Anyone else eating shite in the first trimester?!

[JumbleJo]

Hi all

I’m 6 weeks pregnant and the nausea has hit hard this week. No vomiting, just constant feeling sick, made worse by hunger. I never realised you could feel so ill and hungry at the same time…

I’m normally fairly healthy - I’m a veggie and always try to get my five portions of fruit and veg a day. At this rate I’ll be lucky to get five portions in the whole trimester! Fruit in particular is grossing me out - anything sweet in fact, I just can’t stomach. Weird as I have a very sweet tooth in normal life! I can just about nibble on ginger biscuits but that’s about it.

So basically I’m eating crumpets, potato cakes, crisps, toast, cheese… dear god, I’m going to get malnutrition aren’t I?!

@JumbleJo it will pass, the main thing is you are eating and drinking something, don't beat yourself up about it, I was the exactly the same, probably worse!! eat what you can stomach :)

You’ll be fine I promise! I was like that and now at 15 weeks the odd vegetable is starting to get eaten. Appetite is slowly improving and actually felt normal yesterday.

I believe you crave what your baby needs, so if that's all you can stomach then that's what the baby wants lol maybe start taking pregnacare if you aren't already

Honestly I don’t think I ate a single vegetable until about 10 weeks but when I did, that chicken salad was like the nicest thing I’d ever tasted😂I’m 13 weeks now and still just have a beige meal most days. I think as long as you’re actually eating and able to keep it down, it doesn’t really matter

My first 4 months with first baby I lived on white rolls with butter and ham every 2 hours. On the dot. Otherwise I felt sick. Started to eat normally later and baby was an average 7 pounds 8. I would think you will be fine!

I was exactly the same!

I had to eat early to get ahead of the nausea. I remember thinking all I fancy was a crusty bread cheese and ham roll at 8am and then thinking oh I can't it's a lunch food.

Then I realised 'duh I'm pregnant if I want a cheese roll for breakfast then that's what I'm damn well going to have'. 😂

Eat whatever you want if it makes you feel less sick, it will pass :)

I’m currently 16 weeks pregnant and was very much the same as you from weeks 6-12ish. Constant nausea, worse when hungry, and could only tolerate a limited range of foods like potatoes, toast, digestive biscuits, chicken nuggets. A few weeks into it I did start craving pineapple so at least I started getting some fruit at that point!

My advice would be don’t be too hard on yourself. If you ate a balanced diet previously, a few weeks of a more restricted diet is not going to cause malnutrition. (I totally get your concern though, I had exactly the same thoughts myself!)

In my experience, I coped much better (physically and mentally) once I abandoned the idea of eating a normal 3 meals a day diet and stopped beating myself up about it. If you can, try to train yourself to eat something small every 2 hours, whether you feel hungry or not - that will hopefully avoid getting to a point where you’re so hungry your nausea gets worse, which can then be a vicious cycle.

Try to remember that pregnancy is a major event for your body, so it’s ok to go with whatever makes you feel better, even if it does feel like you’re eating rubbish. Over the course of your whole life, it’s such a small percentage of time and once you feel better you’ll be able to appreciate how enjoyable food is again.

Since I’ve felt able to tolerate normal food again I’ve gone mad for salads 🤣🤣

This is all so great to hear. Not that you’ve all had trouble with sickness obviously but you know what I mean! I had such high hopes of being healthy…. but the baby wants beige! He/she is probably 90% crumpet at this point.

I think I just need to get out of the mindset of what I “should” be eating and just go with it. 😊

With my first I lived on cans of coke and prawn cocktail or ketchup flavour crisps they were the only things that didn't make me sick! Luckily the sickness went by 12 weeks but I had an aversion to vegetables for the rest of my pregnancy!

@Seraphina1993 Cheese roll for breakfast sounds amazing actually 😀

Don't worry, both my babies were made almost entirely of crumpets in the first trimester 😂. Also the occasional pack of raw jelly 🤔 .... hopefully you'll feel better once you're through the early stage. Just listen to your body, it knows what it wants!

