Camping with Morning Sickness - any tips?!

[Madasajarofwasps]

I am an avid camper and will face most conditions... but being 6 weeks pg and feeling sick as a dog all day I am not feeling the same love for camping just at the moment!! We are meant to be booking our summer trip for the first week in August, but which time I will be 10 weeks and probably not feeling much better. I just can't feel any enthusiasm to book it but DH just thinks I am a holiday pooper!

Can any of you hardened campers reassure me or give any tips? I bet someone on here has probably given birth to their baby in a tent . Be honest am I being a whoopsie??

You can take anti-nausea drugs which are safe in pregnancy. I know you'd probably not want to take them for months but would you feel happy to take them while on your hols? Could make a world of difference to how much you enjoy your self.

Hi Madas

I sympathise with you! We're going camping for a week mid Aug and a week at the end, and I am thinking about how I am going to manage without my morning toast, needed pretty much the instant I have opened my eyes. We went 2 years ago, when I was 7 weeks and feeling a bit rotten. I found having a bottle of fizzy water by the air bed and a packet of biscuits (not the healthiest I know, but I did at least go for rich teas!). I also found being outside in the fresh air made me feel better. Have to admit that it was not really bad MS though, more feeling sick unless I ate really regularly. We also took DD when she was just 11wks old...that's a whole other story!

Good luck! (see you back over in the March 2011 thread!)

Hi Jeffily

Oh its nice to know that I am not the only bonkers one around. Right I have steadied myself and will get the holiday sorted. I will also go armed with my ginger biscuits and minty mouthwash! I will also have to be armed with pillows as lieing flat out makes me feel very sick.

I don't want to take any drugs if I can help it. You never know by 10 weeks I might be much better (or worse!!)

Jeffily I might quiz you later on your camping experiences with a baby in tow ! Next year ....

Thank you lovely campers x

I sympathise - we are going to a festival next week and I am 6 weeks (unplanned) pregnant and seem to have lost my enthusiasm.

Aw Brambly hope you are okay? Are you happy about the pregnancy?

Its odd suddenly I am craving my home comforts, a nice sofa, comfy bed, my own shower and toilet. I'll manage though, might even get some sympathy from DH!

I hope the festival goes well and the weather stays good.

Thanks Madas. I am happy about having another baby but not sure where we will put it as we live in a 2 bed terrace and already have 2 ds (2 and 4)! Will def need a new car as well!

Thankfully we recently bought some really comfy camping mattresses so hopefully that will help. I think the kids will love the festival so hopefully that will take my mind off feeling pants.

Already wondering if we can go camping next Spring with a newborn

Oh me too - I am already thinking how we will manage camping next year. Camping is the only holidays we take at the moment. All I do know is that there is no way everything will fit in the car - a trailer will be needed!

I am pleased you are happy . Sometimes thinking about the logistics of everything can be scary, but I am sure you will work it all out.

Best of luck and I hope you feel perkier soon .

Can I lurk please? I came on to start a thread of my own.

We're due to drive to the Dordogne for 2.5 weeks in August, when I'll be 13 weeks. MS is terrible and the thought is filling me with dread. MS continued until about 25 weeks with DD and if anything I feel worse this time.

DFIL has offered to pay for me to fly out there (we are going with IL's, SIL/BIL and niece) which is wonderfully kind, but tbh the thought of a two hour drive from the airport plus the heat is really putting me off. I can't stand it as it's making me feel sick and haven't been able to enjoy the glorious weather here the last few weeks - I've just stayed on my bed, in the shade, with a fan on me.

I know I sound like a real moaning minny and should be grateful for the holiday, but am seriously considering not going. The only problem is that DH has said that he and DD won't go if I don't - that will upset ILs and DH desperately needs a good holiday. He's not being arsey about it - he just said he'd rather we went for a little break here all together.

I've told him we need to warn the ILs that if I still feel like this in four weeks then I won't be going on holiday a week later.

Oh, what to do. I don't want to ruin it for anyone, but I know I'll just be miserable if I go.

I went camping - at Glastonbury - at about 8 or 9 weeks with DS.

Smell was a big trigger. So ended up not being able to go to the mainstage because of the portaloos.

You could always try vicks under your nose if smell's a trigger for you? [hopeful and helpful]