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Those of you who have suffered very bad morning sickness...

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Rowlers · 26/02/2007 20:14

...did it start very early on in your pregnancy (if you can remember that is)?
Or did it kick in with a vengeance later on?
Just wondering if there is a correlation between severity and onset - hope I am making sense!

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DimpledThighs · 27/02/2007 09:39

oh bucketsofdynamite - I had exactly the same thing once in town, rushed into boots for a sandwich and had eaten the whole thing by the time I got to the checkout. IN my pregnant nausea I thought this was perfectly normal behaviour and could not understadn the strange looks from other commuters in Paddington station boots!

Bucketsofdynomite · 27/02/2007 17:00

LOL, I also used to get strange looks when I'd rush through a checkout and sit on the floor in a corner of the shop to down the bottle of coke I'd just bought because I was so sick and tired.

bumperlicious · 27/02/2007 21:06

Started at 7 weeks, stopped mostly around 14, but only just getting properly back to normal in terms of eating (24 weeks!) and occasionally hits me like a train now just when I least expect it (while giving a presentation at work, Ikea on Sunday!) but usually down to lack of food.

lilybubble · 27/02/2007 21:16

Mine started around 8 weeks and lasted until 22 weeks. I felt sick every single day, and actually threw up around 4 or 5 days per week.

One of my friends who's pregnant has been throwing up every Sunday morning without fail. She worked out she was having a lie in and her stomach couldn't cope with the extra time without food so started getting up at normal time (7am or so) just to eat, and that seemed to fix it!

macneil · 27/02/2007 21:24

I had a dehydration attack in the very same place, Paddington Station! Luckily, I was with dh, as I just fainted on the steps on the way up to EAT. The worst part of it was being sick in the street (I remember once couldn't find a bin and was sick in the base of a tree) and thinking people must have just thought me disgusting and trampy. This was after rushing into Starbucks and being told they didn't have a bathroom and I couldn't use the staff one and bumping into a woman on the way out who went mental because I was barging past her. I just didn't want to throw up on her!

MrsMar · 27/02/2007 21:26

I've got a funny book my sister gave me about pregnancy, and there's a little quiz in there which they say you should do before you're pregnant, and once the baby's born. One of the questions is, Q.Is it possible for you to be hungry and nauseous at the same time? A. 1)Hell yes 2) Surely not 3) Not sure! That did make me laugh, it's so hard explaining to someone who hasn't been pregnant or had morning sickness that eating chocolate and 15 rounds of toast really can make you feel better when you're about to puke! :0

staceym11 · 27/02/2007 21:27

mine with dd started at around 6 weeks until i gave birth, only thing i could keep down was super noodles, yuck!

macneil · 27/02/2007 22:41

I ate constantly, so I didn't get to the state of hunger where I'd just be going hyurgh... hyurgh.... hyurgh and hugging the loo for hours. If the stomach got empty-empty that was the whole day. I also went for carbs in the hope of carb-coma-ing myself into sleeping after, better chance of keeping it down.

hockeypuck · 28/02/2007 08:04

DD - sickness many many times a day from 6 weeks till minutes after delivery. constant nausea

swore, I'd never ever be able to cope with it again:-

DS - sickness many many many times a day from one week after conception to the day of the elective section. hospitalisation, blood trancsfussions and iron infusions as I couldn't tolerate any food or oral iron. It was during this pregnancy that I won the award for puking in every single type of supermarket in Cardiff. Started with Morrisons (was sick in there every time because I worked there); then the embarrassment of puking on the conveyor belt in Asda; moved on to Tescos out of embarrassment of going elsewhere and was sick in the foyer (nearly made it out of the door but not quite); House of Fraser (this is where it splattered over some Hillfiger shirts - they were surprisingly kind about it) and then my Nemesis - Sainsburys. I'd managed to shop there without being sick till I got to 5 months pregnant but then it was christmas and they bought out the fresh turkeys - sick big stylie all over the floor.

Me and pregnancy do not mix. DH has now had the snip

Hope your second pregnancy is SO much better than your first Rowlers

Aderyneryn · 28/02/2007 08:56

DD1 ~ kicked in around 8 weeks until 14 weeks. I'd feel nauseas from 4pm onwards. I'd have to make sure I ate a cooked meal at lunchtime as I wouldn't be able to eat after 4pm.

DD2 ~ much worse. It started at 5 weeks and went on until 14 weeks. All day nausea. Sick once per day. Could barely eat anything or leave the house.

boredwithwaitingforminiMOSSY · 28/02/2007 09:05

Mine started about six weeks and I couldn't keep any afternoon / evening meals down until about week fourteen / fifteen.

I still get nausea, but I'm not sick very often, and if I am, it's in the mornings.

expatinengland · 28/02/2007 09:27

I was never sick...not one time. The only strange thing I experienced was around 8-12 weeks I had to keep walking while walking my two dogs..by this I mean, prior to my pregnancy, I'd stop and chat with the other dog people during my walk. However, once pregnant, I had to keep walking for those weeks, because if I stopped walking, I felt a bit dizzy but never nauseous. I kept making excuses as to why I was in a hurry those times because I hadn't told anyone I was pregnant yet.

