Drinking milk during pregnancy

All the best pinky with your appointments:thumbsup

 

Pinky - Try ginger ale (canada dry is good) and saltines (salt crackers) first thing in the morning ven before you brush your teeth. It works very well. Plain rice, plain bread, or toast, or yogurt rice or pickle rice like rakhi suggested helps with nausea as well. You can have chai too if you like the smell.

 

DNM,

Can we drink coffee/tea? I heard that we are not supposed to take them

 

Chotu - You can have limited amount of tea or coffee during pregnancy. Avoiding them completely is all well and good if you are able to eat and drink other stuff without throwing up. When you have terrible morning sickness, sometimes caffeine helps. I had two cups of chai every day all through my pregnancy. My DS was born a healthy 7 pounds 7 oz. My ObGyn told me not to overdo the coffee - but thats for people who drink 5 cups a day. I have never had more than three cups of caffeine/ per day in m life and so her advice was not applicable for me. Also, black tea in milk (chai) has less chance of causing acidity and has less caffiene than coffee and even green tea.

Pinky- The same applies to soda. Avoiding unhealthy stuff is possible only when you are able to eat other healthy things. When you are throwing up left and right and your stomach is empty, better the soda than nothing at all. Your body needs some energy. If you are in your first trimester, then your baby is too small to have huge nutriional requirements. Eat what you can. Whatever you can tolerate without throwing up. The baby will take what it needs from your blood and bones. The prenatal vitamins are for you - so that you don't develop deffeciencies because the baby will take automatically. You can give up the soda in 2 months when you have no nausea. No need to be this strict in your diet now.

 

DNM,Thanks for the info.:bowdown

 

Hey all,
I add lemon to all the food stuff i eat (for curries, side dishes, poha, upma) and i can eat it peacefully without aversions. try to eat little meals frequently, that also helps!
For milk, add Mother Horlicks or mamaprotinex instead of the usual horlicks/bournvita!
All the best:thumbsup
Loads of sticky baby dust to all of us

 

Hi,

When I was pregnant few months back I had the same thing. Aversion to milk. If I have anything with milk in it, it used to cause loose motions and stomach upset.
But home made curd did not cause me any problems. Then one day when my MIL was here, she boiled milk in the stove as we do in India and gave me and it did not do anything to me. I usually boil milk in microwave and have as complan. So I found out that was the secret. Similarly, bring milk to complete boil and then consume it. It should hopefully solve your problem. If you still have problem, try having curd instead of milk.