It's SOOO Different This Time...

Wow! I know how you feel! I didn't have any problem with my first daughter..but then I found out I was pregnant with twins! I tried taking my prenatals at night, so you sleep thru the first part...My friend also suggested lemons. When she was in the hospital they gave her lemons to eat and it helped with her nausea. Also grocery stores sell ginger root, I know this might sound weird...but cut some off and chew on it...It worked great!

I hope you find sonething that works for you! Congrats and good luck!

Gina,
I know it's hard being sick like that. I was that way with my first. Sun up to sun down. What I lived on was something called Emetrol(reccomended by my OBGYN). It's main ingredient is Fructose syrup which is also in soda which is why ppl tell you to drink soda when you are queezy. You can get it at any pharmacy and most places have a generic so it's a little cheaper. I reccomend the cherry b/c the lemon stuff made me want to throw up even more. ;) Good luck and let me know if it works for you.

My doctor recommended ginger, either the pills or ginger ale, something with it and it helped me somewhat!
Good luck, it gets better!

Preggie Pops helped me. I found them in my doc's pharmacy when I was pregnant. That was in Los Angeles, not sure if they're sold everywhere here, but here's the web address http://www.threelollies.com/ I was queasy 100% of the time and nothing ever really took it away, but the preggie pops did help and kept me (for a few minutes anyway) from stuffing my face. Good luck!!

Try so Chinese Ginger Tea or Ginger Candy. It helped me when I was suffering through my morning sickness. You will need to find it at an Asain Grocery Store. You could also try anything with Ginger in it.
It shall past.

I didn't have any sickness with my pregnancy, but I had a friend that swore by lemon drops...she said she had them in her mouth allday and it helped.

Good luck! Sorry you feel crappy!

I don't have any advice because I, too, never had morning sickness with my first. Try taking your vitamins at night rather than in the morning. Also, maybe you're having a boy this time since it's the total opposite of your first. Good luck!

Well as you know each PG is different. Something that worked for me, isn't anything the Dr suggested. Bt when I felt queezy I would have a cup of crushed ice rom Sonic or Quik Trip.

It reallly helped. If it helped you can buy a bag of crushed ice from either QT or sonic I think QT is cheaper.
Just ask the cashier if you can get a bag of crushed ice.
They don't pre-bag it but you can buy it. All we did was ask.
My husband would get a bag a week, the Manger said he had about 6 husbands that would come in and get bag of ice all for there PG wifes. It was funny I wasn't the only one.

It also helped with the water intake you need when your PG. I like water but without the ice I had, I don't know I have enough consumed. Anyways I would take a large QT cup to work and have it through the day.

As well as have snacks it helped from getting sick to my stomach. I take cheese in Pre-sliced package, fruit cut up, and Ritz crackers.

Maybe this will help !

Fresh lemon was the only thing that really helped during my 4th pregnancy. I drank water with a lemon wedge in it and even sniffed lemon wedges all day long. It really helped. Hope you feel better soon!

I was sick the entire 9 months. I tried everything, ginger... nothing worked. I tried all prescriptions and the only thing that worked was Zofran (super expensive).

Things that can help you feel better, crackers with peanut butter or cheese (eating crackers alone can make your body crash), bananas, rice, baked potato, toast, bagels, pretzels, apples dipped in peanut butter...

And to help ease quesiness, jello cups, pudding cups, ice cream, SOnic's Lemon Berry cream slush and snow cones/smoothies.

Oh, do NOT drink large quantities of liquid all at once or while eating. It will come right back up!! Instead, drink a LOT, but evenly through out the day, so you are never thirsty.

And, eat a lot of fruit throughout the day as well, string cheese, and about 5-6 small meals a day instead of 3 large meals.

Good Luck!

In the meantime, these things may help keep your stomach in check:

Steer clear of certain odors that may trigger your nausea.
Keep crackers or dry toast by your bed to nibble on before getting up.
Eat frequent small meals to keep your stomach from becoming empty.
Avoid eating foods that are fatty, greasy, spicy, or acidic if you find that they bother you.
Eat whatever foods you can tolerate while your stomach's upset. When you feel better later, concentrate on making your meals more well-rounded.
If your prenatal vitamin seems to worsen your nausea, take it with food instead of on an empty stomach. If this does not help, talk to your doctor (or other health care provider) about the possibility of switching to a different vitamin.
hope this help

I had this same question at the first of this pregnancy... so I feel for you!!!!!

