Diet in first trimester

[Miltonj]

I'm currently 7+5 and suffering nausea, vomiting and food aversions.... I'm concerned my diet isn't good enough and I'm not giving the 'blueberry' everything it needs nutritionally.... current diet pretty much consists of cheese on toast, cheesy pasta and cheese and crackers! Will this effect anything or should I just continue to eat what I can?

I ate a lot of Mars bars and salt and vinegar crisps because they are all I could face, definitely no fruit or veg. Once the nausea subsided around the time the second semester kicked in I felt able to eat a lot better. Do what you can to get through the days I would!

Eat whatever you can face eating in the first trimester, it's rough! Presumably you're taking pregnancy vitamins so baby can take anything else he needs from them!

May I suggest a fried egg and melted cheese triple slice toastie? Ooooh yeah

Thats reassuring.

Ohhh that sounds divine, might have to give that a go!

I'm obviously taking folic acid and also Vit d as that's all the NHS suggests (however the tablets are quite big and I have started gagging on them 😑 perhaps I should take a multi vit as well (without vit a) to make up for bland diet?

Eat what you can and take vitamins to take up the slack. I was carb free when I fell pregnant (recommended by consultant gynae) but by week 8 my diet was exclusively bread, crackers, cereal with milk and haribo. Nothing else. No butter, no cheese, no vegetables. I felt awful but it got me through the day. At 11-12 weeks I magically managed to increase my foods and at 14 weeks I am now eating pretty much normally bar a few aversions.
In short, don't panic. Diets in early pregnancy are very often shocking.

100% eat what you can tolerate. First trimester is survival. When you feel better, you can get back to being healthier!

Both pregnancies I’ve survived off toast, mash potato, chips, crisps & the occasional tinned peach. Both babies have been fine! My midwife said babies are like parasites, they’ll take what they need & leave you with nothing! Remember, at this stage baby is tiny & so only needs a very tiny amount of nutrients!

You could try nutritional drinks if drinking is any easier? Jus take a multivitamin if you’re worried- my diet isn’t always the best so I take Pregnacare, I buy mine from boots or Amazon!

Some food is better than no food. Eat whatever you can manage - this is what my midwife told me when I was struggling big time during the first trimester.
First trimester- battle through best you can and eat whatever you can stomach, in my case it was purely carbs, don’t think I touched fruit/ veg for weeks
Second trimester- if your feeling better than start making healthier choices.

Your baby will get the nutrients it needs and it will be you who suffers if that makes sense. I have severe hyperemesis and lost 15lbs in the first 12 weeks and lived on basically nothing and I couldn't stomach any food really apart from dry toast, mashed potato and oat cakes of which mostly got vomited back out again but the baby took all the nutrients my body had which is why I lost so much weight. I couldn't stomach anything else. I'm now 29 weeks and baby is all doing fine even with a lot of medication and hospital intervention to keep me and bub going.

Pregnacare have a liquid multivitamin that you can take if you find the pills too big. It doesn’t taste great so not one to take when your nausea is at its worst

In currently living on pickled onion Space Raiders and white toast with marmite, at 7 weeks