Its been so nice to read that other people are suffering - Im hating every minute of my third pregnancy as i am more sick than last time. It has definately changed in the last week or so but it still feels really debilitating at 14 weeks. Nice to see scan pictures, I have something to bond with and great DH to support me. Im feeling guilty about being so grumpy and moody and praying for this ms to stop SOON! My Dr has also been incredibly supportive and I have been off work for 5 weeks now. One more to go and Im hoping that I will be feeling better. Very tired all the time but I know that this is all good really. Dreading it carrying on though!!!

nargh mine went for a week (cue panic about another MMC) and now its back with a vengence- i feel grim and all the things that did work (sparkling water etc. dont anymore) grrr.

Am off to accu in a min and am going to tell them to treat it as i cant handle this anymore!

Sorry everyone, hope this doesn't annoy you, but it's annoying the hell out of me! We've just started to tell a few people - firstly because I was rumbled by friends who didn't have to be Sherlock Holmes to work out that not smoking, not drinking and asking for barbecued steak to be cooked well done meant only one thing. Anyway of those friends/family
1 friend just had a baby - no sickness or nausea at all
2 her sister - also just had a baby and no sickness or nausea at all
3 Another friend 7 months pregnant - no sickness or nausea OR fatigue
3 MIL never once felt sick
4 SIL never once felt sick

I think my DH now thinks I'm making it up

It was eleven weeks for me last time, so the length of sickness this pg is a bit of an unknown science, which is making it worse somehow. I know what you mean, it just stopped, like turning off a switch. Madness.

Zest for life would be great.

Pinkjenny - i said all that second time around........ my second dd was a hard baby until 14 mths and here I am again and I planned it!

you honestly forget how bad it was (like labour) and then you go "s* I REMEMBER NOW!"

Second time I was ill until 16 weeks and then it stopped - just like that, bang on 16 weeks!

Same as my sister, she woke that morning and called me and we cheered together.

So maybe teh same will happen to you.

i'm wishing weeks away right now and also hope my personality and some zest for life returns.

i even speak in a monotone now... i must be boring everyone i speak to

Pinkjenny I could have just written your post myself
I haven't put on wait but I am the same and I can't help but think that people think i obviously haven't suffered that badly if I am not now emaciated. But i HAVE.
I dread the onset of of late afternoon and evening. it's downhill all the way.

this will be my first but I am thinking never again. I don't know how you cope with MS and a child. That is tough!

So I am now 13 weeks and still feel sick. Does anyone start to get a feeling of dread mid-afternoon knowing that it's nearly dinner time? I am eating so much crap, and have probably put a ridiculous amount of weight on.

I completely agree with you, jardins. You summed my feelings up perfectly. My mum was telling me she feels like my personality has disappeared. And I have been such a shouty mum to dd. And because it's my second pg, no one really cares. <cries>

Never again. Seriously.

And that's obviously plain rice and now not know!

oh it's all sooo true. You need to break it up though. DOn't think about 5 weeks. Think in two and a half you'll have your scan and your symptoms will start to improve.

I totally sympathise though. I am not sure what my personality is like anymore or even if there still is one hidden away down there!!

Why did that post twice? Sorry!!

Jardins - I so know what you mean about going off food - I craved plain race for ages, cooked it, ate it and know I can't stomach the very thought of it.

I have moved on to pasta, which I don't really like normally but seem to be stomaching it at the moment. I found an apple helped the other day and I felt normal for about half an hour - it was such an amazing feeling not to feel like complete sh*t for a while. So the next day, I had two apples at elevenses to stave off the worst of the morning nausea and guess what? Now I can't bear the thought of another apple as long as I live. So many of my favourite foods are just no-no. Bizarrely my salty craving has been replaced by a sweet craving, particularly for ice creams.

Mornings are worst for me, but I find the lethargy and the emotional strain of getting through the day in this state takes it's toll about 6.30pm and I need to have a nap if I'm to be able to function when DH gets home at 7.30

Need to go shopping again today and I hate the supermarket right now.

