morning sickness help

[tink1978]

I am 9 weeks pregnant and starting to have some really bad nausea (never throw up though). Sometimes, I get up in the middle of the night nauseas and have issues until about 10am. Anybody have any helpful tips on how to manage this or lessen the nausea?

 

[live4christp1]

One thing that helped me (though never completely) was to take my prenatal vitamins right before bed instead of during the day. I had morning sickness the entire time with DS & DD. Worse with DS, was sick all day long. Tried eating crackers, sipping something before getting out of bed nothing helped.

Hope you find something that helps and you feel better. It's no fun to feel yuck all day.

 

[DisneyBlonde]

Eat. I found that I was much more likely to get nauseous when I had an empty stomach. I carried low sodium saltines with me everywhere I went. Congrats, btw!

 

[PrincessShmoo]

I agree with the prenatal vitamin at night and not in the morning. I also found (with my 2d pregnancy) that keeping frosted flakes at the bedside for a morning nibble was a little nicer than crackers.

 

[barkley]

if it's acidy nausea try hard bread sticks (stella doro makes them in packages). they work like saltine crackers to absorb the acid (but i could'nt handle salt when i was pregnant with ds).

if it's straight nausea try something with protean in it. my ob and my midwife both told me i was going to think they were nuts when they made the following suggestion but to try it "just once" and see if it did'nt help-a small teaspoon of refried beans i did think they were nuts but i tried it, and the god's honest truth is it was the only think that calmed my stomach. i ended up carrying a small container to work that i would warm up in the microwave and take small teaspoons of during the morning. worked like a charm.

 

[nmmom95]

That is good advice on taking the vitamin at night. I also agree that you should eat. I had nausea (no vomiting) all the time until I realized that it was worse when I was hungry. I ate a lot of cereal until it passed. I felt a lot better in the second trimester. Hopefully, you only have a few more weeks! Congratulations!

 

[DMickey28]

Mine finally seems to be letting up a bit.

-Prenatals at bedtime.
-I take a b6/Unisom combo at night. 1/2 a Unisom tablet (the orginal) and 50mg B6 vitamin. A few weeks ago I was taking the combo at noon as well to get through the rest of the day. This is on my OB's list of approved items but check with your doctor or ask around.
-Eat, eat, eat. I eat at least every hour and half to two hours. Crackers and cheese, pretzel, cereal something. IF I get hungry it gets worse.
-My bad time is dinner time, I force myself to eat but I can't cook dinner anymore.
-COLD water with Lemon
-Sour candies
-Ginger candies if you can find them.
-Keep well hydrated
-Stay rested, fatigue makes it worse
-Stay cool ... the heat and humid are horrid. It was cool and dry today and I felt so much better.

Congrats and Good Luck!

 

[moniot]

I am at the 13 week mark. Starting to feel better. Prenatal vitamins at night with food. Many many small meals a day. Include a carb and a protein. Lots of water and many bags of lemon drops.

Dairy didn't always settle well so I would use soy milk on my cereal. That would be my carb and protein.

I don't know why the lemon drops worked but they did. Other hard candies helped also.

 

[locolala]

The best tip is to stay hydrated, as other posters have said. Carry small snacks around with you so your tummy has something to work on. Mints were a life saver when I was pregnant with my angel baby, as was cola syrup. You can get it at the pharmacy, I think. I would put a little cola syrup over crushed ice and be good to go! I ended up having to take Zofran daily because my sickness got to the point that I couldn't keep anything down.

 

[Mouse House Mama]

Preggy Pops. They are lolipops to help with pregnany nausea. They sell them at Babies R Us. They worked better than anything last time. They are all natural. Good luck!

 

[belle&sebastiansmom]

Agree with pp about ginger candies. Cracker Barrel sells them.

 

[Kae]

I did not take my prenatal vitamins until about 3rd month with DD, I ate total ceral my doctor said that was fine. Have you tried the Sea bands i have a friends who swore by them. I slept with 2 pillows.

Kae

 

[lilybrooke14]

If you can't keep down the vitamins, you can also try 2 Flintstones vitamins instead. They're a little easier to keep down and don't tend to make you as nauseated. Plus, you can space them out.

 

[yoopermom]

I had the same "not going to throw up but wish I would" feeling, and those hard ginger "snaps" sold as cookies helped if I nibbled on them (I can't stand the sight of them now, fifteen years later!). Also, when I went to "baby classes" I laughed at the sight of all the preggie ladies with taco bell bean burritoes, but our instructor said that refried beans really are an "easy" protein to digest.

