Welcome to the forums! I had terrible morning sickness too and went off a lot of foods. I wouldn't worry too much. I would just make sure your wife is on a pregnancy vitamin to keep everything up to her and in terms of your bubs he/she will be very good at sucking all the vitamins and minerals etc he/she needs from your wife to grow properly. I would only be concerned if she is underweight, even if that is the case it should be fine.
If you are very concerned speak to your gp/ob and ask some advice and other than that I suggest getting a rice cooker! not sure how well it lasts cause I've never tried it but my rice cooker you're meant to be able to leave the rice in it and keep it warm for up 2 8hrs!
Oh and also this stage will probably be over before you know it and you never know tomorrow it might be rice she can't stand!
Oh one more thing i thought is that our bodies are good at making us crave things that we are in lack of when we're preg...plus a few things we don't so much need to grow a healthy baby
Hi there Peter, it is crazy bussiness this morning sickness, I remember crying because I was so hungry, but throwing up if I ate something. I found that small nibbles of what ever I could stomach frequently was better then a full meal. Salty thing like chips worked sometimes nothing that was battered or oily. I found that if I thought about a food before I ate it , I could gauge how it was going to effect me lol. Maybe ask her what she thinks she could stomach, then prepare it for her.
Keep up the water again small sips usually work better if feeling sick.
Rice, Pasta, noodles, icy poles and watermelon - oh and Macdonalds. I still have trouble tolerating andything with too much flavour. As some of the other girls said, so long as she is eating something and taking some sort of multivitimin she should be fine - and will hopefully get over the m/s soon.
I was like this too - I couldn't stand most meats, vegetables, fruit... basically anything that was good for me! My DH and I would wander the supermarkets with him suggesting possibilities for tea, and I'd turn my nose up at 95% of it, but would usually eventually find something I thought I'd be able to stomach. This lasted most of the first trimester, but settled down early in the second trimester, and I've had a normal appetite for the rest of the pregnancy.
As long as she's taking multivitamins, bub and her will be fine.
I ate mostly crackers and cheese for a few weeks. Couldn't stomach the vegies or salads I knew I should be eating. I only felt like salty things with a bit of protein.
I found it really helped if I ate a dry cracker or two before getting out of bed in the morning, and if I didn't allow myself to get really hungry, so snacking on small things often rather than trying to eat a whole meal at once. For me getting hungry made me feel too sick to eat, so it was something to be avoided if possible.
I've always wanted to know WHY you get so sick with m/s that you can tolerate Maccas???
I would be soo hungry but sick - I could always get a cheeseburger AND fries down ok! I think I actually cried with joy while I ate a cheeseburger once!!!
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