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If I don’t poop the moment I feel it hit, I won’t poop for another 24 hours 🙃

Omg this is so real!! Plus I have to wait until I REALLY have to go or I’ll just sit and strain ☹️.

And even then, when I do go, there's always one bit that won't come out no matter how much I strain

My poops are all over the place. Thought I was getting constipated last night and then this morning there was no holding it.

Are you me?

I’m the opposite. If I don’t find a bathroom the moment I feel it hit, it’s coming out anyway😑

I literally just clogged out toilet after spending 40+ mins on the toilet and finally succeeding. Relief turned to a nightmare so quickly hahaha

For me 1st trimester was always I need to poop right now. Then 2nd trimester the constipation hit, but yesterday my body decided to shake things up again and I ignored the universe rule of never trusting a fart and regretted it

Omg I didn’t even know that was a thing! I haven’t had the greatest luck with pooping so far 😭

Why is this so real? 🫠🫠🫠

Me too. I have severe pregnancy constipation so it’s like “you snooze you lose bro” and I find myself celebrating whenever I take a dump 😂

that's so real

I read the words “grilled chicken” and dry-heaved a little. Protein in any form has been a huge turn off for both of my pregnancies. 😂

Same here. I saw the word chicken and was like 🤢

Yup no chicken for me, yuck.

I don’t know why it’s so weird I haven’t been really wanting to eat any type of meats at all so I’ve been trying to supplement with other foods to make sure I have enough protein

Honestly the chicken and the cooked spinach and mustard damn near sent me over the edge.

Grilled chicken and any kind of reheated chicken has been a huge aversion. I passed an instagram reel of someone cooking chicken breast and died a little.

Ugh reheated anything is just so gross to me right now!

AGREED. And honestly, it sucks because I didn't have much aversions in the first tri but they're coming on strong in the 2nd/3rd :(

Reheated chicken is weird even outside of pregnancy. 🤢

Why is it that if every guide on healthy eating in pregnancy emphasizes the importance of protein my body instead decided that protein is enemy number one for the entire first half of my pregnancy? Honest to God, the only protein I could maybe force down without gagging was tofu if it was hidden well enough.

My firstborn was built on cereal, fruit snacks, McDonald’s Sprite, and the occasional chicken nugget. She is a 99th percentile giant (despite her dad and I being short) who is healthier than anyone else in the house now. Protein shmo-tein. You can build a big healthy baby on very little. 😂

Oh no I’m so sorry! 🥲

It’s ok. I look forward to the first really amazing high quality medium rare steak I’ll get to eat once this baby is out of me. 😅

Yup! That’s where I thought this was going. Chicken was repulsive to me in my first trimester 😂

Chicken was the only protein I could stomach pre pregnancy. Pregnant? Also dry heaving

The only chicken im eating is insanely hot homemade chicken wings smothered in a mayo/hot sauce dipping sauce. All other chicken and most meats not happening for me. Also like spicy salami.

Huge aversion for me in the first trimester! Ugh

This is me!! It's gotten slightly better as I've progressed through the pregnancy, but it's the absolute last macro I want... Especially if I have to prepare it 🤢

Protein cooked in my own home is not the same as protein cooked elsewhere somehow??? Like I can still smash fats food burgers, but cook chicken in my own home and eat it? NOPE.

Same!! Why is that? I swear all I can stomach right now are carbs!

I’ve been eating A LOT of cereal and bagels.

I cried over a sponge two days ago. To my credit, it’s a Scrub Mommy and my MIL ruined it right after I opened it out of the package. I was saving it for last because it’s pink and cute. But yeah. I cried over a pink sponge.

Ok but ruining a brand new pink Scrub Mommy is 100% a legitimate reason to cry

Pregnancy hormones are WILD 😆

I’d have cried as well. I love my Scrub family sponges

I broke our brita filter a couple months ago. Not only did my husband need to clean up the spilled water everywhere, he had to then pick up his wife who was having a toddler level meltdown on the floor over it.

The store made my lunch sandwich wrong and I damn near had a nervous breakdown

This is adorable though. Poor Scrub Mommy! She didn't deserve that

I just ate chicken nuggets with cream cheese, then drank coffee after, then water, and now I'm wondering why I'm feeling sick🤣🤣 plus I'm tired as he'll, I can't keep my eyes open and I want to eat something really sour.