- Sonic ice and their fresh lemon slushes
- lemons
- preggi pops you can get at Motherhood maternity
- basically anything sour, I even got to where I would sip pickle juice. I know it's gross, but it helped.
- I did drink gingerale at times, but I don't care for sodas either
- drink plenty of water
- quaker oatmeal squares by the bed - I hate saltines

You really have to find what works for you. I couldn't eat much, so my dr suggested I drink boost. That helped too.

Get plenty of rest and keep your feet up as much as possible! Good luck - you will get over this hump. I am currently 6 weeks away from delivery (C-section). I am back to the sleepy stage.

*hugs*
Jodi

Oh boy do I feel for you!! I did this with all 3 of my pregnancies, and have figured out a few key thing that worked for me. I liked nuts, esp. pistacios (sp?). Anything salty really, pretzels, chips, popcorn (not buttery). And popsicles, snowcones, or frozen drinks. I always wanted lemon with cherry, as plain cherry is too sweet. If you live close to a Burger Street, they have the best frozen drinks!! And watermelon was a real life saver. You are getting water without even realizing it. I could not tolerate water really well, and when I could, it had to be bottled water, room temperature. I had to stay away from milk and cereal, but liked wheat bagels, or english muffins for breakfast. Honestly, my best advice is eat what you want, whenever you think you want it. Even if it is more french fries. I never could really tolerate vitamins well, so more often than not, I did not take them, and my kids all survived, but you can also ask your dr. for some that are easier to take. Good luck, you will make it through! ~A.~

Ginger supplements should help...but always ask your OB/GYN if they are OK with you taking it.

Carbonation! Try the carbonated flavored waters. Limes and lemons are also very good for naseaua so try lemonade. Simply Lemon is the best. Its by the OJ at the grocery. Worked wonders for me. So did the fresh grapefruit juice from central Market.

I understand how you are feeling. There was a point when i was pregnant with my little one that i all of a sudden got REALLY sick i could not keep down anything at all not even water. My family and at the time fiance, now my hubby, where all very worried. I had no insurance and they where all about to take me to the emergency room when my mom had me try this herbal tea. It is by celestial Seasonings and it is cinnamon apple spice. My mom handed me a mug of it with 4 teaspoons of sugar and told me to sip it VERY slowly. it ended up being the first thing in over 36 hours i had been able to keep down. and after that any time i started to feel a little quesy in the morning i would drink some. (my mom gave me a box when my hubby and i got married so that i would have it at home for my last 5 months of being pregnant.)

I could not do saltines - I found that animal crackers helped better for me or if I couldnt keep those down and had a few bucks carribian way smoothie from the smoothie king helped me feel a little better. With my daughter it was all day all night for 7 months so I was worried about not being able to take my vitamins all the time. Fortuntaly my doc reminded me that woman had healty babies without them for years so not to worry to much and to take 1 chewable flinstone vitamin 3 times a day when I could and that if or when my sickness went away I could go back to the others when I felt ready. This time around sucking on peppermint candies like those little star mints really helped me a lot too and gingersnap cookies seemed to help too. I know its a pain - thankfully it will end at some point. Good luck. :)

I am the queen of bad pregnancies. I was in the hospital twice with my first for dehydration and threw up almost every day multiple times until the day he delivered. I was bed ridden for the first 4 months with my second on an IV at home after getting so dehydrated that I almost miscarried. Ginger is a natural soother for your stomach. Gingerale is wonderful. They have ginger flavored Altoids and even suckers for pregnant women. Applesauce is a good thing and oatmeal is heavy so it stays down well. Tip #1: Eat something (crackers, Cherrios, etc) before your feet even touch the floor in the morning. Just keep them next to your bed. #2 Take your vitamins at night just before you lay down and never on an empty stomach. I could not take regular prenatal vitamins so my doctor actually recommended Flintstone vitamins and I would take one in the morning and one at night. Make sure they are high in folic acid, not too high in iron. The iron is usually what upsets your stomach. (If you are reacting to iron in your vitamins, your baby is likely to get an upset stomach with the formula with iron, too. Keep that in mind.) #3 Don't be afraid to complain to your doctor. There is medicine they can give you for severe cases. Most of the time the morning sickness will stop in the beginning of the 2nd trimester. Stay hydrated!! I hope this helps.

