Being nauseated I have sampled the spectrum of crackers.

First I was extremely pissed off that my grocery store no longer carries Arrowroot cookies. WTF? How can you not sell Arrowroot baby cookies? They were my STAPLE last time I was pregnant. I don’t know what to do about this.

So then I started with the basics: saltines. Okay they suck. I know people swear by them, but I can’t eat more than two. They just… bleh. Cheez-its? I don’t know what it is, maybe they’re too salty. Or something. I haven’t touched them since I bought them. On to graham crackers. These were good! Delicious, even, with cream cheese! I wanted them every day! Until I didn’t. And now I don’t want them at all.

I have found that the perfect 3am nausea cracker is a TownHouse Original. Such buttery, crunchy goodness that settles my stomach.

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At first I was all Hungry Hungry Hippo and eating everything in sight. I was happy when eating, and nauseated as soon as I stopped. And the cravings? Not so much as cravings-out-of-the-blue, but more if I saw it, I HAD to eat it. Opening the fridge was a dangerous prospect, as there were so many yummy things in plain sight! I did eat a lot of fruit, along with cheese, yogurt, eggs, whatever else. I had worries of gaining 60lbs this time.

This week it’s gone 180 degrees and now I want nothing. I’m choking down food just because I know I have to eat something. The couple of things that sound somewhat appetizing are crackers and rice crispy treats. Clearly I cannot survive on rice crispies treats (although the past two days I did give it a good try). Opening the fridge now makes my stomach turn over.

I am really hoping this nausea tapers off by the end of my first trimester. The one good thing is that the constant nausea is very reassuring that everything is still okay in there, but still… it is tiring feeling sick all the time.