When did your nausea/ morning sickness start and stop?

[HarryPottersSecretSister]

Because Jesus Christ Almighty I think I'm dying here.

Only 6 +1 today, this has been going on for over a week.
I'm either on the couch or in bed not able to move. Even showering is a chore and I can't stop crying.
I have 3 children and a full time job (that I'm currently signed off from). I need to be semi useful. Things need to be done.

It's been 8 years since my last pregnancy and I can't remember much.
The thoughts of another 6 weeks of this is soul destroying.

Please give me some hope- if you had morning sickness or pregnancy related nausea what week did it end for you? (Week 7, right??? 😬)

Also give it to me straight if it's likely this will go on for some time yet. I like to be prepared.

Thanks so much in advance

I’m sorry to hear you have morning sickness. I had it from week 4 to week 20 it’s awful. Go the doctors & see if they’ll give you anti sickness tablets. I remember by week 16 I sat in my kitchen with the door wide open in December eating an ice pop I was so poorly. Take your time & do what you need to do. I hope it clears soon

I hadn’t morning sickness 24/7 for 41 weeks.
It’s horrendous.
My dc is an only child.

Sorry hun.

Mine started at 4/5weeks, by week 9 I was in hospital. Totally non functional till last week!
On meds, they’re helping but I’m not 100%, can manage at work with a very helpful team.

You've all made me cry (again) because all you strangers have been so, so ridiculously lovely and kind to me.
Haven't told anyone yet (just DH and I know) so am finding this time incredibly lonely.

Sorry I can't reply individually (I'm on the app and can't scroll back to see names) but I can't tell you how much I appreciate you all taking time to give me advice and your sympathy (sympathy despite the awful time many of you have had yourselves!)

I'm also sorry that so many of you have had such an difficult experience. God, it really can be so so hard, can't it?. Trying to keep telling myself that I know this will be worth it and trying to remind myself how lucky I am to be pregnant in the first place.. (a little hard I must admit, I've thought more than once this week: 'WTF was I thinking'
But I don't mean it)

Honestly- Thank you all x

@ChrisPrattsFace I really, really hope it's all behind you now!

@glamorousgrandmother so helpful to hear your dd was unharmed. I'm a vegetarian who usually eats a lot of veg but the fact I can only stomach brown crap food at the minute has been really worrying me and making me anxious with regards to nutrition for the baby.
Thank you for that x

I seem to remember it being from 6 - 11ish weeks last time, feeling sick but not vomiting.
This time around it started at 4+ weeks and is much worse with actual vomiting too, I dread to think how long it's going to go on for!

The baby will suck all the nutrition from your body and leave you as a husk - you'll feel like shit but baby will be fine and dandy

Mine started at 5 weeks, peaked at 9 -
16 weeks and is still ongoing now at 34 weeks. An obstiatrician put me on cyclizine (anti-emetic) at 28 weeks, which has been amazing and allowed me to feel human again most of the time. Next time I will be asking for it much earlier in the pregnancy.

The intense nausea ended at 16 weeks with both pregnancies (one singleton baby, one twin pregnancy).

Hope you feel better soon OP. I found that eating a medium sized snack every 60-90 minutes (even though I didn't want to eat) was the only thing that kept it under any kind of control.

I’m only 13 weeks and still in the thick of it - but my advice would be to see a GP and start meds sooner rather than later if you are so unwell. Without them I’m the walking death, with unpredictable projectile vomiting, but with them I manage to work and walk my dogs again!

@HarryPottersSecretSister I'm a vegetarian too and lived on salt & vinegar crisps, weetabix, plain pasta, toast and mashed potato until 18 weeks, I couldn't even keep my folic acid down..DS was born at 38+2 weighing 6lb 14oz, perfectly healthy

Baby will take what it needs from you

26 weeks and still nauseous will the odd episode of vomiting. I lost over 4lbs in the last month and getting weight on has been a CHORE

Pester your doctor until they prescribe you something that helps! I'm on metroclopramide and vitamin B6 and it really takes the edge off. Also, eat whatever the hell you like and can keep down, if it's crisps and donuts, it's crisps and donuts. This is about survival!

For me it peaked about week 13/14 and then settled down. Two girls; my money's on a girl:)

In all my pregnancies I’ve had terrible sickness.

With my surviving children, it was from missed period to 13 weeks I was unable to function in any meaningful way. From 13-18 slowly improving. From 18weeks was able to come off meds.

I took all the various medications at different times and they definitely help. But I couldn’t work with number one for months (was SAHM second time) and needed childcare for my eldest for number two.

It’s probably one of the hardest things I’ve endured. It’s was like when you had a terrible stomach bug but instead of lasting a day or two, it lasts months. We would like to have baby 3, but are seriously considering adoption. Not because adoption is an easy option but because the sickness was so bad I was suicidal last time.

