Only time I don't feel sick is when I'm eating - but how fat will I get?

[Jane7]

I'm 9 and a half weeks pregnant. While I'm in the process of eating, I feel fine, it's amazing. Then literally a minute or two after stopping, the great rolling waves of nausea come on again. Suffice to say, I've been eating almost every hour. Addicted to Ryvita, butter and marmite at the moment. But I've already had five slices today.
I don't know whether to try to stop eating to much and just put up with the nausea or take it as a sign that my body wants to eat more. Has anyone else had this problem?

Try chewing gum - worked for me when I felt like that. Hope the nausea eases off soon.

Would chewing sugar free gum hel?

D'oh............help, even.

yup. its one form of morning sickness

i had it for all pgs

only consolation is you will never puke

yep, but I favoured rich tea fingers

was back into normal jeans 6wks postpartum

keep scoffing and don't worry about it - listen to your body

If you need to eat, eat. It will all even out at some point.

Try the ryvita without butter to save on some calories.

You could try a cadbury options chocolate drink which is fewer cals.

I just couldn't eat when I felt unwell but I think you need to go with your body. A hellish way to find out but may be try and not eat as much tomorrow.

Good luck,

Thank you! Going to try the chewing gum trick and cut down on butter on my ryvita.

KristinaM - you're right, despite how sick I've been feeling, I haven't once puked. I obviously have the same variety of morning sickness as you. How did you cope? Did you have to eat things constantly?

i puked up until 17 weeks!!! it was gross!!!

memories

I had the same too. Only thing that helped was Dairylea on toast. I ate buckets of the stuff!

chewing gum also helped, but only until the flavour wore off. So you end up chewing a packet an hour.

Lots of water, fruit juice and full fat drinks help (obv the last not with the calorie counting!)

Just be assured that it does ease off! I stopped feeling nauseous at about 14 weeks. Now I can eat normally again - yay!

I've got that type of morning sickness this time, and all my clothes are already tight at 9 weeks.

But it is far better then puking up all the time like I did with my first two pregnancies. With my first pregnancy, the nausea NEVER went away no matter how many times I vomited. I couldn't barely eat and felt constantly faint.

jane7 - I was the same this time round (previous two pregnancies I couldn't eat and lost weight, so the eating to feel better is definitely preferable!).

I got hooked on: wine gums, glasses of very dilute lime cordial and squash, Carrs water biscuits eaten plain. That was between meals. My main meals consisted of baked potato, baked potato and more baked potato. Oh and the occasional mashed or roasted potato!

I am 10 weeks, and the sickness is already fading thank heavens. I have a very distinct bump, but otherwise no obvious huge weight gain. Hope it gets better for you too soon.

Jane7 - that's exactly how it was for me in my last 3 pregnancies - and I never threw up. It felt exactly like sea-sickness or car-sickness, and only eased when I was asleep or was actually chewing food, so I chewed a lot. A lot. And I did put on loads of weight, but that might also have been that I didn't eat very carefully when the sickness stopped at about 18-20 weeks or when I was breastfeeding or indeed now. .

My onl tip is not to eat anything that you really like in excess or it will be years before you are able to eat it again because it will just remind you of feeling so sick. Like any food you eat just before you throw up. Or maybe that's just me.

But it does stop though.

belgo - cross posted. But SNAP. Last time I was still throwing up at 18 weeks. This time has been breeze relatively!

exactly Pidge! I also have a distinct bump, but maybe that's to do with it being a third baby? you start showing earlier?

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Am very ashamed to admit that before I got pregnant I was very thin (oh those were the days!) too thin for my height and vegetarian. Got pregnant, feel constantly sick and had severe cravings for .. sausages! I ate nothing but sausages, pork pies, pepperoni pizza, scotch eggs.. I put on 5 STONE!

Oliviajournalist, you should put that in media request section, for which there is a charge I think

I had this type of morning sickness with all 3 pregnancies, and put on weight early each time, which did make it harder to disguise early pregnancy! When the morning sickness stopped though, my food intake went back to normal(ish). Put on 3 1/2 4 stone on with DCs 1 & 2 - am not even going to weigh myself this pregnancy!

Am usually quite slim and found that I was back to normal weight within 5 months ish, which was fine by me. Was just a clothes size larger than usual for a little while.

ps, it is horrible isn't it! Hope you are feeling better soon.