Haven't been able to sort out an accupuncturist or to ask the doctor about B6.

We're going to stay with friends this weekend and that means two things to me - 1 I can sleep all the way there and all the way back in the car and 2 I wont have to cook for us. The idea of having a break from home (and the shame I feel looking around my messy house) is giving me extra courage.

Jardins - I so know what you mean about going off food - I craved plain race for ages, cooked it, ate it and know I can't stomach the very thought of it.

I have moved on to pasta, which I don't really like normally but seem to be stomaching it at the moment. I found an apple helped the other day and I felt normal for about half an hour - it was such an amazing feeling not to feel like complete sh*t for a while. So the next day, I had two apples at elevenses to stave off the worst of the morning nausea and guess what? Now I can't bear the thought of another apple as long as I live. So many of my favourite foods are just no-no. Bizarrely my salty craving has been replaced by a sweet craving, particularly for ice creams.

Mornings are worst for me, but I find the lethargy and the emotional strain of getting through the day in this state takes it's toll about 6.30pm and I need to have a nap if I'm to be able to function when DH gets home at 7.30

Need to go shopping again today and I hate the supermarket right now.

Haven't been able to sort out an accupuncturist or to ask the doctor about B6.

We're going to stay with friends this weekend and that means two things to me - 1 I can sleep all the way there and all the way back in the car and 2 I wont have to cook for us. The idea of having a break from home (and the shame I feel looking around my messy house) is giving me extra courage.

jardins - hear hear!

we're with you all the way sister.

you said exactly what i wanted to say x

not long now

I am so fed up with feeling a permanent shadow of my former self! I hate feeling lacklustre and devoid of any enthusiasm for all the things the normal me loves. I'm at 9 and a half weeks (much less fun than the film of that name) and I feel a little like Macbeth wading in his river of blood whilst claiming that wading back or forwards would cost him as much energy and suffering. God I'm feeling bookish this morning What I'm trying to say is that I see the past five weeks and how hellish they've been and I look ahead to the next ? weeks and I see no way out! I beg to be able to say 'can I take 5?' or 'let's stop for a well-earned tea break', or even to WANT a cup of tea, for god's sake!!!!

I am with FlyingCloud as I feel constant nausea with no vomiting. Sometimes I feel like I'm going to be sick but I remember with my other pregnancies that I never threw up so I take (some) comfort in that. Mine is much worse in the afternoons and evenings, and yes, I wake up at night to pee and feel a wave of nausea. Yikkes. Cooking for my children in the evening is a challenge and the only thing I can stomach is boiled pasta or rice with tomato purrée. No fat content whatsoever! And virtually no sugar except for fruit. Of course I have to cook them a decent meal and since my husband is away all week I have to swallow my saliva and cook those green beans and sausages for 2 hungry kids.

I am obssessed with food. Most of the time I wonder for hours ahead what I will be able to stomach. The problem is that I will fancy something, eat it, and then go off it COMPLETELY! Does that happen to you guys?

Final comment for now (this whinge has really helped). I totally agree that between 2+ months of lethargy and nausea and a day of painful contractions and the fear/exhiliration of giving birth, well, quite frankly there's no contest: birth wins hands down! I guess I'm not too good at being passive and pathetic and that's exactly how I feel right now.

Devotion I have had that the whole time. In fact there are endless posts all over the place about people having the same fears only to be puking a few hours later. It drove me to having two scans. Now i am just relieved as and when it happens. Hormones. Can't live with'em ... etc etc

Laura233 - congrats but sorry to hear you were so sick at such a special time... there is only one thing for it. After the baby is born you will need honeymoon part 2

i actually had one whole hour of feeling normal last night and at first i thought hooray!

then i remembered a thread where someone said if your sickness disappears before 12 weeks then its a sign something can be wrong.

so when i was feeling good i start thinking, c'mon feel sick again - doh!

never happy

Hi all,

Know how you all feel, I found out I was pregnant 4 weeks ago, the week before I went to America to get married and have spent half the holiday between being in bed and being sick which put a big downer on it... having been sick at check in and customs i thought they were going to pounce on me after everyone decided I had Swine Flu with signs everywhere!

