Second pregnancy

[Kess]

I found out a month ago that I'm pregnant (8 weeks yesterday) again after a drawn out and complicated MMC some months ago. I was worrying because I had no symptoms (with my first pregnancy I had the lot, nausea, very sore breasts, breathlessness, needing to wee all the time, tiredness), and now I'm wishing I hadn't jinxed it because now I can't stop throwing up.

It's still my only symptom, and I have diarrhoea too so it could just be a bug or something, or the diarrhoea could be my IBS playing up. I just don't know.

What can I do to settle my stomach? I keep munching ginger biscuits and arrowroot biscuits, I don't go longer than 2 hours without eating, and I take a b-vitamin complex each evening.

What else can I do? I hate being sick, and my stomach muscles are killing me. It can hit at any time of day, in addition to the almost certainty of it happening for a few hours each morning and evening. I can't cope with this for the next month.

 

[hb1]

I was the other way round - I have ibs too - but was constipated - I changed my breakfast cereal to all bran and that's helped a lot. I am sure that there is some way you can amend your diet to re-jig your degestive system - maybe ask to see the dietician at your gp's surgery?

hx

 

[herewego]

Oh you poor love, you have all the sympathy in the world from me I was exactly the same.. I found the acupressure bands you can buy for travel sickness helped some days, other days the only thing I could keep down were ice lollies) which have the added benefit of kleepign your fluids up if you can't keep them down either).. another thing I used ALOT was chewing gum, took the foul taste away and seemed to settle things.

It does go away eventually I promise x

 

[Kess]

I finally cracked yesterday and kept phoning people until someone would help me.

My midwife wasn't responding, and neither was the other midwife whose number I was given by my GP. The GP receptionist just asked if I could come in and when I said I couldn't leave the house and explained why she just said they couldn't help then and put the phone down.

Eventually I got through to MAU (whatever that stands for, it's a 24hr helpline whose number was in my maternity pack) and spoke to a lovely midwife. It was the first "official" sympathy I'd had and it made me burst into tears again. She told me she couldn't see me as I'm too early on, but that if I got my GP to ring her, she'd tell him what to give me. She reassured me they use it all the time in my situation and it's safe for baby.

So I rang back the GP, and the receptionist told me again to come in. I kept saying I couldn't. The receptionist spoke to the Dr, who rang me back and asked me to come in. I said no. So they eventually rang the MAU midwife and then wrote me a prescription, which my wonderful hubby went to get and then - blessed relief! For the first time in weeks I don't feel sick! It's so freeing, and it allows me to cope with the mild-moderate nausea, knowing that when it gets worse I can stick this tablet next to my gum and I'll soon feel better.