What do I want to eat?

[Hellohellohowareyou]

7+4 with HG. I don't want to eat but I know I need to, even if it won't stay down for long. I just cannot face anything. It's just so infuriating and my poor DH keeps suggesting things and I just cannot face them and usually I would Hoover them up!

Arrggggggghhhhhhhhh!!!!

Hello

I am 7+4 too, sorry you are having such a rough time of it.

How about starting with a tiny bit of toast?

I didn't have hg but a bit of sickness and nausea for about 18 weeks - I found that bland food like toast worked well - not overly healthy but about all I could stomach.

Crisps did it for me. Salty, dry, crunchy.

Oh yeah crips - salt and vinegar squares hit the spot!!

I have toast every morning and bring that back up (sorry) I'm just so so hungry but don't want anything which I know is no good for me or baby!

How about a banana or stewed apple? Or plain mashed potato?
Can you drink ok? If you're finding that hard ice pops can work well

I had terrible HG at the start of my pregnancy and I found chicken soup and mashed potatoes all mixed up was so nice also McDonald's mchicken sandwiches but theyv been my "sicky food" for ages wether it was a cold, hangover or pregnancy sickness iv always wanted one when iv been unwell!

Yes to salt and vinegar crisps, spirals and mccoys I found the best

Sucking rhubarb and custard sweets throughout the day also helped and as disgusting as it sounds eating foods which is easier to bring back up. Anything nice related or Chinese takeaway was horrendous

Hope it eases for u. I only started feeling human at about 19 weeks and if I had £1 for every time someone suggested a ginger biscuit I'd never have to go back to work after mat leave!!

Would crackers work?

That's supposed to say anything mince related not anything nice related! lol

some avocado would give you a good hit of nutritious vitamins and minerals
glass of milk - or milkshake made with real banana or strawberries or cocoa
hummus and brown pitta
jacket potato with butter

Note that you might find the eating a bit easier than the thought of eating.

You are all great and thank you for your thoughts and ideas on what has got to be the most open ended question ever!

At the moment all of the suggestions make me feel queasy but I shall pop back when I do actually feel like eating

Ice lollies have so far been my saviour as they have kept me hydrated and probably out of hospital this time (admitted in my first pregnancy). Also sweets were helping too until 'D'h moved them yesterday so I had a meltdown on my way to my midwife appointment and threw up in a Tupperware container on the journey there.

Classy!

Note that you might find the eating a bit easier than the thought of eating.

Yes, very true, juneavrile. I very often insisted I couldn't eat a thing, and then wolfed down a whole plateful...or I'd just turn green. You never know until you try sometimes!

I'm 7 & 6 and although I don't have hg I do have sickness. I found forcing something little down but often has really helped me - could be a banana or orange. Orange fizzy drinks also help but then they repeat on my chest and I have to be sick. Xxx

Going through Morning sickness at moment, although not hg. Oven chips seem to go down well -fish fingers also if up to a bit more. Bacon sanwiches, ready salted crisps. Biscuits- rich tea or ginger. Nothing healthy unfortunately! Last time I loved ritz crackers, but not liking the cheesiness this time!

Toast and marmalade is always good for me when I'm queasy

Plain freeze dry noodles are my dinner at the moment

Noodles, crackers, Melba toast, popadums, egg fried rice, Arrowe root biscuits.

Tbh I really don't think you should worry about whether or not its remotely healthy, once you've got to the point where you can't eat, anything is better than nothing.

Carbs
Bland carbs
Salty carbs

Or, anything you think won't be too disgusting on the return journey.

I lived off plain crisps and white bread for the first 14 weeks! Hope you feel better soon.

I heard croissants were good! Odd but strangely effective for 2 friends with HG.

In my first trimester I basically ate what you would if you were hungover, crisps, toast, chips, chocolate, sausage & mash. Not healthy at all but it was all I could stomach. Healthy eating came back at about 13 weeks. Hope you manage to find something you can keep down.

Sorry hellohello that you are so sick. salt & vinegar crisps and potato waffles saw me through the dreaded first 13 weeks.

I'm 7 weeks today and feel the same. So far today I've had a bacon sandwich (I threw it up), a cheese sandwich (I threw it up) and some mint humbugs (they stayed down). Contemplating some salt and vinegar crisps next. I usually eat really healthily so am hating this feeling of not being able to stomach anything .

Tinned beans, tinned spaghetti, crisps, baked potatoes and plain instant noodles were my staples for the seven weeks that I had sickness. For a whole week my diet was: tinned spaghetti for breakfast, baked potato for lunch and dinner, crisps any time I even thought of getting hungry (getting hungry was a definite way to make me sick, I found).