I found sea bands helped a bit, even if it is psycological.

I know it is hard but eating little and often does help, although I should really do this more as I avoid it as much as the next person.

Fizzy drinks seem to help, I have just started on Lucozade, it gives you energy if nothing else, which I was at the point of collapsing after 3 weeks of not eating and being sick.

Re the emby's development, I had this concern and spoke to a fetal development doctor yesterday and she said to me that the body will break down fats to feed the baby as it is only 23.6mm at the moment so does not need that much, so ensure that you keep taking the folic acid etc and you should be fine.

If worst comes to the worst do what I did and go to the dr and get tablets if you really cant keep anything down.

Congrats to all on pregnancy!

p.s. hope this makes sense, it is very early and i think I am still jetlagged!

"you are taking your pelvic floors in a LIFT"

sifuentes - oh dear sorry about your wee wee accident. it happens to all of us.

so remember as soon as you get into bed

squeeze it all in for a whole breath and release then a few quick ones in/release/in/release etc then pretend you are taking your pelvic floors in a list. squeeze them in a bit to the first floor, bit more for 2nd floor, bit more for the 3rd floor then release a bit back to 2nd floor, then 1st floor, then ground and push out a bit down to the basement ... learnt these from my antenatal yoga.

flyingcloud - let me know what works perlease!

beddybies

B6 is supposed to be the way forward - I just can't swallow pills when I feel sick. You need to take 100mg in 50 doses twice a day.

I had acupuncture and it did cock all for me but apparently it helps others and I'm trying it again tomorrow, mainly as an excuse to lie down for a morning.

But get thee to bed Flyingcloud
Don't be a hero xx

OK - what can anyone tell me about B6 and Accupuncture? I am desperate. I have a meeting this afternoon - unavoidable - and I have really bad shakes and feel so wobbly every time I stand up.

I thought i was getting better but feel so yukky today. also i wee a bit when i vom hard pelvic floor exercises must start today.

I am exactly the same about the sex too. get very sexy dreams but just feel so sick having DP lying too close to me let alone on top of me!!!!!! poor him. but fuck that really. POOR MEEEEEEE.

I hear you sister!

love your fellow green somber faced friend with a churning stomach

x

Positive thoughts - last night I felt ok!! The nausea lasted until about 5pm before a bag of crisps alleviated the day's worst. This morning was hell, I got up and had to go back to bed again. Breakfast didn't help. I went to the market as I promised myself I would go this week but that was just a grim experience. Fish stall - ugh! Cheese stall - ugh and worst of all - meat stalls. The smell of meat, cooked or otherwise - but particularly roasted (normally my favourite!) makes me gag

I will punch any man who talks about how proud he is of having produced a baby. They are allowed to be proud, but only of their wives and partners for doing all the hard work. They get to do the fun bit, sit back and take it easy for the next nine months.

long sigh......................

"arrrggghhhheeuuuuuuuuuuggghhhhh"

sifuentes - i'm holding onto your words and look forward to two weeks time when I am 10 weeks. fingers crossed!!!

my last pregnancy was 16 weeks but i know each pregnancy is different so you never know, (i'm really hoping here) it maybe shorter but more intense this time.

i had to sleep 6-8pm this evening and now i'm wide awake but feeling oh so very green with a mouth full of horrible tasting saliva - nice!

i was thinking of getting a little sexy for my sex deprived hubby but as soon as I thought about snogging and him leaning on my stomach, it churned and the saliva doubled.... poor man! i actually need some sex but i just cant manage it. every night i have sex filled dreams where i almost start or it gets all steamy but something silly gets in the way... my frustration showing!

dont worry about your social life, it will return

my friend who has came out the other side from 14 weeks of sickness is a new woman, glowing cheeks and smiles and bundles of energy so we have to think positive here.