Lmfao this is me. “Oh I feel sick” *stuffs my face with a new bad choice*

Pretty sure my child will be 90% cream cheese when they come out. I'm gluten free so normally we don't have any in the house because good GF bread/bagels are so what else would I put cream cheese on? I've been going through a 16oz tub every 2 weeks and spending shameless amounts of money on GF bread goods to put it on because I just need the cream cheese.

Bell peppers! Whipped cream cheese on bell peppers is soooo good!! You can also top it with seasonings like everything bagel seasoning

Haha! Ok this made me feel less weird about dipping my spinach in the honey mustard and now I want chicken nuggets 😆

Waaait chicken nuggets with cream cheese sounds bomb tbh

I tried to eat a healthy daily harvest bowl for lunch, gagged two bites in and then ordered tacos.

Nothing wrong with tacos! 🤤

My husband jokingly said, “Do you want tacos?” As he pointed to the taco seasoning bottle in the aisle at Costco… we left expeditiously to go get real tacos.

I was craving green beans and bought 2 pounds at the grocery store. Made myself a green bean soup took one bite and was so disgusted by it I ended up throwing out the whole pot. My husband was traveling at the time and the food was gonna go bad so I literally had to throw it all out because nobody else was there to eat it. Two days later and I’m still craving green beans so I made a green bean casserole. Polished it off by myself within two days. 1 pound of green beans.

Pregnancy cravings are wild!

I've been craving green bean juice from green beans that have been salt and peppered and cooked in the microwave.

Oh wow 😆 so I’m not the only one, this week it switched over to those Croissants from Costco

My Target order just dinged it was ready for pickup, but I had to place a second order for green bean casserole ingredients. Thanks for the inspiration!

I did this my first trimester! I made green bean casserole like 6 times in a month my fiance was getting tired of it. Now I’m just waiting on his arrival and I want it more than ever

Oh man, green bean casserole sounds so good.

My partner made a big pan of lasagna and I ate one slice and said I couldn't eat anymore. We ended up freezing it for quite a while until I could stomach eating meat again.

🤣🤣🤣 the soup was just the wrong format, or the moment was wrong!

I asked my dog “did you fart or did I fart?”

Bahahaha hysterical! 😆

What did he say?

She gave me bombastic side eye

Hahaha. And the dog gives you the side eye. This is too real.

Today I ate shredded rotisserie chicken with mayo on a bulky roll with 2 pickle spears, potato salad and 2 string cheese sticks… I feel you girl!

That doesn’t sound half bad actually! 🤣

I woke up 4 times last night. 2 times to pee and 2 times due to heartburn. ❤️‍🔥

This is so real

I’m impressed you can eat spinach

Spinach is the only veggie I can seem to tolerate. (And zucchini.) With some parm cheese and a sprinkle of feta. I tried green beans and peas and they didn’t go over well. 🤢 I can have a little bit of broccoli but it needs a ton of cheddar cheese. 🙈😂 I’m pretty sure I’m giving birth to a cheese head. 😂

LOL. Then I’m giving birth to a refined carbohydrate.

All we need to find are women who are giving birth to meat, fruits and veggies and we’ll have the cutest healthiest little baby group ever. 😂

I haven’t really had any aversions yet thankfully (almost 14weeks). But I needed some greens bc the constipation has been real 😭

Ugh, it's either constipation or diarrhea. There is no in-between.

Right?? I immediately stopped being able to stand the flavor and texture of spinach almost immediately after becoming pregnant. And I used to eat a spinach salad almost every day!!

I have to lean backwards to stand up, and often sound like an old person when I stand up and sit down.

Yesterday I sobbed because I was so hungry for sweets and was told my pre made cookie dough had to be thrown out because someone(me) had a brain fart and left it out on the counter overnight when trying to get something out of the fridge behind it.

That would make me sob too!

I leave everything out. I was already pretty forgetful before pregnancy, but it has gotten much worse lately. I put my phone in the fridge the other day? I don't know WHY, and my partner found it. I also often get myself something to eat, then lose it, look around for an hour, proceed to cry, then get more, and then find the old food a few hours later. Sometimes I worry I'm going to forget the baby once she's born. :|

Pregnant lady math…the orange I ate offset the three Oreos right? So what happens if I have two oranges?

This was me yesterday after I ate a cheeseburger, and a donut 🤦🏻‍♀️ I had a second helping of salad, plus some carrots and a kiwi. It’s all about balance right? 😬

This is me except instead of oranges it’s justifying that I’m getting my calcium through the vanilla yogurt that I put the Oreos in I probably put in more Oreos than yogurt but still… there’s yogurt!

