Is gagging at smells and dry heaving / wretching morning sickness ?

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Hello,

I am around 8 weeks pregnant currently and I have only been physically sick once other than that I’m having quite intense food aversion feeling sick and a lot of gagging / dry heaving and wretching is this classed as morning sickness even though there’s no actual sick?

I had a mmc prior so I am grateful for the symptoms however worrying at the fact I’m not actually being sick? I am a ball of nerves this time round did anyone else experience this ? ❤️

This was my first experience of morning sickness too, just a lot of nausea, gagging and struggling to eat. It did progress to throwing up a few weeks later, but even without that, it's morning sickness

Yes that’s morning sickness as a lot of people experience it. Lots of women talk about having morning sickness but never actually being sick, you get the nausea and wrenching etc.

I had it with full-on sickness throughout my pregnancies, some days didn’t include actual vomiting but at times was bad enough to get admitted to hospital and put on a drip.

Yes. With my DD I never threw up just felt like shit. With my DS I was physically sick.

Yes it is. I had extreme aversion to food with my 2nd.

Is it? Pregnancy heightens your olfactory senses, I'd guess evolutionarily so you don't eat food thats gone bad. For me it never went away. Whilst pregnant smells of certain food would make me feel very nauseous (tuna, lamb) and I've not eaten them since as it still has this effect. But I never had morning sickness.

I never actually vomited, just felt nauseous all the time and certain smells made me heave. Laundry was the worst. Drying my face after washing it took ages as I couldn't bear the smell of clean towels. It stopped at 12 weeks.

I had this with my 1st pregnancy (and with my other 2 but not as bad) I was working as a nanny at the time and I couldn’t open the fridge without heaving, it wasn’t ideal. I was never actually sick though. It did get a little better after 12weeks.

Food aversions, sensitivity to smells and nausea are all common first trimester symptoms.
Not everyone is physically sick.

I was exactly the same, I was only ever sick twice but I was retching all the time at random stuff including a blob of mayo on a plate and the smell of the oven (not dirty just the general oven smell when it was on and open). I’m amazed how many times a day I retched without actually being sick.

Yes, whether you call it "morning sickness" or not, it's definitely a direct result of being pregnant. I had nausea and retching with DC1 and DC2, then actual vomiting with DC3.

Yes ugh - 11 years ago for me and I can still remember how I felt. I sometime wished I could vomit!

Yeah, the ‘supernose’ is a real thing 😂

I had to put the bin outside cos just the smell of it made me want to heave (it wasn’t smelly for anyone else). Certain foods had to be banished. I still can’t bear the smell of roiboos tea. There was even a set of bedding I couldn’t put on the bed any more because the fabric smelt bizarre.

in the street I could smell everyone’s perfume, whether they smoked etc in a really intense way. Once a bloke drove past in the summer with his windows open and I could smell he’d been around horses 😂

the smell of roasting meat was one thing that would actually make me heave. I’d only be actually sick occasionally but the nausea was constant. I had to keep having beige snacks like crumpets or sucking on polo mints.

the good news was that the sickness passed and settled down later on - can’t remember exactly how many weeks but maybe 16-20. Super smell carried on and still got it a bit, I can smell when my kids are getting ill 😂

Yes, it would be classed as morning sickness. I was never actually sick, whilst pregnant but would gag, certain smells made me feel sick and some foods I couldn't eat without heaving.

Yes, morning sickness can be felt as constant or ongoing nausea, sensitivity to smells, even mild symptoms of depression, without ever vomiting.

I couldn't open the fridge at home without gagging, or go near the meat/fish section of the supermarket. The laundry aisle made me heave too. There was a flavoured coffee smell (hazelnut) that made me want to fumigate the house or camp in a tent in the garden.

Yep all classic “morning sickness”
symptoms- it is also morning sickness if it happens in the evening or any other time of the day, or generally a constant nausea.
Snacking on crackers or ginger biscuits helped me.

My first pregnancy I couldn’t enter the kitchen without gagging and I made poor DH clean the fridge weekly because it smelled disgusting to me. With my second I was better but couldn’t put anything in the bin without heaving