i have to say i had two hard labours but i would rather got through them four times in a row which would be four days then to know I have to feel like this for possibly another 6-8 weeks.

i just want to squeeze my mans testicles until he can take it no more so he knows that feeling that i have 24 hours A DAY! Even though he is being very supportive and TRYING to understand, it just doesnt seem fair. Men have it so bloody easy! I am not very nice at the moment

flyingcloud It's all bad - feeling really sick is horrendous and you do just want to puke. However I find puking only gives me seconds of respite. I go straight back to feeling sick again and sometimes if it's been a particularly burny, acidy one it's really painful after too. hurrah! But I know what you mean it is somehow better having something tangible. I feel like if I can say how many times i've been sick then it is easier for others to understand how crap i feel but I can feel worse on the days I'm not sick at all, probably because i've just managed to wing it somehow but only just.

I can't remember what it feels like not to feel sick anymore. I'm 10 weeks today and hoping that I am one of the lucky ones that only gets it til 12 weeks. [praying emoticon].

Evenings are my worst by far so I have had no social life at all for 6 weeks. So I sympathise with that too.

DD Toddlers haven't started to form memories yet so at least you won't have it thrown back in your face when he hits his teens [grins]

flyingcloud - I'd rather go through labour times than have just 8 weeks of constant nausea and fatigue - I've done both and I know what I prefer I guess part of it is that feeling like a wuss thing - noone ele knows how you feel, most people don't know you are pregnant and you look fine - you just don't feel it. If we were constantly throwing up we could justify staying at home and being properly pathetic - I guess the grass is always greener!

I feel like I'm being such a bad mum to my toddler at the moment, we are hardly going out as I can't even manage the shops when I am at home, the days I work wear me out completely so I just sit on the floor while he plays around me. Luckily he is still having long naps in the day so I go back to bed!

I thought I was being a wuss as I haven't actually been sick but have been non-stop nauseous since Monday. It's hell. I can't do anything. I wake up in the middle of the night feeling sick and moaning. I get up to pee and can't go back to sleep because I feel ill. And it's only been since Monday and before that I was complaining that I didn't have any symptoms.

I'm guessing constant, or even sporadic, vomiting is worse and I'm guessing that the pain of childbirth makes this look a doddle. But oh how I'm suffering. DH will have to make his own supper as I'm not sure I can go into the kitchen again this evening...

I'm really achieving nothing at the moment, I feel pathetic. My house is a mess and I have a ton of work to do and lots of correspondance to catch up on and I'm being so anti-social. People will forget about me!! I'll have no friends left!

And ugh i know what you mean about greens. the though of asaparagus makes me heave big time. yuk.

Devotion your posts have made me laugh.
I too know what you mean about nasty taste in mouth. It's awful. And normally I am a very healthy eater beut all that's gone otu the window. All buttery carbs and crisps. Luckily my chip shop chip craving has passed.

Nice n spicy niknaks are my latest revelation. I swear they should be advertised as an MS cure!

I'm ten weeks on saturday and my sickness has already gone down to waves rather than 24/7. Terrible evenings still but mornings much less bad. I am telling myself that this is good and nothing to worry about since I had a good scan only last Friday. How quickly we forget!

Mind you I have still been doing a short day...

Tip du jour is as much fresh air as possible. That helps too.

Apparently B6 is amazing but I can't swallow anything bigger than my folic acid teensy tabs at the moment. such a wooss

i know, i love my greens but i can not bring them near my mouth! the one time in your life they you really need to eat them too.

as soon as this sicky period is out of the way then my body will be a temple

for now if chip butties and crisps get me through it then so be it!

haha devotion!

I cant have sweet things as the after taste is soo bad. I have been grazing a lot today which has defo helped. The chip and cheese butty defo helped too. I dread to think of the effect I am having on the emby's healthy development as my diet is so shite at the mo but I am keeping up with the multi-vitamin and my fruit intake is reasonable but thats about it!

