Food aversions
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Anonymous
| At nearly 8 weeks I haven't had any cravings, but I'm beginning to have major food aversions -- mainly to foods I love, like greens (seriously, cannot eat anything green) and sweet potatoes. And sugar/chocolate, which is bizarre because I am a total sugar addict in real life. Also, I can't stand to cook anything, though I don't mind eating meat or beans once someone else has cooked them. It isn't the smell -- it's just the thought somehow makes me gag. Is this normal? Does it get better? I can't imagine going 9 months without touching salad or cooked vegetables! My nutrition is going to be completely out of whack. At least I am able to eat fruit, which normally I find so-so and now am really enjoying. |
Anonymous
| It will get better. The second trimester is a wonderful thing. Once you hit about 13-14 weeks, you'll wake up one day and feel like your old self. It will actually happen THAT suddenly- just one morning you'll be back to normal. In my first pregnancy, I had the most awful aversions to food, even many of my favorites. I remember watching people eat and thinking, "I will never enjoy food again." But I did! I have slight aversions to things I really love this time around too, but not as bad as last time. Just tough out your first trimester and you'll get your taste for all those foods back. |
Anonymous
| It does get better. In my first tri, I couldn't eat any vegetables, no meat, no chocolate--so many food aversions. The smell of toasting bread made me sick. I lived on milkshakes and fruit and, if I was feeling really good, grilled cheese (I had to hide in another room while my husband cooked it). |
Anonymous
| totally normal. my aversions with my first 2 started later too, around 9 weeks and then lasted until almost 16 weeks. bluck. you've got plenty of time later on to eat super-healthy. just get through this however you can. maybe your sweet aversions mean you're having a boy? who knows.....with my son i craved salty, meaty food. and with my girl i wanted sugar in my tea which i don't even do, and all sorts of sweet things. good luck, OP! those first months can be grueling. |
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| I am normally not an, "it's get better" person, but it really does - I just found what I liked and ate it. And that thing was bagels. With or without cream cheese. Carbs and fat - things I've been avoiding for so, so long! Definitely find what you like and go with it. This part will be over before you know it! |
Anonymous
| Thanks. I guess I'm lucky not to be craving weird things, but it is very strange to have all my tastes suddenly upended. To the PP who said salty/meaty things might mean a boy -- I can tolerate meat though I don't crave it, but I just went through 2 cups of tortilla chips. Mmm salt. I usually pick sugar over salt any day but not now. Of course it'll be weeks until I find out if the theory holds true! |
Anonymous
| I could not STAND grocery stores at that stage. I had a lot of bland sandwiches and bagels. 2nd tri was much much better. One thing I never did get over, oddly, was an aversion to leftovers. |
Anonymous
| Soda - and I was an at least 2x/day diet coke drinker pre-pregnancy. Same thing last pregnancy, and that lasted the entire time, then as soon as they let me eat real food I wanted a root beer. I am 9 weeks and am developing aversions left and right. Many of them lasted the whole pregnancy last time. |