Urgh - managing nausea out and about/at work

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I’m 6 weeks pg with DC3 and nausea and food aversions, with regular hunger, have hit. I’m feeling a bit rubbish at the moment (and hoping it passes!) but trying to think how best to manage this. I honestly can’t remember how I got through it the first two times DC2 is 4yo so it’s been a little while.

To make things a bit more complicated for me, I have been low carb high fat for a while (helps with an autoimmune condition I have) but can now only stomach simple toast, ginger biscuits etc. Which means I’m rapidly trying to fill my cupboards with things I can actually stomach, had to pull my toaster out of the cupboard (glad I hadn’t thrown it away!).

What do I need? Any top tips for managing it? I’m on leave at the moment and back at work next week, not planning to tell anyone immediately (so trying not to draw too much attention to it, will need to eat away from my desk as they’ll be if they spot me with biscuits). Trying to put together some sort of daily survival pack!

Salted peanuts helped me with DC1 and cheese with DC2, might be worth trying. If ginger biscuits help, crystallised ginger might be worth trying although it never did anything for me. I also found taking a sandwich lunch pre cut into smaller pieces good, so I could nibble lunch over a period of hours - if you are struggling with non toasted bread try a few different types (I can't eat untoasted wholemeal or ready sliced bread but fresh white baguette still goes down OK).

I hadn’t thought of nuts or cheese, I’ll give it a try (and something my stomach is much more accustomed to, I’m sure my sudden in change in diet is really adding to my bloating!).

I lived on nuts and cereal bars. Bizarrely, I found apples helped too.

I had next to no sickness but would feel nauseous if I didn’t eat something small every 1-2 hours. Ty small regular snacks!

Salted crisps or nuts are good on the go. I couldn't really deal with ginger biscuits, but they're supposed to help.

I would sometimes toast a crumpet and take it with me if I was travelling to work etc. It's not great, but it's better cold than dry toast.

Congratulations - and good luck with dc3. I'm 15 weeks with dc1 now and starting to come out the other side.

I keep small healthy snacks on my desk as it’s mostly when I’m hungry that my ms hits hardest. Mine changes but you can easily make that bags of nuts or dried fruits. Rice crackers are good for me too.

I had sickness for the full 40- so you have my sympathies OP. It makes you feel so crummy.
Try drinking thicker drinks likes milkshakes or smoothies. They filled me up and seemed to stay down.
Get used to grazing. You’ve said cheese is part of your diet so I’d cube some and put them in a sandwich bag and have them on your desk and handbag!

Thanks everyone, really helpful - I’ve found the apples helpful, had one for breakfast this morning and it’s stayed put!

I’ve been feeling pretty rough the last few days and have gradually moved myself closer to my LCHF diet as I (or my stomach) was really struggling with all of the bread etc, so have been nudging myself to nuts, cheese, salad etc instead of toast and biscuits. It seems to be helping actually.

Am now packing nuts in my bag for on the go and a bottle of lemon water! I’m a bit better this morning so hoping to make that stay... let’s see!