To think pregnancy eating isn’t all it’s cracked up to be?

[Pregnancyfood]

I always assumed when i was pregnant I would be ravenously hungry, eating out all the time and having so many guilt free treats but instead I couldn’t keep anything down in the first trimester and now at 20 weeks I am not that hungry and having to eat so healthily otherwise I feel blocked up and in pain.

anyone else experience this?

I was looking forward to McDonald’s breakfasts, cake and chip shop dinners all the time but I’d be in agony!

I have guilt free treats when not pregnant, don't like demonising food.
Towards the end, eating was uncomfortable

I ate loads in the first trimester, only way to stop the nausea. Didn't put on much weight though so body needed it.

@liveforsummer it was artistic licence, I’m sorry if that was lost on you.

Clearly I had no intention of living of fast food and being rolled into the delivery room but I thought it was widely known that you expect to be hungrier in pregnancy and most women indulge more than they might usually because they are pregnant.

I forgot how judgy MN could be about not only eating massive salads.

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I fucking love a Mcdonalds breakfast pregnant or not

OP I've had to laugh reading this thread 😂 it's a well known stereotype that pregnant women indulge, in the same way that women on their periods indulge, except it's seen not to matter as much as who cares about a few extra pounds when you're growing a human. If people on this thread aren't aware that that stereotype or image exists then you must be living under a rock.

The fact that some of these posters are so eager to make you feel like you're an awful mother to be who disregards your baby's health is exactly the reason that women are called bitches. Just can't wait to make you feel like you have no basic understanding of nutrition and you're reckless for wanting a McDonalds breakfast pain free.

Absolute and utter shite please don't pander to them.

I'm pregnant and ate a Tesco cookie today, and I don't give a flying fuck who thinks that's bad. My body, my baby, no one else's business.

I hope you are able to enjoy some indulgence soon as you are, you know, incubating a little person and deserve some grace.

YANBU. I thought I would be able to eat most things. I had HG in my first pregnancy so up until 22 weeks I could barely eat and after that the baby wouldn't tolerate anything that wasn't fresh or salady. So fucking annoying. I still have a memory of eating one chicken nugget then projectile vomiting out the car door. I was so, so bitterly disappointed 🤣

This pregnancy is slightly different in that I don't have HG but major food aversions and barely any hunger. Unless it's fizzy cola bottles - which would make my teeth itch previously 🤯 I have no interest in treat-type take aways or snacks.

most women indulge more than they might usually because they are pregnant.

Honestly not in my experience- they tend to be more careful, along side aversions, heartburn, morning sickness, baby not leaving room for food as you feel full by their very presence in your abdomen - you've definitely been mis sold this one 😅

i could never eat loads when i was pregnant! i did snack a lot early on - but then when i was bigger I couldn't eat much as i felt so full and my bump went so hard and i felt awful

Same.
had to take meds for nausea during 1st trimester as couldn’t even drink water, 2nd trimester things improved (nausea was gone by 15 weeks) but not very hungry and still had food aversions, 3rd trimester there was no room for food.

still can’t be in the same room as boiled eggs

I'm starving all the time when pregnant and gained nearly 5 stone in my first pregnancy and will have gained 3 stone in this one. I wish I could stop eating, or felt full, but I don't - I just feel constantly sick if I don't eat. It's horrible. A bit like some people get heartburn in pregnancy and others don't, appetite changes are just one of those things that vary!

@liveforsummer interesting - many of my friends have been pregnant, plus my mum of course and described the ravenous hunger as primal and I definitely saw them enjoying normal food and treats. I doubt they were saying or doing that to mis sell anything.

Your thread is weird. You start off with

I was looking forward to McDonald’s breakfasts, cake and chip shop dinners all the time

Then when people point out it’s not a great idea you start saying how you’re eating quinoa and everyone is mean and judgey about pregnant women having a ‘treat’

You can have a McDonald’s when you’re not pregnant or when you’re pregnant occasionally. Same with all foods. But your post was literally about sadness at not being able to eat non stop junk 😂

God no, I had nausea and food aversions for the first 20 weeks and horrific heartburn for the latter 20. I barely gained any weight and would have loved to have eaten healthily, but all I wanted was beige carb snacks. (PP talking about salads and salmon... hahaha!)

