difficult day...

[mlbear]

wow didn't expect my hormones to be so erratic so soon. I've spent the majority of day crying at the most ridiculous things. now Im so disappointed in myself that I haven't been able to take my tablet today, I have tried &tried and it won't go down. now I feel pathetic, my baby isn't getting the vitamins it needs because I have a complex taking tablets... hopefully tomorrow will be a better day!
feel free to tell me to take a grip :)

:) get a grip

I couldn't take any of the vitamins in pregnancy due to a gag reflex when I tried linked to morning sickness association. Don't worry I just ate a balanced diet and have 3 stonkingly healthy children.

But sometimes it's good to just have a silly son over something little. Good luck with your new baby.

Vitamins? you are meant to take vitamins when pregnant? I never even knew that and am the mother of two very healthy teenagers. If you really need to take vitamins, can you not get something in liquid form?

thanks :)
due to sickness I haven't been able to stomach fruit &veg. DH bought me some pregnacare for extra vitamins &all the folic acid, but these have been making me sick too, so now they won't godown, Im panicking too much!

Try not to beat your self up been there done that and still feel sick hormonal and tired at the end of it, today is the first day in 4 or 5 days I have been able to keep tablet down. My hubby said lots of women don't know there pregnant for ages so they won't of took vitamins ( he's always bloody right) every lady has a different experience in pregnancy. I've had the whole hall of sickness nausea hormones and quite frankly the flu seems easier. (Not that I want that either) honestly I thought no period for 9 months means no mad crazy emotions hahahahaa oh how very wrong was I, to top it off I always sleep on my front my boobs are like big lumpy boulders so I can't ever get a decent nights sleep. This is at 8 weeks pregnant lol I'm pretty scared about the next 7 month.

I hope you feel better soon and this forum is really good for letting off steam. Really lovely ladies giving good advice, and it does remind me that were not alone :)

Im taking pregnacare, got a Mw app on 19 so Im going to discuss with her, she'll prob tell me Im taking too much & just give me folic. DH is being super protective &wanted me doing everything I could, I was taking vitamin A for the first 8weeks before finding out so I wanna do everything I can to make sure the baby will be ok. but I don't think I can take them anymore

thanks Sarah, Congrats btw :) yes no one prepares you for feeling so rubbish!, I just want to do everything I can, just in limbo I've not seen a Mw yet so just doing what I can from speaking to ppl on here (lots of great advice) &reading the net

This might help: the vitamins (apart from folic acid and there's loads of that in bread and cereal) are not for the baby anyway. They're to support you.

I've had HG in both pregnancies but very badly with DS1. I lost 3st during the pregnancy and was hospitalised at 14 weeks due to dehydration. I couldn't keep water down let alone a massive pregnacare! I was very worried about the vitamins and so on. The amazing consultant in the hospital sat with me while I cried about it and told me not to worry even the tiniest bit about my baby, that they are little parasites and will take their nutrition from your body. They get their calcium from your bones and their vitamins from your vitamin stores. This, he told me, even includes folic acid, as the baby does not process food directly - you do that and they take from you. So, if you've been taking folic acid whilst ttc, or even if you haven't but you eat bread and cereal (which is fortified) then you will have some stocks I your system that the baby will take. It's your body that gets depleted and the vitamins are for you really.

If you're feeling sick, but can still eat, get some nice whole meal bread and have some plain toast, and a banana if you can manage it as your potassium levels may lower due to persistent vomiting and this can make you feel anxious.

And the pregnancy in which I became anaemic and lost 3st and ate literally nothing but oven chips and rocket lollies (I'm not even exaggerating - literally nothing else) resulted in a perfect, healthy 9lb 2oz DS who is a vegetable fanatic.

Please don't worry - its so easy to get sucked into all the you MUST have this pregnancy vitamin stuff - but if you ask your midwife she will probably say great, vitamins how lovely, but not look at all bothered if you're not taking or keeping them down for a few weeks. Toast, any veg you can manage, even a few raisins or whatever, and soon you'll be feeling better and will be able to keep the vitamins down.

Bless you - you sound really upset. The first trimester is rotten but it does improve, I promise :)

How far along are you. I'm in the same boat. I'm 8 weeks I had an early bird appointment last week which wasn't really helpful. I have a hospital appointment Monday so I'm hoping I will get some were. It's my first so its unknown territory I don't even no if I have to book my own 12 week scan or does the mid wife sort this out next week.

I know what you mean about wanting to do every thing you can I wanted to eat healthy and take the right vitiamans. I can just about manage crisps chips toast and cracker even water makes me bork. All I want is some nice fruit but putting it any were near my mouth and I just bork, probs why I'm feeling really rubbish eating carb stodgy food.

If it makes you feel any better lots of people are telling me its a good sign that I'm high in pregnancy hormones, and they reassure me it will pass

I think belle has just nailed that! There's is light at the end of the tunnel. If all else fails just picture the lovely little baby at the end of it

thanks all for your calming&reassuring words:) I do feel better. &that makes sense really about them being parasites taking everything from us! Im going to keep persevering with these tablets, if they don't go down I won't be so stressed about it. Im 8-9weeks, sohopefully as soon as I have my Mw app I shouldn't have long to wait til the scan.

Glad your feeling a little better hopefully you won't have to wait to long xx

If you're really struggling, tesco sell folic acid tablets that are tiny (about the size of contraceptive pill) - when my morning sickness was really bad I'd take these rather than the huge pregnacare ones. Think the pack of them was only £1 so no great loss if you still struggle, but folic acid is the most important one to try and take :)

If you are still really worried you can get flavoured water drinks with folic acid.

www.mywaterbaby.com/noflash/

It's messages like Belle's that makes mumsnet totally aces..

Try not to worry mlbear, and don't forget that there is a whole industry run on trying to make women feel as if they must do things to keep their baby healthy. It's hard at this point, when you haven't seen any medical professionals to authenticate your pregnancy - and it will probably continue to feel weird until you finally see the bean at your 12 week scan! The most important thing is to be kind to yourself, a happy mama is what your baby needs more than anything.. x

Just to second Rockchick, if you get just folic acid on its own it is really really tiny, about a tenth of the size of pregnacare! I am trying to take pregnacare, but on days when I can't face it I just do folic, and if I throw up the pregnacare I take the folic as a back up. But I'm sure everybody is right that in the end the baby will generally take what it needs and you're the one that loses out. That's why I prioritise folic over the rest, but as others have said most women in history and in the world didn't know any of this stuff, or don't have access to it, and most still have happy healthy babies.