Will the nausea and sickness stop after birth

[mummab2019]

Hi everyone, I am hoping for some reassurance but also honesty!!!

I am due to give birth to my second in June and have been suffering majorly with sickness and nausea the whole way through so far (both girls)- I can't really think of a day where I felt 'normal' or had energy!!! I wasn't as sick with my first and wasn't this tired and drained!

Because I have been feeling like this for 21 weeks now, I keep thinking that 'this is it for good' 'I am always gonna feel like this forever'....

Where I haven't suffered this bad before I was just wondering if this is likely to go once I've given birth...I know I lll have the normal birth symptoms, pains etc but will my sickness stop, will I feel 'normal' again after....I am so scared I'm going to feel like this forever

So if you have suffered - did it stop for you???

Thank you xxx

Yes! It will stop, I was the exact same as you and it went about an hour after my c section. The sleepless nights haven’t bothered me one bit as its absolutely no where near how bad I felt when pregnant.

With my last treasure, it lasted until about 2 weeks after he was born. No actual sickness after birth just nausea.

Yes, it stopped about an hour after I gave birth. Just like that. Amazing relief!

Yes, for me the relief was instant. I brushed my teeth a few hours after I gave birth and WASN'T sick and it blew my mind.

Yep, it’ll stop. I’ve had HG in both my pregnancies all the way through (well, so far to 34 weeks this time). I was sick immediately after birth, shortly after the injection to remove the placenta so I think that caused it. I wasn’t sick in labour interestingly. I remember getting down to the ward & being presented with a meal & it suddenly dawned on me that I no longer felt remotely sick. I kept telling my OH how good the food was and he was just looking at me like I was mad to enjoy the awful looking hospital food 😂

The first couple weeks post birth I felt amazing despite being exhausted. I could eat, I wasn’t uncomfortable anymore, I could sleep (briefly obviously) & I didn’t need 1000 wees an hour!

I’m looking forwards to all this in a March.. I wish it would hurry up so I never have to do any of this ever again!

I am smiling reading your messages of reassurance !!! Thank you so much for taking the time to reply- I will treasure your replies and hold hope that like you it WILL go! It's so depressing feeling so ill 24/7, it disengages you from everything and you feel useless and lazy!!! I just hold hope that following birth I might feel like me again and like you said the sleepless nights will be a dream in comparison to feeling consistently sick or being sick!!!

Xxx :)

Yes, had HG with all pregnancies. Vomited upto and during labour. As soon as the baby was out I was hungry for ALL THE FOOD...

@bol87

I hope the next couple of months fly for you and you feel human again very soon!!! I must say with my first I remember eating toast immediately afterwards and it was the BEST tea and toast evvvverrrr!

Please do keep responding if you do read this and share your experience....selfishly it will give me confidence and reassurance which I have longed for! Plus when I'm feeling rubbish or like this will
Never go away, I can read your comments :) xx

It will. It's easy to think it'll go on forever. I was sick during labour too but as soon as I gave birth I felt myself again x

I wish I could like/love all your comments! Thank you ladies x x

I know exactly how you feel! I had nausea from 4 weeks (incidentally I had a boy though). The vomiting started at 12 weeks exactly (triggered by the pint of water I had to drink for the scan🤦🏼‍♀️). Nausea and vomiting at its worst at 14-15 weeks. It never went away completely but got considerably better in the third trimester. It only occurred to me weeks after DS was born that it literally vanished the day he appeared!

I found the GP unhelpful when I was 15 weeks, but I called again at 22 weeks and was prescribed cyclizine, which did seem to help a bit. Please ask for medication, you don't need to continue to suffer! This is something no-one tells you about I found, but actually NVP lasts all the way through for one in 20, so you're in good company!

I found everything ginger and non-alcoholic beer helped, as well as not letting myself get hungry. Hang in there, it'll soon be a distant memory!

Oh, and hospital food tastes so good because you're ravenous post-birth when your body is gearing up for breastfeeding. I was rather disappointed with the quality the next time I had it

Yes it will go. I too had HG and was afraid I'd be the one person who would never return to normal. For me on my second I had her on the Saturday evening and it wasn't until the Monday morning that I actually tasted and enjoyed food and wasn't nauseous. Those corn flakes still go down in history as the best meal I ever had!!! The tea lady brought me more as she knew me from all my IV for fluids visits during pregnancy! It will pass! Good luck 👍🏻

I had bad HG with both pregnancies. Like the others, I felt better as soon as id given birth -I vomited up to and including labour (including puking up an entire bottle of red Gatorade all over the midwife - id warned them it wasn’t a good idea and they pushed me to drink it ). In the aftermath of birth I wasn’t really thinking about it but like a PP the penny dropped when they bought me the food menu (I gave birth privately so had a choice) and I didn’t feel instantly nauseous as I contemplated ordering from it. Bliss!

PS yy to getting meds. I had Cyclizine, ondansetron and metoclopramide and they made a massive difference to the vomiting (not the nausea sadly).

Yes, I wanted to kiss the mid wife. It was amazing and when I feel sad I say to myself, at least I don’t feel sick all of the time. Was also pleased about the baby of course

Yes. I was only sick once after birth and then it stopped. Didn't get my appetite back for a few days but ate loads after that.