Morning sickness help please x

[Vikkiyoga]

Hi everyone,

I'm around 6 weeks according to my last period and I'm already really suffering with nausea.. I haven't been sick yet but I feel absolutely awful.. Its literally on and off all day and night. Does anyone have any tips?

I struggled the whole way through my pregnancy with DD 11 years ago and I'm hoping this will not be a repeat of that hell.

Thanks in advance xxx

I really feel for you, I had sickness until I was about ten weeks and I think the feeling of being sick, without actually being sick was the worst part.

I just tried to eat little and often - crackers, toast, digestives, just anything really plain. I also drank a load of ginger ale, not too sure if it was mind over matter but really helped. Also took a lot of baths, that really eased my symptoms!

Hope you feel better soon.

Hey I’m eating something small every couple of hours so I don’t feel nauseous

@Vikkiyoga just keep eating! Little and often as everyone says, and anything you want

Poor thing, I had bad nausea from week 6 - 16, at it's worst from about week 10 - 15.

I found fizzy drinks really good - i opted for the ones without artificial sweeteners or caffiene - san pellagrino cans are excellent, and 7up is good (not sprite, even the non diet has artificial sweetener now!).
Cereal helped too - weetabix, oats, granola with yoghurt. Fruit was good. Ice lollies. A good ginger beer.
I avoided complicated foods. crisps/chips were good and bread!
Just eat little and often, keep hydrated as much as poss. Listen to your body and just eat what you can stomach. Take your vitamins and baby will be fine! x

Oh yes and plain salty crackers... always had a packet in my bag! I also tried travel sickness bands... they sorta helped.

Oh, and marmite on toast! Also weirdly helped!

I was sick everyday until 17 weeks. It was horrendous. What I would say is eat little and often....i was eating probably every 20 minutes...a banana, an apple a satsuma, a yoghurt, snacked on cereal throughout the day. It definitely helped. Just make sure they are healthy snacks for the whole weight gain scenario x

Thankyou so much for all your suggestions, I sent my partner to the shop for some fizzy drinks.. I've Just tried a ginger beer and so far so good 😊.

I will also stock up on some fruit and try the little and often suggestion, it's getting the guts for the first mouthful as the stomach says no. Toast is going down well but much to my partners disgust I can't do marmite.. Sorry lol. He also got my some folic acid as it didn't turn up with my shopping. What other vitamins should I take?

Thanks again everyone, I'm already feeling a little better after sipping my ginger beer (never had it before and it is yum!)

Take vitamin d if it’s not included in the folic acid already (I have a combined one)

With anything ginger (tea, biscuits, crackers, ginger cake, drinks etc) you need to check if there actually is any ginger in there, and how much. Some soft drinks are just sugar, water and ginger flavouring!

Even a piece of ginger in hot water can make a tea and easy to sip if you don't have any 'ginger tea'.

I've been finding certain smells set me off, so if you know yours, try avoiding them if possible.

I too use those seabands on my wrists. No sure if they really help though.

I used travel sickness bands too - sea bands. I didn’t throw up much in early pregnancy (maybe 6/7 times) but felt constantly nauseous from about 6-14weeks from about 4am-3ish.
I wasn’t overly convinced they would work, but then if I did take them off or forget to put them on I did feel worse so think they offered some relief and enough to get me through alongside nibbling ginger or rich tea biscuits and breadsticks!

I'm really struggling too and it's all day, 3rd baby for me but wasn't this bad with my other 2.

I've just bought some sweets off amazon called Myrtle & Maud queasy drops and they are quite good as well as silly ginger ale and eating a ginger biscuit before I get out of bed in a morning.

Hopefully it will pass soon for you, it's just so awful xxx

I don't know what silly ginger ale is it was meant to say sipping ** xx

i am taking the original pregnacare vitamin which includes your folic acid, this made me feel worse at the beginning though so took it at night time before bed and every other day (with a standard folic acid tablet on the other days) until i got use to it!