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Public Puking

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shoopshoopsong · 19/09/2015 12:50

I know this threads been done before, but in the midst of my HG I would find great comfort in other's tales of public puking. I thought I'd past caring but this week on 2 separate occasions I've puked in front of 2 different groups of about 50 school kids on a trip. Glad I probably gave them something to laugh about on the way home.
What are your most embarrassing/ poorly timed public puking experiences?

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Quills · 19/09/2015 13:07

Having to hop off the tram in the centre of Nottingham and vomiting all over the tram stop, in front of gawping crowds who I furiously told I was pregnant, feeling like crap and to bugger off! Not my finest moment

How many weeks are you now OP? If it's any consolation, I can definitely look back and laugh now I have my girls and know I won't have to go through that again.

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shoopshoopsong · 19/09/2015 13:18

At least you made it off the tram, Quills! I'm 12 weeks at the moment and am sick so often I don't get embarrassed by it usually, but when there's people pointing and staring I must admit I do a bit! When I was pregnant with DS I remember puking in a churchyard on a Sunday morning and thinking all these well turned out good Christians must think I'm a tattooed drunk ruffian! But was too busy puking to tell them otherwise.

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yeOldeTrout · 19/09/2015 13:32

I never puked very obviously in public, but behind bushes in the park or on the edge of someone's garden, yes.

LikeSilver · 19/09/2015 13:40

First HG pregnancy, about 30 weeks or so? Just started to feel well enough to go out and about and we went to Mamas and Papas to pick out a cot. The cots were at the back of the shop. We are looking at them with the sales assistant and I realise I need to vom. I make a dash for the door but it is one of those fecking stupid electronic ones. It does not open in time. Vomit. All. Over. The. Fecking. Doors. It then opens and kind of squashes the vom into the other bit of the door. The staff were not best pleased with me.

Reebok · 19/09/2015 13:44

Current hg pregnancy...at this point I wasn't sure if it was hg...outside dds nursery waiting to pick her up....been vomiting all day at work...feeling all green and held it in on journey from work to nursery...staff open the door with a big smile and I puke in front of them near the door. Felt so embarrassed as dd had only started the nursery the week before. Needless to say, that's the last time I've been to her nursery since as I've been in bed with hg since. According to oh, they are always asking if the wife is any better now.

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shoopshoopsong · 19/09/2015 13:55

Likesilver that's a good one - I hope you just said 'I REALLY didn't like that cot' and flounced.

Reebok thought I might find you on here. Bless the nursery staff asking... You might need to go back in and remind them no you're not OK ha

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Peaceloveandjammydodgers · 19/09/2015 14:00

I didn't have HG luckily but I did an awful lot of retching in alley ways, and I once vomited behind the car in a multi-storey car park. And once in my lunch box in the car.

Frolicacid · 19/09/2015 14:02

I carried dog poo bags throughout my recent pregnancy. Many, many people have seen me puking into them. Not very discreet, but better than the alternative and you can fit loads in your pocket.

I hope you feel better soon

KatyN · 19/09/2015 14:04

My fist vomiting expisode was whilst my son was at a toddler group. It was held in a church hall. One of the helpers sent the vicar in to check on me. Cue 20 minutes of polite chit chat. I am not in the least religious.
I then vomited three times on the 200 had walk home, when my husband went out for a run that night, th vomit was all along the road still.

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shoopshoopsong · 19/09/2015 14:06

Peacelove I hope your lunchbox wasn't full at the time.
Frolic - I've just ordered another batch of sickbags - this time sealable ones because I feel sorry for various people having to empty some bins I've frequented..

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MyGastIsFlabbered · 19/09/2015 14:09

I regularly puked in front of supermarkets when I was pregnant. I also puked outside work on more than one occasion which, given I worked in a hospital, got me lots of funny looks when I walked straight in after puking.

cruikshank · 19/09/2015 14:10

I never had hg but certainly got caught out a couple of times because it would come on all of a sudden. Once when I was on the tube, between stops, desperately hoping I'd make it to at least the platform, but no ... caught most of it my hands, staggered off the train, puked the rest onto the platform and then, thinking might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb, opened my hands out ... not my finest moment. Also once at a hearing (yes, really), got that awful churning, tried breathing it out, could feel the beads of sweat on my forehead, then realised that I really really was going to do it, legged it to the loo just in time - I honestly thought I was going to vom in the court corridor.

I also wish to apologise to the various home-owners in N London whose walls I vommed near.

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Heavenscent86 · 19/09/2015 19:48

I haven't thrown up in public somehow but did throw up all over my bed. I had no time to make it into the ensuite and my partner had to help clean it up. I was mortified. Haven't really left the house to risk puking in public.

