Cravings and other Questions (Kind of an Intro)

Erze

Is it normal to have cravings so early in the pregnancy? Also, I feel extremely nauseous the first thing I wake up in the morning, but its alleviated if I drink some juice or eat something. Is this how people normally deal with "morning sickness"? I get drowsy and tired in the afternoon, around 3:30 - 4:00 PM, but when I get home from work, I cannot fall asleep. Then I wake up in the middle of the night, nauseated, and sleep on the couch. I wake up again around 3:30 AM and go back to the bed, and then the cycle begins anew. If I don't eat anything, I start dry-heaving. I didn't eat a large amount of food before the pregnancy. I typically had maybe 1,200 calories a day, if I was lucky. Now I am hungry all of the time, and I feel like I am constantly eating. 

I am use to being tired, but from sleep deprivation. I'm a graduate student and I work full-time. But I've never been this exhausted. Ever. I also never drank juice before the pregnancy and now I can't get enough of that or fruit. I feel incredibly lazy by not being able to focus on my work, my dissertation or my research. I am incredibly self-conscious about not being productive and I feel like napping all the time makes me seem lazy. Even though I know logically that I am not, and my body is currently undergoing massive changes. I think I just want to know I am not alone. 

thegoodpotato

This is all VERY normal for early pregnancy.

My first, I felt like I had drunk a bottle of whiskey every morning until I had breakfast.  And I napped through my lunch break every day.

Eating usually goes one way or another.  You're either ravenous and eat everything in sight, or hate everything and can't eat. 

Erze

Thank you.

lcwed

Everything you've posted sounds like symptoms other people have talked about. I know I feel nausea the most when I have an empty stomach. I was the opposite of you. I ate normal amounts pre pregnancy but now seem to eat smaller amounts. Maybe that's your case. Eating the opposite now that you are pregnant.

ForeverAmberNicole

Welcome and congrats! yep completely normal. when i'm not nauseous, im craving sweets! your body is building a tiny little human being, it's going to take a lot out of you.

Erze

Thank you. 

I've decided pasta is a bad idea since yesterday I threw up and blew some vomit out of my nose. - . - 

OmSweetOm

My nausea is out of control when I allow myself to get super hungry (or in the morning). But, just to make things interesting when I get hungry it also seems like the thought of eating makes me want to lose it. I gagged today at the supermarket when I looked at a box of crackers. Crackers. Wtf is gross about a cracker?!

mahalo3

thegoodpotato said:

My first, I felt like I had drunk a bottle of whiskey every morning until I had breakfast.  

This! I feel hung over everyday! And I am starting to feel this way all day!  

Erze

OmSweetOm said:

My nausea is out of control when I allow myself to get super hungry (or in the morning). But, just to make things interesting when I get hungry it also seems like the thought of eating makes me want to lose it. I gagged today at the supermarket when I looked at a box of crackers. Crackers. Wtf is gross about a cracker?!

I had orange juice as soon as I woke up. Then, I ate a cinnamon roll for breakfast and threw it up. We had Mexican at work today, which is fantastic, because the amount of salt in it makes it possible for me to keep it down. But I feel you on the thought of eating making you want to lose it. I feel like that a lot. If it isn't fruit or something high in sodium, I don't want it. 

Erze

mahalo3 said:

thegoodpotato said:

My first, I felt like I had drunk a bottle of whiskey every morning until I had breakfast.  

This! I feel hung over everyday! And I am starting to feel this way all day!  

Yep. I'm drinking a little bit of coffee right now just to get through the next two hours.

PeaceofKia

I want to vomit the most when I'm beyond hungry. If I ate too far from when I fell asleep, I wake up with hunger nausea if that makes any sense .

Erze

PeaceofKia said:

I want to vomit the most when I'm beyond hungry. If I ate too far from when I fell asleep, I wake up with hunger nausea if that makes any sense .

It might sound mean, but I'm glad I'm not the only one that is going through this. I thought I was weird.

PeaceofKia

Yes, hungry is really like the only time I feel nauseated. So weird.

kirby&shine

This sounds exactly like me. I skipped work today and laid in bed practically the entire day. I've always been am active person and not having control over this lack of energy am fatigue is makings depressed. I am nauseated and get hungry all the time and when I eat I get heartburn or gas or feel bloated. I can never win.