7 months PG and can't eat solids after 6pm

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Hope you can help me with some inspiration re food. I'm hugely sleep deprived after suffering from night cough for 2 weeks. Doc's can't give me anything for it as I'm PG and cough is probably caused by acid reflux which I've been suffering from for months now.

So WHAT DOES WORK (well it worked last night) is not eating anything solid in the evenings and sleeping in an upright position (45 degree angle anyway). I only woke 4 times coughing in the night last night which is a blessing.

I get in from work/collecting DD about 6.30 & am in bed between 9 & 10. I usually buy my lunch.

So I'm going to focus on a rather bland diet for the next 2 months until baby comes. Evening weekday 'meals' needs to be soup or otherwise very easy to digest. (Salads perhaps?)

I'm going to get as much protein into my lunches as feasible.

Any inspiration/tips would be much appreciated - I'm quite a good cook but struggling to find any mental energy left in the evenings (work using it all up)

Why don't you take something for the reflux, I was taking rantidine and gaviscon when i had dc3?Have you tried these?

I'm taking Gaviscon. They won't give me anything else.

The gp prescribed the rantidine (some name like that) which i believe is the same as zantac after I got through half a litre of gav in one night. There are other things too according to the NHS pg book and the pg threads on mn.

Poor you, I had a night time cough when I had dc2 and found hot ribena helpful and sleeping with my nose and mouth tucked under the quilt so that I was breathing warm damp air!

I'm (almost) now coping with the reflux, but it's the cough I can't cope with at all. It is really bad when I lie down & it's fairly clear now that it is caused by the acid.

Also, even though the Gavison (tablets only - the liquid now makes me puke) kind of/almost keeps the reflux under control most of the time, clearly the acid is still there when I lie down. So sleeping at 45 degrees and not eating in the hours before bed really works re the cough. I just don't have enough time in the evening to eat AND sleep

Rantidine/zantac is not advised in PG and given only as a last resort. Poor you taking half a litre of GAV! I'm very thankful for the tablets - they are only working as I've hugely modified by diet, I graze rather than eat meals.

I'm on no food after 5pm because of intense vomiting otherwise (only 4m along though) and reflux. So I'll be watching what food ideas people give you...
I found that eating a thin crust pizza with very little sauce and some cheese and a little daub of pesto here and there is the only thing I can eat in the evenings... I drizzle olive oil on the crust which is supposed to help calm the stomach/sooth the throat from acid.
I've also managed some cheesey pasta.
Eggs/omelettes also seem ok...but I often times don't have the energy to even whip up an omelette.