How do/did you cope with "morning" sickness second time round?

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Not even 6 weeks yet and already feel nauseated all the time, food/smell aversions. Intermittent retching but no vomiting. Feel pretty miserable.

Unlike first time round I'm making sure to eat as soon as I have a surge of nausea (crackers, bland yoghurt) and not let my stomach get empty. Will get on the ringer to GP this week for cyclizine though didn't feel it helped hugely last time.

Holding out for a similar course to last time where I felt significantly better some time between 12 and 16 weeks, and amazing after 20 weeks.

Any survival tips?

TIA

Ginger is your friend.
Ginger buscuits
Ginger tea

22 years on and I still can't face anything ginger! Did nothing for my 'morning' sickness!

Drugs are the answer. Weren't offered the first time round - I was signed off work for 4 months. Not possible the second time round with a toddler so I demanded drugs 😁

@Maddy70 thank you so much, I should have put a disclaimer that I can't cope with ginger and still have nightmares about gin gins! However appreciate it works wonders for some women.

@Seeline ain't no one going to agree to write a sick note for your toddler. What drugs if you don't mind me asking? Maybe a combo would be more effective this time

I lived on ready salted hula hoops, not exactly the healthiest thing though.

@newnamenewmane whatever you can keep in your stomach is healthier than not eating at all! Other than the fake mushrooms in chicken and mushroom pot noodle I don't think I've eaten a single vegetable since I peed on the stick.

Carbs, lots of carbs every couple of hours. Preferably before the surge of nausea. Never have an empty stomach, eat as soon as you get up.

Don’t drink too much in one go.

Good luck, it’s horrible. Mine did pass a few weeks earlier second time round.. hopefully yours will too.

@Namechangegardens I was given phenergan - I don't think it's a standard MS drug. It turned me into a zombie - very drowsy, but I took it in the evening which helped. This was 20 years ago, so possibly better choices out there now.
With my first I was sick 24/7 and felt nauseous permanently.
With the drugs I was only sick a few times and the nausea disappeared unless I was very tired or hungry, so found them really helpful.

I know there are several different drugs available, so if the first doesn't work keep going back.

Salt and vinegar crisps for some reason. Sniffing cut lemons also helpful, especially if you're trying to cope with strong smells.

My first pretending to be sick along side me was not the finest moment of my second pregnancy.

High fibre Jacob's cream crackers, they are slightly salty and all I could really stomach

Drugs all the way. For my second pregnancy, I was sick every day up until the birth if I didn't take preventative medication. Your gp will be able to are what it suitable for you. There are a few, so if one doesn't work, try another. I battled through wiyh my first one as I didn't know any different, even ending up in hospital with hyperemesis didn't lead to anyone telling me. By the second, I had a toddler, so it would have been impossible.

Oh gosh poor you OP, I'm not coping I'm just chanting 'it will pass it will pass' 🤣 similar to you 20 weeks with first

I've seen an instagrammer suggest travel sickness bands have helped her a lot, worth a shot.

I had horrific sickness second time around (35 weeks now and still slightly nauseous a few days a week)

Eat whatever you can stomach, if that means you survive on toast and crackers for a month then so be it. Better than forcing something down then being sick!

Rice cakes were my best friend for the first trimester, I carried them in my bag 😂

I survived off baked potato. I managed to keep my pregnancy vitamins inside if I took them in the evening shortly after food.
Felt worse when I was tired, I always threw up in the morning so just drank water until I was sick, then moved on to toast and a glass of orangina (not healthy I know but it helped)

I was lucky not to have any actual sickness, but was often very nauseous and I found that chewing gum, salt and vinegar crisps and haribo helped for me. As others have said, eat what you can stomach and keep down just now and worry about the nutritional value once you can face eating fruit, veg etc.

1. Combination of cyclizine and prochlorperazine (neither was enough on its own)
2. Getting DS into nursery for the one day a week I usually look after him alone (lucky to have a very flexible nursery)
3. DH doing virtually everything around the house
4. Repeatedly reminding myself this is my last pregnancy!

I lost a stone in my last pregnancy due to this. Ginger snap biscuits by the bedside and I'd eat 2 before getting up. I then ate little and often all day as it was worse when my tummy was empty. Good luck, hope this stage passes quickly for you