so which of these help morning sickness and which are just old wives' tales?

[nappyaddict]

flat lemonade
flat coke
ginger beer
arrow root biscuits
dry crackers
polos
nuts
raisins
bran flakes
lots of water
lucozade
crisps
ice lollies
yakult
soda water

ice lollies helped me as did biscuits.

The seabands really helped aswell but they are not on your list.

If it's really bad, none of those things help.

If you are being very sick and vomiting everything, it is also useful to consider what things are like when they come back up - lots of things sting/burn your throat.

The smell of fresh cut lemons helped me. Anything lemony.

My sense of smell seemed to be turned up to super human levels and the smell of lots of things made me feel terrible; but not lemons for some reason.

Had a positive effect:

• crisps: especially salted or sal&vinegar

Had no effect:

• dry crackers
• polos
• nuts
• bran flakes
• lots of water

Had a negative effect

• ginger beer: I love this normally was SO diappointed when I drank it though. My taste buds are on strike and it tasted dreadful!
• raisins: tasted horrible when they later retraced their steps from my stomach to mouth!
• lucozade: the very thought turns my stomach!
• ice lollies: I have been desperate for ice lollies but when I actually have one it tastes horrible.

No experience of:
flat lemonade
flat coke
arrow root biscuits
yakult
soda water

is weetabix any good?

I eat a lot of Weetabix just to fill me up. It is a bit neutral really - it doesn't make me feel better, but it stops me being hungry & is okay if it does come back up. I tend to have it without sugar because I find being sick on sweet things to be even more unpleasant, but that may just be me

Ice was the only thing that helped me, and sometimes it didn't help, I puked up ice lollies quite a lot. Eating a protein rich meal last thing at night seemed to help for a while in the first pregnancy, but stopped working at 28 weeks, and didn't help at all this pregnancy. And I was never sick WHILE eating dry salty snacks, so I ate and ate and ate them.

Starch and salt hepled me a bit - I ate a lot of marmite on toast/bagels/crumpets. You get the picture. Coke helped too but maybe that was just a sugar thing.

Ginger and the more trad remedies did nowt for me.

Flat coke was recommended to me when I was in hospital for MS, apparently the WHO recommended for rehydration (9yrs ago) - obviously not diet coke. Found it very "clawing".

Letting an ice melt in my mouth helped a bit as did mini milk ice lollies. I also had a thing for tinned peaches in juice (must have been a sugar thing).

Got through copius packets of salt and vinegar crisps in 1st pregnancy - nibbled on car journies etc to stop being sick.

Nibbling cornflakes also helped a little.

Funny they recommended flat coke, because this time around I've been completely unable to drink flat water and have to drink fizzy, preferably with squash or something in it. Flat water feels like water brash to me, which we all obviously get before being sick.

I just kept eating

Mainly popcorn, porridge, dried fruit & nuts, banans. You need to maintain your blood sugar level so anything that releases energy slowly is good.

I also found ginger & lemony things good to (I craved lemony things, dont usually like sour things so maybe something in the other OWT -sweet for girl, sour for a boy as I had a boy)

I also just thanked God everytime I had my head down the loo, that i wasnt suffereing like my BF did, who was in hospital weekly on a drip as her MS was so severe!