Food aversions and cooking for DH/SO

How in the hell do you do it? Everything in my fridge is making me sick. Nothing seems appealing to me. I have to eat plain toast with butter or saltines just to get something in my system.

The thought of cooking for my DH is making me feel queasy. I don't feel like cooking anything. I'm totally feeling like a bad wife right now.

Any tips?

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Explain to DH/SO that this is (usually) only temporary and that he's going to have to fend for himself for a few weeks. Feel better!!

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DH knows what makes me sick so he has been helping with cooking lately. I totally understand what you are goign thru it's horrible! I can't look at chicken or smelling spices without getting sick!

Food aversions and cooking for DH/SO

If DH wanted something that grossed me out, he cooked it for himself. If I had to go through the all day sickness and horrible food aversions, it's only fair he has to cook his own eggs!

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If this happens, and it rarely has, DH will cook for himself and DD and HE will make me what I want (bagel or whatever). But we both cook, no one person has that role here.

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I too feel like a horrible wife.

There's no cooking, no cleaning and we do our laundry seperately already which is good because I've had stuff laying in baseket out of the hamper for 2 weeks.

I don't think I've cooked since December honestly lol. Between the holidays and DH going away for work that month I probably only cooked twice then too!

I feel bad but DH's been helpful. He hasn't cooked cooked so much as picked up food for me. At this point, I'm getting very frustrated that I have very little appetite (which then makes me sick) and when I do eat it's nothing that I'm really enjoying or even want.

Food aversions and cooking for DH/SO

Yesterday was one of 3 dinners I've cooked since before Christmas. Luckily DH loves to cook so he's been doing it all.

Don't feel too bad. It will pass. There were a few weeks there where I barely got off the couch to shower. Between fatigue and food aversions it was a rough time. Hang in there it gets better!

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I don't lol. DH gets what I can eat or he gets his own dinner.

Food aversions and cooking for DH/SO

You are not a bad wife. You are growing his child, and along with that comes food aversions and fatigue. He is a big boy and he can fend for himself. This is #2 for me, so DH learned a long time ago that he needs to eat what I want to eat, and that is basically the diet of a 5 year old - mac and cheese, pizza, pretty much anything with carbs and cheese! The good news is that it should pass when you get into your second trimester.

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With my first, the aversions were so bad. I couldn't cook so we ate out a lot, whatever I felt like that day. I could stand the sight of chicken in my fridge but KFC chicken was fine with me.

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Thanks girls.

I know I can't really help it, but I still feel bad. It also doesn't help that my DH doesn't even know how to boil water! I should've trained him early on lol.

He's a really bad eater so the thought of him feeding for himself is a bit scary! Thanks again for the support.

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Shouldn't last too long. He should understand. Hang in there...

I still have aversions to some foods when I smell it but most will be ok.

Food aversions and cooking for DH/SO

DH is lucky I cook for him on a normal day....when I was pg he never expected it.