Advert - ginger for for morning sickness

[havingabadhairday]

There's an annoying advert on Mumsnet that I've only just noticed with parenting and pregnancy 'tips' - including suggesting ginger for morning sickness, perhaps as a tea!

When I was pregnant ginger made me sick. As did about 99% of all food and drink.

AIBU to think everyone should stop annoyingly recommending ginger? Or should I go have a nice calming cup of chamomile?

I was always a bit 'meh' I remember my DH making me a smoothie with ginger in it as I felt so bad and I took one sip and it was the projectile vomiting scene from The Exocist. 11 years later the mere whiff of it still makes my stomach go all 'spin cycle' wobbly.

I was glad of the excuse to eat ginger biscuits They didn't make me sick.

Ginger tea seemed to help me
Sometimes I was too sick to drink it but inhaling the steam off it helped a bit

Ginger tea and ginger ale really helped me..

I love ginger in any form!

However I’m now 18 weeks pregnant and now can’t stand the thought, smell or taste so I’m with you!

I’d say peppermint tea is a god send for morning all day sickness

It took me nearly five years to attempt ginger after my last pregnancy. There is only so many times one can see it in reverse before one needs a break from it!

I had HG last time and I lost count how many times ginger was anecdotally prescibed. I started asking if they knew what it was like throw up ginger because they’d never suggest it again if they did!

Ginger, lemon and mint all made me hurl. I couldn't tolerate any sort of herb or oniony/garlicky flavour at all during the first four months of pregnancy. We always have a basil plant on the windowsill and when I was pregnant I felt like I was being smacked over the head with a basil hammer every time I went into the kitchen. I remember a colleague ordering some very lightly spiced fish (like the tiniest hint of garam masala) and sitting there trying not to cry/vom. It got much better after 16 weeks but it didn't really go away until I gave birth. I remember hoovering down a plate of garlic chicken pasta in hospital two hours after and thinking that it was the most delicious thing I had ever tasted.

The worst thing was that my husband couldn't quite believe that I couldn't bear any herbs at all or that I had the nose of a bloodhound, so was always trying to sneak minute quantities of herbs into food and then being astonished when I identified said herb from across the room and went off to make myself toast instead.

17 years on and I still can't face a ginger nut. They used to be my favourites.

Ginger would make feel sicker if it was even possible. Only thing that halped was crackers. I am pregnant with second one and again crackers all the way.

I was never sick, just felling nausea for 2 months. When it finally stopped a week ago I though I will cry.

I was sick from the day of the test until about 22 weeks. Dropped a dress size or so - from a 12 to 14 down to a 10. Keeping any food or drink down was a problem.

Everyone complemented me afterwards, asked how I'd kept the weight off.

YANBU!

Orange Lucozade was the only thing that stayed down.

@havingabadhairday

I’m in this position now! I’m still at the sickness stage but at the height of it I lost almost 10 pounds in 4 weeks - dropped to 8st 6 (I haven’t weight that in years!) and everyone is saying “I’ll have to give that a try” so I feel you on that one!

May I add I looked like an extra from the walking dead too

Ginger tea. Well, I suppose one advantage was that it made my heartburn so bad I forgot about the nausea for ten minutes

Ginger bastard biscuits, before you get out of bed. Only someone who has never puked up a ginger biscuit would ever suggest this.

Also, of course I've tried ginger! And anti-sickness bands, and nibbling rich tea biscuits, and peppermint tea! I'm into the second trimester and still throwing up if I move, and that's a good thing because if I could move I would hurt you, you ginger biscuit suggesting twatbadger.

DD is 2.2 and I'm still annoyed.

Fuck ginger! The only thing that I could keep down was chip shop battered sausages of all things. Tasted the same in and out. That was a grim first trimester.

Oh god, I remember it well - awful! Everything made me want to vom...violently!! I tried every single thing people recommended & nothing worked - ginger was no different. I lived on dry cream crackers & bowls of Rice Krispies with ice cold milk - weird!! Fingers crossed it'll pass. Good luck. X