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

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oohdaddypig · 03/05/2014 15:14

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

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OrangeMochaFrappucino · 04/05/2014 16:59

Crisps, coke, oranges and Healthy Start vitamins. For 23 weeks. My sickness lifted in time for Christmas. I ate a massive Toblerone to celebrate.

OrangeMochaFrappucino · 04/05/2014 17:02

Oh, and I had a strong aversion to tea and coffee so took to drinking hot chocolate made with full fat milk with whipped cream and marshmallows. I have a lovely healthy newborn (but I do need to go on a diet now!).

VaselineOnToast · 04/05/2014 20:45

I'm so sorry to heat it lasts so long for you.

From week 6 to about 13, all I could stomach was tinned ravioli, those crap little pizzas that come on packs of 10 and toast/bread. It was not pleasant. I went off most vegetables too. Helpful.

ThePrisonerOfAzkaban · 04/05/2014 20:56

To be honest most of my food comes back up anyway, so II'm taken to eating want I want. Which tbh I've mostly gone off food so actually eating is now a chore, shame as I'm a big foodie. But if it's a mc Donald or KFC, coke whatever I'm not too bothered, like I said most comes back up. I am wanting to eat more fruit and fruit juices then normal though.

Gennz · 04/05/2014 22:21

oh Prisoner you poor thing.

I feel okay today! 10 weeks exactly, so now into 11th week, perhaps it will start tailing off soon touches wood frantically Multi grain toast & marmite for breakfast even! The picture of health I am.

That said I did have a massive yak this morning, the worst I've had so far but felt fine afterwards. It's the all day nausea and tiredness that is so awful.

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oohdaddypig · 05/05/2014 06:35

Oh how wonderful if it picks up for you at 10 weeks!

Last night I retched even after my folic acid tablet. In fact yesterday was my worst day yet - blood in my throat from the retching :(

I did have orange juice with my chips though ;)

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Popalina · 05/05/2014 06:50

I ate chocolate, carbs and salt...anything to stop the nausea. I put on 2.5 stone. 5 weeks post delivery and I have a stone to shift to get back to my thinnest which was actually a bit too thin for my height if I am honest. So don't worry! You just have to get through the sick stage as best you can. Mine lasted until delivery.

haventgotaclue1 · 05/05/2014 13:59

My latest craving is for pork pies - any time of the day, it doesn't matter...Still better (marginally?) than the KFC craving I had a few weeks ago...

squizita · 05/05/2014 17:25

Omg pork pies! Yeah I have that too.

haventgotaclue1 · 05/05/2014 17:48

Thing is squizita they have to be Sainsbury's crusty bake ones - any other just isn't quite right...! Thankfully I went through the self-scan checkout this weekend (had 5 packets in the trolley - with 4 in each pack )

insancerre · 05/05/2014 17:58

I had hyperemesis for the first five months both pregnancies
I lived off ice cubes, melon, and fruit salads and blackjacks pretty much
Both DC were good healthy babies
On the plus side I didn't actually put any weight on so was back to my normal weight after delivery

corduroybear · 05/05/2014 18:03

So pleased to see this. I am normally the healthiest eater in the world but currently have zero appetite for any sort of fruit and veg. I'm forcing it down as much as I can since I know it's good for me and I won't actually be sick (this is #3 and I have yet to actually throw up in pregnancy), but it's tough.

Thing is - I don't want anything. I've lost 3lbs in 10 days (and I was skinny to begin with). I have zero appetite. In my other pregnancies I at least craved certain foods. This time around I could quite happily just not eat. Even picking at the kids' left-overs has no appeal for me.

squizita · 05/05/2014 18:30

Like tesco cheese and onion "sausage" rolls for me. They must be those exact ones.

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oohdaddypig · 16/05/2014 13:32

Thanks to everyone who replied (and sorry for your hell that is nausea)

My current diet is pork pies and crisps and kit kats. This thread has made me feel slightly better about that :)

Now, where can I buy some blackjacks?

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redexpat · 16/05/2014 21:37

I have eaten my weight in salt and vinegar crisps.

livingzuid · 17/05/2014 00:49

I have hg. In the first trimester I lived off McDonald's and KFC. It nearly bankrupted us. I simply could not stomach anything else. Second trimester was a bit easier but I never know from one day to the next what I can eat. The staple has been Nutella on white toast and diet coke. I have drunk so much diet coke omg. And red slushies. Vegetables have not passed my lips since they returned in the first trimester.

I do however have an addiction to gala melon and whole milk which are probably the healthiest things I have eaten. I'm at 37 weeks now and my baby is in the 86th percentile and looking great according to the consultant today. So I wouldn't worry about it :)

livingzuid · 17/05/2014 00:50

Oh and the diet coke has to be tap from McDonald's. Nowhere else will do. Don't ask me why!

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oohdaddypig · 17/05/2014 07:14

Ah living I am craving diet coke soooo badly. It tastes amazing to me. But then I was worried about the caffeine/aspartame - maybe I should just go for it? I mean, if I'm living off lard and processed fats right now, it probably doesn't matter!

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MewlingQuim · 17/05/2014 07:31

Before pregnancy - wholemeal bread, fruit, veg, peppermint tea. Hated chips, coke, junk food. Loved cheese.

During pregnancy - chip buttys in soft white bread, KFC, caffeinated tea, any bread crumb coated stuff like fish fingers, coke. Couldn't stomach fruit and veg at all, or dairy.

Hyperemesis for 17 weeks also meant that I often chose foods solely by how they would feel coming back up.

The KFC was not a good choice

livingzuid · 17/05/2014 08:01

ooh it's perfectly safe to drink coke and diet coke in pregnancy. NHS guidelines on caffeine are below:

www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/limit-caffeine-during-pregnancy.aspx?CategoryID=54&SubCategoryID=216

Coke has far less caffeine in than a mug of tea or coffee. As for the aspartame, there are some real scare stories out there which have not been proven to be true. Everything in moderation - enjoy a can of diet coke if you want to :)

livingzuid · 17/05/2014 08:01

mewing am so with you on the KFC. Never touched the stuff until I was pregnant. Even now munching on a McDs makes me want to cry. 3 weeks to go till I get my body back!

NellyNoodle1 · 17/05/2014 08:10

Thanks for making me feel better. This is my first post on here. I can only really stomach potato type products (chips, crisps etc), bread and fruit. Oh and McDonalds Filet-o-Fish. Lol.

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oohdaddypig · 17/05/2014 09:13

Thanks living for some reason it's McDonald's diet coke I'm craving - in a waxy cup with ice!

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livingzuid · 17/05/2014 09:47

seriously considering it right now!

I don't know what it is about the tap diet coke, the other canned stuff just doesn't cut it. A couple of us on the hyperemesis thread have the same tap diet coke craving. I think (but I could be wrong) that the tap is also more diluted so not quite as bad. Although that really doesn't mean anything. It tastes amazing!

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