All day sickness

[SecretAriel]

I'm about 7 weeks into second pregnancy and really suffering with constant nausea. The only thing that seems to help is to force myself to eat- if I can manage this. Any tips on what to try? I am sick of dry toast and ginger biscuits! Also, am nervous about eating constantly as I am already overweight and do not want to over eat (haha).

Scunnered!

I had constant nausea for the first three months and only by eating did it help. Try to make healthy choices if you're worried about your weight.
All the things supposed to help like ginger didn't make a difference for me - in fact ginger made me feel worse and I still can't face it now.
I found fruit really good especially grapes and bananas.
Good luck. Hope you feel better soon. It really is horrid feeling like that.

Hi Hun I really feel for you I'm 16 weeks next week and my sickness and nausea started about 5 weeks and still have it now on the plus it is slightly calming down. I'm overweight already and it was a concern for me.

The only way to calm my sickness is eating something. Rather than eating a massive meal nibble thoughout the day, eat what you fancy.

Sucking on boiled sweets helps. As for gingers biscuts they make me sick at the thought now and never helped.

I haven't gained any weight yet which I'm pleased about. Once the sickness has passed I plan to eat a healthy but at the moment I eat what makes me feel better.

If it gets too unbearbul ask you doc. They give me a tablet to take once a day it did help but make you really drowsy.

Hope you feel better soon this is possibly the illest I've ever felt in my life lol

Also drink lots of water seems to help and my only nice symptom of pregnancy is my skin it lovely on my face could be pregnancy hormones but I think it's all that water lol

Thank you, will give the boiled sweets a try see if it makes a difference. Can't remember feeling this bad with dc1! Different every time I suppose!

Boiled sweets helped for me. The only healthy things I could stomach were porridge, raw red pepper, cucumber, tinned or cooked sweetcorn, frozen peas ... Basically sweetish not too string tasting. I also found tinned fruit good.

I think protein helped stave off sickness a bit longer. Hard boiled egg sliced up on dry toast, or sliced chicken or turkey breast both went down ok, as did cheddar sliced thinly on dry toast.

For what it's worth I put on no weight despite feeling like I was eating non stop. I have no idea why, but maybe you'll find the same!

Hope you find something that works for you! Think mine is starting to lift at 13 weeks, but really the first couple of weeks were the worst as I worked out what (and how often) I should eat, and at what times of day I basically had to be horizontal. I know that feels like forever but It goes quicker than you think, especially if you go to bed early and sleep through as much of it as possible. If you go to the ante natal clubs page there will be a thread full of other ladies who will let you moan at them!

God luck, it does get better.

LT

Oh, and I agree, if it gets too bad go and see your doctor! Though I found the pills were good for making sure I didn't throw up at a meeting or on a train, but didn't actually make me feel any better, so didn't take many. But it was still a good fallback to have, and there may be other things that would work better.

I wouldn't worry too much just eat/drink whatever makes you feel better.
I was ridiculously sick with my ds I was on the verge of going on a drip when my mw gave me some flat full fat cola....miracle cure! I don't know how it worked but it did also ice poles are brilliant mostly water and nice and cold. Worked when I was pregnant with dd too although my pregnancy was much better with her

If you can find somewhere nearby I'd really recommend acupuncture. It helped me a lot early on. Sorry you're feeling so awful, it is horrible and feels like it will never end (it does eventually honestly!). I found crackers and crisps helped too -not very healthy but just had to eat what I could. I hope you start to feel better soon.

I know it's hard when you are worrying about weight, but just eat what you can at the moment. You will have plenty of time to eat more healthily when your sickness fades.

In my first 14 weeks I ate mostly white bread and mild cheddar sandwiches, egg on (white) toast and the odd maccies and kfc! I even went through a phase of waking up and eating crunchynut cornflakes before my shower (so out of character to eat sweet cereal, and to eat that early, but it really helped keep prevent the early morning retching- the sickness seemed to be hunger related, and I'm wandering if blood sugar is involved).

I couldn't face anything remotely healthy, but at around 15 weeks I was craving raw carrots, cherry toms, cucumber...... couldn't get enough of raw, fresh vitamins.

Just keep taking your pregnancy vits (baby takes everything it needs from you, you need to supplement your own vitamin intake if your diet is compromised). Take one day at a time- and eat whatever you can to avoid that awful nausea. Good luck.