When did your morning sickness start and how did it creep up on you?

[Nov19]

I’m 6+1 (roughly) with my third pregnancy. My first I had no morning sickness at all, second I felt a bit icky but nothing that would stop me doing anything, I think it was mainly down to tiredness because I didn’t feel like I needed to be sick I just felt a bit off.

Over the past few days i feel horrific when my stomach is empty but the thought of eating certain foods turns my stomach. Then sometimes I still feel sick after I’ve eaten although generally I feel a bit better because despite feeling sick because I have a bit more energy.

I have a phobia of vomiting, whether it’s me or someone else. I just want to mentally prepare myself in case this time round i do get morning sickness. I can sort of handle the nausea as long as that’s all it is but i panic with actual vomit. I was so lucky in my last two pregnancies to generally feel fine but I feel like I’m not going To get as much of an easy ride this time!

Hiya, I wana join this thread coz I’m only 4 weeks but I’m scared of getting really bad morning sickness! @Nov19 it sounds great that you had 2 pregnancies without much sickness, hopefully this one will be the same for you.
My friend had it so bad that she regretted getting pregnant, and I pray that I don’t get it that bad!

With my first, the first symptom was loss of appetite. Then I started having aversions to (most) foods. By 8 weeks I was vomiting multiple times a day!
With my second, nausea kicked in around 6w. Never really lost my appetite. Had major cravings for chicken tikka curry and olives bizarrely which never made me sick! Threw up about twice a day from then until 16w and then was fine.
I would recommend eating little and often, eat what you fancy, keep hydrated, you can try things like travel bands/ginger but they never worked for me. Weirdly flat diet coke always stayed down for me. If it gets bad then speak to your GP as they can prescribe anti-sickness stuff. You don't have to suffer!

I'm 16+1 with my first and have had morning sickness since around 6 weeks, but it got really bad at 9 weeks. The nausea still hasn't gone away but I was diagnosed with hyperemesis at 10+4 and given meds to stop vomiting, which has helped incredibly (only vomited once since then).

All I can do is share my morning sickness journey, so sorry in advance for the long post!

At 6 weeks I would say my appetite went as I suddenly became really sensitive to smells. Stopped eating a lot of foods and could only eat certain things if I really fancied them.

Then at about 7 weeks I vomited one morning, and that week vomited every other day, only in the mornings. I still had nausea all day and couldn't eat much because I didn't fancy anything.

At 8 weeks I vomited once a day and nausea got worse, I started spending days in bed because I couldn't move due to nausea.

At 9 weeks I started vomiting multiple times a day (from 2 to 6 "sessions" of continuous vomiting, usually lasting 5-ish mins each) and had to lie down flat in bed more frequently to abate the nausea.

At 10 weeks I started vomiting spontaneously without being able to get to the bathroom and spent 3 days in bed unable to move, eat or drink. Got admitted to hospital with dehydration due to hyperemesis and put on a drip and IV anti-sickness overnight. Hospital prescribed me 3 different types of anti sickness medication to take home and GP has continued to prescribe them all for me - thank God!

As I said, I have only vomited once since starting the medication and it has been around 5 weeks now. I still feel nausea if I don't take them, but I am able to eat and drink mostly normally now.

Of course this is only my experience, and yours may be completely different. I don't want to scare you with tales of woe, but do go to the GP and get anti-sickness if it starts affecting your day-to-day life!

I was sitting at school (teacher) at about 2pm when a really strong wave of nausea hit me. I remember thinking- that's weird.. why do I feel so ill...

About 10 minutes later I'd though of a reason why I might feel so ill. Bought a test on the way home and I was right.

Sick as a dog on a daily basis from that moment until birth.

@Faith82 congratulations! Fingers crossed we don’t get it but it is such a worth, I get so anxious at the thought of being sick I think that’ll end up making me sick rather than pregnancy!

@KatnissK I’ve started the food aversions over the last couple of days and feeling generally crappy. I’m hoping it doesn’t get much worse than this but in my previous pregnancies I felt like this at around 8 weeks rather than 6 so I fear it may get worse as HCG rises. Would be just my luck to feel the worst in the pregnancy that I have two other children to look after in!

@HopeWish thank you for your detailed experience! I’m experiencing a similar week 6 to you which in my last pregnancy I felt ever so slightly similar around week 8 but not as bad. When my stomach is empty it’s the worst but then the sickly feeling makes me not want to eat, so if I do it has to be something I really fancy. At 9am today it was left over spag Bol and I will accept the judgment!

@reefedsail wow it sounds like there was no warning to yours at all! You just have had a rough time with that if it lasted up until birth!

Thanks for your replies! I’m mentally preparing myself for things to potentially get worse

I started with morning sickness the day before my period was I knew I was pregnant even before I had missed my period. I had horrendous sickness though that lasted until the baby was delivered a couple of times.
Interestingly with dd I was fine in the morning and the sickness started at 1pm each day instead.