Morning sickness thread number 4194857663000000!

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or thereabouts,

I've looked through some of the older threads (and there are lots) but I was wondering specifically if anyone had tips for the nausea.

I'm nearly 8 weeks and for the past 3 weeks it feels like I've been on the edge of throwing up, falling asleep and bursting into tears. . I'm lucky in that, as with my last pregnancy, I'm very rarely sick, but I still feel terrible and I'm struggling at work.

None of the things that worked last time are helping (mints, fizzy drinks and jacket potatoes!) boiled sweets helped for a bit but are now making me retch and I have no appetite at all.

any advice?

Devotion your posts have made me laugh.
I too know what you mean about nasty taste in mouth. It's awful. And normally I am a very healthy eater beut all that's gone otu the window. All buttery carbs and crisps. Luckily my chip shop chip craving has passed.

Nice n spicy niknaks are my latest revelation. I swear they should be advertised as an MS cure!

I'm ten weeks on saturday and my sickness has already gone down to waves rather than 24/7. Terrible evenings still but mornings much less bad. I am telling myself that this is good and nothing to worry about since I had a good scan only last Friday. How quickly we forget!

Mind you I have still been doing a short day...

Tip du jour is as much fresh air as possible. That helps too.

Apparently B6 is amazing but I can't swallow anything bigger than my folic acid teensy tabs at the moment. such a wooss

And ugh i know what you mean about greens. the though of asaparagus makes me heave big time. yuk.

I thought I was being a wuss as I haven't actually been sick but have been non-stop nauseous since Monday. It's hell. I can't do anything. I wake up in the middle of the night feeling sick and moaning. I get up to pee and can't go back to sleep because I feel ill. And it's only been since Monday and before that I was complaining that I didn't have any symptoms.

I'm guessing constant, or even sporadic, vomiting is worse and I'm guessing that the pain of childbirth makes this look a doddle. But oh how I'm suffering. DH will have to make his own supper as I'm not sure I can go into the kitchen again this evening...

I'm really achieving nothing at the moment, I feel pathetic. My house is a mess and I have a ton of work to do and lots of correspondance to catch up on and I'm being so anti-social. People will forget about me!! I'll have no friends left!

flyingcloud - I'd rather go through labour times than have just 8 weeks of constant nausea and fatigue - I've done both and I know what I prefer I guess part of it is that feeling like a wuss thing - noone ele knows how you feel, most people don't know you are pregnant and you look fine - you just don't feel it. If we were constantly throwing up we could justify staying at home and being properly pathetic - I guess the grass is always greener!

I feel like I'm being such a bad mum to my toddler at the moment, we are hardly going out as I can't even manage the shops when I am at home, the days I work wear me out completely so I just sit on the floor while he plays around me. Luckily he is still having long naps in the day so I go back to bed!

flyingcloud It's all bad - feeling really sick is horrendous and you do just want to puke. However I find puking only gives me seconds of respite. I go straight back to feeling sick again and sometimes if it's been a particularly burny, acidy one it's really painful after too. hurrah! But I know what you mean it is somehow better having something tangible. I feel like if I can say how many times i've been sick then it is easier for others to understand how crap i feel but I can feel worse on the days I'm not sick at all, probably because i've just managed to wing it somehow but only just.

I can't remember what it feels like not to feel sick anymore. I'm 10 weeks today and hoping that I am one of the lucky ones that only gets it til 12 weeks. [praying emoticon].

Evenings are my worst by far so I have had no social life at all for 6 weeks. So I sympathise with that too.

DD Toddlers haven't started to form memories yet so at least you won't have it thrown back in your face when he hits his teens [grins]

long sigh......................

"arrrggghhhheeuuuuuuuuuuggghhhhh"

sifuentes - i'm holding onto your words and look forward to two weeks time when I am 10 weeks. fingers crossed!!!

my last pregnancy was 16 weeks but i know each pregnancy is different so you never know, (i'm really hoping here) it maybe shorter but more intense this time.

i had to sleep 6-8pm this evening and now i'm wide awake but feeling oh so very green with a mouth full of horrible tasting saliva - nice!

i was thinking of getting a little sexy for my sex deprived hubby but as soon as I thought about snogging and him leaning on my stomach, it churned and the saliva doubled.... poor man! i actually need some sex but i just cant manage it. every night i have sex filled dreams where i almost start or it gets all steamy but something silly gets in the way... my frustration showing!

dont worry about your social life, it will return

my friend who has came out the other side from 14 weeks of sickness is a new woman, glowing cheeks and smiles and bundles of energy so we have to think positive here.

