Has morning sickness ever made you regret getting pregnant?

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I'm 7 weeks pregnant. This is a pregnancy that we planned for over 3 years. The baby was very much wanted and so I was delighted when I found out. However, after 3 weeks of feeling like death, it's affected my mental health quite severely. I can't function. I have to lay down most of the day to prevent sickness and dizziness. My poor first born should be enjoying his last few months with just me and him at home, but I am short tempered with him as I feel so ill. I had 17 weeks of this with him, I can't bear the thought of this going on for so long. I'm crying all the time and have started to feel like I don't want to be pregnant anymore. Please don't be harsh, my mental health is not good due to tocophobia about the impending birth.

Only recently had my first and the sickness and exhaustion was hideous ... doing it again with an ex Sistine child
With needs would prob kill me!!

You are one brave mum x x

Yes. Every day for the past 10 weeks since the nausea started. I also share others thoughts in thinking, this thing had better not die because I am never doing this again. I am so shocked by how unwell it has made me, feel like I've lost nearly 3 months of my life. I am incredibly resentful about it and so relieved it is slightly wearing off now at 13 weeks. I still struggle going to work and have a few gag moments in the loo but I'm at least jot exhausted all the time just lying in bed doing nothing, not even watching TV or reading because that made the nausea worse. Felt like I was in a coma.
I'm told i will forget it all, enough that i will want another one. I don't believe it, but I am going to make sure everyone reminds me if I start with that nonsense idea.

I've tried booking a gp appointment, but they said they have nothing for 3 weeks, so to ring first thing everyday until I can get an appointment.
I can't think straight, so I know I shouldn't be making any decisions at the moment. If I can get some medication, it may help me think a bit more rationally. I can't remember what medication I was given before, but it worked amazingly well. I'm looking into hypnotherapy too.
for everyone else going through the same thing.

It is horrible! Do keep trying to get help.

A friend had a termination largely due to severe morning sickness.

A friend had a termination largely due to severe morning sickness.

I almost did this with DC2. I couldn't bare it and it took every ounce of support from my DH to keep going. Like I said downthread, I am really glad I did when I look at 4 yo DS now but jeez I felt like I was dying!
Ring that GP in the morning as soon as it opens and try and get medication- it does help and you will be able to think straight. Just take it one hour at a time and hang on in there

In answer to your question a resounding YES! Each and every time with my three DC. All three were planned pregnancies and only 13 months between the youngest two. I obviously had amnesia😂

Beeseeinya I recorded videos of myself throwing up or lying in bed unable to move, telling myself to never consider pregnancy again. And I've told all my friends, family and colleagues that if it enters my mind later they have to remind me how bad it was. Tbh I know DH isn't keen on me to go through this again so he might be convincing enough on his own. And thank god the little buggers are so expensive, that'll help deter those natural instincts to reproduce too!

I've got Metoclopramide. Apparently they'll start working in the next couple of hours. This is the first time I've smiled in nearly 4 weeks.

I feel for you!
I had it badly for 4 months with the 1st. The only time I could contemplate going out was to go to the GPs for another sign off letter every 2 weeks. Other than that I spent the whole time on my bed or in the loo. No one told me about drugs!
When it started with the second one, a lovely lady GP suggested trying some meds - oh the relief!

If these ones don't work keep going back to try something different. It is sooo much harder when trying to deal with a toddler too - nappies, food etc

good luck!

Bless you I feel for you so much. I totally get where you are coming from with it effecting your mental health, from Weeks 8-18 I slept and committed and cried a lot around putting a brave face on for my other children. I actually said to my husband one night that I could understand how people with severe ill health that had no cure could want to end it all. I know that sounds dramatic and irrational but I felt desperate, tired, hungry and constantly nauseous. It started to get better from 18 weeks and I stopped feeling down but only felt like myself physically from 27 weeks. I've not forgotten the feelings but I am now happy, healthy, energised and excited and all totally linked to the sickness-they have gone with it. If it makes you feel any better, my morning sickness went much earlier in my previous pregnancies so it possibly will for you too. Take everything day by day. It will pass. Xxxx

*vomitted not committed.

