Nausea over but still can't eat normally - anyone else?

[lill72]

Hi all,
wondering if you might be feeling the same as me.
I am 18 weeks and had terrible nausea and vomiting. This as now pretty much subsided, though I still feel starving all of the time. If i do not eat I will start to feel a bit sick but not really nausea sick.
I have not been eating the most healthy things, as I have not been able to stomach it and have not cooked in almost 3 months as I cannot stomach it. My DH has done it all bless him. I was hoping now the nausea is over, my love for veggies and much healthier eating would come back, but I am still lacking a normal relationship to food. The things that I love don't really excite me and I feel a bit lacklustre about food. I do not feel like cooking at all All of this is not me at all

Anyone else feel like this and still off foods at 18 weeks?
I do not remember this with DD 1.

Yep! I didnt get an appetite back until 24-25ish weeks. Even then i still couldnt eat certain things as ive completly gone off em, mines pastry and chicken, although some days ive been able to manage abit of chicken. I cant even eat my favorite things with pastry like cakes lol :) i hardly ate a thing until this stage though as i was put off by everything! X

My appetite started to properly come back in my third trimester and wasn't 100% until I had ds.

I never had morning sickness but the smell of food cooking makes me nauseous and I have gone off meat (unless its burger/sausage/bacon) and vegetables and I'm 34 weeks... I'm told it should return to normal after having the baby... otherwise I'm going to be as fat as a house! I try to make up for it with fruit and stuff I can stomach.

It was the same for me. I went off food completely both times till about 20 weeks then slowly my appetite started to come back. Now 31 weeks and can't stop eating. Hope you feel better soon!

Thanks everyone - seems I am not alone. So sick of having such a strange relationship with food - just cant wait to feel like cooking things like salmon and beef again and enjoy cooking smells! Just wish I felt I could stomach more fruit an veg as I am lacking I know it and I don't like this.

Am also feeling very tired - what happened to 2nd trimester energy!! Hope by week 20 things may become a bit more normal but from your comments, anything could happen!

I had an off relationship with food for entire pregnancy.

You sound exactly like me, I found it difficult to get back to normal eating, and ate very bland foods for a while after the sickness had finished. I am almost back to normal at 28 weeks, had a curry the other night! But still tend to fall back on bland snack foods a lot rather than cooking big meals like I used to.

I'm 27 weeks, I had awful sickness and nausea up until 13 weeks but still dnt want to eat, id rather have a glass of water than a meal, means I'm not putting on much weight, I was scared that I wasn't helping baby but they assure me baby will take what it needs from me and b ok, I'm on the large side so have reserves!

I'm still a very fussy eater at 25 weeks having suffered with daily nausea until nearly 20 weeks and still a little now. I am going off more things as the pregnancy progresses, mainly meat. I now have a low iron level and am taking Spatone to try to improve it as I am so so tired. Baby is fine though and very active, just his mummy that's exhausted.

My eating is all over the place. It's getting expensive to be honest - buy things in preparation for cooking a meal, then just go off the whole idea before I get anywhere near eating it. Can't make a plan in advance of what to cook because don't really fancy any particular food at any point. Don't even fancy chocolate or coffee or cheese - or any of my past preferences.

I had an icecream moment that lasted about a fortnight, when the only thing I REALLY wanted was icecream, but that's worn off now - leaving 7 different flavour tubs of icecream half full in the freezer.

I was similar, remember that your digestive system is not used to intense tasting food anymore as you have had a break due to the morning sickness. There can also be a bit of time where your brain associates strong smells and tastes with the sickness which can take a bit of time to get over. My poor chilli obsessed dh suffered for most of the pregnancy as I couldn't eat anything more interesting than mashed potato for quite a while. I would have a chat to your midwife if your worried. Mine told me that if my diet was ok before the pregnancy then I would more than likely be ok.

ohthegoats - I know what you mean. I cannot plan any meals. It is a meal by meal thing. My DH has had to rush out so many times to get take away of something I suddenly have a craving for and made a huge pot of soup that I couldn't stomach the next day. The amount spent on food is crazy!

Spinner - Interesting you say that the association lingers - I hadn't thought of it like that, but makes perfect sense. I am going to try and make a concerted effort to get fruit and veg in any way possible. Funny - I have been eating thai curry and other such non-bland foods the whol way through as I could not stomach rich tea biscuits etc after a while. After 3 months I crave taste!

Hope everyone starts feeling better and food becomes enjoyable once more not just for filling up!