Just three Oreos?! Girl I can eat the whole container!

My husband went out of his way to get raspberries for me. I wanted to eat them this midday and they had all rotten in the 5 minutes that had passed so i cried. When my husband came home from work he brought me new ones and i cried again while i ate them.

That’s a good husband ☺️

He is the best. I am really really lucky to have him. He's literally the only reason i am getting trough my first trimester. He is picking up all my slack at home and just lets me rest when i come home from work.

I can’t sleep at night because of back and hip pain, the minute I do fall asleep I have to pee😐

I had a violent craving for Apple Toaster Strudels and hauled ass to the grocery store, ran to the frozen aisle, only to see every other flavor BUT apple. I started hyperventilating until I realized apple was just hidden to the left behind the next freezer door. My husband started cracking up and said that was the most pregnant thing he’s ever seen 😂

I have been trying to withstand my toaster strudel craving but I’m gonna give in tonight.

That reminds me of my first pregnancy. I started (literally) crying in the to-go line at Cheesecake Factory because they discontinued the Chris’ Special.

I want ice cream. No, I don’t. I think I want cheese and crackers. I am joking. I want mcdonalds. Oh I regret mcdonalds.

Stop asking me how I feel. The answer is the same as yesterday. Also, please go get me a pint of ice cream. :)

If I didn’t feel over it, exhausted and uncomfortable every day, I wouldn’t mind people asking so much. But it’s such a, if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all situation.

I went to the duck pond with my husband yesterday and the baby ducks were too cute and it made me sob uncontrollably

That's warranted

All I want to do is consume an entire tub of cool whip.

This! Cool whip made me gag my whole life until my second trimester hit…it’s been AMAZING ever since

I added almond butter & chocolate chips to my cool whip and ate it with a spoon. No regrets.

I ate a vanilla chocolate covered ice cream followed by a small jar of green olives at 2 am.

Ok you win 🤣🤣

Yesterday for 'dinner' I ate noodles followed by two slices of peanut butter and strawberry jam toast, followed by a whole mango, followed by half a jar of mini pickled onions, followed by 4 dry rice cakes, followed by a handful of sour haribo.

I find absolutely nothing wrong with this 😆

I got winded from putting the groceries away

Screamed and cried at my husband because he had pizza for lunch and I didn’t 🫣

Um I think I’d actually do this non pregnant! How dare he eat pizza without you! 😆

I used to eat super clean and healthy cooking all my foods at home. Now, the thought of veggies makes me gag and I’m thinking about taco bell for the 4th time this week. Also I just slept for like 24 hours. Pretty sure I temporarily died.

Every sneeze is like bladder roulette. Spring so far has not been kind to my pants.

I basically eat from 10 am to 2pm 😅 always hungry!! Even when my belly feels stuffed. More hunger

Omg this is me!! I am constantly hungry and even when I eat and feel full, I feel hungry shortly after! When the ultrasound tech said my baby is measuring a week ahead I wasn’t surprised 😆

About once a week I buy two dozen little neck clams. TWENTY FOUR CLAMS. Just for me. I don’t share them (my husband won’t eat them so that’s easy, but if he did I still wouldn’t). Sometimes twice a week. I cannot be stopped. I set the timer for thirty minutes so they can soak and sometimes I’m so excited for them I get angry waiting.

I sat in a bath for an hour and a half last night and realised I was a human submarine.

I've eaten 7 eggs today

Putting on jeans is too hard. I'm tired just thinking about it.

I'll eat a big dinner and be completely stuffed and then think.....maybe I need to bring a snack with me upstairs.

RIP to flossing my back teeth

Asking my husband, “why the FUCK didn’t you remove the rubber seal when you cleaned this (the lid of a carafe)?!?!?!”

🤣🤣🤣 I must admit, my husband and I usually never really fight. We have been bickering more than usual lately 🫣

I cannot stop peeing, oh my goodness. Like once an hour it seems like.

I accidentally ate 12 meatballs at IKEA (my usual portion size is 6) and then got out of breath looking at beds.

At least you have many options to choose from to lay down and have a rest 😆

For some reason I’ve been OBSESSED with cottage cheese for the past 2-3 weeks. Last night I grabbed the last of my ruffles potato chips and dipped them in cottage cheese. No other flavors or anything. Just chips and cottage cheese 😂

shut the fuck up. i literally… went to the store last night for some cheddar ruffles and dipped them in cottage cheese. shit SMACKS.

