What does morning sickness feel like?

[caitipie]

Hi, I’m currently 6 weeks 6 days pregnant and just unsure if what I’m experiencing is morning sickness.

for majority of the day I feel fine, but I’ll get a bit like weak feeling, and then hiccupy, and feel like I should eat something but not really in the mood for anything. It’s not that the idea of food makes me feel sick it’s just I’m not bothered, if that makes sense.

I’ve vomited twice, once at 6 weeks and once last night, but both were after taking my supplements just before bed instead of my normal time of the day. So I’ve put that down to a funny stomach from those.

i don’t feel nauseous I don’t think, bar just before I was sick those two times.

does this sound normal?

I had Hg with all three of mine. It was my first symptom and lasted until each birth. I was sick all day every day and was hospitalised many times.
I never bought any maternity clothes and was several stone lighter post birth than at my booking in appointments. One consultant described babies as parasites because despite all of the sickness they were all born over 8lbs.
Weirdly, I never felt sick. I could be in the middle of a conversation, throw up and carry on speaking.

The most memorable occasion was a huge family meal that was fortunately in a private restaurant dining room. There were long tables with bench seating and I was in the middle.
One of my DN thought it would be funny to fart (even when not pregnant I was very sensitive and this would've made me retch). I couldn't get out and projectile vomited the milk I'd been drinking, the only thing that settled my stomach.
It was in my sister's hair, over a friend, drinks, the table, everywhere. I was mortified. My family knew how ill I'd been. The nephew was left traumatised because he had no idea what it would do. My exBIL was the type to find this funny and this had rubbed off on my nine year old DN.
Everyone cleaned up and went on to enjoy their meals. This happened shortly after sitting down before any food was served.
I was so embarrassed, but everyone was lovely, knowing I couldn't help it and anyone who doubted how sick I'd been were no longer under any illusion.

Hey OP. Just wanted to see how you were checking on, as I got the impression you were worried about whether the symptoms are connected to a progressing pregnancy, rather than morning sickness itself.

How are things?

Hi, thanks so much for checking in. Nausea ramped up, and vomiting a couple of times a day, it kicked in shortly after this post. I have lost about 6lbs in the past couple of weeks, but started medication so hoping that will help me to keep some food down. Going to attempt some mashed potatoes and beans tonight so fingers crossed 🤞🏻

In that case, I’m pleased to see you are feeling unwell (I mean having pregnancy symptoms!).

Hope the rest of your pregnancy goes smoothly!

Mine started off as mild intermittent nausea at 6 weeks and then quickly progressed to all day severe nausea and vomiting 8-10 times a day. Lasted til 25 weeks.

I had a variety of sickness patterns with my children. One it was constant motion like sickness until week 20. The next it was on and off motion sickness getting slowly better by week 16. The other very little no zero sickness throughout

That sounds like morning sickness. With my ds it felt like a constant hangover, slight nausea and needing to eat regularly (plus extreme thirst). With dd it swung between feeling normal and every couple of days sudden periods of extreme nausea and less need to eat constantly. So I think it’s very variable but what you’re having sounds like it’s def morning sickness.

Reading your first post I thought ‘hmm just wait… 😊’ as you sounded like me at 6wks!

Mine lasted from 9wks until about 16/17 weeks, I threw up plenty of mornings/early evenings but not every day, and more if I was tired or hadn’t eaten. Sometimes totally spontaneously. Made sure if I was in a car/on train I had a big lidded Tupperware (lined with a bag for easy cleanup) so I didn’t have to worry about it. The anxiety about whether it would happen sometimes made me throw up I think.

Getting a banana down me at 6am is what worked best for me, before it ramped up. And 2nd trimester was lovely, felt great and ate anything I liked (within reason😂).

Mine was I really fancied something to eat & about an hour after eating it I had to run to the loo & then threw up, I had both ends at the same time, then at 12 weeks it went overnight.

I just felt so ill all the time. Sick, hungover, flu, exhausted combination. It was awful. It did get better but can’t remember when exactly, somewhere between 12-20 weeks

Mine is on /off waves of nausea. No physical vomiting. It’s usually worse in the later part of the day for me. Eating something usually helps. Yous en up being a bit of a grazer to try and prevent the constant icky feeling

I was super lucky and only felt sick for about 3 weeks, from 7 weeks onwards. It was like 24/7 hangover and only really dealt with by nibbling at things constantly.

I was also exhausted for the first trimester, and went to bed around 8pm a lot of the time.

Best wishes for a successful pregnancy ❤️❤️

A hangover