Is Anyone Else Really Hungry?

I was that way with my second pregnancy, I ate round the clock and was always starving. Hunger in pregnancy is so much more intense than regular hunger, my husband used to joke that if he got between me and the fridge he thought I might eat him!

I remember being hungry all the time in my second trimester! During the first I was too queasy to eat much, then by the end, nothing sounded appetizing, so I ate less. In the meantime, I ate a lot of cheeseburgers and hot fudge sundaes. I only gained 27 lbs, so I guess my body knew what it needed. I kept exercising (running, walking, yoga) as much as was comfortable, too.

I ate like a truck driver when I was pregnant. If its worrying you, you could have your iron checked. I was a little anemic with my 1st pregnancy and had to take iron supplements. Still didnt make me stop eating like a truck driver though. :)

Yes, I was actually waken up at 1 am and eat a bowl of cereal!!!

thats normal. maybe have an apple or something by your bed for when you get up to pee or something so you wont be starving in the morning. you should be eating smaller meals more often so you ward off heartburn and things so either snack or eat a small meal every 2-3 hours whether you feel hungry or not will get rid of the "omg im starving!!" feeling. and the things you crave are an indicator of nutrients youre not getting enough of.

I was always hungry!
I actually used to put snacks next to my bed so I didn't have to travel to the kitchen. haha sounds lazy now that I think about it lol
But hey, it helped with the middle of the night hunger.
Thankfully for me, i have a really long torso & wide hips so even though I ate like a huge pig a only gained about 30lbs.

from the time i found out i was pregnant with my daughter, i was starving the whole time! i woke up and if i didn't eat right away, i would feel nauseated. i gained 50lbs. 10lbs in one month. i've been told that if you are craving something, it is something that your body is lacking. don't know if that's true or not.

I was starving all the time with my first pregnancy until about 5 or 6m, when I got big enough that my prig belly was pressing and reducing the size of my stomach. Midwife shared a rule of thumb: keep crackers (or something) by ur bedside to eat as SOON as you wake up (before you actually sit up, then eat something every two hours - an apple, some toast, a handful of nuts, etc. Your body produces massive amounts of stomach acid and if you don't continue sticking food in your stomach to absorb it, it will climb up your esophagus resulting in reflux (heartburn) which is so common with preggers. I kept nuts around to grab a handful here and there, and got a footlong from subway daily cut into 2 inch pieces and I'd eat a piece every 2 hours, often alternating with nuts and apples. That was 10 years ago - they've since put deli meat on the "no eating" list for preggers due to listeria (like soft cheeses blue and feta, etc). It's an idea, but there are a lot of nitrates, a lot of sodium, and listeria in lunch meat not mention most contain some amount of bleach and/or ammonia. You may want to stick with fresh fruits and nuts. :) btw, milk makes reflux worse bc it stimulates the acid production.

1 month preggs here.....No actually im not hungry at all!, i have to force myself to eat anything but fruit....bread and bean burritos. I think its a phase, most things make me sick and even smelling them makes me want to hurl.

I think oranges and grapes and raspberries were put here on this earth to make me happy though.

<grin> Just remember... in a year or so when you're tired of waking up in the middle of the night to feed your baby, or your toddler has hit a growth spurt (we all, or most of us anyway, get there), EXACTLY what this feels like. Being so hungry that you can't sleep. So hungry that you feel like you're losing your mind/ COULD cry about it, and how lucky you are that you can get out of bed and head to the refrigerator. And then laugh quietly to yourself at people who say this is a "bad habit" to be broken, as opposed to a temporary biological need (growing a baby is just a *fraction* of the growth that our babies do... 6-10 pounds of muscles, bones, organs over 9 months when you weight well over 100lbs of muscles, bones, organs... versus doubling your own weight in 6mo). Contemplate, right now, not eating for the next 12 hours and just have someone rub your back and talk to you instead of feeding you. LOL, as a matter of fact, I dare you to try not eating for 12 hours. ((Does even the thought make you blanche?))

Although, you may actually be craving fat (if so, you're probably building brains and immune system right now, more than anything else). If spinach soothes the crave; it was calcium. If avocado does, or if you think of a steak and you're thinking of that perfectly seared and bubble strip of fat around the edge of it... it's brain & immune system. :)

Yes, I was starving and everything was delicious. I would practically pour gravy over my cereal.