Pinkjenny - i forgot to moan about that - aftertastes of food. its soooo horrible. whatever i eat, it stays in my mouth for ages and i actually think "i'm never eating that again". i can not actually eat anything with strong flavours. i normally love cheese and onion crisps but even typing it my stomachs churning.

i better stop moaning about this because all this talk of food, flavours and aftertastes is making me feel worse

lets talk about sex instead... oh no! thats what got me here

I am 12 weeks and mine is starting to ease now, it comes in waves rather than lasting all day, so I am hoping it's on it's way out. Still can't eat big portions of food, and need to consciously let food digest. The main thing that I am sick to death of is the revolting taste in my mouth, everything I eat and drink leaves a hideous aftertaste. Even toothpaste makes me retch. Grrrr. First pg was so much easier <whine>

i love you all

i feel like all i am doing right now is moaning, moaning and more moaning... and going "arggheeeegh" every now and then and when someone asks, "feeling any better today?" all i do is let out a loud long sigh!

I even told my two dd's the other day to go into the sitting room, close the door, and the only noise i wanted to hear was breathing... so i am very moody right now. children are so forgiving, makes me feel even worse.

i wa snot really ill with my first, second i felt green 24 hours a day up to 16 weeks and right now I'm only 7 weeks and feel like its been months even though i've only been sick for two weeks. how will i make it?

someone on my antenatal thread lost her baby this week due around same time as me and it really upset me because all i am doing is moaning. i've wanted this baby so badly for over a year so if i lost him or her now I would feel like it was my fault because of my moaning - stupid i know!

like someone said i feel like if i actually made myself sick i would feel ok for a hour or so. just a little time off would make it so much more manageable. so for all the ladies who do actually vomit - does it help? i cant imagine you would feel good straight away. i am such a baby with getting sick.

sifuentes - you gave some great tips. for some reason grapes are really helping me this time around, all fruit in fact. the more acidic the better. in fact i am eating so much I am doing two poo's a day

one tip i can give is like we all know - eat all the time but instead of opening a packet of crisps and eating them in one go, eat a couple every five mins or so that way you prolong the benefit. i only feel good while i'm eating and after i think, why did i eat them so fast.

any more advice please....

"arggheeeegh"... couch... can someone come over and feed my two children?

awww you poor thing I can't imagine anything worse than having to look and warts and veruccas and pustles when feeling grim (says Thandeka who has happily spent the last half an hour squeezing the bobbles on her arm!)

You are very dedicated and now I feel a bit guilty about letting the kids down from my wonderful educative presence- but heck not that guilty

a bit tempted Thandeka but I'm afraid it won't ever stop if I do!

I'm a doctor and I know it sounds bad but I have to keep going while I can or they'll be noone left to see the ladies who really can't. I'm not infectious and I can think clearly so while I can stand I'll work - but it's not easy.

My GP basically kept asking me if I wanted to be signed off. Offered me letters etc You know if you are too weak to go in. I have to say having nearly 3 weeks of was the best thing for me. Cut down the stress - I wasn't worrying about not peforming at work or where or when i was next going to heave
AND rest is the only way to feel better - though I agree with Thandeka you have to get out and about it a bit if and when you can or you go a bit mental. I had to stay at my mum's for a few nights because I could no longer stand the smell of my own house. Lingering cleaning products smell or something. BOAK!!! Still don't like it!

I also find it helps just to have appointments each week so for example one week I had a scan, another week I had acupuncture, GP appointments, other scans. It means that you are not only waiting for the holy grail that is the 12 week scan.

HTH

This thread has made me feel better!

I've been pathetic this morning. I got the dc's to school then have been sitting crying on the settee clutching a sick bowl

I can't stand being sick in the toilet as I'm convinced it smells, even though my poor, long suffering dh has cleaned it about 200 times!

I am 8 weeks today

It just helps thinking there's light at the end of the tunnel. I have been off this week, and was wondering if GP will be supportive in signing me off next week or will think I'm overreacting!

