Morning sickness problems

[MrsPea93]

Hello,

I am 8 weeks pregnant (and live teaching remotely from my house lol). I am really struggling with nausea at the moment but thankfully haven't really been properly sick.

What I am constantly doing though, is like dry retching and making ridiculous dramatic sounds. Is anyone else experiencing this?

Does anybody have any advice having gone through similar? It mainly happens if I smell something or think about certain foods. My husband thinks I'm hilarious and I swear he thinks I'm doing it on purpose because it does look ridiculous but I actually can not control it. Have to keep quickly turning off my mic and camera or the kids will think I am odd too.

Thanks

I am experiencing the exact same thing! I dry retch constantly and seems totally random when I do it. I find that I'm worst when I first wake up and when I first walk downstairs. I have actually vomited a few times now too. I'm only 6 weeks but was first sick at 4 week! I'm sure my partner just thinks I'm being dramatic!

I’ve learnt to keep my camera off or looking at something other than me so all I have to do is mute! Only thing that ‘helps’ and I use that word very loosely, are breadsticks and flavoured mango water 🤷‍♀️

I had hyperemesis from 6-12 weeks that progressively got worse (first lockdown so I was also teaching remotely on zoom!). It started out like this before unfortunately I did start being actually sick and quite a lot :(

Things that I found helped me get through the teaching feeling like this:

• Having a fan blasting at my face during zoom lessons.
• Having a tissue with some lavender oil on (or whatever scent you’d prefer) which I would sniff every time I smelt or thought of something that triggered me.
• Glass of cold water with ice in for every zoom lesson.
• A bucket on the floor next to me...just in case

Eventually it got quite bad to the point I couldn’t get out of bed without vomiting and I had to go to hospital for IV fluids. I spoke to my head of department at this point and she actually set my remote work for a week whilst I recovered. Got put on a cocktail of antiemetics which made me feel pretty much normal again!

Not trying to scare you, just make sure you don’t try and carry on with the online teaching if it becomes too much!

Best of luck

Thank you for your responses. I actually had to cut short my last lesson to be sick but I do actually feel a lot better now!

@Cabbie16 sorry you are going through this too. It does feel like we are being ridiculous but it's just all the changes of growing a baby isn't it 🤣

@Keyboard91 great idea! I have invested in a whiteboard so think I'll just point my camera at that and not my face.

@HopeWish sorry you went through that but really appreciate the advice, thank you. Fingers crossed I won't need it but time will tell!