Can I avoid first tri food aversions? - Page 2

[MamaLea]

I'm pregnant right now, first tri, and suffering a bit with not only aversions but nasea worse than either of my other pregnancies. I'm not as hardcore traditional as many of you. I had just started like 3-4 months before conceiving so I was still in transition. But I say give your self a break! It only lasts a few weeks and as long as you eat well before it hits and after it is gone, those few weeks of issues just get in what you can, and make sure you get lots of fluids.

I've been sick and unable to cook for about 2 weeks. I've found I can eat eggs if they're boiled, thankfully, but anything else I prepare myself I cannot eat without puking. This leaves dh to cook, which means spaghetti or pizza or tacos. He can cook our grass fed ground meat if i leave, and that helps. And we do frozen pizzas, trying to get 'healthier' choices.

But really, the sickness doesn't last long enough to worry yourself I think. The added stress and guilt I felt made it worse and letting it go has helped. And again after 2 really awful weeks it is starting to turn around, I don't feel like puking all day so I see a light and I cannot wait to get back to cooking!

Good luck ttc!

[Smokering]

I had that with my previous (non-TF) pregnancy. I craved two-minute noodles for weeks. Ew! But anything healthier just seemed vile.

They do say invalids have a harder time digesting fat, so if the first trimester makes you sick it makes sense you'd be averse to fatty foods. Maybe if you're used to, say, cooking eggs in butter, your body would be expecting them to be fatty and object even if you poached them or cooked them in some other non-fatty way?

I guess it'd explain the carbs too - refined carbs are sort of easier to digest than whole grains, aren't they? DH often requests white rice if he's feeling iffy - he claims brown rice is too heavy. And I'm currently laid up with the flu, and can confirm that eating brown rice doesn't appeal at present. (OK, eating white rice doesn't appeal hugely either, but it seems less dank and stodgy. Wanna know what I'm actually craving? Two-minute noodles! Go figure...)

I agree that it seems like a cruel trick, anyway. As a PP said, it emphasises the importance of really stocking up on nutrients before TTC to get you over the first trimester. Which of course is not terribly comforting if you got pregnant accidentally; the WAPF method does seem to require a certain tight control over fertility which isn't everyone's cup of tea.

[Ms. B. Sprout]

Thanks to everyone who posted in this thread! Your posts have given me a lot to think about.

Now I am working on eating very very well until I can't anymore.

[suzukiaustin]

You may be a lucky one that can still maintain a good diet in the first trimester. Don't set yourself up for doom just yet.

I got preggo w/#3 (surprise) while Primal/Paleo and still had bad morning sickness. I never threw up (thank God) which I did every few hours with my SAD ds#1, but I was still sick. Then things got all messed up when I got food poisoning while traveling overseas. I thought death was coming to get me. I lost 12 pounds and I was already on the skinny side.

Cereal did sound good the first trimester, but I made a grain free granola with nuts, seeds, dried fruit and coconut and that did the trick for me. But I did eat a couple of black bean tacos several times just because I wanted them so badly in my first trimester.

I'm back to being Paleo now and doing well.

I don't get it, morning sickness, and I don't know if I ever will. Eat as well as you can now and get back on track if you fall off the wagon. And absolutely, do not beat yourself up. You're doing well just being aware of your eating habits. Lucky baby.

Blessings!

[rockycrop]

I'm in the first trimester as well and feeling the same. Everything that I know is good for me sounds disgusting.

I actually just checked out a book at the library called "Pregnancy Sickness", thinking it might have some tips to help get me through. It was actually all about the author's theory that sickness/food aversions in the first trimester evolved to keep pregnant women away from plant toxins while organ formation is taking place. The author was adamant that vegetables, herbs and spices should be avoided. Fruit is fine to eat because it is obviously meant to be eaten so the seeds can be spread. She also explained that many women have a hard time cooking during the first tri. because toxins can be released as fumes.

I can't say that I can totally avoid all vegetables or spices, but it is an interesting theory. I'm really just trying to do the best I can and trying not to feel too guilty for eating something I've haven't eaten since college because everything else in the world repulses me. I ate well before pregnancy and I'll eat well again when these aversions are over. For the meantime I'm just trying to get through the day.

[newcastlemama]

That is an interesting theory about the vegetables. I normally eat lots of veggies including a giant salad everyday for lunch. That just sounds yucky now...The only things that sound okay are meats, starches, and fruit/sweet foods...I am really into chinese food right now which is unfortunately very heard to find gluten free except at PF Changs which is pricey. But my sweet dh is takng me there for dinner tonight

I keep trying to remind myself that I ate bad for 6 weeks with both my children and they were born very healthy.

[Ms. B. Sprout]

I have to bump this thread up to laugh at myself for thinking I could avoid first tri food aversions -- I am 10 weeks and just now coming out of a nasty month of eating CRAP CRAP CRAP.

Oh well, I was eating tons of liver and greens up to the point that I couldn't anymore. And that's thanks in part to this thread -- I really buckled down for a while there. So thanks, y'all!

Now I'm feeling a little better and I am weaning myself off the cereal and junky junk junk.

[TonyaW]

I think your body is wise and will crave what it needs. If it craves carbs you probably need them. If you crave cereal then eat a healthy type of cereal, homemade if you can find the energy to make it. For me it was bread and cheese.  Vegetables and meats were nasty to me. I ate what I craved, but just made the foods I craved the healthiest choice I could within my energy level.