DH guilted me today for eating chockie biscuits to relieve morning sickness...need your best healthy snack ideas please

[Astrophe]

because really, I don't want to end up huge, but am feeling a little sicky already, at 4 weeks and 4 days

..I ate rich tea biscuits or dry bread.
If you really feel like a choccie biccie, eat one, and if your DH remonstrates, offer him the alternative, which is for you to puke on him...

Sorry to say but biscuits for breakfast is the only thing stopping me from puking every morning, i cant find anything else which works

I do try and limit it to rich teas but did spend weeks scoffing chocchip ones.

I've only put on 5lb so its not doing to much damage yet, i'm 21 weeks.

I know, DH being a bit of an arse...but, he is right that I don't want to be huge, and have asked for his support in this (what I mean was for him to make me yummy soups and sandwiches though!).

Anyway, we are driving back from France to the UK over the next 10 days, so I need snacky things, easy to eat and buy and nibble...and also beyond that I will need easy things to keep in the fridge as I will be pretty busy with the other DC.

ginger snaps are a good alternative .. the ginger is meant to stop you feeling quite so sick! that said, if a chocolate biscuit makes you feel better go for it .. you won't be feeling sick for ever! (hopefully)

oh bodiddly, if only that were so - I was sick most of my last pregnancy (but no, not forever really)

Snack ideas????

oh, ginger snaps, shall buy

I did a couple of weeks living on mars milkshake and cucumber when I was pregnant as was all I could keep down. If choc biscuits work then have them!

Tell him to bugger off unless he wants to do it for you.

I know where you are coming from ..I lost 10lbs in the first 12 weeks ... I was sick morning, evening and night. I had to eat before I even got up in the morning (hence the ginger snaps) also eating little and often - dry crackers etc were ideal for carrying around. I also used sea bands on my wrists .. not sure if they are worth a try perhaps!

Sorry not having a great day with my DH!! But ms is so shitty and deadly that if you find something that helps, stick with it...the babe will get what it needs and you can worry about losing weight afterwards. Get him to give up everything he likes alongside you!!

Cereal bars, mange tout/sugar snap peas, carrot sticks, CHOCOLATE if you want it!!

Tell him to fark off?
Of course you'll end up big - you are pregnant for God's sake.
What an arse of a man!

(can you tell I'm pre-menstrual?! I'm sure your dh is lovely.)

Seriously, plain biscuits are good. I also ate a lot of cereal in pregnency as it was light so I could keep it down.

I went through faces of what I could eat. As soon as you have had enough of for example throwing up chocolate biscuits (it will probably put you off chocolate biscuits for a long time) you move on to something else, like me it was milk, and that is a horrible thing to throw up, then hot dogs, then bananas, then after three-four months of that the morning/day sickness (mostly) disappeared and I got back to my healthy eating.

They do say dry biscuits like rich tea and ginger biscuits are good. Also try to start the day with some water.

uh, with my son I almost lived on Ribena for the first few months.

Sorry but at 4 weeks and 4 days, any morning sickness you feel is probably all in your head.

If you feel like eating something, why not go for fruits?

Cote, all in your head?
What rot!
I was sick (yes, actual vomitting) from the first day of my first missed period.
I wasn't ttc so was unaware I was pg.
It is common to feel sick from very early on.

it depends how sensitive you are to the pregnancy hormones when you get sick and how severe it is. Many people throw up before they know they are pregnant so how can it be in their heads?

fizzy water

Congratulations FWIW
Eat and drink what suits you, I liked orange juice in the morning, it was the only thing that I could have first thing.

Maybe try some dried fruit (very sweet).

Congratulations Astrophe. Eat the biscuits if you want them, especially if you can't keep anything else down - I ate tons of plain choc digestives washed down with milk. Other ideas - cereal/cereal bars; dried fruit (with yogurt coating); oatcakes with cream cheese/honey/butter/jam; bananas. Reflexologist suggested warm milk with cinammon - I was troughing cinnamon grahams like no tomorrow anyway, so maybe something in that? (Although they are Nestle, so apologies for that!!!).

I second oatcakes. Nairns do sweet ones in a box wrapped up in little packets of 5. I like the cranberry or spice ones but they also do ginger. They are quite tasty but you're other half will think you are being oh so well behaved. BTW make sure you point out all you are going through for his child!

Hope the sickness passes.

The only thing that would stop me feeling sick was a huge hot chocolate and pain au raisin. I didn't weigh myself once during my pregnancy, but I know I didn't put on that much.
Don't be made to feel guilty - isn't this the one time in your life where it's ok to eat what you want (within reason!) Why eat loads of things you dislike (cos they're 'healthy') rather than the odd choccy biscuit to alleviate your sickness?

Thanks everyone Def NOT all in my head Cote, I have been feeling a touch sick since about a week before I missed my period.

Its not bad at all now, just unpleasant, and not vomiting...yet (hopfully not at all, but going on passed history thats unlikely).

I did try those sea bands with DC1, but they didn't help. No harm in trying again. Oatcakes are such a great idea - will head stright for the supermarket when we get back to the UK. In the meantime, might try some dried fruit and breadsticks if I can find them - haven't seen the in the local supermarket here (france - ayone know if they have them? Aisle full of pre toasted toast, but no breadsticks...)

As for fruit, its not always easy to have on the move - apples would be good, but couldn't stomach a banana when feeling ill, and I can't eat citrus...most other things out of season.

biscuits are the way to go for relieving morning sickness

I have been eating a lot of biscuits and chocolate and sweet stuff because it really helps with the nausea. I had very severe sickness and lost over a stone in first trimester. I am now 21 weeks, still feel sick but not being sick as much. I am 7 pounds under pre-preg weight and still scoffing biscuits, so I wouldn't worry too much. Give your body what it wants - men don't really understand these things...