Morning sickness tips that work or at least take the edge of!

[Nancy10]

I would love to have another baby, but was very sick with my last 2 pregnancies. I was sick all day every day with my first. With second, again sick all day every day and dizzy spells too! The only thing I could keep down was diet coke (flat.) And that was only in the evenings. I tried ginger and most other things, didn't try travel sickness bands. I was always most sick with things I craved for. I know that there isn't a cure but would like to know of things I can try to prepare me before hand. Positive thinking and all that!

Well my sickness (current pregnancy, my first ever) was not as bad as yours - more sort of permanent hangover nausea day and night, but I used the travel sickness bands and found them really really helpful. They enabled me to at least eat, and then being able to eat helped my sickness. I found that eating regularly and having a snack before bed helped a lot, but obviously had to use the travel sickness bands to facilitate that as the idea of eating was the most nausea-inducing thought of all!!!

Have you ever been to the GP to ask about medication for the sickness? I was never that bad but if you were constantly sick then that must have been really miserable, surely they could prescribe something???? [utterly ignorant emoticon]

I used homeopathic remedy from a local homeopathic pharmacy called nux vom. It took the edge off it for me, combined with the travel sickness bands. It is so awful to exp morning sickness, I remember it well
I could also only tolerate porridge and jacobs cream crackers, and craved lucozade and fizzy water? It's really a trial and error isn't it, but the less I ate the more sick I would feel/be, I felt as I was stuffing my face 24/7 Yuck. I also got the ginger tea, this helped a little bit, but then I got fed up of that. HTH

My midwife recommended isotonic drinks, so I had red bull but only a small amount as it does have a lot of caffeine in it but then again I never drunk tea or coffee. I was reading yesterday, it's to do with hormones and low blood sugar so that's why you want lucozade.

I used the sickness bands and boiled sweets.

Crying in the corner helped a bit.

Not going anywhere where there was food, pictures of food, people who looked like they'd eaten food recently, anywhere that smelled of anything at all, up stairs, down stairs, from one temperature to another, in or on anything that moved.

Not bathing, showering, brushing teeth or generally taking my pyjamas off and getting out of bed helped some days.

Swearing.

Swearing at people.

Swearing at myself.

And crying some more.

I listened to the morningwell CD although it wasn't that bad to start with. With the CD it was barely noticeable.

I drank loads of lemonade but not diet lemonade. Progressed onto thick chocolate milkshake when the heartburn started but it took the edge off the sickness as well. I found anything ginger made it worse and over two years on I can't face anything with ginger in.

Oh god yes please, I know I don't have it as bad as some, but mine is a general all day hangover/carsickness feeling, a sort of headachy sickness IYKWIM? Worse if I am hungry but I don't fancy anything to eat. Living on coco pops and fizzy haribo but am fed up already and only 7 weeks. Am struggling to get through work but don't feel able to take time off.

What's the morningwell CD?

I'll try anything at this rate, am miserable.

I constantly told my midwife how ill I was, but all she said was 'it's a good sign' and because I could keep coke down, at least I was getting some fluids.
My babies were sensible weights and healthy and the births were straight forward, so that was good. But the sickness took away all the excitement of having a baby.
I will buy some travel sickness bands and possibly visit a homeopath, if and when I get pregnant again. I'm determined to find a cure!

Yes, very interested in this cd?

I drank lukewarm homemade lemon and ginger tea. For i litre of water it had a cubic inch of ginger, 3 lemons and some sugar and I soaked it for about 10 mins then sqeezed out the lemon juice. And sipped it constantly.

I went through a lot of lemons and ginger but it was the only thing that worked for me!

The ginger isn't doing it for me, but am drinking fresh lemon juice in cold bottles of (tap) water which is helping, a touch.

Bumperlicious, I've just looked up the cd. Have a look a www.BumpsMaternity.com/morningwell #
It's £19.95

Sorry, I accidentally added the #. That's not part of the address

I've just bought the app of the morningwell CD for my iPod for 59p! If it works I am happy to pay 20 quid for the CD too as I can't use my iPod at work. Will report back.

I drank coke and ate pickled onion monster munch last time for those awful weeks.

Mine passed at 12 weeks. With the DSs I thought I was going to die from feeling so rough but it was short lived, stopping around 11/12 weeks.

With the DDs it wasn't so ghastly but went on longer to about 15 weeks.

It doesn't sound much but when you have to cook for the DCs already here it was hideous.

Oooh yeah, monster munch, that might work too...mmmmm. Going to have to send DH out for those tomorrow! And I hardly every eat crisps!

only thing that helped me were vast numbers of krispy kreme doughnuts,and m+s milkshakes.Which is why I still have 20 lb to lose and my dd is 2.9

I discovered eating chocolate early in the morning helped (although the actually eating of it was repulsive)

Have sent DH out for monster munch - bless him!

Oh god, monster munch and milk, this is so good!

Hello, Nancyten!

Excuse my sticking my oar in here, but I thought you might find the HYPEREMESIS AWARENESS thread that we have running a useful source of support. It's called Awarness, but its more a sort of support thing. Everyone there is well acquainted with the good old head-down-the-loo fun.[sad}

Anyone who's got really nasty M/S is welcome.

LucindaE
xx

I have found these things have helped, a bit:

• morningwell cd
• travel sickness bands
• ginger (eating a lot of gingerbread at the minute!)
• boiled sweets (but only when my morning sickness was mild)

-regular carbs (small amounts, hourly) and, more than anything else, espeially when I was being very sick was ice lollies (made with real fruit juice), they helped me keep liquid down and some vitamins / energy. Even when I couldn't keep anything else down, these would sometimes stay down. I've just also found, through googling, something called lillipops here I've just ordered a box through the website as they sound good!

I also have some tablets from the doctor because some days these are the only things that help

although I like showofhands list too, that is definitely the reality! can't wait for this bit to be over, I'm very bored of staring at a sick bucket!

I found that tins of processed fruit salad helped, orange juice and apart from that eating incredibly unhealthily.

Have you discovered yet that if you cook a meal, make it half as big again, and eat a bit, and then throw up, then in the little gap after you've thrown up for about ten minutes when you don't feel sick any more, you can actually eat more or less a whole fresh serving and keep it down.

Show of Hands -- you poor thing.