8 weeks, can't eat anything with any flavour - including tomatoes, ham, sugar etc

[BumptiousandBustly]

Today I have eaten 2 crackers, some cucumber and I managed half a scone but it was too sweet after that, couldn't eat anymore.

Last time I felt sick, but if I ate it helped and I could eat most things.

This time I basically gone off anything that tastes of anything. (sugar, cheese, ham, today it was tomatoes, artichoke hearts, anything sweet at all, I couldn't even stand the smell of wine gums)

Has this happened to anyone else and if so, what did you eat, and did it all get easier after 12/14 weeks?

My eating habits didn't really change in my last pregnancy so I am currently a bit worried that I will feel like this for the next 7 months.

I have had exactly the same both pregnancies. The first time I could cope with mints but this time I've lived on baked potatoes with a tiny bit of cheese and beans for protein that I could just about bear.

AT 16 weeks I've got a rotton appetite but can stomach most things again.

Hope your settles too.

Difficultdecision.

Good suggestion, thankyou very much, will promptly start baking potatoes!

Its good to hear it does subside - I would really worry about baby getting enough calories if this carried on for the whole of the pregancy.

(NB - pretty sure I couldn't cope with mints, wanted to throw up at the smell of winegums today!)

Shameless bump for any other suggestions/advise

First couple of months, I lived on bread, boiled rice, jacket potatoes and rice krispies....boring, but all I could stomach. At 12 weeks, I'm just starting to be interested in fruit, veg and things with a vague amount of taste. Gone right off pasta though, urgghh the slimeyness of it.

I couldn't either this time. This baby is going to come out looking like a baked potato!!

Baby will get the calories whatever only you will suffer . I took pregnacare while it lasted so at least I felt a bit better about my vitamin stores but most mornings it made me gag so I took it at dinner (with the potato .

difficultdecision, good idea about taking the vitamins with the potatoe - so that at least I am getting something.

Its funny - I can really see that DS likes eating things I ate while pregnant, this one is going to like potatoes and crackers!

It probably doesn't help you much just now but THIS WILL PASS. Honest! Keep to the bland stuff for now - you'll find though that your tastes and appetite WILL change though and your body will be able to cope with different flavours etc, eventually. I found watery fruit like berries, melon and strawberries a total life-saver (but that was at a later stage)

I do remember the bland-food-only phase though.

shudders at the memory of permanent nausea

Oh - and I heartily recommend rice cakes with a wee bit of butter and salt. Sesame ricecakes.

Sorry - just re-read your post and saw that you've been pregnant before. Didn't mean to teach you to suck eggs!

Mcsnail

You really aren't. I didn't feel like this last time, I felt sick, but eating helped and I could eat pretty much anything. Its been a real shock not to be able to eat anything this time.

the only thing i can eat at the moment is celery, anything and everything at the mo is making me sick and i'm only 8 weeks, not looking forward to the months ahead feeling like this lol!!!!

Sympathies - I was very similar when pg with dd. It lasted from about 6 to 13 weeks. All I could stomach were bagels, toast, rice, cereal - stuff that had little flavour. One particularly bad week (week 10 I think) all I ate more or less was Mullerice! I also had lots of milkshakes - made with nesquick but REALLY weak!

Baby came out a massive 10lb 1oz so I beleive what they say about the Mum suffering not the baby!

I too took pronatal tabs right through just to make sure I was getting my vitamins

It did ease, and was eating loads by the end!

Good Luck!

Have you tried citrus? I found eating a satsuma helped settle my stomach enough to be able to eat something else afterwards.

I couldn't drink water but if I put lemon in it it was fine. I also drank build up shakes.

i had this problem with ds who is now 8, i couldnt stand anything that was normally really nice or the smell of things cooking.

i lived on steamed new potatoes for months and ready salted crisps.

did change towards the end when i had cravings fro garlic bread with kebab meat and garlic mayo - something i hadnt eaten before or since!

agree with citrus

is highly processed food off for you as well? i found it bland enough ..but i know there's usually a lot of sugar in it

tinned veg, that kind of thing

otherwise can only suggest wholewheat pasta, with pulses for protein i think and then citrus for your vit c

I sympathise - had exactly the same problem, couldn't stomach any food with flavour. I was working at a Michelin starred Chinese restaurant when I was first pregnant and we could have anything we wanted off the menu. I'll never forget the evil look coming from the head chef everytime I asked for 'just plain boiled rice please'

To make things worse, dp is also a chef and I kept requesting dinner with 'absolutely no flavour'!! Thankfully those days have passed - week 15 was when my appetite came back and the sickness disappeared. It will get better I promise

Oh that's awful, I can't stand the smell of food at the moment and I'm 10 weeks. I only have to open the fridge door and I'm gipping like a cat bringing up a hairball!