22 weeks, still struggling with daily sickness

[Chocolatebunnyhunter]

First time here!

I'm 22 weeks pregnant with my first DC. I'm still being sick on a daily basis and generally just feel ill most the time. I've had 4 weeks off already with severe sickness (18 times a day, crackerbread and breadsticks were all I could eat sickness!) but hoped as things went on, I would get a bit better.

Today is a bad day, already been 4 times this morning. Guess I'm just looking for support that I'm not the only one! It's just so exhausting and makes me feel a bit like a failure that it's still happening all the time, although logically I know it's something out of my control.

I have a busy and stressful job - social worker for a LA - but my work have been great, as has my DP. I just feel like I should be able to carry on working as well as being pregnant, and not being able to work properly as well as "be pregnant" properly is just exhausting and making me feel down.

Ugh! The joys!

Hi Chocolatebunnyhunter,
You are definitely not alone, and well done for making it to 22 weeks with the awful sickness. I am 16+4 and though the sickness has eased for me from the first trimester horrors it's still horrible and a daily struggle. Yours does sound very bad and could well be Hyperemesis Gravidarum which is NOT normal morning sickness and very few people really understand how hard it is to deal with. There is a hyperemesis thread on here which is great for support to find other people going through the same thing. Also the charity pregnancy sickness support are amazing and have loads of useful information and a helpline if you are feeling really down. I'm not sure if you've been down the medication route but meds can really help and your GP should be able to support you with some medication to help ease things.

I can totally relate to what you are saying about feeling that you should be able to do it all, but there are limits to what you can physically manage and pushing yourself (I have found) so often results in being even more sick. So don't beat yourself up if you can't do the things you thought you'd be able to do, you are not well and it's ok to look after yourself. You are not a failure, though I know exactly how you feel that you think you should somehow be able to stop it or control it as I often feel like that too. Don't compare yourself to other people who had normal morning sickness, not HG, as it's a completely different thing and not something you can just push through. You have done amazingly well to get this far!

xx

Sometimes No to morning sickness tea would help soothe my stomach. I liked it with a little sugar or honey as some days it was one of the few things that would stay down.

I also found that fruit, at least for me generally stayed down. I liked fruit smoothies and fruit juice slushies. And it was easier on the stomach even when it didn't stay down.