i have to say i had two hard labours but i would rather got through them four times in a row which would be four days then to know I have to feel like this for possibly another 6-8 weeks.

i just want to squeeze my mans testicles until he can take it no more so he knows that feeling that i have 24 hours A DAY! Even though he is being very supportive and TRYING to understand, it just doesnt seem fair. Men have it so bloody easy! I am not very nice at the moment

Positive thoughts - last night I felt ok!! The nausea lasted until about 5pm before a bag of crisps alleviated the day's worst. This morning was hell, I got up and had to go back to bed again. Breakfast didn't help. I went to the market as I promised myself I would go this week but that was just a grim experience. Fish stall - ugh! Cheese stall - ugh and worst of all - meat stalls. The smell of meat, cooked or otherwise - but particularly roasted (normally my favourite!) makes me gag

I will punch any man who talks about how proud he is of having produced a baby. They are allowed to be proud, but only of their wives and partners for doing all the hard work. They get to do the fun bit, sit back and take it easy for the next nine months.

I hear you sister!

love your fellow green somber faced friend with a churning stomach

x

I thought i was getting better but feel so yukky today. also i wee a bit when i vom hard pelvic floor exercises must start today.

I am exactly the same about the sex too. get very sexy dreams but just feel so sick having DP lying too close to me let alone on top of me!!!!!! poor him. but fuck that really. POOR MEEEEEEE.

OK - what can anyone tell me about B6 and Accupuncture? I am desperate. I have a meeting this afternoon - unavoidable - and I have really bad shakes and feel so wobbly every time I stand up.

B6 is supposed to be the way forward - I just can't swallow pills when I feel sick. You need to take 100mg in 50 doses twice a day.

I had acupuncture and it did cock all for me but apparently it helps others and I'm trying it again tomorrow, mainly as an excuse to lie down for a morning.

But get thee to bed Flyingcloud
Don't be a hero xx

sifuentes - oh dear sorry about your wee wee accident. it happens to all of us.

so remember as soon as you get into bed

squeeze it all in for a whole breath and release then a few quick ones in/release/in/release etc then pretend you are taking your pelvic floors in a list. squeeze them in a bit to the first floor, bit more for 2nd floor, bit more for the 3rd floor then release a bit back to 2nd floor, then 1st floor, then ground and push out a bit down to the basement ... learnt these from my antenatal yoga.

flyingcloud - let me know what works perlease!

beddybies

"you are taking your pelvic floors in a LIFT"

Hi all,

Know how you all feel, I found out I was pregnant 4 weeks ago, the week before I went to America to get married and have spent half the holiday between being in bed and being sick which put a big downer on it... having been sick at check in and customs i thought they were going to pounce on me after everyone decided I had Swine Flu with signs everywhere!

I found sea bands helped a bit, even if it is psycological.

I know it is hard but eating little and often does help, although I should really do this more as I avoid it as much as the next person.

Fizzy drinks seem to help, I have just started on Lucozade, it gives you energy if nothing else, which I was at the point of collapsing after 3 weeks of not eating and being sick.

Re the emby's development, I had this concern and spoke to a fetal development doctor yesterday and she said to me that the body will break down fats to feed the baby as it is only 23.6mm at the moment so does not need that much, so ensure that you keep taking the folic acid etc and you should be fine.

If worst comes to the worst do what I did and go to the dr and get tablets if you really cant keep anything down.

Congrats to all on pregnancy!

p.s. hope this makes sense, it is very early and i think I am still jetlagged!

Laura233 - congrats but sorry to hear you were so sick at such a special time... there is only one thing for it. After the baby is born you will need honeymoon part 2

i actually had one whole hour of feeling normal last night and at first i thought hooray!

then i remembered a thread where someone said if your sickness disappears before 12 weeks then its a sign something can be wrong.

so when i was feeling good i start thinking, c'mon feel sick again - doh!

never happy

Devotion I have had that the whole time. In fact there are endless posts all over the place about people having the same fears only to be puking a few hours later. It drove me to having two scans. Now i am just relieved as and when it happens. Hormones. Can't live with'em ... etc etc

I am so fed up with feeling a permanent shadow of my former self! I hate feeling lacklustre and devoid of any enthusiasm for all the things the normal me loves. I'm at 9 and a half weeks (much less fun than the film of that name) and I feel a little like Macbeth wading in his river of blood whilst claiming that wading back or forwards would cost him as much energy and suffering. God I'm feeling bookish this morning What I'm trying to say is that I see the past five weeks and how hellish they've been and I look ahead to the next ? weeks and I see no way out! I beg to be able to say 'can I take 5?' or 'let's stop for a well-earned tea break', or even to WANT a cup of tea, for god's sake!!!!

