Morning sickness - what to eat

[stuntbubbles]

Help me, my brain has dribbled out around my ears and I can’t think of foods that will help.

I’m living off potato stick type crisps and the occasional McDonald’s; also craving spicy things. Fruit is straight to Defcon Vomit territory. Anything sweet is a no-go. No to eggs, tuna, baked potatoes, any kind of potato except chips, avocado. Water is horrible but I’m forcing it down.

Hit me with your processed food snacks I can load up on/experiment with please and I’ll drag myself to the supermarket. I know I could just go and stare at the shelves but I’m starving and stupid and will literally just stare at the shelves and fail.

Not a processed snack but have you considered extremely crispy smoked bacon in a roll with ketchup and a little hot sauce? Amazing for morning sickness. With an orange capri sun 😋

Oh, yes – I had a bacon butty yesterday and it was heaven.

Can’t abide a baked potato right now, even in the foot of my bed. Perhaps I can put a birds eye potato waffle down there for the same effect.

Yes, sleep is a huge one. I'm 28 weeks and unfortunately still having sickness, and the more sleep I get the better. I still have a tin of hobnobs next to the bed and have them late at night or first thing if necessary. If you have a partner get them on the case in ensuring there is always bread in the house so you can fill up immediately when hunger arrives.

I also stopped having hot drinks as they didn't seem to help, and didn't have cereal first thing as it wasn't filling enough. Get some toast down you, dry if necessary, before you try anything else!

Oh and I sucked mints in lieu of mint tea. Not brilliant sugar-wise but it did help the nausea.

Just a note about ginger. There is no evidence to suggest it actually helps. In my experience it doesn’t help at all. On the HG thread, they only talk about gi**ger and nobody mentions the actual word. Because everyone is so sick of people suggesting it!!

Ginger did bugger all for me. I needed salt, in any form. Hence why cheese was good. I used to have a bag of crisis every day on my train home from work, to stop me being sick (was way worse in the evening than morning). Went off eggs completely and couldn't face then for a good year afterwards either. Weirdly I'm mostly veggie/occasionally eat fish yet absolutely craved salty ham one day. Had some, felt better, haven't eaten red meat again since 😂 Cravings/aversions are so strange.

Also I completely went off sugar, in fact some cake eaten out of politeness made me sick. I credit being off sugar with not gaining much baby weight!

Also just be really firm when it comes to aversions. My partner had to stop with fry-ups for a bit because the smell made me heave, as did the smell when I opened the fridge. I just said getting stuff out of fridge was now his job and I left the kitchen whenever it got too much. Though might be hard if you already have one :(

And yes, ginger = pointless. I don't think I'll ever be able to have ginger ale again, I threw up so much of it. I've also had to change my mouthwash as the one I always used to use just reminds me of being sick now

I had quite bad morning sickness in my second and third pregnancy and found that what I could manage was different for each pregnancy. I couldn't drink tea at all during my second pregnancy and it took me about 2 years to face it again. I had most success with plain crisps and cheesy puffs. Just eat what you can face.

Farley's rusks and black tea were the best thing for me!

Crackers with rosemary and sea salt..the really expensive gourmet kind

cereal with nuts and ginger (i only ate it because i craved it, not because i thought the ginger would help, but i wanted the heat)

i ate loads of avocado, but only if they were soaked in balsamic vinegar and sprinkled with salt (and cold)

fried rice

spicy nuts, cashews were my favourite

Avocado too green. Even rosemary on crackers might be too much health for this embryo.

But black tea! Never in my life but now I absolutely want some.

Pickled onion monster munch have hit the spot for lunch.

DP is already on the case with emptying the kitchen bin, not wearing cologne, peeling DD’s bananas, and emptying the fridge. He’s also on potty poo duty and frankly long may that continue.

I used to have weak tea and ginger biscuits before getting put of bed. Ginger is good for morning sickness. I sipped dried ginger drink through day too.

Ritz crackers were my go-to in first trimester, constantly nibbling on a ritz cracker helped me to get through meetings. That and tonic water.

I know what you mean re:feeling like being healthy with veg has gone out of the window. I could deal with crunchy lettuce and cucumber but anything like kale or spring greens, which I normally love, was absolutely a no. I can do broccoli but the texture and taste of kale is still basically just wet mud to me.

As a pp said, just concentrate on getting down what you can! Even though I'm still sicky now I can eat most things and my aversions have mostly gone.

A bowl of hot chips did me well on occasion

Chicken super noodles.

Plain Belvita bars. The soft type.

I could just about stomach them and bananas. Neither were enjoyable but they kept me going enough while it was bad.

Plain pasta I could tolerate occasionally.

Sending love. It's awful. I still can't look at a Belvita box without feeling a bit queasy

Super noodles!

I could easily cause physical harm to anyone who gives me the head tilt and asks if I've tried ginger 🙄🤬I'm 16 weeks and have felt sick continuously and vomited regularly since 6 weeks. I know about the urban myth of ginger curing all nausea and sickness 🙄

Feel loads better about my beige carbs diet reading this thread!

I keep waking up sick with hunger at 4am, but haven't been able to bring myself to get up and eat when it's still nighttime (don't want to eat in bed and wake up DH). Sounds I should though as I feel even worse when I have broken sleep until 6.30am

Supernoodles! My hangover food! Thank you, clever people. I need to treat this like a sicky hangover: I used to make chicken supernoodles topped with a handful of peanuts, hot sauce and some lemon and call it poor woman’s pad Thai, and that’s exactly what I fancy for, er, breakfast. I assume the magic flavour sachet contains all the vitamins and minerals I need.

I lived on Carr's water biscuits and matzos when I had morning sickness.

I had dreadful nausea with all 4 pregnancies, everyone recommended ginger, it works for some so it's worth a try but ginger was the one thing that actually made me vomit in pregnancy. It really is trial and error. With my first it was sweets that helped the nausea, number 2 was vanilla ice cream, number 3 was jacket spuds and chicken super noodles and number 4 was McDonald's chicken nuggets with Thai sweet chilli dipping sauce.

Super noodles are indeed a good shout. Also I was obsessed with Nando's peri salt for a while - seemed to help 🤷🏻‍♀️

I’m 10 weeks tomorrow and currently living off crisps, crackers and cheese sandwiches.
Dinner options I can tolerate are chicken nuggets, chips and pizza.
I know my diet of plain bland foods is awful atm but I’m trying to tell myself that eating anything is better than not eating.
I’m on countdown to the 2nd trimester when this is meant to get better!

I lived on dry pasta with a splash of balsamic, dry rice with soy sauce, Nice & arrowroot biscuits. Gallons of flat Lucozade, it soon passes, just don't do what I did & fancy a massive meal, stuffed my face & then threw up.

@Laughingmole Sorry, last go around I didn’t stop hurling till third trimester. Had a nice calm week then instantly developed a massive haemorrhoid to ruin my life instead of the sickness. I am the worst at pregnancy!

Woke up this morning to the sound of crunching: 3yo DD standing by my bed, raiding my breadstick stash 😂

@stuntbubbles how far are you along? I found out I was pregnant on Saturday. Only 5wks & 2days atm so I'm waiting for the sickness to kick in as it was horrendous with my other 2 pregnancies. Last time I was pregnant was 13yrs ago so I've forgotten how bad it was & when it kicked in🙈