Struggling to prepare food for my toddler due to morning sickness

Everything makes me gag. Everything. Even a yoghurt pouch makes me gag.

How did you get through this? I'm only 6 weeks pregnant and my sickness last time lasted until 16 weeks. Help.

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Oh girl I was exactly the same and it’s horrible! I’m so sorry you’re dealing with this

If you’ve got someone willing to help you (or even could you pay someone?) I had my mum spend a full day batch cooking for my toddler so all I had to was survive the microwaving of each meal and then I would sit on the opposite end of the room with a bucket while he ate so I could see him but not be too close

Happy to send you some of the recipes if you need ideas
But also know it’s totally okay if some days you need to feed them MacDonalds or whatever you can handle - this kind of pregnancy is very much about surviving and not being too hard on yourself

Oh that’s so hard I’m sorry 😩 where are you located? I’d love to help if you happen to be close by

Otherwise have you spoken to your doctors about medication options yet? I found that once I was on 3 different types of anti nausea medication plus weekly IV fluids I was well enough to deal with a handful of foods that we could rotate on the days my partner wasn’t home to cook for us 🤣

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