Feeling Extremely Hungry!

Yeah I started becoming absolutely ravenous about the time you are now. Just eat small amounts often. Try to grab low GI stuff, apples, muesli bars, wholegrain bread (I went mad on carbs lol!)
Don't beat yourself up about eating heaps either - you're doing a lot of hard work at the moment.

For feeling seedy I found lemon callippo iceblocks were a godsend. But everyone finds different things work.

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Yep, definitely! I just gave in and ate heaps of pizza, wedges, cheeseburgers etc etc Just this last week though I have noticed my appetite has come back to normal and I'm eating more healthy. Your body obviously needs more calories so I would just go for it, although maybe try eat better foods than I did!

If that fails, just do what I did and say 'the baby made me do it'

Im glad Im not the only one! I get confused between the ...äm I really hungry...or do I want to vomit then I realise that its both! my healthy eating has gone out the door! now I know why people can put on weight in pregnancy you just cant help what you grab to eat (well you can ) but I always feel like the carbs plain things or cheese and crackers or something! my ms has only just really kicked in and im strugling how to deal with it! a friend in oz mentioned to me pregnancy pops????? have no idea what they are though look forward to hearing what others find helpful

i ate badly for 12 weeks but have only put on 1.7kgs so far. i was weighed at the end of the 12 weeks and hadnt put on anything.
obviously my body was in need of all the carbs and extra food!

ohhhh i used to crave it..makes me sick now..pregnancy eh:)

Kiwikid I've been off veges the whole pregnancy. Before then I was a vege fiend. But I did find my fruit craving went up.

I can manage carrot sticks but that's about it

0h and also greek salad - cucumber, tomato, and feta cheese - I guess it's tangy enough for me to handle it.

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My hunger kicks in at night. I go to bed at 10 and wake up (reliably) at 12, 2, 4 and 5 to eat. Means I trot off to bed with a pile of food and wake up exhausted and with a yucky feeling mouth!

In the early months I was hungry all the time... and as soon as I was hungry I would throw up about ten mins later! I lived on toast and potatoes 'cos starch was all that stayed down. While I was waiting for toast etc. to cook I used to have an iceblock, the sugar seemed to make me feel a bit better and less chance of throwing up. Just make sure you don't let yourself get too hungry, eat something as soon as you need to! Sucking on a lollipop or an iceblock helped me a bit.

I couldn't keep down fruit or veg or dairy food for the first 5 months. But now those are my favourite foods... can't get enough fruit and veg and drink litres and litres of milk! I still have MS but only throw up once a day-ish now.

I feel bad for myself because I was eating heaps of fruit and vege early in the pregnancy (ie. whole heads of broccoli at a time!) as well as red meats, now I can't stomach anything other than toast, weet-bix and mcd's! No wonder my iron levels have dropped quite a lot!

Isnt it confusing all the different advice, all the stuff I have read / downloaded says feta is fine, its pasturised and if you eat it in two days from a sealed pack its okay. To me that says there is no risk, just the same as eating chedder or edam cheese really.

Ahhh now that I think of it do be careful though cos you can get goats cheese that is soft, you know the spreadable kind, that is made with rind (like brie etc) and that is part of the bad soft cheese thing.

The crumbly hard stuff is feta and is fine, the soft, spreadable, creamy stuff is called Chevre and I would avoid that

But that is totally my opinion only

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