Nutrients? My baby spits in the face of your nutrients. Will it be born with scurvy?

[bohemianbint]

I had a really virtuous breakfast this morning: probiotic yogurt with blueberries, banana and a smoothie.

2 hours later I spewed it up - that's the first time in this pregnancy or the last that the nausea actually followed through with real vomit!

Only thing is, all I really can face is toast and marmite (lots of) and shreddies. I am worried that perhaps growing babies might need slightly more than breakfast to chuck things like spines and organs together - and also that I might be the size of a house by the time I hit 12 weeks. Will be 9 weeks on Friday.

Will it be all shrivelled if my body keeps rejecting fruit/veg? Reckon 2 hours was long enough to absorb any minerals from virtuous breakfast?

I vividly remember that at 10 weeks with DD1 all I could stomach for breakfast was a Starbucks frappucino and muffin, presumably because they were entirely chemical.

Remember they are feeding off you. You may become malnourished but the little vampires will bloom.

Oh and I couldn't stand anything organic because my hyper-sensitive nose would detect the faintest aroma of rot.

With dd1 for a while all I could eat was pasta covered in butter, cheese and black pepper and olives. She was born at 38 weeks weight 7lb 12oz and is a healthy child.

after 3 months I would eat all the feckin time

breakfast at home
another breakfast at work
snack mid morning (usually huge mofo muffin)
lunch - half of M&S
dinner - half the fridge
and then before bed would have cereal and a big glass of milk - I hate milk normally so no idea what that was all about

put on nearly 4 stones!

but both were huge (9lb 5 and 9lb 10) so I am claiming it was baby weight and not arse blubber of my own

Ah the joys of morning sickness (or all fecking day sickness in my case). I'm so glad mine stopped at 16 weeks. I spent weeks on end eating dry crackers, plain pasta and the occasional tinned pineapple slice. Sounds like quite a healthy diet in comparison to some poor buggers. Doesn't seem to have bothered the baby though, who according to scans is growing nicely. They just leach what they need off you.

hold on hold on bohemian may have something

I wasn't thinking so much of 60 years ago as more prehistoric times - our bodies haven't evolved massively since then after all - but maybe we are designed only to eat indigenous foods and not anything unfamiliar - not much fresh fruit native to this country, really, and most people seem to report being ok with wheat (bread, pasta) and potatoes - which are two crops we have had in this country for a fairly long time

there must be some reason for it, surely? Otherwise we'd all be craving oily fish and linseed oil and the like?

I agree than toast, marmite and shreddies sounds like a perfectly balanced diet in the first few weeks! I'm struggling a bit (nine weeks today) as I have gone from a total foodie to not being able to think of a single thing I want to eat at any point, and sometimes even the thinking makes me vom. Agree that space food like oatcakes is about as nutritious as it gets round here. I used to hate coffee and now want one every morning, and also like peanut butter and jam on toast. I know I shouldn't be going near peanuts with allergies in the family but it seems to be what my body wants so...A Krispy Kreme never goes amiss, either. Nor a whopper with cheese. OK, that's lunch sorted. Sod the organic veg soup...

I projectiled several times a day for 20-something weeks and lost weight, but DD still turned out perfect Try not to worry too much.

Lol Pinchypants. See, that's the irony, I had just put Sunday aside to make a massive batch of lovely iron-full lentil soup and bean chili, so I wouldn't have to fuss with cooking in the week. (I haven't been bothering.) But now it's all there in the fridge the sickness has got worse and I'd rather die than eat any of it.

i have eaten dry toast, dry cereal, crackers and breadsticks for most of my 24 weeks and at the 20 week scan they said the baby was fine. if she is born with scurvy then i know i didn't keep the supplements down long enough to absorb them i sympathsise bohemianbint (and others with sickness!)
jbr xxx

Don't worry too much - cereal has loads of vitamins in it, the calcium will be good for developing bones and marmite has tons of folic acid and other b-vitamins.

You'll be fine. I survive on carbs for the first part of pregnancy, plus pregnancy multi-vits. I do have little bits of smoothies and veg, but usually later in the day. Rest when you can though, your body is doing a lot of work.

DS is a healthly robust baby 14 month old, and hopefully his sibling (7 weeks pg) will be too. Second trimester should become easier.

But don't worry if the second (and third) trimesters are nutritionally weird too. All I could stomach were cheese sandwiches, oranges and jelly beans. By the third trimester I'd added cake to the list (probably just as well as I wasn't putting on weight).
The joy of giving birth and wanting to eat again was wonderful! And DD was fine.

oh yes i forgot to say it disappeared the minute i gave birth - couldnt get enough of food.

When i gave birth I was lighter than when i started. By two months after the birth I had put on two stone...

Oops blush

It's funny, baked potatoes, cheese and hula hoops were all I could eat in early pregnancy last time, and they've both come up already. Last time I lost half a stone because I just couldn't eat anything for weeks, this time (now 10wks) I think I'm managing it better by just eating something, anything, every time I feel sick. It's quite hard to do, but it really works. Mostly salty stodge, but then dd1 is mostly made of hula hoops and supernoodles and seems just fine.