Nauseous people - what do you eat??

[belindarose]

I know I have to eat right now. What can you all cope with? I hate the feeling of needing to eat but not being able to face anything in particular. And the thought of most things makes it worse. I haven't got any biscuits or crackers which are the things I think I could eat. I've eaten a bagel and some chicken today. Maybe I could force down a banana if they're not going brown. That might make me feel better enough to eat something else.

Just a rant. I haven't even been sick yet (7.5) and lots of women have it much worse.

Had appalling sickness with all 4 DCs. Haribo sweets and flat coke. Tonic water. Plain baked or boiled potatoes. Plain rice. Dry bread. Crisps. Couldn't shop - the smell of food made me heave. Dreaded walking past restaurants and takeaways - invariably threw up on the nearest bin!

cheese toasties ( I use wraps and one of those flat toastie machines)
the above with tomatoes and marmite
or with ham
or slices of apple
or some rocket
or brie and cranberry
or scrambled egg (without the cheese, that's yuck - I tried it).
or nutella and banana

list is endless really.

lol, yes BBTS I should of made him really useful and have him push me round in a trolly calling me madam, 'madam here we have some lovely mild scented crackers, perfect for a first course and main, and very likely dessert.'

Ahh thats the dream!

i really fancied one of dh's sausage risotto specials tonight.
dh has gone out so i made it. by the time i came to eat it i didn't fancy it anymore. i took a bite and thought 'mm, this might just be ok' then i had a bite of the sausage, boak, won't be doing that again...... or recommending it

am able to eat yeo valley greek yoghurt with a banana and either brown sugar or maple syrup, not lots of but enough to make me feel i have given babybroc some nutrition. have read somewhere, bananas, if you can stomach them are supposed to help morning sickness

Bananas are good for heartburn apparently Broc, not sure about morning sickness, they have a distinctive smell that would be too much for me if i was nauseous.

I've had HG both pregnancies, but this time I discovered that I could actually drink cup-a-soup (very slowly) even when I kept chucking up water. I think a combination of that, ice cubes and anti-emetic drugs are the only things that have kept me out of hospital this time round.

Orangina was good in the second trimester. I got to the stage where even the smell of ginger made me want to puke, so I've got lots of spare ginger beer somewhere in the back of a cupboard.

Oh, and craving for salt on everything. I've even been known to add extra salt to crisps.....................

ha - abigboydidit - ditto on the belching! Glad it's not just me. I can feel terrible and then let a big burp rip and feel much better. It's very charming - just worried I'm going to forget and do it in the office.
DP also keeps trying to persuade me to eat healthy food. I'm surprised I haven't hit him. Toast and ginger nuts all the way.

Carrot Juice. Carrot and Ginger Juice. Carrot and apple juice. Carrot and orange Juice. Became a bit of a regular at the local cafe that had a juicing machine!

For the first 13 weeks all I could eat was fruit - mainly melon, melon, a bit more melon...and some more melon please (I feel you TrinityRhino!!). Couldn't eat passed about 5pm - mine was definitely worse in the evenings - think tiredness made it worse. On the up side, the little one didn't suffer at all (she was a very healthy 8lb 2oz) and I only put on 10lbs for the whole pregnancy.

Always a tube of Refreshers in my pocket. And don't let yourself get hungry.

just eaten toasted muffins with lurpak - they were good

My grans ginger cake with sultanas worked a treat for me. Unfortunately she has taken the recipe to her grave, so next time, Im screwed!

Fishfingers and plain toast. That was pretty much all I could eat for the whole 40 weeks. I could barely eat anything green or healthy like you are supposed to! Perfectly healthy (and heavy!) baby was produced though!

I feel your pain OP. Tis rubbish!

Fresh mango
Rice Krispies/Cornflakes with a little sugar and ICE COLD semi skimmed milk
Satsumas (sometimes)
Pasta but not rice and def not potato
Fruit salad (lots of!)
Oatcakes for desperate times
Ready salted crisps/kettle chips for when the salt craing hits
COLD water
Cake!

Am loving the melon idea, will have to try to run one to ground tomorrow.

Definitely not meat, fish, or vegetables (and I wonder why I put on so much weight during pregnancy... )

For 10 weeks, all I could eat was beef and tomato cuppasoup! Occasionally, I could eat dry white bread with it, but only when I managed to find some which didnt taste greasy!!!!

From 8 - 14 weeks it was pretty weird - I couldn't drink water on an empty stomach, only weak squash or caffeine-free redbush tea. The food I could tolerate changed dramatically daily. For two days I ate watermelon (I got through 3 watermelons!) then the next day the smell made me heave. I moved on to baked potatoes with olive oil and black pepper with a tiny bit of cheese. That lasted for the best part of a week. Also had phases of plain white bread dunked in olive oil, ready salted crisps, sour fruit...

Don't know your family set-up, but I would text dh at work, and he would pick up what I thought I wanted on his way home. Not foolproof as you can change your mind by then, but it's a long way to our nearest supermarket.

The midwives did say not to worry at all about what sort of food you are eating whilst you have morning sickness. Just try to make sure you get SOMETHING, regardless of what it is.

Oddly, I also found ginger products unspeakably nauseating - even the bare thought of a ginger biscuit! And pregnacare vitamins made me worse, but the ones with no iron helped. Found the best thing was to keep a little food in my stomach at all times. That really helped.

Didn't mean this to be so long... Sorry!