5madthings · 19/09/2015 19:55

Currently 11 wks preg and so peoole don't know, the other evening I decided maybe some lemonade would help, whilst out buying said lemonade I also bought some cider for dh.

So I leave the shop clutching bottle of cider, get a few mins up the Street and suddenly need to hurl. I am leaning over puking at the side of the road, holding a bottle of cider as a neighbour walks past.

So basically my neighbour probably thinks I am an alcoholic.

And I have had to stop when riding my bike to puke in the gutter.

Mouthfulofquiz · 19/09/2015 19:55

Mine isn't a pregnancy puke story (although I am both pregnant and pukey at this very time) but my worst public puke story.
15 years old, playing in a concert in a church, (about 300 people there - Christmas service). I had begged and begged my teacher all day to let me off playing in the school band, I felt absolutely awful, sweating, shaking etc etc. About halfway through the second carol, I puked all over myself, the floor and my instrument. I had to crawl out under the giant Christmas tree and walk down the central aisle of the church covered in my own puke. It was a special time for me!! Hahahahah!
So now, if I have to run off for a puke at work, or at nursery pick up time, it doesn't seem quite so bad...

Sunshineandsilverbirch · 19/09/2015 20:06

I was very sick throughout my entire pregnancy so there are very few places I haven't been sick.

However one Sunday having fainted twice in church I decided it was time to go home. Called my DH to get come for me and went outside to wait. Get to the gate of the churchyard, feel faint again and fall to my knees being explosively sick at the exact moment a bus load of American tourists turn up to visit church (very old and beautiful).

No one said a word. They all just looked at me and shuffled awkwardly round me into the churchyard.

Twolefttoes · 19/09/2015 20:19

I ran out of a pub where we were having lunch, on to the packed streets of a Cornish fishing village and spectacularly vommed. The tourists just looked at me in horror and disgust, they must have thought I was drunk.

That was a dreadful holiday, I was 9 weeks pregnant with severe morning sickness and the smell of fish just set it all off. I basically just spent a week being sick.

The next 20 weeks weren't great either, but I learnt to carry bags. Although I did throw up on my knee whilst driving on the motorway once.

Best wishes to all those suffering, I hope it passes soon (unscented flowers).

Red193 · 20/09/2015 20:16

On my mother in law last week when an unexpected violent projectile act caught me in the door way!
I like to think it's bumps way of showing their displeasure at her turning her nose up at all our choices!
I'm 13 weeks now and hoping the HG eases up

wonkylegs · 20/09/2015 20:35

I'm currently only being sick 2-3 times a days, and it's quite predictable except the other night when DH roled over in bed and I got a whiff of his sweaty armpit, I woke up and promptly vomited from the smell .
In my first pregnancy I only had one embarrassing vomiting incident. I was in a very important meeting with some extremely important people. I was sick into my mouth and had to grab a glass of water to enable me to swallow it back down and continue as if nothing had happened. The only person who noticed was my colleague who was amazing and afterwards while we were at the station briefly disappeared and reappeared with a bottle of mouthwash. He was a star!

MrsPCR · 20/09/2015 20:54

I'm always crouching down near bushes/behind cars for a quick vom. Often on the look out for a relatively quiet vom spot. I want a badge for my back stating that I'm pregnant not drunk. Generally I get quite a bit of warning so so far it's not been too embarrassing. I was almost sick at my desk though on Friday.

99percentchocolate · 20/09/2015 22:19

Last time I had HG I was bed bound for months but did have a humorous vomit after I ate some skittles.
Just at the beginning of HG again this week (only 5 weeks in!) so I'm sure I'll have some stories soon!

Sighing · 21/09/2015 09:41

I recall my morning bus journey being punctuated with 3-5 additional stops in order to be sick at various bus stops. Also on the walk after the bus the local council had placed many large flower containers in the pedestrian areas. I was probably sick in each and every one with DD. Generally I was too busy to notice disapproving looks. But I do remember some older teenage girls giggling (possibly even younger uni students by the bus stop). I fixed them with a look and grinned - "best not get pregnant, hey?". They looked sufficiently horrified.

Gunpowder · 21/09/2015 09:49

11 weeks pregnant with DD1, I discreetly puked into a plastic bag on the tube, looked up and saw my ex boyfriend (from school) sitting opposite. The rest of the journey was awkward small talk while I tried not to puke again. Mortifying.

magicpuppy · 21/09/2015 09:50

Oh god, I had HG twice. The first time I tried to convince myself it was normal sickness and tried to keep going to work. I had a 6 mile drive and I had to keep stopping to throw up.

Eventually it got so bad I had to leave work. I remember pulling the car in at the side of the road to make use of my handy sick bag when about 100 secondary school students filed past. I've never seen so many disgusted faces.

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