Nine weeks pregnant, not eating properly and worried about the baby

[LK16]

Hi, I am going through a hard time atm. I am 9 weeks pregnant, partner has been unavailable and emotionally unavailable. I have pre antenatal depression. I haven’t been eating properly for 5 days now, at the most I’ve been eating a crossaint and a banana a day, I don’t think I’ve been drinking enough. I don’t feel hungry. For the past 2 days I I don’t feel pregnant. Has my baby survived me not eating a proper meal in 5 days? Help I don’t know what to do

It will be fine, it will have been fed by its own yolk sac.

Sorry to hear you are having such a hard time.
Baby will be fine, as your body will prioritise the pregnancy.
You however will just get more tired and less able to think clearly.
Can .you reach out to your GP and midwife tomorrow and get some proper help?
Can you try to treat food a bit like medicine, and tell yourself you just need to eat it? Small portions
Don't worry at this stage about only eating healthy. Right now you need to get some calories on board.
So if you can manage it, try something like buttered toast, pasta with chees , some full sugar coke, and get a few things in like chocolate buttons, biscuits, flapjack that are high calorie value for just a few bites.

At this stage your baby is getting what it needs from the yolk sac, so don’t worry. Not drinking or smoking, limiting caffeine, all good things to do at this stage. Can you up your food intake at all, even a little? Bland and beige were my survival foods!

The baby will be fine. I threw up every bite of food for 12 weeks and lost 15 pounds, but the baby was still completely fine.

Just make more of an effort to have 3 meals a day now. Keep easy to cook and eat foods in the house.

When my DSD was pregnant she had the really severe type of morning sickness. For about 8 months she could barely eat anything let alone keep it down and was hospitalised several times. She weighed less the day before she gave birth than she did before she was pregnant. However, she gave birth to a 9lb healthy baby. Hopefully this gives some reassurance.