Well I have to be honest, these tablets are making me feel weak and shaken. I'm finding it hard to change my feelings towards this pregnancy.

*shaky

Sick almost every day with both my pregnancies, and so much worse the second time! Felt so guilty for not being happy and enjoying the pregnancy all the time, which just made me feel worse.
Do check out the hyperemisis thread - the ladies over there are so helpful. I finally got some better drugs when I was about 7 months pregnant which made a big difference. Just wish I had pushed harder at the beginning but so many GPs just don’t get it and they are so reluctant to prescribe you anything.
Hang on in there!

Op hope the medicine helps you, fwiw different drugs help different people. For me metcoploride made me worse because it empties your stomach quickly and mine was worse on an empty stomach. For some it’s a complete life saver though. There are other drug options if this one isn’t helpful so don’t feel like you have to stick with it because there are no other options.

I spent most of my first trimester googling abortions and where I could go to get one. I was so desperate. I felt like I couldn’t take the next minute let alone the next day let alone waiting for the abortion itself. I’m now nearly 30 weeks and still on antisickness medicine and feel sick every single day. I’m pretty much housebound as doing anything makes me worse. It’s an absolute nightmare. But I’m trying to focus on the end goal and that it will be over. I think anyone going through what I am would be completely reasonable to consider terminating it. This was a very planned pg and I was the same with dd so I went in with my eyes open to what it would be like. I find it difficult when people say they understand and they had it bad too yet they don’t get that often I can’t even talk it makes the nausea worse. That I can’t do anything but lie in bed with my eyes closed. That yes I’m still suffering and no it didn’t get better at the end of the first trimester . And anyone who dares mention ginger will get my full wrath.

I definitely felt Ill enough to feel regret about getting pregnant! I cried every day I just felt awful.
What makes me absolutely irate is how pregnancy nausea is portrayed in films and tv, as if it's a huge, hilarious joke that everyone finds amusing. It ruins your life and stops you functioning properly! If men got pregnant it would be taken a lot more seriously!

I had severe hyperemesis gravidarum with my first pregnancy and lost over 2 stone through vomiting every day repeatedly but this got better after 12 weeks. With my subsequent pregnancies the nausea was just as bad but I didn’t vomit nearly as often. I feel for you. It is horrendous but hopefully it will get better. Take it easy. Look after yourself

If those tablets aren't working you need more. The EPU gave me cyclizine and ondansetron after I was admitted. Maybe if you call them and explain how bad it is they could help you?

I never regretted being pregnant because I wanted the baby at the end, but I hate being pregnant. It's shit and I didn't like any of it, wanted to slap the people who kept going 'Oooooh, I LOVED being pregnant!'

Hi! I'm already feeling quite sick and I'm just 5 weeks on. It was the same with my first pregnancy (DD) and my third pregnancy (DS). I didn't feel bad with my 2nd pregnancy and that ended up as miscarriage at 10 weeks. So the only comfort that I've got is that this sickness is actually a good sign that this is a strong pregnancy.

Has anyone had success with Cyclizine Hydrochloride?

Yes whohaa. It was all I was on last pg and made the difference between feeling like I couod cope and not. Having said that I still felt incredibly sick with it. I’m taking it this time too alongside ondansetron and prochloroperazine and even with the combo of three drugs at the same time it’s still really bad a lot so I just don’t think drugs can cure it just ease things a little. It’s definitely worth a go and lots find it helps significantly. Fwiw it made me very woozy for the first few days until my system got used to it.

I had HG in both my pregnancies - until term - until y'know, actually on the bloody table birthing them. DS1 was much wanted and it'd taken me a year to get pregnant - I considered termination but I could never talk about that with anyone because it's seriously taboo.

I did take cyclizine and although I still puked multiple times daily... I stopped walking diagonally across rooms. Sometimes.

For me, cyclizine only worked in tandem with something else but for my dad it was extremely effective.

I found that ondansetron worked on its own for my first pregnancy, but didn't do a thing for this one. Phernegen worked, with and without Prochlorperazine

Yes, I'm going through morning sickness now. It's worse cause I feel so unmotivated at work and I could literally just sleep at my desk.

Yep, all four pregnancies were pretty horrific. I hated every moment.