feel so ill :( don't know what to eat

[opalescent]

Please any advice!! I am 7 weeks and feeling dreadful- had nothing like this with ds1.
I just feel so nauseous from the minute I open my eyes to the time I go to bed.
I absolutely have to eat every 2 hours, or I start to feel even worse, yet my digestive system has slowed down to the point where food just sits like a lump of concrete in my stomach .
Nothing is appealing apart from fizzy drinks, which seem to take the edge off things.

I'm struggling to sleep if I eat after 6pm at the latest, because I feel so hideously full. I am SO constipated too.

Any advice on how to feel better would be so gratefully received!!

[Feckthefeckoff]

Lots of sparking water on hand at all times. I could only cope with bland food - pasta, bread and cheese. I started retching when I was in the same room as a vegetable. I did gain a LOT of weight though (started at a nice 12, 6 weeks after DS was born I was a 20.)

[bobbinpop]

Felt exactly the same til 16 wks. Try:
Potato waffles
Jacket potato with a bit of cheese or plain
Clear soup or veggie goulash
Plain rice
Plain crisps
Oranges and more oranges!
Travel sweets
Appletiser
Fanta

[pastabest]

Oh and if you are in the north of England Longley Farm fruit yoghurts in all their glorious sourness ... that's what I had for supper!

[pastabest]

Yes it's totally rubbish but having a had a MC earlier this year I'm weirdly pleased this time round to have any symptoms that hint that I'm still pregnant... As long as they don't get any worse!

[SaraC8]

Dairylea on toast
Peanut butter on toast
Just toast
An inhuman amount of crumpets
Cereal (coco pops are good if you're actually being sick, not too offensive on the way back up)
Cold fruit from the fridge (apples are nice, and watermelon)
Jacket potatos if you can stomach them
This is pretty much what I ate from 7/8 ish weeks till about 18 weeks, I was fine during the day so ate what I fancied and just ate toast or cereal in the evening, threw up and went to bed . Oh and lots of fizzy pop! Which I don't normally drink

[CopperPot]

I had to eat something (even a nibble of cracker) every 20 mins to keep nausea at bay.

[coppergrey]

Tesco Mac & Cheese ready meals
Mini Cheddars
Wine gums (the sugar really helped)
Diet Coke

I liked a McD's cheeseburger too - plain with just cheese so it's nice and bland. It was the only meat I could stomach! My nausea subsided at 11 weeks and I'm back to eating normally now (18w today). Good luck!

[happylass]

I've been surviving on:

Bellevita Breakfast Biscuits
Toast
Jacket Potato (with cheese & beans)
Pasta
Dairylea Dunkers
Veggie Lasagna
Pickled Onion crisps (salt and vinegar are an acceptable alternative)
Cheese and onion pie/pasty
Most fruit although raw veg is completely out.
I find I can only stomach stodge, which is completely at odds with what I normally eat.
I'm just 13 weeks now and it looks like things are starting to improve slightly.

[opalescent]

Update: I was given some cyclizine by a sympathetic GP today, I haven't tried it yet as I'm a bit nervous about the possible sedating effect. Things like that tend to hit me hard as in quite petite...anybody have any experience with this medication?
Also, just really enjoyed one of these!!

[SuddenBeetE]

Plain stodge!

Salt and vinegar crisps
Cheese sticks (kids lunchbox ones)
Toast
Crumpets
Chips (with cheese and sliced tomatoes once I was over the vegetable aversion)
Jacket spuds

Ate lots and lots of oranges and drank a big bottle of tonic water a day in 1st trimester.

[cheekstime]

Jaffa cakes helped keep sick at bay long enough for me to eat somethign bigger. Constipation a nightmare adn brought on by added iron in supplements soemtimes (does with me) but if dont keep up iron go low.

Try and keep healhty fats up, olive oil, avacaods, coconut oil and drin kwater as in at least 10 cups a day. I found water did the trick and not to include milk,oj etc as one of the 10 cups, its just not the same for my gut.

gooluck its pants I know can reall get to you. Later on in preg constipation being blocked starts heartburn too, hope u sort bye

[Lisad1975]

Oh i was the same ! Am sure 2nd pregnancy is far worse than first ever was!
Anything white and stodgy was just about all i could manage . Macdonalds too !
Doc also gave m met..... Something - cant remember name but were excellent and helped loads. I also take omeprozole too and this does help with settling my tum. It did go by 16 ish weeks thank god!! Enough to put me off any more babies!

[Lisad1975]

Oh and I wish I was buged up - other way round for me 🙄

[Lisad1975]

Bunged

[aaahhhBump]

Absolute worst days full fat flat lemonade. Jelly is good. Like pp try and get to your GP. Support for hyperemisis has improved between my 1st and 2nd pregnancy.

[angryangryyoungwoman]

Try porridge, it was brilliant for me

[Lules]

Seriously take the drugs! I had cyclzine when I was pregnant and it helped a lot. And if it doesn't, then go back and ask for something else. There really is no point in suffering - they wouldn't give you the drugs if they weren't safe and tonnes of women take them

[Lules]

I can't remember being tired with them - but they cut down me being sick during the night so I would have slept better anyway.

[lrb978]

MacDonalds fries here. There were times when they were all I could face eating

[Funtimelem]

I am the same 7 weeks and wandering around listlessly and feeling sick when I look at food. I've been eating junk food. I'm struggling because I'm lactose and wheat intolerant so I have very little food I can eat right now. I haven't eaten a hot meal for few days.

[GinIsIn]

My diet at the moment is entirely cheese and pickle sandwiches, beans on toast, oven chips and crunchy nut cornflakes. Oh, and oddly I really want watermelon all the time.

[debelynne]

Hi all,I'm new to this. As far as I'm aware from my dates I'm 6 weeks and 4 days pregnant. Had sickness all day everyday for last 9 days. I'm exhausted and feel so weak! This is my third baby and I wasn't this poorly this soon with my other two.xx

[opalescent]

Hi debelynne it's awful isn't it. Today has been my worst yet. I've just told dp that I've never felt so unwell in my life, and I actually mean it. Praying that this eases off in a few weeks.

[debelynne]

I don't know what to do. I was in the bath and the smell of the bath and body wash made me sick 3 times and then I went to moisturise and the smell of that made me sick too! Smells set me off and even the thought of food makes me sick. I can't keep down any fluids. I'm a wreck. I'm confused aswell as I swear I am feeling movements in my tummy xx

[AdoraKiora]

I had hyperemesis with my second pregnancy. Bloody awful.

From weeks 7-14 I could pretty much ONLY keep down:

• Small handfuls of hula hoops or potato square crisps (basically, dry/non greasy and plain crisps)
  
• 1 or 2 rich tea biscuits
  
• Sips of ice cold, full fat coke
  
• Lemonade ice lollies / lemon sorbet
  
• Small amounts of not-too-creamy mashed potato with salt and pepper
  
• small bowls of crunchy nut cornflakes with ice cold, semi skimmed milk
  

Weeks 14-26-ish I was able to eat a small meal once a day, but it HAD to be a kids size portion of a roast chicken dinner but with very little meat.

Week 26 it lifted. Phew.

Feeling your pain!