Pregnancy diet

Chicken. I had it really bad with smells during the first trimester - I couldn't go anywhere near the kitchen and had to cross the street instead of walk past a restaurant but chicken was always a winner. I couldn't eat it out though, I had to cook it myself.

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Sadly, no. I threw up everything, including water and crackers. With my daughter, the worst offender was the smell of coffee. I had to ban it from my house because it made me horribly sick.

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Cold cereal was a life saver for me during both pregnancies. It never upset my stomach, and the smell of cold milk always felt "right."

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Starbucks Venti Vanilla Cream Frappaccino -- its milk with cream and sugar. And, as gross as it sounds, it tastes the same going down as coming back up. (I had hyperemmitus--that was VERY important to me!)

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I'm pregnant now for the second time, and this one's hit me like a truck. But as before, the two things I can always count on are good, steel-cut scotch oats simmered with butter and maple syrup and dried friut, and toast. I'm also craving eggs this time around, plain poached - the protein is great since I've gone completely off of meat.

Last time, I was all fruit, veg, fibre.. the perfect picture of pregnancy nutrition.. this time, all I want is KD and harvey's burgers, but at least I still have enough brain cells (so far) to indulge those cravings in moderation! I can't promise that will last, though.

I can also relate to the dreaded smells.. I worked in Yaletown in Vancouver during my first pregnancy, and had to 'walk the gauntlet' every morning between festering dumpsters. I learned how to hold my breath for a good two blocks. :)

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I had bad morning sickness both my pregnancies but the types of food that made me feel better were always "comfort" foods: mac and cheese, mashed potatoes,peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, clementines were good too. Also, an occasional mineral water (low mineral content) tasted very good.

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Large curd cottage cheese, it was bland enough with enough texture that it was the only thing that seemed to work especially when the nausea was the worst - for me that was the middle of the afternoon after getting home from work. Before cooking dinner I'd quickly dish out half a cup and slowly eat it, and sure enough I felt a lot better and ready to continue on with the evening.

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Lemon! Anything flavored with lemon was pretty benign to me, and sometimes actually made the nausea abate (for a few minutes, anyway). I kept lemon drops by the bed for first morning popping, and always squeezed lemon juice into my water. It was the only thing that kept me sane.

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I think saltines and ginger ale are universal nausea soothers...
The thing that revolted me the most was the smell of *Post-um* (coffee alternative) which to this day, I will never go near! I also made the mistake of having a bagel w/ lox & capers one morning for breakfast...NOT a good choice for preganancy, LOL.

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Navel oranges for me. When I discovered that they were the only thing I could consistently tolerate, it was like heaven.

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Watermelon.

Everyone keeps telling me "crackers are the key," but I disagree.

When you can't seem to keep anything down, watermelon is way better than crackers and has the added benefit of being mostly water which you need in order to avoid getting dehydrated.

Watermelon has been my favorite.

And, if you end up hurling anyway, watermelon doesn't hurt as much as other foods, like crackers, or pizza for example, which burn like a wildfire coming up.

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Grapes - green seedless. I ate bags and bags of these through my whole pregnancy. I even kept them in a bowl by my bed for when I woke up hungry at 2am. Oh and corn flakes also were eaten in abundance.

Things I couldn't stand - the smell of raw or cooking chicken and salami... my poor husband was banned from even bringing his favorite lunch meat into our house...

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My vice was beef-I wanted it 24-7. And I refused to even look at chicken.- couldn't stand the sight, smell or taste of chicken. all I wanted was the beef-didn't matter how it was cooked.

The smell that always got me heaving was my husband's Axe Deodorant-I made him stop using it while I was PG. I can tolerate it now but for some reason I could smell that stuff a mile away when I was pregnant and it had me running for the bucket.

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I couldn't tolerate chicken, even the tiniest bit. I could see someone else eating or preparing it and I'd run for the bathroom.

My salvation was, weirdly, sandwiches of roasted red peppers and fresh mozzarella cheese. Some sort of bread (the chewier the better), olive oil, a few slices of cheese and a pile of roasted pepper. By the eighth month, I was eating them for breakfast and supper -- I think that the record was six or seven days without eating anything other than that sandwich. I still eat them, but much less frequently.

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Tim's Cascade Style Salt and Vinegar potato chips. I ate four or five chips with EVERY SINGLE MEAL until I was four months pregnant with my first son.

Every. Single. Meal. I would have a bowl of bran cereal and some chips, a turkey sandwich and some chips, a salad and some chips. They had to be Tim's, and they HAD to be salt and vinegar. No other brand or flavor worked.

I don't know if it was the salt or the vinegar, but they were a godsend.

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weird story:
My morning sickness was not too awful, and not prolonged; but for several weeks, EVERYTHING on earth smelled utterly vile.

I was quite nauseous at church one sunday (I'm a minister) and when a friend wanted to take me to lunch, it occurred to me that I could probably stomach some Chipolte beef tacos. With guacomole. Eating 3 completely dispensed with my nausea, and in fact, I had not one bit of morning sickness for the rest of the pregnancy.

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Coffee with both. But coffee still makes me want to hurl and my son is now 3yrs old.

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pancakes. I have never eaten so many pancakes in my life.

oddly, they've also helped a couple of times when milk supply has been running low...!

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chicken soup, watermelon, honeydew melon, strawberry sorbet, and saltines.. That was pretty much all I could tolerate.. oh, and ginger candies.

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Salad or should I say lettus has been my saving grace...at 35 weeks I'm over the morning sickness but for the first 4 months that was pretty much all I could keep down on a regular basis. Oh and mashed potatoes but only the ones from KFC. :)

The foods that made me sick were anything orange or orange flavored, pizza, chiness, and mint. MINT...it's suposted to be soothing right? Noooo....one mint tea and I was sick as a dog.

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