Well we are now in consecutive days chucking up first thing on an empty stomach but feeling a tiny bit better with the bands on- not massively but am not dying like I did yesterday. Although i think also keeping busy helps a bit- as yesterday I just lazed in bed all day today I have piles of marking I HAVE to do.

I have a meeting I need to go to on friday and very worried as to whether I will cope- in fact my sick note (for suspected ectopic/threatened MC neither of which has happened - phew) comes to an end on friday so am dreading work next week and may see if I can get signed off longer- I can't imagine teaching kids in this state! (And kids smell!)

Difficult decision are you ever tempted to stick fingers down throat to try and rid self of nausea- I know I am but haven't sucuumbed yet! Doubt it would work but am starting to get desperate!

GRRRR...I thought I had finished this awful stage but today MS has come back and bit me in the ass.
Tube to work was a near accident for the people around me and this morning at work I have spent most of my time loitering around the toilets.
GRRRR....can't wait to reclaim my life!

I quite liked the bands last time but after a few weeks I wasn't sure they were working anymore, everyone saw them and guessed I was pregnant and the pain in my wrists was unbearable - maybe not for me! Hope they work better for you

I'm actually at the point I wish I could be sick now, the constant nausea is getting me down and I have a feeling it might get better if only I could actually throw up!

oh my god DON@T buy the CD - not if you're suffering badly. I ended up throwing it out of the window as it made me feel worse!!!!

Lucky you that sea bands work. THey help me on boats but not with MS.

My other tip is that when you are feeling really queasy do keep trying to eat and drink but only little sips and very small portions or it will come right back up again. I'm still trying to get teh hang of this one - however I have to say at nearly 10 weeks my sickness is easing off. [touch wood emoticon)
Still chundering but feel MUCH better in between.
There is a light at the end of the tunnel. [touch wood emoticon]

DH brought me home some acupressure bands- have stuck them on and already feel some improvement.
mild respite- am debating trying a cd thing too
http://www.morningsicknesshelp.com/morningwell.html

today is the worst day yet- really struggling. I feel awful and its just relentless- have only been sick once today (first thing so was just bile) have no idea if i can go back to work next week and glastonbury is probably a no! grim grim grim.

Thanks everyone - it's nice to know I'm not alone.

Thandeka - I know what you mean, the symptoms are kind of reassuring while at the same time being awful!

Hi - first of all sympathies. MS is truly horrendous.
My tips are totally day dependent. I have found everyday brings something else that seems ok, or revolting.

If you feel so sick you can't face anything then go for chilled fruit. I found melon great, especially watermelon, and fairly sour apples.

If you have gone off water then sparkling water or lemon juice in water good. Also ribena with lots of FRESH ice. Freezer flavoured is too grim to be true.

Ice pops and calippos

oddly I found egg and or bacon butties sometimes hit the spot but have pssed that now.

mild cheese slices, mozzarella, white bread, white pasta

soup - clear if poss and heinz cream of tomato

crisps

Also if i get realy dehydrated I buy lucozade sport drinks and sip on them very cold.

cornflakes and very cold milk.

Main thing is eat all the time and get out of bed as little as possible.

Don't eat too much or drink too much in one go.

Just keep on forcing things down you though even if you dont' want it because it is the only thing that will make you feel better - that and rest.

It's the worst most relentless thing ever but if you do find foods that you canface and you eat every hour then you will feel a bit better.

I have had lots of time off work and am doing reduced hours. I have a very supportive GP. You can only do what you can do. These early weeks are too importnat to try to be a hero so don't!
Also tiredness and stress made it a whole lot worse for me.

Good luck xxx
oh and personally I say bollocks to ginger

I'm on pregnancy no 3 & had 'morning' sickness for both my first pregnancies as well. Remedies I found helped have changed each time, so there seems to be no set formula for me. Luckily it only lasted till around week 13 for both, so hopefully I have only a few weeks to go this time around...