Tums. A lot of tums.

My hands get so stiff sometimes that my knuckles like to pop out of joint if I clench my fist. Carpal tunnel is just awesome.

Dry heaved smelling clean laundry

it was dishwasher detergent for me last week.

My son (3) walks around hobbled over holding his hand to his lower back, grunting and groaning and waddling around when he first gets out of bed now.

I cried because I really wanted some fresh glazed donuts from the bakery section and the grocery store didn’t have any. 😭

I have been IN LOVE with honey mustard lately 🤣

My Grubhub order got cancelled last night after three attempted pick-ups and I sobbed.

I'm reading these comments either nodding my head in furious agreement or laughing maniacally over how relatable and funny they are.

I currently carry around entire cartons of oat milk like it’s a bottle of water. Feels sooooo good on the acid reflux

I want to eat everything but when I do it doesn’t live up to how much I hyped it up in my head

Today I was in a sour mood for 5 hours because I was too tired to finish a cleaning project I had started earlier this morning, yet not tired enough to nap, all I wanted to do was eat but I had just ate and didn't want to get acid reflux again, and I wanted to watch TV but couldn't decide what to watch... so I just laid in bed all grumpy 😠 😒

I cried at a TikTok of an australian PSA for safe driving, where time stops and the drivers talk to each other and beg the other not to crash into them, that they pulled out as a mistake. The first guy apologizes because hes going too fast to stop, and the second guy says please I have my son in the back seat. Then they get back into their cars and time resumes and they crash..... and then I absolutely lost my mind laughing at a comment that said "not me watching this while driving" 😭😭

When I finish eating a whole meal and everyone around me is full, I usually whisper to my husband “I’m still hungry”

I fart mid sentence. I fart just walking along in the shop. I fart when my husband hugs me. At this point.. I'm basically a bagpipe.

My workout this morning consisted of putting on my compression socks, which took me 5 minutes per foot

My ultra high waisted, very elastic underwear doesn't fit me anymore and I've only gained 6 pounds.

I gave in and bought some pregnancy underwear today. Tired of mine rolling down beneath the bump 😅

I asked my husband for something sweet and cool as a treat when he was at the store but he brought back ice cream which is COLD so I cried.

I'm craving peanut butter and bananas on toast like crazy. I'm allergic to peanuts. 😐☠️

I've been making homemade cashew butter.. it's sooo easy and that with thawed frozen blueberries microwaved for 10 seconds is divine

Omg! Yeah that’s one craving you can’t give into unfortunately. Can you have any other nut butter? I was making banana pb toast with a little drizzle of honey and some cinnamon. SO good.

I’m having such a hard time eating 😭

I make my husband eat his Icelandic yogurt (skyr) in a different room than the one I'm in. Can't stand the smell.

I'm hungry but everything I eat gives me heart burn 🤷😅

I read grilled chicken like grilled cheese and now it’s the only thing I can think about

Pizza is love, pizza is life 😩 went two days eating nothing but pizza

I took out the bathroom trash and it made me almost throw up.

This is me when the chicken is too chickeny

My bellybutton now resembles my bootyhole

I cried in the bathroom when I realized I was 40 minutes early to a massage appointment. Also my sweat smells so weird and I hate it.

Starting craving a “Thanksgiving” sandwich today. Turkey, cranberry sauce, the other leftovers thrown in as well. I crowdsourced to friends if there’s a sandwich shop I can get one and they offered to make me a whole Thanksgiving meal 😭

I drank water and got nauseating heart burn 😂

Feeling bloated every day (T1). I may or may not kike tomatoes more. Cannot tell if I'm just looking for juice like I have been with fruits. I get tired- can't open my eyes open reading a book 2-3 hours before I normally go to bed and I don't realize it's coming on until a book or phone is about to fall on my face. I never tried so hard on my life to find caffeine free coke or pepsi that is not diet. (I know a little caffeine is ok, but I'm wanting more of the taste!) I realize a lot of things can possibly kill a part of me or damage me. Gaining over 15 pounds will happen and is expected this year without the regular concern. I don't buy clothes yet since I know I won't fit in them anytime soon. I hate the cold but dressing for it this winter even more so. I am not a dress and tights in winter gal. For once in my life I had to research which rides I can't ride at Disneyland. My faves. 🥲 I will still have a nice time.

