To ask for your tips on how to get through morning (all day) sickness?

[HighHopes16]

I found out I was pregnant two weeks ago and since then I have felt non stop nausea, I've only been physically sick twice but I'm really struggling with the commute, sitting at a desk looking at spread sheets all day, can't cook dinner for DH and even the smell of his aftershave makes me gag.

I've tried plain & ginger biscuits, lots of water, salty crisps, dry toast etc. but everything makes me feel sick and hunger makes it worse. It's too early to tell anyone so I'm just trying to act as normal as possible but it's really getting me down.

I really am so happy about this pregnancy after a miscarriage earlier this year but the nausea is zapping all my excitement and DH is finding it difficult as he can't do anything.

Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

[PutDownThatLaptop]

I had the worst sickness with DC number 3. I couldn't stand perfumed smells, cooking smells etc. I remember my Dad had put a scented bin liner into the bin at my parents' house and I had to leave.
For me the best help was white plain bagel, eaten a pinch at a time.
Congratulations and much sympathy here.

[MrsMook]

Consume anything that you can actually get into your mouth. This is likely to be something bland, greasy sugary or grotesquely processed. Pot noodles were a lifesaver for me- probably because my body discounted it as food Little and often tends to help. My second pregnancy was better, and grazing gently from the start helped avoid the sick from hunger/too sick to eat cycle, although it was a better pregnancy anyway.

It is an utterly made miserable phase. I was beyond exhausted and permanently frozen. People were worried because I was losing weight (then compensated by gaining 50% of my body weight in the second half when I could eat again). At the time, I had a casual supply teaching job which I lost out on after fainting in a lesson, then having a panic attack the following day because of a bleed. I got more supply work the following week, part time, and I was clear about the state I was in. Fortunately the timetable was light and I could lie down between lessons. I'd then get home and go to bed for two hours. I spent 10 weeks longing to actually vomit to relief the nausea, but just had a hyper sensitive dry gag reaction to everything including rapeseed fields and the rubbish dump I drove past on the way to work. I was not friends with a toothbrush or mouthwash either.

Do whatever you can to get through it. I hated that it was so hidden. At least when I had SPD in the second half, it was obvious that I was struggling with mobility, and people could be more helpful.

[fourcorneredcircle]

Come talk to us on the HG forum. Lots of advice, support and sympathy.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/pregnancy/2751372-Hyperemesis-Support

Also, phone GP and make appointment to discuss. In this case drugs are your friend.

[SmallBee]

Take every day as it comes and don't try and keep doing the stuff you did pre pregnancy.
Visit the hyperemisis support thread here and contact the charity Pregnancy Sickness Support, they'll help you out.
Go to the GP, if they're a good one they'll know about NVP and HG but just in case, Pregnancy Sickness Support offers a printout to take with you. Show it to your DP as well so he can help.
Grt signed off work, no-one will give you any medals for going in anyway.
Put yourself first.

[HighHopes16]

Thanks everyone for all your tips - seems like there is light at the end of the tunnel. I can't wait to wake up one day and feel normal again.

I lost a lot of weight last year and since then have stuck to a no junk diet in the office, which I'm now really regretting as I'm having to sneak biscuits and have no chance of a bag of crisps. (Not until I've announced it anyway)

DH is being really helpful and offering to cook but he's not the best so last nights dinner was oven pizza & chips. My diet really is appalling at the moment.

I'm reluctant to have medication as I am keeping most liquids and foods down, its just the constant feeling of needing to throw up that's getting me down.

[Bearfrills]

Don't worry about having an appalling diet at the moment, it might not be optimal but even oven pizza and chips has nutrition in it.

[mirime]

Experiment and finds what works for you, don't struggle on at work and don't let your GP fob you off.

I did struggle on at work and my GP implied anti-nausea drugs would be bad for baby and told me I should 'try harder' to drink

Fizzy drinks can help. Eat whatever you think you can manage.

[Rarotonga]

You have my sympathy I found bananas helped. I pretty much turned into a jacket potato with cheese. I used to keep some orange peel with me as sniffing that was much better than anything else.
I hope it passes soon.

[liquidrevolution]

Firstyly congratulations. Embrace your new varied diet and tell DH to lay off the scent until the baby is born.

Secondly get yourself signed off sick if you can. Its a horrible feeling and hopefully for you will pass. I am fortunate that I had an amazing workplace so spent most of my pregnancy off sick (I also developed SPD very early and threw my back out vomiting plus the HR person was crap so I didnt get forced on mat leave until I was 38 weeks). Rest assured your baby is getting all the nutrients from you and will be fine.

And thirdly - thank god I have found someone else who had to avoid water. No one believed me on that one, including the doctor. It was hell! I only coped by washing with baby wipes and dry brushing/flossing my teeth. Weirdly my DD snuggles into me more if I skip a shower so she must like my smelly scent.

[peasandquiet]

Cyclizine

Pancakes

Orange juice

Medication helped me to eat properly, I felt thenausea induced eating or random foods made it all worse as couldn't eat a normal diet which in turn made me feeel worse.

[ThinkOfTheMice]

Don't worry, it will pass as suddenly as it has arrived

Not always - I was sick dozens of times a day for nine months.

Rest, op. Eat anything you can keep down. if it gets to the point you can't keep anything g down then you absolutely must seek medical attention.

I ate virtually nothing for nine months - ds came out a bit small but strong as an ox. They take what they need from you but you have to rest. Tiredness makes it worse.

