Pregnacare

[Dorabean]

Morning!

I had been really worried in the last few days as my nausea seems to have eased up a lot! I'm currently between 6-7 weeks and last week I felt so sick all day. My nausea started to feel better at the weekend but I've just realised that I switched taking my pregnacare to the evening, rather than the morning. Has anyone had experience with pregnacare original and a link to morning sickness? I think taking it in the evening has helped me?!

Ha, literally just this second posted this on another thread:

I switched taking my vitamins to the evening, rather than the morning and it's coincided with my sickness being much better in the day.

This is interesting, as I genuinely now wonder whether it's behind some (not all, of course, by a long way!) morning sickness. I also found that when I started taking prenatal vitamins they made me feel really sick if I took them first thing in the morning and so switched to taking them last thing before bed (my ones do also say on them that you should take them with a main meal, ie not on an empty stomach) - but that was ages before I was pregnant, so I'd figured it out long before. I suppose if I'd been pregnant when I'd started taking them I might have just assumed it was morning sickness and never connected it to the vitamins.

So yes, I definitely found this! I found it both with Pregnacare (which I'm taking now) and with Tesco Pre & Post Natal (which is what I started taking when we started TTC-ing), so for me it wasn't brand-specific.

Haha I also replied on the other thread! However, I feel a bit better that this could really be the reason my nausea has seemed to fade a bit. I still get waves of it but it's not half as bad as it was.

I took it through my first pregnancy too and i felt really nauseous until about 12 weeks, I still took it after that and felt better because morning sickness stopped but still had some nausea at times.

I'm paranoid about this pregnancy as my last one ended at 24weeks so I seem to analyse every little thing at the minute. Just glad this one might be a connection to the pregnacare!

I think it is normal for nausea to come and go, anyway - it isn't necessarily a bad sign. This has been making me feel better because I've been worrying about the fact I've had very little morning sickness - just the odd wave of incredibly mild nausea when I'm hungry, and never feeling like I could actually be sick - and remembering how ill I felt when I first started taking the prenatal has cheered me up, as if that had happened to me in pregnancy I'd have definitely thought I had strong nausea!

If you're feeling a bit ill anyway (as with your continuing waves of nausea) then I think it would definitely be possible for the prenatal to exacerbate it - hence why it wasn't a problem for you once your morning sickness had gone before. I would guess different people are probably differently sensitive to it too - as I said, I reacted really strongly and it definitely wasn't pregnancy, just my body.

Oh, and while I've never had much nausea, I had been really panicking about my sore boobs subsiding in the last week or so - I had an early scan yesterday (8+4) which showed a healthy pregnancy with a little bean with a strong heartbeat, so I'm trying to tell myself that I can't tell how things are going by symptoms - no one can tell me what will happen, but right now all is fine, so I have to stop trying to double-guess my body and look for 'clues'.

I'm really sorry about your previous loss. Do remember that all pregnancies are different, too - it's normal to have much more nausea in one than the other without it meaning anything's awry.

So glad to hear you saw your little one with a heartbeat on the scan! I had an early scan last week and they said it was healthy for 5+ weeks, they didn't seem at all concerned that I thought I was more like 6 weeks, think it just means that I may have conceived later seeing as my cycle length varies. I have another scan next week which is good, they said if I come back they should be able to show me the heartbeat.

I am feeling a little nauseous today but nothing compared to last week! I got sore boobs as well last time but haven't had them so far this time! It's such an anxious time but you've definitely made me feel a bit better and I think is the vitamins that are making the MS worse!

Hi,
I suspected the vitamins might of been exacerbating my nausea, - switched to taking in the evenings, only to find I was still retching around the place in the mornings in my first trimester (now approaching third trimester) and the nausea has eased a fair bit now (but not completely).

Folic acid can make some women feel very sick, me included. I've had to stop taking my vitamins again because I just couldn't cope with the all day nausea, also tea was making me feel sick too.

Taking it in the evening does help with the nausea (midwife confirmed this), that's when I was taking mine, which meant just nausea and not throwing up constantly this pregnancy. I was floored with my last baby for the whole pregnancy.

Not nausea, but when I was ttc my first pregnancy, pregnacare gave me horrible stomach pains (like sharp shooting pains just under my right rib). It was so bad they sent me to have a camera shoved down into my stomach to check for an ulcer. They found nothing, but I realised the only thing that I'd been doing differently since the pain started was taking the pregnacare. I switched to another brand and it was gone within a few days. I wasn't pregnant at the time (this was before ttc) so it wasn't pregnancy related. So it's definitely possible for vitamins to cause all sorts of things.

That said, I've been pregnant 3 times now and my nausea almost always gets better between 6-8 weeks before it gets worse again. So you might just be in that lull before it comes back.