cooked I think. Even if I wasn't in the kitchen at all I couldn't eat it.
I ate toast, cereal with a tiny bit of milk, crackers with cheese and crisps. Actually maybe it was a texture thing - crunchy/hard was ok, not crunchy was very bad.
I figured it was likely hormonal and it was probably a month or so after my baby was born that it started to go away.

Firstly, you're pregnant - be kind to yourself. It's a challenging time.

Cooked food is smelly. I was pregnant last year with my DD2 and I felt sick the whole time, to a greater or lesser extent. There were only some very specific things I could stomach, so I just ate those things. Even the neighbor's coming smells used to make me throw up.

Take care.

papaya she’s had baby now, she says she’s two weeks post-partum. it’s early days though and I think it will fade away shortly. I had certain food aversions during preg that took a few months to recede. Could you put your snacky food on a plate and that way you’re still sitting down to eat with your other kids? Or if you’re not happy with what you’re eating but cant face cooked could you switch to plate of cheese/fruit/raw veg/slices of ham or turkey/ nuts/yoghurt etc? I think it’ll be fine though in little more time.

Are you okay with cooking for him and the kids, if you don't have to eat it?

What's wrong with the DP's hands?

For the first three months of her pregnancy a coworker of mine could only eat lasagna. She couldn't keep down anything else and when she tried she ended up hospitalized. The doctors finally said eat what you can eat - something is better than nothing.
With her second pregnancy there were no unusual cravings.

Could you handle a more substantial meal
Earlier in the day? If so, move the kids main meal to that time.

If not, then don’t worry about it yet. It will likely pass.

Are you worried that you are developing an eating disorder?

Do you have any signs of a postbirth infection? (Temperature, redness/tenderness, listless?) i only ask because i did and up until it became obvious at 3 weeks pp, my only “symptom” was my lack of appetite, even for my favourite foods. Touch wood yours is nothing like that, but i thought it worth mentioning.

I want off meat with one of my pregnancies. Even the smell of it, any meat, would make me heave. Go with whatever works for you, and focus on simple meals for your family that don’t take too long to cook, so the smell isn’t hanging in the rain for ages.

No worry of an eating disorder.. Been there and would regognise my habits.

Glad i'm not the only one. Dh cooked a chicken and bacon carbonara tonight. Because I fancied it. It was put in front of me and I picked at it. And that was it. Maybe 4 mouthfuls.
Are 2 ring donuts after :/

I've just said I really fancy toad in hole Tomorrow went and got the ingredients.. Just hope I still want it when I've cooked it.

Pregnancy / birth does funny things eh.
Silly thing is I'm hungry and search through loads of things and end up with cereal or toast again.

This was me.

I had evening sickness. Then Dd arrived and I still couldn't eat.

She was born late October and I ate cereal and mince pies until they stopped selling those in January.

Picked at things, but a meal I just could not stomach. It passed, I can't remember exactly when but by February I was ok so I think a couple of months for me.