eating

[birthmommom]

ok...so the first 23 weeks or so I could not eat, i was throwing up a lot and just not interested in eating.

So now I am 26 weeks and I feel like I cannot stop eating somedays. It is crazy, I will eat and feel like I need to eat more. Usually I will wait to make sure that I am really hungry.

anyone else notice that they are eating more or less?

the other thing is I am worried about gaining a ton of weight at the end. I have gained 9 pounds so far and I was overweight before getting pregnant.

[seamama11]

I am eating more in general, hungrier in general but also eating more sweets than usual, which I know isn't ideal. I have gained 17 pounds so far and I am 28 weeks. I never lost the last 10 from my past pregnancy, so I am hoping to stay around 25 this time, but think 30 is more realistic. I gained about 35 last time.
I say if you are hungry, eat....
Sarah

[Writerbird]

I'm hungry all the time, and have been for weeks now. I've also gained 25 pounds already. The off switch seems to just be broken - even when I can tell that I'm physically full, I'm still hungry. There's nothing I can do about it, so I try to just keep the food in the house as healthy as possible. Maybe I can't stop eating, but at least we're talking about fruit, cheese, nuts, whole grain bread, yogurt, and peanut butter. I found out the hard way that I'm capable of eating a plateful of cookies as easily as a bowl full of grapes, so I might as well just buy the grapes.

[Dea]

I guess I've been lucky that I've never been unable to eat. I've had some aversions, but nothing serious. What's killing me now is I have no desire to eat. I feel hunger, but don't care to satiate it, mostly I get irritated when I'm hungry because food is just so mundane and irrelevant to me. It's strange because last year this appetite would have been great! But now, not so much.
Me and my misbehavin' metabolism.

[SamuraiMom]

I can't eat more, now that my baby is taking up most of my abdomen, I can only fit so much into my stomach without hurting myself, which sux because we often are invited to friends houses for Shabbat dinner (Friday night dinner) and there is always a huge spread, and I suffer. Greatly. I can not even imagine getting any bigger than this. But anyway, I am not eating more than usual, and I almost wonder why, because with all of my other pregnancies I was always hungry. So I guess I am just eating enough, and if I eat too much I get heartburn.

[BJSkolnik]

I am exactly in your position! I hardly ate at all the first several months, just wasn't hungry. I had to force myself to eat something for the baby! now, I'm 27 weeks and hungry almost all the time! I'm also worried about weight since I was fluffy to begin with! lol we'll have to see what happens! I've gained 10 pounds so far, but I only gained 17 with dd altogether.

[applecore]

I'm surprised at how little hunger I have been feeling lately! I usually have severe hypoglycemic reactions to not eating often, but with this pregnancy it seems like I could go forever without eating. I actually have to force myself to eat at times because I know I'm not taking in enough. Haven't gained much, either.

[Teenytoona]

I've certainly been hungrier lately, but I was able to eat the entire pregnancy. I've been in fact, ravenous lately! Not like I've been deficient in the protein realm, but I've wanted lots of stuff like chicken. I've been up to eating nearly half of a rotisserie style chicken (not every day, but a few times lately)! Really wierd. I'm trying to make sure I've got a good amount of protein in the diet, but sometimes it seems like it's not enough.

I am having a really hard time wanting to eat veggies. I have to make myself eat them, and I'm not even very consistent with them. I love spinach (normally), but at this point I look at spinach like... ehhh it can wait. Not that I should, but that's what I've been doing. This week I'm renewing my efforts to be better balanced, so we shall see if it works out better...

[mama_nym]

I had 21 weeks of severe morning sickness and now, at 27.5 weeks, am almost continuously hungry, but can only eat little bits at a time. In the past 5 weeks I've eaten SO MUCH and was so worried about my weight gain - and then I weighed myself at my mw's office and had only gained a pound! I lost 18lbs in my first trimester (and was forcing myself to eat, as I'm tandem nursing AND growing a baby!) and have gained 2 lbs back, so I'm not too worried about weight gain.

[nolonger]

I don't have much of an appetite either, but I have had sudden busts of it and "food emergencies" where I had to eat someting RIGHT AWAY that have given me a small idea of what my teenaged boys have to live with on a regular basis.

The baby is strong and healthy, though, so I'm not going to worry too much. Worrying doesn't help. I've had skinny pregnancies and fluffy pregnancies, both of which resulted in healthy, full-term infants, so I guess this is just another skinny pregnancy.

[lilyblossom]

My appetite is really weird. I had a million food aversions and lost a bunch of weight from morning sickness up to 18 weeks. I've been slowly climbing ever since then and now I'm at about 7lbs more than pre-pregnancy weight.

I went throug maybe a month where I couldn't eat enough. Now it just feels like I'm broken...I haven't been feeling hungry, mostly thirsty. It's kind of like my hunger switch is broken, I can eat but I never feel full, but nor do I ever feel hungry.

The way it ends up working is DH makes me food and I eat it but if it wasn't for him, I just wouldn't think about it.

Strange, eh?