Just how bad was your diet? Can you make me feel less guilty?

[oohdaddypig]

We are lucky enough for this to be pregnancy no. 3 but I always have awful nausea, 24/7 nausea and this time is no exception.

All I can eat is chips, toast and marmalade, the odd egg and apples. My sickness lasts for at least 18 weeks.

I'm usually so healthy and fit and I'm quite worried what this crap diet will do to mine and the baby's health. I know the baby usually takes what it needs but daily chips?!

Can you cheer me up at all and make me feel less guilty?!

Thanks

Top tips are to constantly graze on whatever takes your fancy. I didn't feel as nauseas if I was eating so just constantly had little bits of food often.

Rocket ice lollies from m&s stopped me from becoming dehydrated. Will come back if I remember any other cures.

You will notice that no-one is saying ginger is a cure!

I love this thread, makes me feel like less of a fat bastard. I am 9 + 6 today.

Yesterday I ate:

1 x cinnamon brioche
2 x mini sausage rolls
2 x bits of chocolate slice
1 x savoury muffin
1 x small bit of cheese cake
1 x lemon curd tart
3 x apples
2 x McDonald's hamburgers
1 x McD's large fries.

I feel so disgusting looking at all that written down. Basically if it has a vegetable in it or meat that isn't processed I'm not interested. I had a v healthy diet until 3 weeks ago!!!! Pray this phase passes before I'm the size of a truck.

With DD I had hyperemesis all the way through and for a lot of the time the only things I could stand were dairy milk chocolate and Tropicana orange juice - incredibly healthy! .

DD is amazingly healthy (touch wood) however and when the rest of us get sick she always manages to be the one that doesn't... So I wouldn't worry too much, pregnancy is hard enough as it is :)

I couldn't stand any fruit veg or salad at all. Even thinking about lettuce made me heave.

I loved anything with fat sugar salt or carbs, preferably all at once. Dd was and I perfect and healthy, 10 years later.

If it makes you feel better, the only thing I could keep down between weeks 9 & 12 in the morning was an egg and bacon mc muffin and a large orange juice. I was hitting mcd's about 5 mornings a week. That was grim.

Still very sick at 30 weeks- diet hasn't been great therefore throughout. I found trying to eat in eves hardest-a small meal at lunch is now possible- rarely stomach veg though. At worst point just toast, ice lollies and plain pasta... not altogether though! Topped up with crisps (mmm skips) and chocolate!

why do we have these vege aversions? It's just so weird. I desperately want a healthy meal but I just can't face it. I had more sausage rolls for lunch

My main aversion is to bread, so limiting. Tried to force myself to eat a slice of toast yesterday and threw up straight away... Cheesecake to love on it is then!

*live not love!

gennz I don't know why our bodies go so nuts. Everyone is the same and can only cope with unhealthy crap! Why oh why?

My hat goes off to anyone who has it all pregnancy. That is some aversion marathon. Mine usually lifts at 19 weeks and that is long enough.

Now craving a McDonald's. I went in there yesterday for the first time in years and was pleasantly surprised :)

I've just had 4 crumpets with honey which is the healthiest thing I've had all day. Arrrrrrgggghhhhh!!!!

I know a lot of people who were sick after taking Pregnacare, especially on an empty stomach. Have you tries changing vitamins? I've taken Sanatogen with no problems, they do one with an extra omega 3 tablet which makes me feel better about my dreadful fish intake.

Oh, with DC1 I lived off chocolate milk (can't stand the stuff normally) and ice cream. He's a total fruit and veg monster and hardly ever gets ill now so seems to have had zero effect on his health or diet. Don't worry!

Even after my nausea had gone I struggled to eat healthy and I've already gained 2 1/2 stone at 32 weeks but I was always strict with calories before. I still eat unhealthy now but I at least try make sure I also have fruit and veg every day

I had hyperemesis and just about all I could manage for weeks 6-17 were satsumas, rich tea biscuits (packets and packets) and tons of Pom bears (before I'd ever been on mumsnet). Later on, I wanted steak and chips all the time!

The only veggies I can stomach are peas and spinach. And raw tomato which used to make me gag pre-pregnancy!

I lived on ribena, apples and toast (and peanut butter til I found out that is was on the 'no' list) and chocolate and the odd handful of rocket for weeks

There is a corner shop just over the road which stocks Magnums. DD was constructed largely of my daily 10pm Magnum. But I count that as an improvement from my DM, who was living in a hot climate when pg with me, and constructed me almost entirely out of Coke floats.

Peanut butter is no longer verboten btw - they announced that two weeks after I'd given birth for the final time, having fought off peanut butter toast cravings heroically throughout three pregnancies .

DD1 I had all day nausea till past 24 weeks and lived on chip buttys proper chip shop ones on numerous occassions.
Also bacon buttys
I put on just 13lbs and DD was 7lbs 11oz, skinny as a rake with an enormous appetite now but eats really pretty healthily.

Pistachio nuts! So glad they're allowed! I sit in the pub with my Becks Blue heeey judgey people on the next table, blue means ZERO ALCOHOL fake beer and a big bowl on a hot day, saying 'ooh my reflux I couldn't eat and thing'.

Then demand we go for burgers.

I fear I may produce a little Verruca Salt esque madam with my behaviour let alone my diet.

Weird the healthy veg hating, isn't it! I assume I got enough from the few raisins in my twice daily bowls of muesli! I existed solely on muesli and chocolate milk for a few months, then branched out to include jacket potatoes and toast with marmite.

I couldn't keep the pregnacare down either. Altogether, I'm amazed that I didn't end up with scurvy! Needless to say, DD is absolutely fine and healthy.

Can eating too much sugar affect the baby? I have serious cravings for tesco home baked cookies at the moment which I just cannot get past, I still eat a balanced healthy diet other times though just cant stop munching cookies aswell lol?

Bloody hope not. Am addicted to chocolate cake and (decaff) frappacino.

I craved McDonalds a lot, coke, chocolate, caffeine, and for some reason canned peaches. I know someone that drank 3-4 cups of coffee every day with all 3 of her kids and they were fine.

Anyway, all the junk food aside, she came out perfectly healthy and the pregnancy weight melted almost completely off the first month. I wouldn't worry. Are you taking prenatals?

I did read once that a green fruit and vegetable aversion is your bodies way of making sure that we don't eat anything that isn't 'ripe'. The same reason why many children often avoid them too.