Need Help coping with morning sickness with a 21 month old!!!

[gem1981]

Hello

Starting to feel VERY sick now all day - due in October.

I feel really bad as I all want to do is sleep all day as i feeling constantly exhausted.

DS is always full of beans and constantly wants to be out doing stuff - just getting up and moving about makes me feel dreadful.

I am really trying to grin and bear it but finding its becoming more and more of a struggle and its really getting me down (quite frankly I am feeling a bit sory for myself)

DH says I need to think positove and maybe the sickness will subside [hmmm]

sorry its not a very cheery message but needed a moan

[fionap19]

Hi,
Ive had three kids and was sick as anything through all the pregnancies!
The fist tips I can tell you are snacking. dont go out without a plain biscuit or crystallised ginger....nibbling ginger, drinking fizzy ginger ale, ginger tea or anything like that helps...
I also found jasmine tea very soothing. Get your husband to bring it to you in bed before you get up.
I dont think I ate a full meal the whole time! snack when you feel like it...someone said bananas and they are good. anything fairly plain, toast for instance can be heavenly when you feel bad!
Pasta, potatoes...startch seems best! Leave out fat.
As for looking after your toddler...You have to be kind to yourself. I dont know the age of yours, but I kept a tub of toys in the bedroom and in the morning mine would come sit on the bed with me and play with those till I felt stronger!!
It can be together time, and he still remembers it and liked it! I let him listen to the babys heart and we would talk to it too....
Tv is also a good distraction depending on your views! there are loads of educational kids programs oni hte mornings and they can learn a lot from those....

I wish you loads of luck! I know I had trouble getting pregnant so I spent the whole times saying Im sick isnt it wonderful! I know its mad, but think of the beautiful baby you will have...its worth it all!!!

Best wishes

Fiona

[auntieem]

Oh God I have just remembered how awful it was trying to vomit with a smile on my face!

[Briwish]

Know how you feel - am 19 weeks pregnant and am only throwing up in the morning now and have a 15 month old DD. There is nothing like having a screaming toddler clinging frantically to your legs whilst trying to have a conversation with the big white porcelain God. Trying to reassure them that Mommy is not dying whilst feeling like flinging them into the middle of next week is a difficult balancing act!!! I can only offer a whack load of sympathy as I found that nothing ever really helped me with the morning sickness with either of my pregnancies.All I can say is Thank goodness I am not as sick with this pregnancy as I was with DD as that was the whole way through the 9 months and all day.
Mind you my DH would not have dreamed of asking me to smile - he knows that aomething drastic might have happened to him.

Thinking of you lots and the only advice is to kepp eating, anmd eating, and eating!

[minipluffmum]

thank god,I thought it was just me! This is the first time I've been well enough to go on line since Sunday and when I saw this post via the parenting news email it really touched a nerve.
I'm 14wks+3 and can't feel positive about this pregnancy at all.I have been ill non-stop since January with MS and every single gastric and cold virus going! My DD (2.7yrs) is being dumped on Daddy or Auntie as often as possible so I feel doubly bad when she tells me "I missed you Mummy" or I scream at her (normally I never shout at her)for something trivial like drawing on her hands .
My house is a sh**t heap too since I can't work up the strength to clean it properly.
The worst is, this is really my last chance at a 2nd child since we agreed not to try past 40yrs and it took me a year and a half to get pregnant with this one and I keep feeling that it must be dead or damaged due to all the illness I've had.
God, I sound like such a whinger! I know it will probably all pan out but I had to get it off my chest since DH doesn't like to hear it when I get this down - it just gets him upset and he's already very stressed (worried for his job since he's had to have so much time off to help me).
Sorry about the over-long post !