Any tips for nausea? :(

[Annie1211]

Helppp really bad nausea - 6 weeks.

Any tips on what to take...drink...eat that might calm it 😭😭😭😭

I feel your pain! The only thing that helps me - and only for a short time- is eating carbs!!! Not great for not getting as fat in this second pregnancy! Coupled with the insomnia I am fed up this week :(

The only thing that helped was squeezing a slice of lemon in warm or really cold water.
Hope you feel better soon

I had to wear anti-sickness bands for the best part of 12 weeks, they helped to make me feel a little more human! Otherwise another carbs champion I'm afraid, especially plain white bread and ginger biscuits. Drink wise slightly flat lemonade.
Hope your sickness passes soon, it's horrid!

I'm surviving on sushi and flat Dr Pepper at the moment.

@Excitablemuch sorry to hear about your insomnia but it's comforting to know I'm not the only person suffering which is how it feels at 3am every morning.

Heya - I'm 8 weeks and really suffering as well at the moment! I've got the anti-sickness bands and as with the poster above, they help...but for me, only a little bit.
Food wise - digestive biscuits and weetabix seem to help me, but only for a short while.

Ice cold drinks, the colder the better! I actually found sipping an ice cold can of coke (not diet) the best. Pregnancy sickness can be really bloody horrible so you have my sympathy and I hope it lifts asap for you. Ice cold fizzy water was helpful too. (I don't usually like very cold drinks but all the usual rules went out the window!)

Thank you everyone it's so horrible does it stop at some point? 😭😭😭

@Annie1211

Thank you everyone it's so horrible does it stop at some point? 😭😭😭

I hope it does for you. In this pregnancy nausea stopped around 20 weeks, I'm now 30 weeks and I've had 2 days where I've been sick, but miles better than the 1st trimester x

Water with lemon, salted crackers and weirdly chicken super noodles which I haven’t eaten since being a teenager.

Cut a lemon in half and breathe it in for a while. Go to sleep with it on your pillow. Ice cubes in drinks and sip through a straw. I just got the sea-sickness arm bands today and they seem to help (14+6). Sucking a sugar-free Werthers Original took away the nausea-feeling long enough for me to get to sleep a few weeks ago but nausea at nighttime has faded now.

Thank you everyone! Currently drinking ice cold water with a small lemon in it ☺️ ordered the anti sickness bands from amazon too xxx

Honestly the only thing that helped me was anti nausea medication from the doctor.

Ones I had those I was mostly okay, but made sure I always had something salty like pretzels on me, especially while travelling.

Ahh I totally sympathise with you OP. I'm 20 weeks now and the first 14 weeks for me were hell with nausea and food aversions. I really struggled to keep any food or fluids down. It really does get better, 14 - 19 weeks it reduced dramatically for me and now I feel so so much better. You will too! I used to cope by drinking everything through a straw, eating packs of prepared fruit, eating really bland carbs and just going with the flow for the particular day - sometimes I wanted food, sometimes I didn't. I tried to keep my fluid intake up and had milkshakes/smoothies to keep my calories up - alongside dried toast or plain pita breads.

I found the only thing that helped me was eating exactly what I needed to eat as soon as possible and stopping myself getting hungry. I ate a shitload of carbs. Basically like crumpets, toast, bagels..but also juicy fruits like apples. Sour fruit like lemons. Figure out what your body really wants and get stocked up on it and eat as much of whatever you can.

8+1 here and struggling, too. I find if I don’t sleep well then I feel much worse. I cannot let myself get hungry and am surviving on orange cordial with lots of ice, ice cream, ready salted crisps, crackers and all other carbs really! Eating so much and feel too rough to do any exercise so worrying about putting lots of weight on, too. It’s a joy, this first trimester! Hope you feel better soon.

@Sailor2009 it’s so frustrating isn’t it? I rang the doctor this morning and he said if I really need to I can take herbal nytol - don’t really want to take anything! I’ve got some Bach Rescue Remedy so will see if that helps tonight. I managed a nap today using the sleep stories on Calm App. Kept waking once they finished though so have downloaded a Harry Potter book to try tonight.... I had this last pregnancy but not this early and I didn’t have a 2 year old: just work. So glad it is summer holidays or I think I’d be a right mess!!

I am definitely not eating well and I didn’t want to pile it on but I guess once I feel better I can get on top of it! Still trying to track and stick to 1950 calories as a maintenance level!