Whats your typical days intake of food during pregnancy?

[moomin35]

Am worried I am maybe not eating the right things. I know I am not eating enough fruit or veg or drinking enough water, I probably have too much caffeine too - what are you all having?

What about pregnancy vitamins, are you taking those too (i'm not, gosh I sound so bad). Will the midwife be able to tell anything about my health at my check ups so i can be sure I am not doing anything dreadfully wrong?

28+6. Up til 20 weeks I had the most horrific nausea and literally survived off crisps, full fat coke/lemonade and oranges. That was it. Such a terrible diet has messed up my discipline and I have got so used to a sugary carb-heavy diet I just can't get it under control now the nausea has lessened.

I have porridge made with milk or muesli with ff yoghurt for breakfast with fruit and a cup of tea. Probably toast with peanut butter or Marmite plus banana and apple mid-morning. Try to do something like tuna pasta salad or baked potato with cheese and veg for lunch and we cook things like spag bol, curry, chilli, mackerel pasta etc for dinner. The problem is that around all this I will have a hot chocolate made with milk and cream most days, a chocolate bar (or two), ice cream, a midnight toast feast when I can't sleep, a bowl of sugary cereal. I am definitely eating way too much sugar-laden stuff around healthy meals. Drink a ff coke maybe once a week as well.

Put on lots of weight in pregnancy and breastfeeding last time so really need to get it under control now!

yes, I am taking Healthy Start bits as well.

Vits rather!

9 weeks. Irn Bru, croissants and vanilla custard. Chicken fajhitas.

Do I win?

Can't eat carbs without fat.
Can't eat too much fat.
Can't eat in the afternoon or evening.
Can't turn the oven without retching.
Survived on maccy d's for the first few weeks but now can't eat that either.

Moomin i take pregnancy care vits everyday and extra vit d as prescribed due to my bmi!

28 weeks tomorrow, a typical day is:

8.30 Special K red berries and milk
11.00 apple or banana
12.30 veg soup
2.00 yogurt
3.30 three chocolate biscuits
6.30 lasagne and salad
8.00 few squares of chocolate or bowl of ice cream

Geez, that seems like a lot!

My main aim at the moment is to try adn keep the sugar at a minimum.. aside from that, i am a human horse.

Breakfast today:
-most of a melon

• egg casserole with spinach, tomato.
• 2 slices of brown toast
• cappucino.

Way too much- but i'm always ravenous in the morning!!
I've managed to cut out diet coke which i'm delighted about.
But i need more veg/salad, trying to have some with every meal, as a rule. Hence the spinach with the eggs this morning.

21 weeks - still not feeling 100% so its basically what ever I can stomach on the day!

34 weeks

Breakfast: Toast and bowl of cereal, water
Snack: water, sweet corn
Lunch: Chicken noodles and water
Snack: Yoghurt
Dinner: A variety of different meals that are a good size portion-wise.

that's literally what I've been eating since I was 18 weeks.

I can't stop eating chocolate - I just ate three malteaster bunnies in a row! I am disgusting. But literally obsessed with chocolate...
Other than that eat fairly well - yoghurt and granola for breakfast, wrap, fruit and crisps for lunch, hummus and crackers in the afternoon and something like soup and bread or filled pasta for dinner. Homemade meals if I can find the time and energy. But then after dinner I will cave and eat all the chocolate in the house and go to bed feeling sick!
I'm 25 weeks btw. Take a daily pregnancy vitamin too.

To be honest, I exercise and watch the scales.

I gained so much weight with DS because my family pressured me to eat for 8! It was hard work shifting the weight and I felt like shit for months.. so this time I'm only gaining the 'recommended amount'. With DS I gained 5st No word of a lie. African mentality means you must eat your bodyweight times 300

I wouldn't worry overly about how much you eat or in fact what you eat. I have been ill the past 2 weeks and haven't kept a lot down, both GP and MW said not to worry as baby will still continue growing and getting nutrition from me regardless. GP said I could go without eating for days without any detriment to baby. So try not to worry about what's on the menu everyday :)

I'm finding that i'm so much more aware of what i'm eating and whilst trying to eat well for both baby and me, so lots of veg, salad, fruit, chicken, water and fruit teas, and things my sweet tooth has just gone mad. i think it might be because i'm not drinking any coke or having caffeine and feel so tired i need some energy / sugar - well at least that is what i'm saying to myself!! i do snack a bit more as well, though i keep trying to remind myself that i don;t need many more calories and if i put on loads and loads of weight losing it after having the baby will be really annoying!

but on the flip side i'm walking at least an hour a day, if not two (to work and then home) and I'm not drinking beer, guinness or wine 5 nights a week which i think was probably worse for me - in fact people have said that i've lost weight (i'm 10 weeks and they don't know) which i really find stunning to believe as my tummy is growing by the day!

I couldn't keep anything down for the first 14 weeks but thankfully that seems to have stopped now unless i stuff myself on crap then it seems to reoccur with a vengeance

Now i am 25 weeks -ish as i am rubbish at keeping count-- i have out on about a stone.