Please do ignore influencers. You have absolutely no idea whether they actually ate that unhealthy meal they've posted... chances are if they're slim, they didn't. It's all bollocks, honestly. Delete them now before they make you feel like shit about not 'snapping back' or having a baby that doesn't sleep.

@Wondershoe its not weird. All I can manage is vegetables and grains and if I eat outside of that then I feel in pain and blocked up. It’s boring and rubbish tbh. So shoot me that I was looking forward to indulging a bit more whilst pregnant.

I normally indulge in whatever I fancy so it’s hard having to give stuff a miss.

People are clearly thick if they thought I literally meant I expected to eat fast food non stop with no regard to the health of my baby but clearly that my mistake for using artistic license based on well known stereotypes in my OP.

I ate a ton while pregnant because I had insomnia and sometimes it was the only way I could stay awake through the day.

Eat what you want without going too crazy. The flavours of what you eat reach your baby and influence future food preferences - no pressure ;)

Watch out for late pregancy/postnatal constipation, it's a fucker no one talks about. Dried fruit in your hospital bag!

Ask yourself, are you here to be kind/supportive? If not, take your snarky posts elsewhere. What's "weird" is trawling Mumsnet looking for people to put down, and telling a pregnant woman what she can eat!

My first sign of pregnancy (each time) was nausea and the last symptom (until about an hour after birth) was nausea. With lots of sickness in the middle. I went completely off food, especially chocolate each time.
The advantage is that I was back to pre-pregnancy weight pretty much straight after birth.
The disadvantage is that I can give you advice on what not to eat:
ginger burns on the way back up
Milk curdles
rice is disgusting coming back up.... etc

You only need an extra 150-200 calories a day when pregnant. So the eating for two is a myth directly responsible for millions of women gaining too much weight in pregnancy and then struggling after childbirth to get back to the size they want to be and feel healthiest at.

God people are so reactive here 😂 I get you OP, pregnancy has long been a time to let go a bit with eating. Sometimes we forget MN is full of middle class tiny women who can't bear to put even half a stone on.

Newsflash to the mumsnet food police - not everything is black and white, life has many shades of grey.

There is a massive spectrum between eating McDonald’s, cakes etc nonstop during pregnancy and only eating massive salads, food cooked from scratch. The vast majority of people will be somewhere in the middle of the spectrum rather than at an extreme. Your shock that someone (pregnant or not) might occasionally eat a McDonald’s says a whole lot more about your intelligence and/or your disordered attitude to food than it does about the OP.

@NalaNana I’m not trawling Mumsnet any more than you are and I’ve not suggested anything op should eat or not eat so not sure what you’re on about.

People are clearly thick if they thought I literally meant I expected to eat fast food non stop. People are thick for reading what you wrote, when they don’t know you, and assuming what you wrote was the truth? Plenty of people do eat fast food non stop why would anyone be able to tell you’re different from a post?

@EugeneLevysEyebrow and who are you responding to about the shock of a pregnant woman eating McDonald’s?! I swear people read these threads and make up their own in their head!

@Wondershoe remember this? "You can have a McDonald’s when you’re not pregnant or when you’re pregnant occasionally." Looks like a suggestion of what OP should eat or should not eat to me (and how frequently!).

@Wondershoe I was hoping for useful replies and experiences along the lines of no I was ravenous the whole time or I felt like you but it passes at x week or never etc.

I didn’t actually ask for opinions on whether or not I should be eating anything unhealthy. Some people can’t help themselves though, especially when judging the choices of a pregnant woman.

I was disappointed that my cravings were for salads, ice, peaches, strawberries and cherries rather than anything like ice cream or cheeseburgers.