Pregnancy sickness: what COULD you eat?

[somedizzywhore1804]

So I've had severe pregnancy sickness from about week 6 and pretty much all food makes me cringe. All except Flamin Hot Monster Munch. I won't be telling the midwife that this is how I'm getting 90% of my calories.

What weird things could you stomach?

First pregnancy olives. Second strawberry jelly sweets.

I had HG both times.

Salt and vinegar chipsticks or cornflakes ( vast quantities - only Kellogg's with freezing cold milk )

From weeks 7-16, I had HG and couldn't eat a thing (both pg). Then mostly mini cheddars and grapefruit juice.

Marmite on toast, but the toast had to be cold before butter and marmite spread thinly on top.

Another one for salt and vinegar chip sticks! Sausage rolls and monster munch, this is pretty much all I ate for 7 weeks!

Anything strong flavoured
Marmite on toast
Bovril
Salt and vinegar hula hoops
Bitter lemon

I lived off bagels, chocolate raisins and flapjacks for about six weeks. Bagels now remind me of feeling sick so I can't eat them anymore.

Grapes and breadsticks. In a bowl together. Alternatively.

Can hardly look at a breadstick now.

Apples
Ready brek
Dry crackers

Potato waffles and baked beans, had hg, can't even look at waffles without feeling horrific now!

Salt and vinegar crisps, coke and oranges. Was pleased to be getting some vitamins via the latter at least! Hope you feel better soon, OP.

EVERYTHING made me sick.

Bar prawn cocktail wotsits.

I grew ds on bread and lettuce with vinegar for longer than I care to remember with a good few snickers thrown in towards week 20! This baby has also been grown on a lot of snickers. now were is that multipack??

Another salt & vinegar fan here, along with cheese and pickled onion sandwiches, oranges, marmite toast and Kit Kat's.

That kept going until about 22 weeks when the cravings kicked in.

Had a week of eating nothing but celery, Boursin & crusty white bread. Another week or so living on Caesar salad, and got through countless boxes of pure orange juice ice lollies.

Couldn't stomach cooked vegetables or orange squash.

Pineapple - I used to eat it until my mouth hurt. And tinned tomatoes on toast. My DP is a chef and used to come round (we didn't live together at the time I fell pregnant) and would offer to cook me anything I wanted. But all I wanted was tinned tomatoes on toast. With pineapple for pudding.

Just the smell of pineapple makes me shudder now. Bleurgh.

Toast and peanut butter. Mainly brown food.
Scampi and beans was a low point.

Full fat Coke. Instant porridge (most of the time). Chips. Pizza (could put veg on that and it was ok) I actually can't think of much else that stayed down. Then I started craving and constantly eating ice cubes. Such a MAGICAL time. Sympathies to you OP!!

Full fat coke, ice pops, the odd potato waffle. I had HG for the first 16 weeks which settled down to once weekly vom session. I have massive food aversions and tend not to eat anything that makes me feel queasy.

Hope you feel better OP.

Basically nothing. I sipped water regularly to avoid dehydration. If I threw up within an hour of taking my folic acid I would take another one. Never risked food within 4 hours of that.

Occasionally I could eat dry wholemeal pitterbread or dry wholemeal toast or dry crackers. I lost some weight but not as much as I thought such a diet would cause me to lose! But then I basically lay in bed, too.

As it got better I could manage weak Ribena. It was basically only 8-12 weeks (ie 4 weeks in total) & of that only 2 weeks that I barely ate. Doctor visited, said provided I could keep fluids down I was ok, and didn't need to be admitted to hospital, and so I literally spent my day sipping tiny amounts of fluid - my fluid intake was monitored. Crackers and dry toast actually helped (when I kept it down!). But you can force yourself to eat and drink tiny amounts to keep going.

Pickled onion Monster Munch. White toast. Cherry coke.

I want to vom now just reading about Ready Brek.

Toast with primula cheese and chive spread. Crisps. Think I was craving salt!

Olives and mashed potato all the way through.... Then aprox 20 weeks onwards was a very deep desire for cinema nachos (no other kind would do) with spicy jalepinos and salsa etc. I actually used to call my local cinema to get them to prepare them while I drove over so I could have them straight away

Dorothy my DH is also a chef - he used to bribe me with puddings to get me to eat my veggies !

I didn't eat anything approaching a meal between weeks 6 and 18. I'm now at 22 weeks and feeling so much better although I'm still sick at least every 3/4 days. However, the nausea in between has lifted.

Things I could tolerate (by which I mean I could eat them, not necessarily that they stayed down):

• Coke
• salt and vinegar squares
• satsumas
• tinned pears (if you're being sick, these at least come back up easily)

That was it, for weeks. I later added pickles, and picked onion Monster Munch, to my repertoire.