8am Have a boiled egg on toast for breakfast with a scrape of full fat butter and a not from concentrate orange juice with bits. recommended by midwife if anyone else gets a bit blocked up

Sometime a slice of toast and jam or a few biscuits with a cup of tea mid morning.

Lunch is soup with a slice of toast with garlic rapeseed oil drizzled over it or a sandwich sometimes both

Supper fresh fish or chicken with veg (always broccoli) and small new potatoes with full fat butter melted on them.

Junk or chocolate bar if i fancy it at 8pm ish.

Trying to drink lots of water and remember to take my pregnacare daily!

Roast beef with all the trimmings on Sunday how I live for sundays

I also muck out two horses a day and walk the dog for an hour at least

This was me yesterday (I'm 7 weeks pg)

7am: VERY large bowl of bran flakes mixed with muesli.
10.30am: mullerice pudding.
11am: slice of cake (someone's birthday at work)
1pm: bowl of soup, 2 slices of buttered bread and another small slice of cake.
4pm: a breadstick
5.30pm: homemade curry and rice.
at 9pm: I was absolutely starving but settled on just falling asleep.

If I don't eat every 2.5-3 hours or so I feel really sick.

Overall looks like appetites go up later in pregnancy. Because of naseausness I can't really remember what being truly hungry feels like. I just have to eat so as to not feel sick. Exhausting!

Oatmeal
Dry crackers
Sandwich for lunch very plain
Cereal in afternoon
Mango every afternoon
Dinner with carbs
Toast before bed

About three glasses of water and I keep forgetting to take my preg vitamins. Heard they make you feel sick as well so maybe that's a subconscious decision. Bad me!

Oh and 10 weeks pregnant. 12 weeks can't come fast enough!

Cereal
Toast and marmalade
Snacks every 3o mins due to extreme nausea with sips of ginger beer, eg cheese, bread sticks, crisp breads, nuts, sweets if out etc
Lunch today pizza and salad
2 crisp breads with marmite
Cucumber and dip
Chunk of cheese
Supper today is vegetarian pasta, normally if DH here meat or sometimes fish with potatoes and veg etc
Cereal before bed
Cereal if feeling sick in night.
Only 9 weeks...going to be enormous!!!!

34 weeks today…..& so far I've had…..

Half a cherry & coconut scone & cappucino (in a cafe-treated myself as now on Mat Leave)
Ham & coleslaw sandwich on white bread
Homemade chicken & veg soup & wheaten bread with lots of butter
An orange
Lots of water
2 cups tea….

I've put on 22lbs thus far & my appetite is def waning not increasing. Am always STARVING first trimester & eat to keep nausea at bay, so as with my first 3 pregnancies I gained quickly & early & this then slows. Have had serious fizzy drinks cravings this time round & indulged A LOT in coke/squash with fizz.

Have continually forgotten my Pregnacare this time round. Not good.

Nearly 18 weeks- no weight gain as yet had put on 0.5kg but has that has gone again. Have had previous weight loss surgery

B- breakfast bar in car on way to work 2 spatone and oj 30 mins before hand at home
Snack- cereal bar
L- chicken, lettuce, cucumber and tomato salad cream
Snack decaf latte mini creme egg
Apple in car on way home
Dinner- rice and a bit if chicken curry
Snack pkt salt and vinegar crisps

I am 33 weeks today and thr average day for me (yesterday as an example) is:

Breakfast: cornflakes with semi skimmed milk
Lunch: half an egg and cress sandwich on wholemeal bread, half a cup of sweet potato and lime soup.
Dinner: small portion of pasta with maybe half a cup of bolognaise.
snack: satsuma

I just can't fit much food in now to be honest, although I am drinking quite a lot of water too throughout the day.

I'm 28 weeks and an average uni day for me would be -

Breakfast: I forget to have breakfast
11am: Apple
Lunch: Chicken slices on a tortilla wrap. Usually with some cucumber.
Snack: Usually another apple/pears if we've got them in.
Dinner: Fish fingers and chips. I'm a pregnant student and OH works evenings, as if I'm going to cook healthy dinners . Usually rice pudding afterwards as I'm mad on it.
Snack: More fruit. Probably more than is healthy. And a mini pack of magic stars

Suggest you check with your midwife to make sure you are getting all the right nutrients e.g vitamin D, iron, omega 3. Quality over quantity! Wishing you all best with your pregnancy.

8 weeks with variable MS.

Good day (yesterday):
-ginger tea (cannot face anything 1st thing!)
-oatcakes (mid morning)
-cheese, salad and pickle sandwich and nuts (lunch)
-apple juice
-M&S chicken pie, fries, peas (dinner)

Bad day it's dry food (oat cakes, crisps, ryvita, toast, marmite) and soup for veggies! And jelly sweets to prevent the queaze.

Ironically never sick more than once a day just feel horribly food averse some days.

Checked with midwife - expected and NOT risky especially as I take vitamins. Just part of the 1st trimester they say.