My advice is sleep, sleep, sleep, take medication. Eat carbs if and when you can. Get all the help you possibly can.

Mine stayed for the first 7-8 weeks (there’s hope for you .) If I ate some bread immediately I woke, I would be OK for the rest of the day, if I didn’t, I suffered. Hope yours eases soon

I felt utterly horrific from 8 weeks to 12 weeks. Was bed bound, off work for a month and on sickness tablets. Worst I've ever felt in my life.

I just then had the odd bad day up until 17 weeks. Xx

6-16 weeks with DC1 and 5-18 weeks with DC4. Only had it with my DS’s, nothing at all with DD’s. It was the toughest during DC4’s pregnancy because I obviously also had three DC and a full time job to juggle. Felt absolutely flawed and fell asleep on the sofa as soon as I got home, also was usually asleep in bed no later than 8pm. I had to stay at work slightly longer or work into my lunch break to get marking done for a while, I just couldn’t face doing anything after work! But I survived, my DC were also fine and I now have four happy children .

Mints were my best friend, I ate so many packets a day.

6 to 18 weeks

6-16 weeks with both dd, just nausea though no actual vomiting. It would be there when I woke up and would leave me around 4-5 o'clock. Only then could I brush my teeth, in the mornings I had to just chew gum because brushing my teeth had me gagging and throwing up 🙈 was the most miserable time of my life. I totally sympathise op it's horrendous.

Mine started about 7 weeks ended about 25 weeks.

Oh my goodness, you are all amazing, going through that for your DCs. I would not have been able to stomach (ouch!) do that, and thank my lucky stars that I only had episodes of nausea - worse when taking folic acid. I applaud you all.

I think it was about 6-20 weeks multiple times a day then the odd time after but far less frequently. Peaked maybe 8-12 weeks where I was vomiting up to 10 times a day. 4+5 with second pregnancy now and have had some bouts of nausea but no sickness yet.

I was sick from week 8 up until I gave birth. The whole pregnancy was horrendous. I was away on a trip for work in Cairo (Egypt) when I first started being sick. Every 20 mins for 24 hours until a colleague took me to a women's hospital. They scanned the baby which was healthy and put me on a drip for being severely dehydrated. I was injected with anti sickness medication and sent away with a bag full of drugs and needles to keep injecting myself with... I researched the drugs back at the hotel and decided not to take them which then bought back the sickness. I was taken back to the hospital 12 hours later and put back on the drip and injected again.
Thankfully work had arranged for me to fly home the next day. I rang my doctor as soon as I was home and was told to stop taking the drugs immediately due to them being controversial. He prescribed me Ondansatron. These initially slowed down the vomiting but didn't stop it completely. I would be sick as soon as I opened my eyes in the morning and then I'd take a tablet. In the first 12 weeks I'd feel nauseous all day and would normally have to take another tablet by mid afternoon. Id start being sick again as soon as I got home from work. I lost a stone from 8 weeks - 12 weeks of pregnancy.
By the second trimester I could sometimes go about 3 days without taking a tablet and then I would start vomiting again every 20 mins. As my pregnancy progressed I would sometimes get bouts of vomiting that the tablets would have no effect over and I would be sick (like I had a sickness bug) for 12 hours.
I went into labour just over a week before my due date and I vomited throughout labour. As soon as the baby delivered, the nausea went away and I wasn't sick again.

I am not getting pregnant again due to having such an awful first pregnancy. I can't imagine myself being able to look after a child and being as sick as I was. Overall I lost 2.5 stone in pregnancy. Looked fantastic as a new mum but not worth that 9 months of torture. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
There was nothing that really helped. I had acid reflux and terrible heart burn which I was prescribed medication for. I nibbled on rich tea biscuits for the first trimester and just tried to keep myself as hydrated as possible.

I should just add that I had a baby boy and I had an aversion to smells of any kind which would trigger me to vomit. The smell of my kitchen in the mornings, the smell of my husbands deodorant, the smell of the cleaning products used in work, the smell of other people's food...
I was also incredibly constipated (sorry if TMI) which resulted in awful piles. I became allergic to my engagement ring (it blistered my skin) and just to top it off I also had restless leg syndrome so when I wanted nothing more to just lie down I had an overwhelming feeling to move my legs. As soon as I had the baby all these symptoms stopped immediately.
I have never felt as depressed and lonely as I did in those 9 months. I was not looking forward or excited about my first baby, so much so that I was convinced I was going to get PND and hate being a mother. Thankfully that was not the case and I love being a mum. Just will never do it again! Hang on in there... they are worth it the other side!

at Bracey
Oh wow. I cannot imagine. How horrific for you.
The power of mother-love, to go through all of that. Wow. I hope you had an easy labour!