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!

*You can have a McDonald’s when you’re not pregnant or when you’re pregnant "

Looks like a suggestion of what OP should eat or should not eat to me

Ok I should have written ‘one can’ to be clearer. The whole point was the opposite of what you’ve taken from it which is people can eat what they want.

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 think people were originally trying to be helpful but then you got really angry and said your post was the opposite of what you’d written and we’re all thick for not realising that.

I shouldn’t imagine many people on here really give a shit what someone else they don’t know on here eats tbh. It would be a bit of a waste of mind space

This thread is crazy.

I hear you op, I thought I'd be able to eat more and I am! I get my 5 portions of fruit and vegetables in, but outside of that there is a lot of McDonald's and cake eating going on. I'm not putting on weight on my arms face etc either, so I'm not bothered. Even if I was that's good reserves for breastfeeding.
Sorry you're not feeling it!

you should check some of the replies I’ve had about it not being an excuse to eat for 2, why would I want to eat McDonald’s - salmon is better and that being pregnant is not an excuse to eat shit.

And actually, a lot of people did get the point of the OP (as demonstrated in some of the replies).

I like McDonalds, I like salmon 🤷🏼‍♀️

@Wondershoe but apparently only one of those is OK to eat during pregnancy.

I’m not sure if you really aren’t getting this or you’re being deliberately obtuse but anyway, a lot of the replies have been very useful and I know this is not totally unusual.

@rickandmorts Your GP will prescribe some tablets for the heartburn. I had them and they were brilliant.

That's simply not what's happening though. I quite happily eat all the foods listed and I particularly love a McDonald's breakfast. Just the idea that you can suddenly eat so much more simply because you're pregnant was surprising to me. I did think the old myth of eat what you like you're eating for 2 was long gone and I don't remember being more hungry or expecting to - I actually wondered if OP had got confused with breastfeeding as that's when many suddenly feel extra hungry (and can get away with eating a bit more if weight is usually an issue - it isn't for the OP so even more surprising she didn't normally have treats pre pregnancy) Then I was accused of being thick for taking the post at face value as it was written. Also odd!

but apparently only one of those is OK to eat during pregnancy

well you definitely should only eat 1-2 portions of salmon/ oily fish per week when pregnant due to mercury poisoning so ironically….

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.

Oh, no I was neither ravenous nor as ill as you with morning sickness. As I knew I only needed a little extra food to have a healthy pregnancy, I used that allowance on calcium rich foods.

She was measuring pretty big up until my last appointment at 40 weeks then it looked like she had stopped growing for the last couple of weeks. She was still 7lb when she was born though. I thought that was a good size considering I was 6lb something when I was born and only 5 foot 1 now. Her dad is short too.

It gets harder too, as baby gets bigger, there's less room for your stomach (and organs in general!) so you feel full even quicker. Anything more than a handful of food used to make me feel uncomfortably full! I still piled the weight on though unfortunately.

I was looking forward to the eat what you like when you like pregnancies as you need all those extras for a growing baby. Yeah right. For the first three months all I could eat was plain cheese sandwiches and melon. I freaking hate uncooked cheese. 50 years of hate and yet I had to eat cheese several times a day for an entire 9 months against my will. I still haven't forgiven my daughter and she knows it 😂

For the first 20 something weeks I ate what I could keep down, which wasn't much as I was constantly nauseous and just about everything made me sick, including water.

Spent a week in the third trimester feeling a bit better and largely eating biscuits. Then the heartburn started.

It was shit, basically...

I’m with you OP. So much for a varied diet for the health of my growing baby. Never mind salmon! All I can face eating are apples, chips and coffee. Food aversions have multiplied since last time I was pregnant. Constant nausea, reflux and feeling like there’s something stuck in my throat 😞 have lost 10kg

Im the exact opposite! Im 21 weeks and so far have only eaten pure shit junk like chips and cake. I really wish i had any desire for veggies and fruit. I just ate chicken and chips for a take out and a sleeve of sugar cakes. I ate a plum after to really try and force myself into getting something healthy but i hate it. This week i have also developed heart burn and wind that ive never had before so thats fun.

It was crap, I had to force myself to eat, now got a 4 month old and cannot stop eating. Although I had no cravings through my pregnancy but chocolate I now cannot eat as it all has a weird taste to it. Sigh

@MummyGummy stop spouting such nasty rubbish. Diet has nothing to do with developing gestational diabetes.

Ahh thank you. I actually saw on another thread that omeprazole could be prescribed and I have some in my cupboard for something else! So took one today and it's been a game changer 😁