I am with FlyingCloud as I feel constant nausea with no vomiting. Sometimes I feel like I'm going to be sick but I remember with my other pregnancies that I never threw up so I take (some) comfort in that. Mine is much worse in the afternoons and evenings, and yes, I wake up at night to pee and feel a wave of nausea. Yikkes. Cooking for my children in the evening is a challenge and the only thing I can stomach is boiled pasta or rice with tomato purrée. No fat content whatsoever! And virtually no sugar except for fruit. Of course I have to cook them a decent meal and since my husband is away all week I have to swallow my saliva and cook those green beans and sausages for 2 hungry kids.

I am obssessed with food. Most of the time I wonder for hours ahead what I will be able to stomach. The problem is that I will fancy something, eat it, and then go off it COMPLETELY! Does that happen to you guys?

Final comment for now (this whinge has really helped). I totally agree that between 2+ months of lethargy and nausea and a day of painful contractions and the fear/exhiliration of giving birth, well, quite frankly there's no contest: birth wins hands down! I guess I'm not too good at being passive and pathetic and that's exactly how I feel right now.

jardins - hear hear!

we're with you all the way sister.

you said exactly what i wanted to say x

not long now

Jardins - I so know what you mean about going off food - I craved plain race for ages, cooked it, ate it and know I can't stomach the very thought of it.

I have moved on to pasta, which I don't really like normally but seem to be stomaching it at the moment. I found an apple helped the other day and I felt normal for about half an hour - it was such an amazing feeling not to feel like complete sh*t for a while. So the next day, I had two apples at elevenses to stave off the worst of the morning nausea and guess what? Now I can't bear the thought of another apple as long as I live. So many of my favourite foods are just no-no. Bizarrely my salty craving has been replaced by a sweet craving, particularly for ice creams.

Mornings are worst for me, but I find the lethargy and the emotional strain of getting through the day in this state takes it's toll about 6.30pm and I need to have a nap if I'm to be able to function when DH gets home at 7.30

Need to go shopping again today and I hate the supermarket right now.

Haven't been able to sort out an accupuncturist or to ask the doctor about B6.

We're going to stay with friends this weekend and that means two things to me - 1 I can sleep all the way there and all the way back in the car and 2 I wont have to cook for us. The idea of having a break from home (and the shame I feel looking around my messy house) is giving me extra courage.

Jardins - I so know what you mean about going off food - I craved plain race for ages, cooked it, ate it and know I can't stomach the very thought of it.

I have moved on to pasta, which I don't really like normally but seem to be stomaching it at the moment. I found an apple helped the other day and I felt normal for about half an hour - it was such an amazing feeling not to feel like complete sh*t for a while. So the next day, I had two apples at elevenses to stave off the worst of the morning nausea and guess what? Now I can't bear the thought of another apple as long as I live. So many of my favourite foods are just no-no. Bizarrely my salty craving has been replaced by a sweet craving, particularly for ice creams.

Mornings are worst for me, but I find the lethargy and the emotional strain of getting through the day in this state takes it's toll about 6.30pm and I need to have a nap if I'm to be able to function when DH gets home at 7.30

Need to go shopping again today and I hate the supermarket right now.

Haven't been able to sort out an accupuncturist or to ask the doctor about B6.

We're going to stay with friends this weekend and that means two things to me - 1 I can sleep all the way there and all the way back in the car and 2 I wont have to cook for us. The idea of having a break from home (and the shame I feel looking around my messy house) is giving me extra courage.

Why did that post twice? Sorry!!

oh it's all sooo true. You need to break it up though. DOn't think about 5 weeks. Think in two and a half you'll have your scan and your symptoms will start to improve.

I totally sympathise though. I am not sure what my personality is like anymore or even if there still is one hidden away down there!!

And that's obviously plain rice and now not know!

So I am now 13 weeks and still feel sick. Does anyone start to get a feeling of dread mid-afternoon knowing that it's nearly dinner time? I am eating so much crap, and have probably put a ridiculous amount of weight on.

I completely agree with you, jardins. You summed my feelings up perfectly. My mum was telling me she feels like my personality has disappeared. And I have been such a shouty mum to dd. And because it's my second pg, no one really cares.

Never again. Seriously.

Pinkjenny I could have just written your post myself
I haven't put on wait but I am the same and I can't help but think that people think i obviously haven't suffered that badly if I am not now emaciated. But i HAVE.
I dread the onset of of late afternoon and evening. it's downhill all the way.

this will be my first but I am thinking never again. I don't know how you cope with MS and a child. That is tough!