Best and worst foods for morning sickness

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Thought this might be interesting and could give each other some tips. Here are mine:

Best
bread
water biscuits
mini milks
tinned fruit salad
smoked salmon and cream cheese bagals
mashed potatoes

Worst
Lamb (usually my favourite)
anything spicy
orange squash
opal fruits (for the burning on the way back up sorry if TMI)

Ha, I am the opposite - if I feel sick the one thing I crave is spicy Thai food. I went straight home from work yesterday and made a big jar up of sweet chilli sauce to pour over my dinners.
Best - bacon butties, spicy food, plain rice, tomato ketchup flavoured crisps.
Worst - anything I just can't be bothered to cook..! Oh, and soups, just don't like them any more. And cleaning the kitchen floor. Felt really sick after doing that last night, so will have to delegate to DH from now on..
Need to get some ginger biscuits though to stave off the constant nausea. So if anyone can suggest anything else, that'd be great.

I'll be honest, I found that when I was at my worst very little helped at all in the way of food.

The only thing that helped me slightly was getting lots and lots of sleep and rest.

Oh, and I still can't eat brocolli at 32 weeks.

I agree with 3rdtrimosster - all food was awful but anything that I puked after eating was off the list.

Unfortunately that included toast.

I woke up in the middle of the night feeling sick, I went to bed feeling sick.

sorry - that's no help is it? umm peppermint tea was okay

dear lord, anything you even think you fancy is good, even if it means an emergency Tesco run, just get it and eat it as soon as possible because you don't know when you'll feel like eating again.

I was an especial fan of Hula Hoops, rich tea fingers and anything you could toast and butter, also rice with just enough dal / curry etc to make it sloppy.

Meat was terrible, and anything at all I'd smelt cooking was ruined for me - I used to go and sit in the spare room whil DH cooked and appear just in time to scoff it.

The ginger cordial from Bottlegreen was brilliant in the very early stages - hot with a spoonful of honey it got energy into me when nothing else could.

for me it was

good - ginger snaps, raw veg like carrotts and pea pods, tangerines

bad - meat, esp salmon, which i used to love, but havent been able to eat since pg

hi i found nibbling on a ginger biscuit did help(when i could stomach something).Apparently ginger is good for sickness.Try to keep to fairly dry food ,nothing too rich ,savoury or spicy.

Well as a rule ginger biscuits are meant to really help with sickness and they worked for me last time.

However yesterday I felt so sick that all I could manage was a roll with a teeny bit of butter on it. Is was fine by the evening though and had a normal and healthy meal.

All I could imagine yesterday were rich tea biscuits but I couldn't get any as was at work so had to settle for the bread roll.

I went mad with ginger biscuits at the beginning of my first pregnancy and got put off them very early

I couldn't even look at a ginger biscuit. Ginger tea was good and that bottlegreen cordial that someone else mentioned.

ready salted crisps
i LIVED on them. and summer fruit squash.

Oh actually there was one thing I could eat without being sick at all: Findus Crispy Pancakes. The only place that sold them was an Iceland on a retail park, so dh had to drive me there! My sickness started to subside eventually and I still have a big pack of them in the freezer.

Best

Coco pops
Tomato soup

Worst

Lamb
Pork
Spag bol
Weetabix (tastes awful on way up)

Best
Ginger flavoured things

Worst
Any kind of fatty food including take aways

I felt the low blood sugar in the morning makes the nausea worse (if not causes it) and that if you can get something, anything down first thing in the morning, that it subsides.

A few other women have told me they were the same. That not eating when first feeling the nausea, actually made it worse.

Worth a shot if you can manage anything at all.

best
oatcakes
bacon crisps (salt and carbs)
rice krispies (plus they have folic acid in them)
pear drops
peaches
mango

worst
fish
salad
milk
tea

I'd go with whatever you can keep down in the early stages. All ideas of a varied diet went out of the window as there was so little that I could face. Things which helped me were

-mints
-tonic water

• fizzy water
• dry toast

-Tunnocks Caramel wafers -wine gums -the smell of B and Q. Somehow, the lovely paint, wood and chemical smells really seemed to help. I must have looked weird though as I cruised the aisles .