Before you all get too angry or jealous..I suffered dearly in labor. 30 hours plus, OP, third degree tear...so, so bad that DD will definately be an only child. I am too, and I turned out okay.

Astrophe · 28/02/2007 09:31

With DD -Mine started at 7 weeks and continued to about 20 weeks - was sick every day, often up to 8 times, but never hospitalised. I found drinking ice cold water helped a little, and spitting out all the excess saliva I had, when possible (sorry if tmi). I ate constantly - lots weight in the first trimester and gained lots in the 2nd!

With DS - started at 6 weeks, lasted until about 18, and was horrible but not as bad.

Sniffing a little vile of pure lemon oil also helped a little.

colander · 28/02/2007 09:44

With DD1 started feeling sick at 8 weeks, started being sick at 10 weeks, threw up every evening until nearly 17 weeks, then suddenly felt fine. With DD2 started feeling sick at 4 weeks, started being sick at 5 or 6 weeks, threw up about 7 times a day until 12 weeks. So both lasted about the same time but DD2 started earlier. However, with DD1 I was working so I forced myself not to be sick in the day. With DD2 I was already a SAHM and so just wanted to throw up to get the 5 minutes of feeling better that came after it which is why I was more sick with DD2, I don't think the actual feeling was any more severe. HTH!

madmumNika · 28/02/2007 10:11

With DS I only felt slightly nauseous during the first trimester, which got worse at night but was relieved by eating crackers or bananas in the night.... But this time round I have been sick from about 7 weeks through to 15 weeks- and it was BAD.... properly vomiting all day on & off, worst time around 5-9pm.... But just after 15 weeks it disappeared altogether- hurrah! (I'm 19 wks gone now). I'm now eating like a horse to make up for lost time!! and can finally cook DS's tea without throwing up!!

Never realised pregnancies could be so different!

becaroo · 28/02/2007 13:04

I am only 4 weeks pregnant - just found out! - and last night I had to run to the loo at midnight as I was so sure I was going to throw up....much deep breathing and a read of a book later I felt a bit better. Surely it cant be m/s so early??
With my ds I felt awfully nauseous from about 8 weeks - worst time was evening/night. Constant nausea all day everyday and nothing helped. Never actually threw up though. Seemed to go at about 20 weeks but then the indigestion kicked in!
Some of you have had an awful time...hope it doesnt get too bad...I HATE throwing up.

woodstock3 · 28/02/2007 13:47

Anyone else got v late onset nausea? I was right as rain during first trimester (dont hate me) but now at 29 weeks have suddenly started feeling sick as a dog most of the time, tho i dont usually actually throw up. does this still count as morning sickness or is it some other weirdness?

stripeybumpsmum · 28/02/2007 13:51

DS1, felt great to week 11 then got progressively worst. Two hospitalisations for drip feeding (30+ chuck ups daily) and antiemtitics until delivery.
Lasted all day every day. Ice, salad cream and full fate coke (which I loathe but drank on hospital advice) stayed down.

With this pg (5 wks) feel sick, worse 1-4 am. Not actually been sick yet but do have my super-spider sense of smell back so avoiding DS nappy/pertrol stations/perfume/supermarkets etc. Just feel absolutely bloody knackered, but then I guess that is life with a toddler!

Piffle · 28/02/2007 13:51

With dd (middle child) was at 5wks mine started hyperemesis within days I was throwing up 20-30 x a day.
Both other times (boys) mild nausea one or two bad days from about 6 wks onwards

stripeybumpsmum · 28/02/2007 13:54

Sorry , should also add I saw lovely dentist (contradiction in terms) yesterday. Very useful tips:

Drink fruit juice/coke with straw
Don't brush teeth for at least half an hour after drinking juice/coke or after throw up as has same effect as bleach with brillo pad
Use bicarb toothpaste - smallest amount - as foam from normal toothpaste can react with mouth acid to make nausea worse
Use small head toothbrush to limit gag reflex

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EdieMcredie · 28/02/2007 16:13

Mine started at about 6 weeks. I was being sick every day but now im 12 weeks it's on and off (although must say when it does come it's bad).

I can be sick all day and not even keep water down. And can I say? TMI but paracetamol IS the rankest thing to puke up (apart from bile!!)

Chocolate1000 · 28/02/2007 17:28

Mine probably started about 7-8 weeks as I just felt 'off-colour' in the mornings. I wasn't actually sick but felt queasy so I used to get up early and just sit quietly until it passed. I put this down to the 'morning after the night before' or a hangover until the penny dropped that I was pregnant. On the rare occasions that I actually vomited (4-5 times), it was in the evenings when I think it was tiredness induced or oddly enough if my flatmates ate salad cream (they were rather addicted to this and all food condiments turned my stomach throughout my pg). I felt tricked when I realised that 'morning sickness' doesn't actually mean you have to be sick to suffer from it as it tends to be a slight feeling of nausea all day long . I still had my undignified moments of head down the loo or over the sink though - but as someone else said, it's better to throw up something rather than bring up bile.

Astrophe · 28/02/2007 17:35

wow, I thought my 8 vomits a day was bad...my sympathy to you 20-30 a day girls

BibiThree · 28/02/2007 17:40

Mine started at 6 weeks and was horrible. Felt sick constantly, but was only sick in the am.

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