[RocketPockets]

When I was pregnant I lost 2 stone in the first half of my pregnancy and just about got back to my pre pregnancy weight by the time I gave birth. I was sick right up to the day I gave birth and pretty much my whole pregnancy I ate beige food, chips, crisps, crackers, rich tea biscuits, bananas. That's all I could really manage. I even had to skip Christmas dinner 😩
Hope it gets better for you!

[mirime]

"And thirdly - thank god I have found someone else who had to avoid water."

liquidrevolution I couldn't tolerate water at all either. It meant instant vomiting, even the tiniest amount. It was astonishing actually.

[PoppyFleur]

Congratulations!

I found eating something soon after waking helped (toast, marmalade & marmite). I couldn't tolerate any still drinks until the afternoon so I drank sparkling water. I always had pretzels on me or crisps, I found the salt helped lots.

[StrawberryQuik]

You poor thing OP, I would gladly take childbirth again any day over morning sickness.

My top tip for when I couldn't keep cold water down is plain hot water, I was very grateful for the work break areas fancy hot water tap.

[PeachOwl]

I couldn't drink water at all either! I could sometimes tolerate flat lemonade and chewy sweets and during my first HG pregnancy when nausea was awful and vomiting 'mild' I found a bite of snickers bar (maybe a half bar over the day), rice and oven chips were ok if I ate them slowly.

The HG support thread on here was great for people who understood. Above all lots of rest and don't try and get through it because you are 'pregnant not sick'. If you need more relief than eating and drinking little and often along with resting as much as possible offers then see your gp and keep seeing them until they help. If you need medication then getting it earlier is much better for you.

Watch out for dehydration and congratulations!!!

[imreallyamermaid]

Another one for Coca Cola it was like taking a magic potion!
Snacking little and often helped me too.

[nonicknameseemsavailable]

I ended up signed off until 16 or 17 weeks. I had some of those pregnancy pop sweet things, not sure if that is what they were called but they did sort of deal with the nausea. I could only stomach rice and plain chicken or ritz crackers.

[mirime]

"I found a bite of snickers bar (maybe a half bar over the day)"

PeachOwl I read that peanuts are supposed to be helpful. Imanaged to eat peanut butter on toast for breakfast for a bit until that started making me sick as well

I found most of the things that were supposed to help just didn't. Eating crackers/biscuits in the morning was awful because you can't eat them without a drink and I couldn't keep liquid down without eating.

I lived off melon and an orange for breakfast and a small amount of chicken stew for lunch (my mum made it, no fat or anything added) with a mouthful or two of icy cold apple juice. Then whatever I could manage in the evening, though I rarely kept it down. It was awful. GP was unsympathetic and midwife acted as if she'd never heard of sickness being that bad.

I liked sleeping. Didn't feel sick when I was asleep.

[GreyBird84]

Much sympathy OP.

I am 12 weeks with DC2.

I got anti sickness tablets. With DC1 I thought it was all normal but I know now it wasn't & I couldn't have looked after DC1 and worked without the tablets.

With DC1 I threw up morning noon & night whereas this pregnancy has just been the constant nausea.

I too have a commute and I eat oat cakes and sip diluted orange both journeys.

I eat a lot of cornflakes and toast. Ice cold fruit and Jacobs crackers. The occasional chip & gravy or fried rice & gravy.

Agree with the full fat fizzy drinks. And eating little & often. I split my meals into 2 ie cornflakes then an hr&half later some toast.

I have bad sinitus and headaches so I wear an ice pack in bed at night which helps me sleep.

It will pass - with DC2 I felt better around the 16/17 week mark so I am aiming for that again!

[MrsSnow]

I suffered from all day/night nausea and the only thing that helped me was watermelon or watery tasting fruit (locarts, lychees, melon, dragonfruit, occasionally orange).

Worth a try and I hope the pregnancy goes well

[thenewaveragebear1983]

Foods with magnesium I think are supposed to be helpful, green leafy veg and broccoli I think are high in it? Only problem is if you can stomach those foods- perhaps that's why nuts help as said by pp? (Not sure how much magnesium is in snickers bars though!)

[Me2017]

You might have that condition the Duchess of Cambridge had.

I was very sick with the twins all day - common with twins. I had specific places I went to vomit and buckets. I used to lie on the office floor and then get up and carry on working ( I worked until I went into labour at 40 weeks and for me it got much better after 3 months).

[Bloopbleep]

Congratulations on your pregnancy!

Severe nausea can be as bad as being sick and there are medications you can take if its severely impacting on your life. My GP refuses as it's "only morning sickness" but many others seem to have more accommodating doctors. Maybe speak to your GP or midwife?

I wear seasick bands which may be taking the edge off things (then again it may not-I'm not willing to chance not wearing them) . I'm still queasy a lot and struggle to eat almost anything (except my mums Chicken soup!) - I've gone off everything including tea :(

With my first pg I drank so much ginger tea and ate so many ginger biscuits that I cannot stomach the thought of ginger. I now associate it with nausea and sickness.

I'm going to buy some cream crackers today to see if they help

[fadingfast]

You have my sympathies, I was exactly the same especially with DC2 (less opportunity to rest I think). I agree that eating little and often helps, generally bland carbs were best for me. Don't worry about your diet, just read whatever you fancy. I had a phase of peanut butter and jam on toast (bizarrely). Mine didn't trail off until around 20 weeks and the relief was enormous. Feel free to shout at anyone who suggests ginger, didn't help me at all but still people would keep on about it