Good luck - it usually passes by about 15 weeks (though deep commiserations to all those poor souls for whom it lasts longer)

went through stages of only being able to eat potato salad with first pregnancy - oh and solero ice creams

with no2 - bacon butties

with no3 - potato wedges.

as others have said - when really bad - no matter what I ate - just had to be sick.

I'm in my second pregnancy and am just getting over the sickness. last time round it was horrific - sick 6 times per day for first 25 weeks! This time, I was told to avoid all wheat and cheese except pasturised goats cheese and I'd swear by it. a couple of times I had a bit of toast and almost immediately felt sick! Not sure if it's mind over matter but I think it's worth trying. I know how desperate you get feeling horrid all the time. Have got a brilliant recipie for wheat free bread if you want it .... so you don't have to give up toast completely!

Had awful morning sickness between 6-12 weeks. Am pg with my first and am so glad it's behind me now, actually lost weight in those first few months! I was 3 months pg and at my all time thinest, which i thought was quite funny!

Best: bland, plain foods -
Crackers
Toast
Cheese sandwiches (mild cheese, very little butter)
Ready salted crisps - a godsend, practically lived of the things!
Cereal - nothing sugar coated or choclate flavoured, i always had shreddies or alpen
Milk
Water
Mints and other boiled fruit sweets - brilliant as sucking on them takes your mind of the fact you may be sick and your stood in the middle of town!
Apples
Jacket potatoes with a little butter and some mild cheese, it's about the only 'meal' i could stomach as it's very bland but still scrummy!

Worst:
Everything else!
Any strong scented foods, eg curry
Coffee
Fish
Meat
Vegetables
Anything with more than one flavour basically had me really ill.
I also hated the smell of any deoderants and perfumes, and couldn't stand cigarette smoke (and i was a smoker!) Hated the smell of all cleaning products especially bleach!

I was never physcially sick but felt it almost constantly for about 7 weeks. The thing I found that made me feel better was salt & vinegar crisps. Went through dozens of packs of them! Not the most healthy I know, but made my stomach settle enough to face getting somthing more nutritious in afterwards. I thought it was the salt at first, but then found walking past the chippie one day that the vinegar smell made me feel rather better, so must have been that.

Everything made me sick!!!!!!!!!!! But then I did suffer with Hyperemisis, and got taken to hospital, so don't listen to me!!!

Thats one good thing about this sickness malarky is that I would have found it hard not to smoke - as a result even car fumes now make me sick

I suffered with hyperemesis with my first but refused hospitalisation. The only things I could keep down, and as a committed L/W it pains me to type this, were Lucozade, Coke (fullfat) and Mars bars. I survived solely on these three things from weeks 9-13.

The small amount of sickness I've had with this one and my last pg have been sorted out with Coke. Normally I do not have anything fizzy so it is a very weird sensation to drink it and like it.

I have been very sick every time I have been pregnant. Lost over 2 and a half stone over 8 weeks last time (((((oh god)))))thought I was going to die.

Only 6 weeks + 4 and finding Lucozade (sipping everyhour) Brillant.
Salty crisps, only if you fancy it.
An 8th of an apple every 20 mins or so when your feeling queasy.
Don't eat till your full!! or you will be very sick.
Small snacks each hour - spread out your lunch and dinner.

Dairy Lea light on cracker bread worked really well last time.

If you fancy it eat a little of it. When overboard last night on toasted ham sandwich (ate it all at once) and lived to seriously regret it.

Just accept that you will be sick at some point and if your not then you have done well.

Funkimummy

How sick were you then? Im pretty much throwing everything up but midwife is not concerned.

I craved bread and anything carby, but found it made me feel sicker in the long run. About and hour later (presumably as my blood sugar levels dived)....urghhhh! cutting them out stopped the cycle. (made exceptions for chocolate croissants, obviously)