Stories about morning sickness

[Aprilshowers]

Is morning sickness really only mornings? What are the natural methods to get rid of it?

Obviously if you were pregnant before you may be the best person to answer this.

My sister didn't have any but she swore it was because as she was pregnant she would make her husband bring her a dry pancake and a cup of tea to bed and she would have this before she got up. My mother said she nearly died with it when she was pregnant with me and that it never went away and that she was nauseous all day every day and even lost weight.
I know another lady who said that all she could eat was ice cream, everything else made her sick.

 

[odd_socks]

my friends are getting it all day and night, shes been given anti sickness tablets off the doctor, theres afew thing online that says u can control it naturally, like ginger tea/biscuits help settle some peoples, also some people find eating crackers before getting out of bed can settle it....my friend is living on ice lollies to control hers

 

[topsy]

My friend has got really bad "morning" sickness, hers normally happens after tea, she has started having her main meal at lunchtime, cause she is just so sick in the evening.

She cant eat any veggies, or fruit, she is just sick but all she wants takeaways she is such a healthy person, really conscious of what she eats, but seems anything healthy makes her sick, she has told her midwife and she just told her to eat what she fancies.

She has just started wearing those wrist travel bands you can get that are supposed to sit on the pressure points in your wrist, they are supposed to help.

I have also heard that ginger is supposed to help????

I have also heard that eating first thing before you get out of bed is supposed to help, so maybe your sister wasn't far off, getting her husband to bring her something to eat before she got out of bed.

Sure someone who has actually been pregnant can answer you better. xxx

 

[beccad]

I worry about this - it must be like having a permanent nauseous hangover A friend of mine has had it quite bad in her pregnancy, and it's only just wearing off now and she's just gone into her third trimester! She had months of sickness, nausea and struggling to keep any food down some days. I think she was at the bad end of the MS scale, though. Another friend of mine didn't get it at all, and a third friend was just a bit sick first thing when she got up in the mornings, mostly just a couple of minutes of wretching because she had nothing in her stomach to bring up.

 

[readyformore]

It seems to get worse for me with each baby that I have.
With my last, it was 24 hours a day. I'd wake up in the middle of the night nauseous.
There were days where I could drink a half a cup of sprite and 1 popsicle. . . that was it.

It lasted from 4 weeks til 20 weeks and then came back at 36 weeks.
I just laid on my couch for days on end. Working was very difficult. Caring for my house and children was a nightmare. I just couldn't do it.
It's truly horrilble.

But yet. . . . I'm ttc again. Going through it is a nightmare. I'm pretty sure I'll be hospitalized this time around for dehydration. But the prize is sooooo worth it.

 

[buttons1]

I think it varies so much from person to person you can't really know what it will be like it can even vary completely in the same person from pregnancy to pregnancy.

With my dd I was lucky and had no sickness or symptoms and kept really well

 

[xarlenex]

I didn't have it terribly, but when it started each morning I had a ginger nut before even sitting up in bed and it seemed to help

 

[Tacey]

It really does vary. Some people have nothing at all, so I wouldn't worry too much about it. An extreme version of it is hyperemesis. I unfortunately had it and narrowly avoided having to be put on a drip because I couldn't even keep water down. I managed to get by by sucking ice cubes. I couldn't even manage to take the tablets I was given to help the sickness! At 12 weeks pregnant, I'd lost a stone from my pre-pregnancy weight. Thankfully for me, it eased off by about 25 weeks and didn't have any negative effect on my baby.

Ginger and peppermint are good natural aids, and some people swear by acupuncture. Fingers crossed you'll avoid it!

 

[i want it all]

Minwas like a 24 hr hangover, and nothing made it better! I did wear sea bands (for travel sickness) but I'm not really sure if they helped or not to be honest! I htink they did! I lost 19lb in the first couple of months too due to not being able to eat! I'm not looking forward to that again, and I expect it to be harder next time as I'll have a toddler to look after too! I lived on bread and butter, and ready salted crisps!

 

[Amarna]

I had it only for the first trimester luckily and only in the mornings. I tried eating crackers, etc and nothing worked. I talked to my doctor and she asked me when I was taking my prenatals, I was taking them in the morning and often had to retake them because I would end up vomiting them back up. She said to take them at night, right before bed and see if that did anything and it helped immensely. It seems like a really weird thing, and I'm not sure why the timing would matter but apparently to my pregnant body it did. Perhaps it was psychological, I can't imagine why it would be though because I don't have issues taking pills/vitamins normally.

 

[StephBord]

Mine was a constant sick feeling that started at 7 weeks and lasted until 10 weeks. I never threw up, but was pretty miserable day and night. I could only eat really bland food and I would go from not being able to even think about food one minute to being ravenous the next.

 

[Heidi]

It really varies, i'm really hoping next time i get away with it! I had it from quite early on until around 18 weeks. It was at its worst in the evening just after tea time and i also had really bad fatigue with it so pretty much went to be straight after tea so that i wouldnt be sick!

 

[Twag]

My Mum suffered really badly with it and was hospitalised when she was pregnant with my brother (her last) One of my sisters was really bad sick all through her pregnancies survived on Lucozade but got hospitalised 3 times and put on anti sickness tablets and she had the wrist bands! my other sister would be starving and eat loads and then about an hour later be really sick!

I think it depends on the person really!