9 weeks and starving hungry

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I'm 9 weeks with my second and completely starving - if I don't eat literally every hour I feel nauseous and start gagging. But I've also gone off loads of food because it makes me heave so I'm having to constantly eat but simultaneously not really enjoying anything I eat. I'm miserable and worried about how much weight I'm going to put on. I'm only 5ft3 and I put on 4 stone in my first pregnancy - I'm 2st heavier at the start than I was first time round and already overweight so I'm really worried. It is only 9.30 and today I've already eaten a large bowl of cereal, a banana, and a bowl of Greek yoghurt with raspberries and oats. Crackers and things like that turn my stomach and don't fill me up. I know in another hour my stomach will be audibly rumbling and I will have to eat yet again.

My midwife said I shouldn't be any hungrier in the first trimester and shouldn't need to eat any extra calories. I feel awful.

Hi OP
like you I’m 5’3 I was really fit and healthy when I got pregnant, not overweight but like you in the first trimester I was absolutely starving and if I didn’t eat it made me sick, if I did eat the wrong thing also made me sick. I had to just eat plain carbs like bread, crumpets etc. things got better in the second trimester. I’m now 39+6 and my appetite has levelled out and I’m eating health foods again which would have been my usual diet. However I have put on just over 3 stone but I’ve been told not to worry about it. I really think it depends on your midwife, mine hasn’t been interested in my weight gain at all but that could be because I have a healthy BmI at booking. I think it’s really normal for your diet to change in the FT and as much as she can say you shouldn’t eat extra you need to listen to your body! The foods you’ve listed will not do you any harm you’re not consuming massive amounts of saturated fat and sugar.

Hey. Hunger has been one of my main symptoms and it’s like a hunger that I’ve never had. I get very quick and intense hunger in my stomach and just have to eat. I am having twins and I think this could be something to do with it. But it’s the sort of hunger you can’t just ‘put off until dinner’.

So far I’ve probably not always been opting for the healthiest things (a holiday, Christmas and January birthdays haven’t helped) but am trying to stock up with some healthier things. I also find it doesn’t take much to curb the hunger - so fruit, a packet of crisps, some hummus and veg etc seems to do the trick. But the hunger does come every 45-90 mins.

I really don’t think it’s helpful for a midwife to just say ‘don’t eat’ or ‘you don’t need the extra calories’. Whilst that might be theoretically true, she’s dealing with a real woman with real symptoms. I would chose to ignore her comments and do what you can but with healthier options in mind but only if you can as not everyone has access to or can stomach those things X

I’m just over 11 weeks by the way and have been like this since week 6 or 7!