I was advised on here about ginger & vitamin b6 tablets from an Australian natural remedy company called Blackmores www.blackmores.com.au/Products/Detail.aspx?ProductID=1836. I promptly ordered some (from Aus - so more pricey, but I was desperate to try & they arrived really quickly) and find that if I do take them regularly at the recommended every 8 hours, then it does help.

I'm an all-day nausea victim only though - no vomitting.

Otherwise just eating all day long: toasted plain pitta breads, granny smith apples, natural yoghurt and plain chocolate digestives and to get rid of the horrid taste in the mouth in between, chewing gum (can't abide peppermint flavours though!)

Hello everybody (cyber wave at Thandeka) I'm embarking on 8th week and went to see my osteopath on Friday who (without my knowing) worked on diminishing nausea and it seems to have worked for the time being. I still get queasy and waves of sickness but it deffinitely seems to have calmed down a bit.

I find chilled orange juice helps me in the mornings....

Good luck to us all..... It's hard to imagine that one day this will be a thing of the past...

Hi there, I'm in the same boat too. I'm 7 weeks pregnant with second. I feel dreadful as I did with my first. Have rung in sick today as I just can't face it. Was signed off for 6 weeks last time. I'm dreading the next 5 weeks. Eating regularly does seem to help but any other advice gratefully received.

anything involving white,smell free carbs,taken at regular intervals plus sharp sour tastes like lemon juice in fizz or sour sweets.Eat really often never get hungry. I got very fat,but I felt fractionally less sick,and I only puked if I was hungry.

Melon, chilled, helped me. Apparently there's some naturally soothing thing in it? Also sorbets. (Real, not too sweet ones.)

Very very plain mashed potato was good as well. And steamed carrots and peas, that didn't set me off. Jacob's Cream Crackers, too.

Mostly though it's a question of endurance, I think. Horrible, but it does pass eventually. Just seems forever at the time.

Hi both -

Another in the same boat! I don't have much wisdom to share... just starting to feel rough now, 6 weeks into second pregnancy. With first was properly puking each morning until about week 15. I didn't find a cure but I did find ways of managing it so that I could function reasonably normally. For me this involved letting myself be sick - holding it in made me feel worse... then promptly following being sick with bowl of crunchy nut

Otherwise I found eating little and often staved off the worst.

I can't actually believe I've written this post... since I've spent ALL day complaining about the nausea... yet now I'm on here purporting to be some kind of expert

Congrats on both of your pregnancies and hope the sickness abates or you find some way of keeping on top of it

oooh was just sick for a third time (my lovely dinner- a very innocuous chicken rice with veg) and now I feel so much better! So maybe vomit is the way forward!

i'm in same boat and really struggling. 2nd pregnancy- 1st pregnancy ended in mmc at 10 weeks and had mild nausea- this is hell even DH mentioning eggs to me makes me retch! Have only actually been sick twice but feel sooooooo grim! And am only 6weeks 3days so have ages to go (if I make it that far this time )

I have found iced sparkling water helps a little bit perhaps with a squeeze of lemon or lime. Iced lollies- especially calipos. The very idea of ginger biscuits makes me retch but peppermints or peppermint tea helps a bit. Am desperately trying to find my accupressure bands from before as they helped. My accupuncturist wants to treat my nausea as I am not eating properly but I wont let her- as having the symtoms makes me feel this pregnancy may work out (touch wood) as last pregnancy my very mild symptoms disappeared at 7 weeks and miscarried 3 weeks later so I don't want anything to make symptoms go too much if that makes sense as they make me feel still pregnant!

or thereabouts,

I've looked through some of the older threads (and there are lots) but I was wondering specifically if anyone had tips for the nausea.

I'm nearly 8 weeks and for the past 3 weeks it feels like I've been on the edge of throwing up, falling asleep and bursting into tears. . I'm lucky in that, as with my last pregnancy, I'm very rarely sick, but I still feel terrible and I'm struggling at work.

None of the things that worked last time are helping (mints, fizzy drinks and jacket potatoes!) boiled sweets helped for a bit but are now making me retch and I have no appetite at all.

any advice?