Tips for coping with bad morning sickness while working (midwife/nurses) and with a 3 year old?

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Pregnant with dc2, really sick at the moment and due back at work on the 13th. I’m a student midwife so can’t really be signed off as sick or I’ll fall behind but looking at my rota full of night shifts and long days when I’ve barely been able to get off the sofa for the past week fills me with absolute dread. I’ve already been prescribed medicated from the gp (ciclyzine) and although it helped for a few days with the nausea, it totally zonked me out and I spent most of the time sleeping! It also hasn’t helped with the nausea for the last few days How on earth did you cope? Also feel so guilty for my dd, we went from doing fun stuff everyday to not even going for a trip to the park! I just feel like women do this every day and they manage, why can’t I?!

I got let off delivery suite when I was bad, but I wasn’t a student then.
Try sipping, not drinking, Diet Coke whenever you start to feel the nausea starting.

Because some women get through pregnancy without feeling that bad! First I was fine, now almost 12 weeks with second and haven’t been fit to work for the last 5 weeks. My poor 3 year old is mystified as to why energetic mummy says she can’t move! Have a chat with your supervisor to work out what to do. You need to be fit to practice so that women and you aren’t placed at risk x

I ate small amounts often. Drank lots of water. Sucked of mints almost constantly. Brushes my teeth before/after every meal.

I had dreadful MS. Had to take anti-sickness tablets until the day I gave birth.

Travel bands on my wrist helped too

Don't know how I coped as a Nurse working nightshifts etc with horrendous morning sickness. Others seemed to just go off sick for months but with my first two pregnancies' (abroad) there was no sick pay so that wasn't an option. For my last one, there was a policy of no night shifts for pregnant women so that helped as my nausea was always worse in the evening and when tired.