For the first 16 weeks of both my pregnancies I more or less survived on white toast and jam, apples, bananas, plain crisps, summer fruits squash, ginger biscuits, wine gums and plain nuts like almonds or brazil nuts - I think that's about it. I didn't eat any vegetables, meat, fish, eggs, cheese, tea, coffee.

I was worried abojt this too. I had HG with my first, so eating wasn’t happening full stopBut with babies 2 and 3, all I wanted to eat, and that didn’t make me feel sick was mountains of ready salted Pringles/crisps or salty chips. I mentioned it to my midwife, and she said that because my blood pressure was on its arse, my body was screaming for the salt - so just to go with it 🤷🏻‍♀️😂

I'm glad to hear other people feeling the same! I'm 10+6 and just about squeeze in a banana and tangerine each day but not a single vegetable has been eaten at dinner. Been eating fatty dinners and sugary drinks with the evening nausea. I'm really hoping things improve in the second trimester!

7+4 today and exactly the same! Eating little and often and normally carby foods so not great.

At the minute focusing on fighting off the nausea with regular food - I think instead of focusing on what you eat just making sure you're eating and feeling happy is the key for now

Don't worry about it. I had HG with mine and couldn't tolerate anything. Based on advice on here, in desperation I attempted a plain 99p McDonalds burger (despite having been veggie before and after pregnancy!) It was the only thing I could keep down for ages. Baby arrived on time and healthy.

I saw this on active and had to come on to say I ate basically nothing but crisps and oven baked potato products for about 13 weeks with both of mine and no harm done. One was a bit small and the other one they thought I might have GD in the end, but I didn't, but nothing drastic with either of them. They both love crisps now 😂 but they also both love fruit which I couldn't stomach until I was about 20 weeks.

If it helps, in the short term remember your body just wants the constituent parts of the food, it doesn't know if the starch is coming from a quinoa salad or a potato waffle, if you can find a multivitamin that you can stomach at least some of the days that will get you through these next few weeks. And then you'll likely want to eat anything and everything so can get back on track with your normal foods 🙂

Thank you everyone ☺️ I’m taking Pregnacare tablets so I don’t feel quite as guilty! Nausea is just so draining isn’t it, ugh.

I wouldn't feel bad, im sure you'd prefer to be able to eat healthy food but morning sickness sucks and sometimes just won't allow it. My first pregnancy I had all these lofty aims to be super healthy and then morning sickness hit and I lived on buttered bread, pork pies and crisps while vomiting 4-8 times a day and still piling on the weight...

It felt amazing in the second trimester when healthy food started to look appealing again.

Not ending up in hospital should be your aim so anything you can keep down is fab

Also some pregnancy vitamins can make nausea worse... I think it's ussually the ones with iron like pregnacare so worth trying different ones to see if it makes a difference

@JumbleJo so pleased to come across your thread.

I am 7+3 today. I have had the odd nausea episode since around 5 weeks. This definitely became worse this week. Tuesday and Wednesday were probably my worse days, I didn’t keep anything down.

I am currently on a beige diet 🤣 rich tea biscuits, crackers, toast. I did make DH pick up some pineapple as I really fancied that. After reading these comments I now fancy ready salted Pringles.

I had HG with my daughter. I think sickness lasted until about 16 weeks. I thought I was out the woods then as I started the third trimester 🤢.

I have begun to experience dizziness today. And I think my heart rate has risen. Feels like constant palpitations. Not sure if that’s because of the lack of food being kept down. Has anyone else experienced this?

1st trimester is super tough so just eat what you can and try not to worry about it. I found myself eating mcdonalds fish fillet burgers and fries and drinking coke made me feel so much better with my day time sickness (morning my foot.. it was all day long).
When i had a greggs vegetable pastie omg it was amazing!!
Just listen to your body and rest up too....i found resting when i could really helped with the all day sickness. Still does into 3rd trimester too.

I’m 7 weeks and all I want to eat is carbs. Mixed in with the odd ice pop! And Coke Zero. I’ve put so much weight on already.