Eating, Cravings, First Trimester

[Snag]

This week has been, by far, the hardest in my pregnancy. This is baby's tenth week. Not only do I have my regular 23/7 nausea (gotta minus an hour for all the times when I realise, "Hey, I suddenly don't feel nauseous!" only for it to come back ten minutes later), but I've also begun throwing up (morning sickness). Lovely!

I just can't keep much down. If I eat anything remotely better than the list I'm about to provide, sure enough, I'm back worshiping the toilet. Almost all food repulses me at the moment. The only things at this time I can eat and keep down is plain gluten free pasta, mandarins, plain crackers, ginger ale, cheeto's, and peanut butter MnMs. What I'm really craving is BBQ ribs and hot crusty bread (that would be terrible - I'm gluten free).

I guess my question is, how do you ladies' go about regulating these nauseous times? Do you give into your cravings even if they're not healthy? I've read somewhere that what you eat has an affect of how your birth might be... So...

 

[MummyToAmberx]

I dont agree with last few lines

if ive ate nothing i fancy a pie ill try some chances are i'll eat 1 to 2 bites and push it away. all food is freaking me out im struggling to even keep water down.
Keep eye on how much your eating/drinking and throwing up. Im going back to docs i feel vile x

 

[mummy_vic]

Hugs sweetheart, it's awful isn't it. I had MS right up to the end last time and at almost 5 weeks I'm feeling nauseous and have gone right off my food. For me anything with ginger in it helps, I've drank countless cups of ginger tea today! At this stage I think just anything that you can get to stay down, have it. I wouldn't worry about it being healthy!

 

[CountryDarlin]

I haven't thrown up yet (knock on wood) but starting to get more nausea, and have food aversions. I can't even think about chicken or any meat really. I made hubby nuggets last night and blehh. Just the smell.

I've been wanting mostly healthy stuff (celery with ranch, baby tomatoes, etc) but if I'm feeling a cookie, I eat one. I've found that my nausea is worse if I have an empty stomach. My current favorite today is mashed potato salad and sweet pickles. (What a pregnancy cliche, I know) And my hubby is awesome and bought me Preggie pops! They've helped quite a bit...think you can find them at walgreens or cvs, but they are basically suckers. You could probably get the same effect by sucking on a dum-dum or peppermint candy. Hope you feel better soon!

 

[cookette]

I give in. Im not gluten free but we have always eaten extremely clean and healthy.

However, I am now off all meat. All. I wanted pizza so bad the other day, I gave in. Im better with something on my stomach, and when only one thing sounds edible, i go for it, because otherwise who knows when I will eat again? And for some reason, I cant eat past 6 every night! Im done! Can only hope this passes quickly..

 

[Sunseal]

I think at this stage my opinion is to eat what you can. Thankfullly I seem to be over the worst of it, but a few weeks ago I literally couldn't eat or drink a thing. Just the thought of eating anything turned my stomach and I couldn't even keep down water.
However, things progressed and after a while there were a couple of things I found I began to have a 50/50 chance of keeping down. Flat lemonade helped for a while (but then strangely started having the opposite effect), and also coconut water seemed to help settle my stomach, but only if I sipped at it and didn't have too much. If I had too much it started making me want to hurl. Plain water was a big no no right up until only a few days ago.
I also found that when I woke up in the morning, if I had a biscuit in bed (just a plain, sweet biscuit), it seemed to set me up for the morning and allow me to at least think about functioning. Small nibbles, if I ate it too fast I generally threw it back up.
My diet was terrible, and is only just beginning to improve. I swear not a single healthy thing passed my lips in at least 3 weeks, purely because most things (especially healthy things) made me hug the toilet.
Once I became able to eat certain things, I lived on chicken and mushroom slices (cold pastry pie slice things) and.. well.. that's pretty much it.
Now, I'm into my 10th week and feeling much better. Weirdly, I can't get enough of just plain water and although my diet still isn't great as I can only eat what I fancy, I'm beginning to fancy more and more. I'm starting to actually sit and have dinner and I'm actually starting to feel hungry.
Basically, what I'm saying is just eat what you can. Anything is better than nothing and soon enough, your appetite will gradually work its way back. During the early weeks the baby's nutritional dependancy on you is minimal anyway, it's still using its yolk sac. Big hugs.

 

[Magsy]

I agree with the other ladies. Eat what you can stomach! I lived on ginger ale and crackers for a week because they were the only things that didn't make me want to vomit. Now my MS is finally easing off and I'm back to eating healthy again. I would try to make sure that you take a vitamin if you can stomach it. I switched to the gummy ones and they were much easier to take.

 

[Jinga]

I haven't been throwing up, but have had lots of nausea followed by being completely repulsed by food. At the moment, I'm eating anything that doesn't make me queasy at the thought of eating it (mostly bready stuff, fruit, frozen lemonade pops). Any time I get a craving, which is not often, I take full advantage and eat it. Not eating enough calories has been making me feel way worse than eating less than perfectly healthy foods. If I held out only for the most healthy foods, I'd probably be in the hospital with an IV. Even though junk food is not the most ideal, it provides something your body needs everyday ... calories. If you are drastically low on calories, which it sounds like you likely are, eat whatever you can keep down.

 

[slo]

So far, I haven't thrown up too. But I have the nauseaous feeling, styms all day but mostly in the morning and evening.For some reason it goes off for a while early in the afternoon.I take that opportunity to put down something.Whatever i feel like at that time.I have to take whatever food it is slowly and in small quantity, or I get all gagged up.

Generally all food is repulsive now. However,I have realised it helps when I change my environment,I eat better. Like at a hotel or my mums hse.So, i try that too.

 

[jboo]

I haven't experience morning sickness yet (fingers crossed) but I do get waves of nausea and major food aversions. The smell of my beloved coffee makes me want to hurl, peanut butter that was once my addiction makes me sick and any and all meats, eggs really make my stomach somersault!

I've been doing best to eat healthy as before I was a super clean eater but find myself saying OK to lots of crackers, dry cereal and sweet things here and there.