My diet is horrendous. Worried about baby's health

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Since I found out I was pregnant at 4 weeks my diet has been horrendous.
I'm really worried about the effects I've done to my baby. I read a study that a diet high in saturated fat can cause growth retardation in babies . I'm worried about if organs and everything has formed normally. I've read the first 3 months are most important in baby development as that's when everything forms.
I've been living of saturated fat.
Crisps, sausage rolls, salted cheese crackers , chips, pizza ect . Lived off frozen party food over Christmas.
I'm 11 weeks and haven't eaten one vegetable except for Christmas day.
I have severe adversion with vegetables. The thought of them makes me sick.
I'm approaching week 12 and this is the first time I've been able to eat a few fruits this week. Just a couple of blueberries and had a few prunes last night which is first in my pregnancy. Today I'm having beans and potatoes but I did still eat crackers and crisps for breakfast. I'm struggling to tolerate anything healthy and this is adding to my anxiety as I do have a hormone disorder and a previous miscarriage. I just had my booking appointment and midwife didn't really seem to care about my anxiety over my food and I just feel a lack of support . Ahe told me to eat what I want but surely a midwife should be supporting me in helping me find ways, swaps and suggestions to eat healthy in my pregnancy not live off junk food

what was your diet like pre pregnancy?

were you overweight?

Some women throw up for 9 months, so very little nutrition, and their babies are fine. Some women just have poor diets anyway. I suspect most of the pregnant population spends first 12 weeks just eating whatever will stay down, and Christmas enjoying food like everyone else. Eat something nutritious when you can and take a vitamin, your baby will be fine

I'm one of the unlucky ones who vomited for 40 weeks. I could only stomach dry, sweet, carby foods: white bread, plain pasta, plain cake, scones. And, for some reason, milkshakes. I gained loads of weight (because every meal was carb heavy, and if I let my stomach get empty I vomited bile).

There was no harm done to baby, although it wasn't great for me. If I had my time again I'd have pushed the gp for anti-sickness medication for my own benefit.

Take some vitamins, and cross you fingers that the sickness eases soon. I only ate beige food for weeks with both of mine, and threw most of that up.

OP, it’s clear from this and all your posts that you have a lot of anxiety about your pregnancy, and this can’t be helping you feel well. I think you should talk to your midwife, not just about your fears, but about the level of anxiety you’re experiencing, so she and your GP can help you.

Thank you guys. Its so hard when you know you should eat healthy.
Nurse was happy with my bmi , it's 28
Pre pregnancy I ate a mix of junk but also healthy. The month before falling pregnant, since we did ivf it was salads every day
I have been taking my pre natal. Hopefully thats provided some nutrition but I do know they say it shouldn't be your only source of nutrition it should be from diet.

@Darkenergy ah milkshakes 😆 thats another one I've been enjoying on a daily basis. The milk really calms my stomach.
I've managed to steer away from other sweet cravings no. I have rarely had any cakes or sweet treats

I lived on Alka seltzer and lucozade for the first 12 weeks of DS2 and he was fine so absolutely try not to worry.

I have odd eating habits, sometimes struggle to eat... I find tinned fruit like mandarin chunks in juice or tinned peach slices can be nice and easy to swallow if that makes sense, with a creamy yoghurt or just in their own. You tried blueberries - did you like them? Sometimes it's a mental block rather than a dislike of the taste. Oranges are a pain to peel but I always forget how nice they are and worth the effort! And remember you don't have to eat a whole thing or packet etc .. just keep 'dipping you toe in the water'

Maybe have a little browse around the fruit and veg aisle and just see if anything unusual might tempt you a bit but don't panic x

Try smoothies and perhaps some veg heavy soups

Baby will take what they need from you, but you could really do with looking at getting support for your anxiety levels

Stop reading the internet and take a decent prenatal supplement.

your main issues are going to be depleted vitamins in yourself. Most common are:
Vitamin D, iron and calcium

my 3 main food groups for 2 trimesters were:

1. wafer thin ham on heavily buttered toast
2. tangerines
3. wine gums

my baby is fine…
most women i know have similarly bad/weird diets in T1

your anxiety sounds disproportioate.
don’t stress too much about it

I ate tootsie rolls and drank lemonade for 20 weeks in my 3rd pregnancy, lost 10lbs for the pregnancy (weight 10lbs less on delivery day than the day I confirmed pregnancy) and my baby was almost 8lbs and healthy!

With dc3 and dc4 vegetables, salad and fruit made me throw up for my entire pregnancies. I lived on McDonald's chicken nuggets and super noodles. They are both fine.

DD was grown on potato waffles, crumpets and Mac and cheese from a packet, she came out fine ☺️

Just make sure you’re taking a decent pre natal. First trimester is hard, be gentle on yourself and your appetite for fruit and veg will likely come back over the next few weeks

I ate so badly in the first trimester due to morning sickness. All I could stomach was carbs. Now I'm in the second trimester I've gotten my appetite back and have been craving loads of salads and oranges! Pic is a recent dinner - salad with broccoli 🥦 😋

Hopefully you'll be the same and can turn the diet around in the 2nd trimester.

I couldn’t face any veg except carrots and potatoes.
No meat other than ham and no fish.
I craved fruit and ice lollies and the rest was carbs.

Both times healthy good sized babies.

Take a vitamin supplement with folic acid and maybe look at treating yourself to smoothies and various kinds of pureed vegetable soups ( home made or shop bought). The important thing is to eat as well as your body will let you and don't read too many " advice" columns, especially the ones full of statistics about what "could" happen. Listen to your body and your midwife and you won't go far wrong.

I wouldn't worry OP.
I went from eating really well pre pregnancy, to not being able to stomach garlic, meat, or vegetables.
I ate a lot of cards, a lot of sweets.
Baby was absolutely fine.

Just have a multivitamin and make whatever decisions you can make that are"good"

Throughout the day I've not been able to eat half as well during my current pregnancy, however at night I'm eating hummus and veggie sticks. My absolute favourite right now!

I'm 14 weeks and in the same boat. But slowly I'm finding fruit/veg I can tolerate. I can eat bananas, apples, tinned peaches, grapes. Vegetables are more difficult but find I'm ok with potatoes, peas, broccoli. Plain tasting things.
I'm finding sugary things really help with nausea but I'm really trying to cut it down now.

My midwife said not to worry just to eat what you can keep down and then make up for it later on in pregnancy by eating more healthily.

The first trimester is the hardest when it comes to food. Most women suffer from aversions and nausea so are unable to eat healthily and, in some cases, can barely eat anything at all

The baby takes what they need from the yolk until the placenta is formed so your diet should have absolutely no effect whatsoever on them.

When the placenta takes over, baby takes what they need from you so you are the one who suffers rather than baby if you're not eating enough/well enough.

So many women can't eat well in the first 12 weeks and everything is absolutely fine with their child. You need to focus on getting calories into you so you can function and do not worry about what you are eating as much. As long as you can keep enough of something down to keep you going, baby will be fine and you'll likely be able to adjust your habits in the 2nd trimester.

I had awful nausea that only seemed to go away with snacking, but also terrible aversions. Basically lived off salt and vinegar crisps, cream crackers and Tango

Much healthier now, plenty of veg and high protein, high fibre diet. Still eating some crap, but I'm pregnant so I've declared that I'm allowed 😅 No issues detected thus far and she's a strong kicker already

I think the myth that women can sedentary and eat for two (I.e. whatever they want) hasn't helped people with pregnancy health and postnatal recovery.