Extremely poor diet . Can this affect baby development? Or cause childhood behaviour problems ?

[Odelia85]

Please do not judge me. I'm aware my diet needs to improve and I hate myself for it enough.

Since discovering I'm pregnant with my miracle baby my diet has went downhill.
I'm suffering from extremely bad food aversions . While I've been incredibly lucky not to suffer morning sickness, however if I eat fruit or veg I will 100% vomit. My sickness seems food induced. The only thing I can eat is greasy, fatty foods like i live on carbs chips, sausage rolls, crisps, pastries, goujons , store pizza anything bacon goes down well. Anything Drink like those feel like they line my stomach or something and it feels settled drinks are usually a bottle of yazoo milkshake.. most days 🙈 and sparkling water. Some days I can manage still flavour water.
Actually my diet kinda went downhill from the month we did ivf. I'm assuming it's hormone related. I've also not been exercising much due to complications with my ovaries. I've pretty much been on bedrest since late October and I'm slowly coming around. I
Am now 13 weeks pregnant and its only the past week that I'm starting to come around . I've managed to eat a small handful of raspberries every other day. Every few days I can take a jacked potato and beans . I couldnt manage them every day. Other veg is still a no go.
For the Past 3 days I've been able to drink one of those cartons of kids smoothies with fruit juice. And while I'm happy my diet is starting to very slowly improve again, I do wonder if how I've eaten over past weeks have affected the baby.
A friend of mine told me my bad diet can have affected baby's development in these early stages before 12 weeks as organs are developing and told me to "brace myself" ( she had a perfect pregnancy , perfect diet, dosent understand how some of us get serious food aversion) and also told me that a poor diet in pregnancy is linked to bad childhood behaviour. I just wanted to know your thoughts really on all of this

I was going to say, she’ll only just have started!

Also the important thing is you’re actually getting some food down there. Remember the baby takes everything he/she needs - it’s you that’s suffering!

Are you naturally quite slim? Insatiable hunger is normal. Your body is trying to fatten you up for a reason.

The midwife said ‘just eat what you can. The baby is a parasite that will take all the good stuff from you😂!’’
As a pescatarian healthy eater, I also suddenly liked junk food and every childhood treat I could think of. Annoyingly salad came straight up and UPC ice-cream stayed down.

Most aversions stopped in the 2nd trimester but I’ve only just been able to not retch at the idea of broccoli (at 35 weeks!) but my vitamins are always okay on blood tests.

The important thing was folic acid so hopefully you could keep some of that down.

I was so sick with my first and could only stomach hash browns and coke zero! I took pregnancy vitamins to help. My daughter has no health/behaviour problems. I had two more children and my diet was better with them, but you wouldn't be able to tell any difference between them.