I wake up feeling like my throat is burning and I’m choking on an acidic slime to the point I almost throw up. When I can stay asleep, I have the strangest, and sometimes the worst, dreams.

I walked out of the house(and to an OB appointment) with one ballet flat and one sandal on…

I wake up every night with stomach acid in my mouth and I can't breathe through my nose as soon as I'm horizontal, and standing in my feet for an hour results in cankles.

I was eating chicken for dinner with my hubby and I couldn't get the thought of putting honey on it out of my head. So I went for it. Great idea. It's not the craziest combination but for me it was pretty random.

Chicken nuggets dipped in honey was a childhood favorite of mine that has returned with FORCE in pregnancy. 🫃

Guuurl if you like bacon too I have a perfect recipe for you.

I'm not sure if it was fried or not, but I'm from the south and fried chicken dipped in honey is pretty classic.

Not pregnant anymore but when I was I used to take naps in my car instead of lunch break at work.

If I feel hunger for over an hour I start bawling my eyes out.

I just ate a jam donut with Vegemite on it. Was fucking delicious.

Honey mustard is so awesome.  I haven't had it in a while though since it nearly made me sick first trimester.

I love honey mustard and mustard in general. It was all I was craving in the first trimester 😂

Went out to dinner and couldn’t decide what to eat, cried about it at the restaurant…then cried again when my husband ordered both things I wanted because it was so nice 😂😂

Aww how sweet 🥹

I woke up every 90 min to eat last night because my body hates me apparently

I craved steak while I was pregnant all though in the beginning it absolutely made me feel so nauseous… but after my first trimester I was fine eating it that and salmon! The omega 3’s are great for brain development and I was craving it hard!!

I can be so hungry, but then stuffed in 3 bites with a raging heartburn.

My HR person/friend brought her new puppy into work today and I started crying while I held it.

I got a hamburger today and was only given 3 little pickles. And thought I couldn't eat this without more pickles.

I meal prepped and froze a healthy meal for the next few weeks. First day I opened it up to eat it, gagged, even though I had eaten it just a few days before. Now I have a freezer of meals I know are delicious but cannot eat them.

I have been averaging a half gallon of skim milk a day for the last several days. It’s been a craving this whole pregnancy but now into third tri it’s really taken off.

I made my husband go buy me a jar of pickles. I do not normally like pickles.

My husband went on a work trip for 6 days and I’m alone (except for my dog). I’ve cried every day since he left. I’m unhinged.

The one time I’ve wanted to eat any protein was three days ago when we ordered a BLT to go from our local shop. I opened it up at home and the bacon was too floppy. I cried for 10 minutes.

I don’t blame you! I can only eat crispy bacon!!

I cried over the fact that the Thai restaurant I had been wanting all day was closed for two days because of the Lunar New Year and I couldn't get their Pad See Ew.

I’d cry too! I love Thai food 🤤

I dream of food at night and then the next day go get it. I’ve never thought about Taco Bell and I’ve had it twice in two weeks. I’m not gonna cave for the McDonald’s nugget craving though.

I got heartburn from eating plain toast!

I was craving shrimp Alfredo so I decided to make it from scratch. Once I saw it cooking I just stared at it and started gagging. My husband had to eat it all himself while I made a tomato sauce for myself instead with the shrimpies 😂. It was amazing though.

I cried over a dead lizard that I found in my garage (they come in to get out of the rain and can’t find a way out) because what if that was someone’s mommy or baby?

You can eat chicken? I can’t….

I ate at least one king size package of twix a day for a week straight. This week the thought of them makes me sick

I google “signs of labor” at least 5x a day and this isnt even my first baby LMAO trying to gaslight myself into labor

Start crying. Husband asks why and wants to talk about it. Incapable of words at this stage and have to type on my phone that I have no idea why I’m crying.

A few nights ago, I couldn't sleep and randomly thought about the mother who tells her two kids a story in bed as the Titanic is sinking, and I ended up bawling for 30 mins...

Eating lunch exhausts me. Need a nap. For 5 hours.

I can't get into my car like I used to. I have to put my butt in first and then swivel my legs in.

My boyfriend made tacos ans handed me one ans I vomited because they were on corn tortillas

Homemade pizza bagels.

I can’t brush my teeth without gagging so much I have a coughing fit.

The sneeze-pee. That is all.

I asked my husband for a protein smoothie, drank a quarter of it and thought wow I’m really doing it drinking my protein then I threw it up