To want to punch the next person who tells me their morning sickness cures!

[mummynumber2]

Because quite honestly if eating a biscuit before you got out of bed stopped you throwing up all day or if you were able to keep down all the healthy food YOU OBVIOUSLY DIDN'T HAVE IT!!!!

I had hyperemesis. I fantasised about shoving ginger biscuits where the sun don't shine of anyone who suggested them.

YABU, something might just work! Try everything

here have some almonds & a ginger cordial. Calm down dear

Do you know what does work? Drugs. Lovely, lovely anti-emetics.

The problem is I can't go into my kitchen to find all these miraculous cures if I throw up every time I look at food.

Yeah zombie might be only thing now.

mummy, I feel your pain! ( well, not actually now but had bad sickness with all my boys) The amount of "cures" that I now have to avoid because I now associate them with vomiting is massive!

YANBU. I threw up every day including the one where DD was delivered.
have you tried seasickness bands

YANBU and at 24 weeks I wish I could tell you the siggesting stops, it doesnt, nor did teh sickness!

I think you're being a bit U, actually.. Obviously not if you have hyperemesis, but otherwise.. try stuff, you just never know!

Incidentally, I was given a wee drug (in Spain, so not much use as a reference..). I did loads of research to ease my mind and everything turned out fine.. If I stopped taking it, though, I looked like this >

I hear giving birth works quite well, but I wouldn't recommend it just yet.

Oh dear you do realise you're going to get told a few more now!

All suggestions given to me just made me feel worse, especially ginger, have not been able to face a ginger biccy since.

Also have a problem watching Peppa Pig without feeling queasey, - i'll explain (I wasn't advised to eat poor Peppa, - but hey if it works) while expecting DS2 I used to sit with DS1 at breakfast watching Peppa Pig and stuffing Jelly Babies into my mouth (another unsuccessful remedy).

I can only get to 'this is my little brother, George' and get morning sickness recall.

YANBU

I had hyperemesis with my second baby. Ginger fucking tea. Just the smell of it now brings back the nausea. It DID NOT WORK. Neither did rich tea biscuits or dry toast or flat Coke or ANYTHING.

I also wanted to commit GBH against people that said 'Oh, it will disappear magically at 12 weeks'. NO, IT DIDN'T. i puked every day for 22 weeks.

It's not the 'trying to help' thing that pisses me off, it's the 'This is a cure, it's well known, it WILL work' attitude of people.

It's true - if a digestive before getting up stopped you feeling sick, you weren't that sick, really, were you?

skeleton I know you, and everyone else is trying to help but eating crackers in the morning will not stop me throwing up at 2pm 5pm and 8pm. I appreciate that that helped you and everyone I speak to in rl it seems but it doesn't help me.

mummynumber2, are you keeping anything down? Because if you aren't, you should see your GP. If your GP is an arse (some are), then a+e.

YANBU. I've never actually thrown up in this pg but have felt sick - sometimes horrendously so - every single day from week seven and am still this way - at 38+5!

Eating does actually help take the edge off it for me, but the amount of 'helpful advice' I got (don't these days as people think it should have stopped) drove me wild, and made me quite rude at times. Most of the suggestions came from people who either hadn't suffered from ms, women with no children, or men. Suggestions from women who had actually suffered are marginally better received (depending on the time of day!).

I managed to keep food down yesterday, had a great plan of eating little and often, but not doing too well today. Not sure I can cope with even another day of this let alone several weeks.

How about fluids? Can you keep liquids down? Also, are you only vomiting if you eat? Or are you vomiting regardless?

And eating does not help with me! I can't even think about most foods without throwing up.

I vomit all the time! Although I can keep fluids down. Lots of the time it's when I smell of see food

Have you lost any weight?

It does drive me nuts that even thought we all have different coloured hair, eyes and skin, we're different heights and builds, with different tastes and different genetic predispositions to different illnesses - yet, when it comes to period pains/pregnancy, everyone suddenly thinks that all our bodies are built exactly the same!

Worst are the women who've never had real period pains/morning sickness/SPD, who think everyone else is just exaggerating

I'm 8 weeks and I haven't lost weight. I'm actually still managing to put on weight!

Oh, dear. Yeah, ginger didn't work for me, either, and I got very annoyed by childless people "helpfully googling" for me, and thinking they'd solved my problem.

I found the only thing that ever took the edge off the vomiting was Carr's table water biscuits next to the bed.

Eating one of those meant the vomiting would be postponed until I got to the bathroom, as opposed using the floor the plastic carrier bag I also had to keep by the bed.