What have you eaten today? Pregnancy edition

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Adapted from the popular thread on Chat. Hoping particularly that we can support one another through pregnancy sickness, hyperemesis, varying apetites and food cravings or aversions. Let's try not to be judgy

Breakfast: brown toast and peanut butter, banana
Lunch: jacket potato with cheese and a bit of salad
Snack: several plums
Dinner: lots more salad, few bites of pizza

Today: nothing

Yesterday: managed a few slices of apple, a nibble of a digestive and about 10 chips all day due to HG :(

If anyone has any tips on how to force food into myself with HG I’d be so grateful, I feel so terrible for not being able to force food down myself without the fear of it coming back up, my appetite is basically zero x

@Jg93x That sounds tough, really tough. I'm afraid I know nothing about HG... have only had the bog standard everyday sickness, and I'm aware it's a totally different ballpark. From what I've heard, though, what matters most is that you stay hydrated, and that you seek medical attention if you can't keep fluids down. Sending love.

@jg93x have you looked up a website for Hg/pregnancy sickness. I'll find the link...

www.pregnancysicknesssupport.org.uk

I found it really helpful to read there articles. Great points about different drinks and foods sometimes tolerated, possible treatments that are available from GP etc. Hope if helps. Plus it's really understanding on there to, which sometimes is ths biggest thing, knowing others understand the difficulties you're experiencing.

26 weeks 🥳 today started off well but... went downhill a bit!!!

B #1: porridge pot before gym
B #2: protein mix pancakes, Greek yogurt, strawberries and blueberries
L: pizza, chicken dippers and wedges (like a kids lunch 😂)
D: sweet waffle, peanut butter ice cream and raspberries
S: popcorn, cereal bar

26 weeks

B: yogurt and granola
S: pecans, raisins, dried cherries
L: tuna sandwich, hula hoops, 2 satsumas
S: 2 biscuits
D: chicken Kiev, dauphinois potatoes, green veg

So sorry for those with HG, must be so tough.

Nearly 24 weeks

Had a long weekend away last week so have been trying to be good the last three days after all the Belgium waffles and choc. Might give myself this weekend off to have some treats tho.

Yesterday:

B- Whole meal toast and two boiled eggs -3 slices!
L- beans on toast , 1 slice!
D-steak, carrots, kale, broc, jacket potato followed by berries and yogurt
Snack-few slices of cheese

Day before:

B-boiled egg and wholemeal
L- lentils, roasted veg and cod, few potatoes and greens
D-beans on wholemeal and fruit for snacks

Forgot the half a portion of bread and butter pudding and custard!

I've not been eating very well because of nausea but I'm 8 weeks exactly today and feeling okay :/
B- cereal
L- veggie roast dinner and a yoghurt
D- will likely be a sandwich

I've been eating terribly too much chocolate and rubbish!! I think its because I have had a lot of long days (I commute) Today a little better as I was WFH so I'm hoping to keep it up.

B1: 4am Porridge pot
B2: 9am after gym 2 x wholemeal toast, scrambled eggs, mushrooms, tomatoes and 2 x bacon medallions
L: protein bar
D: spaghetti bolognese with a bag of green microwave steamed veg

Has anyone else had periods of being literally too tired to manage the chewing and swallowing involved in eating? Today hasn't been so bad, but the last week or so has been kind of a struggle

B (work meeting at hotel): Eggs on toast with avocado, tomato and mushroom. Then fruit salad with yoghurt. Several litres of orange juice.

L: Cheese sandwich, banana and more yoghurt

D: Ratatouille

27 weeks - starting to get full quickly now..

B: crunchy nut corn flakes (was sick afterwards )

L: ham and mustard sandwich, hula hoops,
2 oranges

D: Spanish tortilla, salad and coleslaw

So relieved to see everyone else here struggling. I feel like I'm eating less veg than I did before I was pg!
Breakfast: porridge
Snacks: pack of mini eggs, banana, ready salted crisps, tangerine, peanut butter on toast, 3 white tortilla wraps (the only things that seem to cut through the nausea!)
Lunch: fish finger sandwiches
Dinner: home made mushroom soup

25 weeks tomorrow -still not getting that full feeling yet and sort of hoping I will so I stop stuffing myself! Relatively ok day for a Friday:

B-porridge with seeds and raisins
L-beef burgers, sweet potato, kale and broccoli
D-fish and chips batter and all with peas
followed by berries and yogurt

Today is Saturday so I’m forecasting more choc over the weekend!

Really struggling with fruit and veg. I'm pretty much relying on orange juice and smoothies to do the job.

So far I've had a bacon sandwich and a magnum.

Hi guys, Can I please ask those that are out of first trimester, did you manage fruit and veg? I just can’t and feel like fruit adds to my awful heartburn. Worried as hardly eating either of them but heard 1st trimester just eat what you can? x

@Treacle81 I never really ate much fruit before pregnancy but didn’t mind veg. For the first good 16 weeks of this pregnancy I don’t think I ate a single fruit of veg as I just couldn’t stomach it. I basically ate carbs and takeaways for a while. Am now 37 weeks and for around 10 weeks now I love nothing more than raw carrot and pepper sticks, green apple slices and green grapes. I would honestly live off these everyday now. I think you just have to go with what your body is telling you.

@1Pinkfluffyelephant phew, that’s a relief to hear! Thank you for replying and best of luck with your upcoming birth x

I agree. Unless you conceived at a very low weight or with specific nutritional needs, I think best to remember it's temporary and just go with the flow. For me, food aversions have always been stronger than cravings, and I think that's the case for a lot of women - it's just less discussed

Snack: handful of raisins while cooking brekkie.

Brekkie: homemade heuvos rancheros (loaded with veg), orange juice

Snack: Ryvita and slice of cheddar

Lunch: 3 bean wrap (supermarket), muffin, pear

Dinner: will be jacket spud, pickled cabbage and something I can't pronounce or spell from The Spice Box (recipe kit subscription).

Pre-preg I used to be able to go from small bwol of cereal at brekkie all the way through until dinner without feeling hungry. Now I am ravenous all the time!

(11 weeks)

Had a bit of a naughty Saturday!

B-whole meal toast 2 slices and 2 boiled eggs

L-salad-radish, halloumi, lettuce, tomatoes,Pepper, courgette followed by a big slice of choc cake!

Went out for dinner-potato, spinach and cabbage soup followed by cod, potato and fennel and spinach and a choc brownie and ice cream.

OK, my Saturday

B: Toast with banana and three satsumas
L: Leftover ratatouille and bean stew, half a bag of apples #constipated
D: Pasta with mixed veg and cheese, avocado salad, DS's homemade chocolate cake

Plus several pints (or so it feels) of lactulose

B- croissant and jam
L- roast potatoes, yorkshire puddings, peas, kale and gravy
Orange juice
Angel cake

B- toast with butter
L- cheese string, pack of twiglets, melon
Snacks- digestives

No idea what I will be eating later, just depends what I can keep down. The melon I managed to eat today is the first bit of fruit I have eaten in weeks.

B: Porridge, apple, satsuma
L: Cheese baguette, strawberries
D: Pasta with pesto and veg
Snacks throughout day: Bag crisps, bag pears, several more apples and satsumas #arrrrrghsoconstipated