Good luck, it won't be "forever", and the end result is a good one!

Terri

 

[Nik's Mom]

I have no advice. Nothing worked for me. For my first baby, I only felt sick for a few weeks. It helped to eat small meals. But during my 2nd pregnancy, it was horrible! I felt sick the entire time. I even tried sea bands on both wrists out of desperation! I was sick from about a week before my period was supposed to stop all the way through delivery. I even ended up in the hospital at 5 months due to vomitting and pre-term labor. Honestly, the only thing that worked was an occational anti-vomitting pill that the doctor gave. I used those sparingly, since I did not want the medicine to effect the baby.

I can't even see Alice in Wonderland without wanting to puke because when I was pregnant with #2 and feeling horrible, ds#1 was crazy for that movie and wanted to watch it every day.

The good news is that baby and I both survived. Hang in there. You will be ok.

 

[Tiggerlover91]

Anything ginger helped me. GingerAle, Ginger Snaps, what have you. I kept liters and liters of GingerAle in my house during my first 13 weeks of pregnancy. 13 weeks is about when my nausea leveled off. Came back towards the end, but not as bad.

Good luck!

 

[kellyg403]

Honestly, I can tell you the only thing that worked for me was peanut butter. Spoonfuls...straight from the jar, on a cracker, on a slice of bread and never, never letting my stomach get empty. Ginger cookies/Ginger ale didn't work all the well for me. I have 6 children, morning sickness not so bad with girls but with the boys I wanted to die...or at least hide and sleep until it was over. My first ds, it was so bad I ended up never eating because I was so nauseaous all the time. But then I would pass out...don't do that. Eat small meals all the time if you can. The good news? Once it is over you won't remember...and you will eat everything you look at!

Kelly

PS...and I agree with taking the prenatal vitamins at night...that really does help a lot!

 

[minkydog]

I have no advice. Nothing worked for me. For my first baby, I only felt sick for a few weeks. It helped to eat small meals. But during my 2nd pregnancy, it was horrible! I felt sick the entire time. I even tried sea bands on both wrists out of desperation! I was sick from about a week before my period was supposed to stop all the way through delivery. I even ended up in the hospital at 5 months due to vomitting and pre-term labor. Honestly, the only thing that worked was an occational anti-vomitting pill that the doctor gave. I used those sparingly, since I did not want the medicine to effect the baby.

The good news is that baby and I both survived. Hang in there. You will be ok.

Same here. OP, I really feel for you. I was sick morning, noon, and night. With my two boys I never threw up, I just felt like I was carsick 24 hours a day. With my daughter I was very nauseous but I could usually throw up and get on with my day. I couldn't take vitamins with any of them. I couldn't even look at raw meat, let alone cook it. I lived on cheese, crackers, rice, and sour apples for about 5 months with each pregnancy. Back in the day there wasn't anything you could safely take so you just had to suffer. People who don't have morning sickness cannot understand how it feels. My sister told me she had some bad heartburn a few times--she actually thought THAT was morning sickness. bleah. I hope it passes soon, I really do. Morning sickness is the pits.

 

[DMickey28]

I can't tell if mine is bad. I read your stories and I feel like mine is worse than I think it is!! The other thing about M/S, people assume if you aren't throwing up you are fine. I think that the nausea without being able to throw up is 1000 times worse. I never threw up with DS and not so far with this one but man, sometimes I wish I could. It's lightening up now but for about 3 weeks I spent from 12pm to bedtime with my jaw clenched because I felt sooo sick. The person that said it was like being carsick is right ... that's exactly what it feels like. ICK .... It's back again right now and I am just about to take another set of b6 and unisom and go to bed.

 

[Nik's Mom]

I can't tell if mine is bad. I read your stories and I feel like mine is worse than I think it is!! The other thing about M/S, people assume if you aren't throwing up you are fine. I think that the nausea without being able to throw up is 1000 times worse. I never threw up with DS and not so far with this one but man, sometimes I wish I could. It's lightening up now but for about 3 weeks I spent from 12pm to bedtime with my jaw clenched because I felt sooo sick. The person that said it was like being carsick is right ... that's exactly what it feels like. ICK .... It's back again right now and I am just about to take another set of b6 and unisom and go to bed.

Right on! I used to cry because I couldn't throw up at times. It's kind of sad because when I think back on that pregnancy, I don't have many happy memories. But once that baby was in my arms, I knew it was worth it.