All i can stomach is bread

[ChristmasBaby2026]

Toast for breakfast, sandwich for lunch. I got it together and cooked dinner for DH and I this evening and I had to put a little bit in between two slices of bread to get it down.

The food aversions are terrible - we had THREE take aways last week because anything that we would eat at home was giving me the ick.

I’m such a foodie this is kind of devastating me - I love to cook bougie dinners that take ages. I bake things for us to take for lunch in the week. The last two weeks I have felt so dizzy and exhausted I can’t bloody do anything and now I don’t even want to eat real food 😭😭😭

7.5 weeks - please tell me it gets better!

It gets much better especially by 11 weeks ish. Although I couldn’t eat fish or certain vegetables at all when I was pregnant.

Fish is one of the things that actually does sound good! I managed some salmon last night.

The idea of meat is just gross to me at the moment.

This week I’ve planned all dinners you just shove in the oven on a tray but I’ve been floating chicken tikka to the next week for about 4 weeks because I just sounds vile 😭

Congratulations!

Not fun but not abnormal. Pregnancy can really knock you for 6 and can change your tastes.
Hang in there. Eat what works for you curently. As time goes on you will probably go back to eating as you'd expect.
Later on, months down the road, if you are feeling better, make loads of things for your freezer so you can heat up good meals when you're too busy with baby to cook.

Just eat what you fancy and 7 weeks was the worst time for me. Baby will be fine even if you live off beige freezer food and sweets.

I am eating so many haribo 🤣

Pregnancy diets are insane! 😂

In my 2024 pregnancy I ate SO MUCH! Of I didnt eat pretty much every 2 hours I would feel faint. But I pretty much lived on cereal, flapjacks and crackers for a good 2 or 3 months 😂 Then I could eat normal food but still ate sooo much.

Currently 34w pregnant and food is the devil. I couldn't eat for maybe the first 12 weeks as I was so sick. My husband pretty much took over making every meal and I used to sit with a sick bucket doing an online grocery shop 😂 I used to sit in the car or out in the garden when the family at dinner! Thankfully it eased off in the 2nd trimester and food became less of an issue but I definitely eat A LOT LESS than normal (complete opposite of my 1st).

Hi OP I'm not pregnant right now but just seen this from the homepage. I love food and when pregnant - until just past my first trimester - I could literally eat about 10 things (not food groups - specific things like M&S piña colada lollies, crumpets and bagels but no other bread, cheddar cheese. Could stomach breaded fish and tuna just about, no other protein).

I was really sick, vomiting and nauseous as well until about 14 weeks then it cleared up! I recommend nausea wrist bands and speak to your midwife about taking Omega 3 supplements as that helps when you can't stomach much protein. Try eating every couple of hours something small and plain, it helped with the nausea. Just focus on calories for now and know it will pass!

OP, I could have written your post almost word for word a couple of months ago - DH and I are keen cooks who love spending our evenings making bougie food together, but for the first two months of my pregnancy literally the only thing I could bear the thought of eating was pasta with plain tomato and basil sauce. It didn't even sound good, it was just the only thing that didn't make me want to throw up. I would struggle through a day of work, get home and fall asleep for two hours, DH would wake me up with a plate of tomato pasta, it would take me an hour to eat it, then he would send me to bed and prep another batch for me to eat for lunch the next day. For breakfast I forced down a slice of plain toast with no butter because butter made me sick. The first trimester is so brutal, I was in pure survival mode and it was absolutely miserable.

I'm 15w4d now - I'm still tired but I have so much more energy than I did, the nausea completely disappeared at 13w4d (it was like night and day, I just woke up and it was gone, and the aversions all faded away by 14w) and food is my friend again! Just focus on eating what you can for the next few weeks, it feels like it will never end when you're in the thick of it but it really will pass. You'll be back to your fun dinners soon ❤

It is normal but awful. I felt better at some point between 12-16 weeks.
The first trimester is about getting through the nausea and exhaustion as best you can. If you can eat bread just do that. I hardly ate any vegetables in my first trimester and only the occasional orange. I lived off crackers, chips and microwave fish pie!
The baby takes minimal nutrients from you until about 12 weeks anyway so just eat what you can.

I have HG and haven’t cooked since I got sick (6 weeks). In my last HG pregnancy, I managed to cook sometimes, this one I simply can’t. We live off breakfast foods if it’s only me and my toddler home. Husband has to cook for us.