What does Morning Sickness feel like?

[Nessalina]

It might sound like an odd question, but in TTC I've been symptom spotting like mad, and I was wondering what genuine morning sickness feels like? Is it like indigestion? Or like a tummy bug? Does your stomach gurgle?! Can anyone help me out so I know which symptoms to obsess over?!

Sea sickness.

I only tested when we were TTC no. 2 because I woke up feeling horribly seasick, the sickness sort of takes over your whole body, you can feel it in your head too iyswim?

Tested in the morning. 5 weeks pg. Sadly miscarried at 12 weeks but hoping to wake up in the night soon to a horrible sea sick feeling again. :)

Yes to the feeling being in your chest and throat rather than your stomach. I started off feeling really hungry/sick and needed to eat to stave it off. A week later I was throwing up constantly. You're unlikely to feel it before your bfp I believe.

Obviously a morning sickness thread will interest serious sufferers disproportionately so can I redress the balance by saying that for me it was like being a bit travel sick and generally disinclined to eat (or walk past a coffee-smelling cafe) in the morning - settled down by lunchtime. Tedious but nothing more.

Saying this not to undermine the PPs or to do a bizarre stealth boast, but to remind OP, and other first timers, that most pg women won't throw up even once and a little bit of manageable morning sickness is just as normal as the really dreadful variety.

I had constant nausea for the first 3 months, was never actually sick though. Along with the overwhelming tiredness I felt rotten. Disappeared overnight at start of 2nd trimester and I felt better than I've ever felt! Was amazing! Good luck for a healthy pregnancy and baby!

Thanks for the alternative view Lady - I was starting think I'd underestimated morning sickness! I guess the severity varies from person to person, but it sounds like however bad it is 'travel sickness' seems to come up time & again as to being the closest description to how it feels. And having definitely had travel sickness before (boats = bleurgh) I feel armed with an idea of what I'm looking for!

Constantly feeling sick but never being sick for me. Having to force myself to eat whilst feeling sick is highly unpleasant. Strings smells of caffeine made me feel even more sick. Mine lasted until 20weeks and then after that I would feel sick at the drop of a hat.

The MS started bang on 4wks. Proper grim.

Mine lasted all day. Could have throttled my Husband for stupidly trying to be supportive and helpful by telling me my ms would soon be over cos it was nearly the afternoon.

Every morning I felt fine for five seconds when I woke, you know how you are when you have a hangover and for a very short millisecond you feel fine and then BAM! Like that. Only time I didn't feel sick was when I was asleep.

I ate my way through it. To the tune of four stones!

Mine was different for every pregnancy:

DS - nausea, especially when smelling certain foods (I had to change supermarkets because of the rotisserie chicken stand in mine), generally feeling washed-out and sick. Worse in the afternoons. But never actually vomited.

DD1 - nothing, nada, no sickness at all.

DD2 - the worst. Heaving at any foody smells or strong perfume, vomiting when brushing teeth, or coughing (coincided with a chest infection, great, huh?).

The suddenly, overnight, the symptoms disappeared (at around 4-5 months, I think).

There's no link to the sex of the baby btw.

And obviously not all women have morning sickness. I wasn't sick once when pg with dd. I had the odd wave of nausea and gagged when brushing my teeth but nothing noteworthy.

And I was sick with ds but mostly in a morning and it stopped by 4 months pregnant.

It wasn't morning sickness for me, it was constant, nothing would stop it.

Hello, I'm not a troll.