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?

Could only eat 'pale' coloured foods - mainly oats, bread, plain pasta, and bowls and bowls and bowls of cornflakes. Anything green, or red, or pink, or brown - vom.

Oh, and chips with lots of ketchup in an "emergency". Nothing mixed - poor DH made a beautiful shepherds' pie and I cried because I didn't want to eat it.

I lived on pickled onion space raiders and milky ways when having dd2. Anything else made me sick and the sickness lasted until the last few weeks. Unbelievably I only put on 7lbs despite having a 7lb 8oz baby and polyhydraminos and after 48 hours you couldn't tell I had been pregnant

Goodasitgets it's funny you mention bitter lemon as I've got a craving for sour lemony drinks.

Ds1 - sausage rolls
Ds2 - nectarines and fizzy cola bottle sweets

One thing that worked for me was to avoid eating and drinking at the same time: guaranteed to make me hurl! I learned to eat a bit and have a drink at least an hour later or just have a drink on its own. I also found diet bitter lemon drink helpful in reducing nausea: you burp like mad but feel better!

Salt and vinegar crisps and mars bars were all I ate from week 5 to week 20 ish when pg with my twins.

Ice cubes and salt and vinegar crisps.

Watermelon. Very easy to eat, hydrating too and didn't taste too bad on the way back up either.

I could eat a bagel with a slice of cheddar cheese at about 11am, drink weak summerfruits squash and eat the occasional apple, plus the odd supplementary slice of toast or plain biscuit. For the first 20 weeks.

Crunchy nut cornflakes
Full fat milk
Mini pork pies
Pineapple rings (no other shape would do)

Anything carby and salty.
Crisps, chips, toast loaded with butter.

I'm glad crisps are featuring heavily here!!

Roasted salted peanuts and full fat coke. Lived on that for about 10 weeks.

DH used to make me 'light' meals, which often included a piece of salmon. I'd push it round my plate and then go upstairs and sleep for 14 hours. I can't think about salmon without feeling sick now.

Better than NYC the first time round though. Yup, a whole city made me feel sick. Any mention of it still does, a bit.

Toast and flat Sprite

Birds eye potatoe waffles on toast with lots of ketchup!! Plus diet coke with sugar penny sweets for afters. That was all I could eat for months!

Anything stodgy like mashed potatoes, sausage and beans...which I would promptly throw up about half an hour later

Ilanthe I'm the same with Las Vegas. Approx 10 weeks preg the
2nd time I went and now even thinking of the place gives me queasy flashbacks!

Tuna mayonnaise pasta. McDonalds double cheeseburgers. Fish and chips!

The Italian lemonade that comes in cans, water melon, salt and vinegar crisps and the thin Dutch ginger biscuits
Lots of water everything in tiny amounts, if I are anything like a normal amount it all came back up

I was sick about 12 times a day from 4 to 16 weeks, body odours especially set me off and the smell of meat..

The absolute worst thing when I was pg was that my boss at the time was doing a detox and basically living on brown rice, fish and curried parsnip soup.

Needless to say she reeked and I struggled not to actually recoil in horror whenever she came near me. How I managed not to throw up over.her is.still.a mystery to me 10 years later!

I just had sweets n chocolate for ages wudnt drink water or eat fruit because when I did I'd throw up so it was sweets and fizzy pop xxcx

Jacket potato with butter. Or chips.

I'm glad someone else has had the city related flashback sickness heymammy, I thought I was the only one. Pictures of the Flatiron building are a particular trigger.

Ready salted hula hoops. I ate a fuckton of them. Poor DS, I'm surprised he didn't come out hula hoop shaped!

Black olives, heinz tomato soup and satsumas.

Ilanthe and heymammy San Francisco for me. Just the thought of the place makes me retch. And it was the lake district for my first pregnancy. I'll never go back to either.