Rebeccalin Welcome. I so agree with justhteonethen and others, it is absurd to suggest you only take medication once every three days. Excellent links. If you can't get effective meds from your GP do phone Pregnancy Sickness Support on 024 7638 2020 and they will phone back with good advice. Things do get a lot better for most people at some point between weeks 15-21. Even the unlucky minroity who suffer throughout almost never feel as bad as in the first tri. Have you got kesostix to check for the early stages of dehydration as even though they are not the best test of it, hospitals do take the presence of ketones seriously? You can get them from a chemists. An anti acid can make a surprising difference. ere are some drinks that have helped others. Full sugar flat coke, ice lollies, the juice of tinned fruit, Elderflower water, tonic water and Elderflower cordial (eallison's tipple), Lucozade, soda water, lemonade, fizzy orange, orange squash, Iron Bru, orange juice if not too acid, ice cubes, Dr Pepper, Chocolate milkshakes (maybe soya), 7Up, isotonic drinks frozen into cubes, flat full sugar coke frozen into cubes and fizzy water. Some foods of a sort: nibbles of crisps and chips, tinned fruit, slices of melon and mango, baked potato, toasted bagel with butter, grated cheese, cheese puffs, Scotch pancakes, cuppa soup, biscuits and cheap ice cream.
RockinRobinn I am sorry to hear about your mother. As others say having a plan in place for meds and contingency care for LO seems to work best for most. Also, there is some evidence that if you are treated before it becomes severe, the symptoms are less overwhelming due to a physiological link in the brain not getting established or some such. It seems a good idea to have LO weaned before TTC., as it is very hard to breast feed when vomiting in danger of being dehydrated. Although I didn't go for it again, I was one of the very tiny minority of sufferers who manage to suffer for some while beyond the birth (don't panic, everyone; only about half a dozen women have had that in ten years of these threads! You are very unlikey to have that and it always goes away) and so I do know that it is very difficult to breastfeed when vomiting. I hope you escape it. Various ex-sufferers have, or only have it mildly.
PippaStar Nine weeks to ten weeks is so often the worst bit. As others say, don't torment yourself with guilt. As the veterans say, LO's according to everyone's experience don't even remember a period of comparative neglect. Also, it is probably good for LO's to learn to entertain his or herself - I made a mistake in playing too much with my DD. Mind you, as you are having a second s/he will have a playmate anyway, which my DD didn't have.
Great advice from boulevardofbrokendreams kissingthebear justtheonethen and everyone.
I hope everyone has escaped flooding....