Hi, I hope this helps. I had Hyperemesis Gravidarum(excessive vomiting) w/both of my pregnancies. I even had a Reglan pump and still got sick w/medicine going thru me 24/7. I was even in the hospital at least once a month for dehydration and had an IV at home for a week! Phenergan works great, but basically it just makes you go to sleep. (Yes, I still vomitted in my sleep, even though I had phenergan running thru my veins!) Anywho,,let the suggestions begin!

I took my vitamin at night (it helped a little), I eventually stopped taking a vitamin though. (babies turned out just fine too).

I found, in my circumstance, that if I ate whatever sounded good, or whatever I was craving it did not come back up. Whether if it was healthy or not. It worked 99% of the time too!

I too felt better w/my tummy full or 1/2 full most of the time, so the small meal/snack idea is great. The usual foods (ginger, crackers, 7-up etc) did not help one bit for me. Although, hard candy did help (Werther's, butterscotch, Jolly Ranchers).That's why I always just ate what I was craving.

If nothing else, call your dr. they do have medicine that they can give you for it! (Trust me I tried them all!)

Also, each pregnancy is different, just like each little blessing from Heaven is! Good luck, I hope this helps. Just remember if it gets too bad, call your dr.

I don't know if anyone has suggested this yet but popsicles/ice and fresh watermelon helped alot. Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches/crackers mid morn helped me stay full until lunch. Hopes this helps and good luck!

I had horrible (lost 15 lbs in the first 3 months) all day sickness with my first 2 and am having some, but not as bad with this baby now. These are the things that I have found helped me a little but nothing was a true fix.

1) Fruit (especially watermelon)
2) Peppermints or peppermint gum
3) Peppermint or Peach tea (I drank mine cold like iced tea because I couldn't stomach hot things) Celestial seasonings makes both
4) Vitamin B6 (my OB gave the okay)
5) Yogurt (I know it sounds crazy and it has been hard for me to get the first few bites down but once I do it helps)
6) Applesauce
7) Motion sickness wristbands( You can get them at Walgreens. You wear them on your wrists and look like a fool but they helped me some my 1st pregnancy with my twin girls. I'm not sure how much of it was a physical vs. a psychological thing but at some point you will try anything.)

And don't forget prescription medicine from your doctor if you just can't take it anymore. I have know a ton of people who have taken it and it helped and they had healthy babies.
Congratulations it sounds like we are due around the same time.

This helped me: keep a bag of cheerios, crackers, etc. next to the bed. when you wake up in the morning, roll over and eat them before sitting up. I found that if I had food in my stomach before I sat up, I felt much better. My husband said he thought he was married toa squirrel because he could hear me crunching away in the morning! Good Luck and remember this will pass. Congratulations!

I had bad morning sickness with all 3 of my girls. I tried almost everything with all of them nothing to seemed to really help. The only thing that came close to helping was the preggie pops that I know I found some at a Motherhood store.
There are a lot of sites for them if you google them.

Good Luck and I hope you feel better.

I have not read the other responses so this may be a repeat...I had morning sickness with both and I used:

* Peppermint: gum, breathmints, candy, etc. Keep it on hand.
* Drank Ensures like they were going out of style. EVERY night I would put one in an ice bucket by my bed and around 2-3 in the morning when I had to visit the restroom, I would drink it...I was able to get out of bed the next morning without loosing it. My OB said these were fine to drink as many as I wanted. Much easier to get full than eating saltines.

Hang in there....
K.

Motherhood maternity has some lolly pops that soothe the stomache..try those, they helped me a little bit. Good luck! And congrats on the baby-to-be!!

Are you taking your vitamins everyday???? If so, cut them in 1/2 and only take 1/2. Ginger is supposed to work...ginger ale or Whole Foods has ginger candys to suck on ginger tea...etc.
THere are also wrist bands that provide pressure point therpy that some people swear by. I am a mother of 6 year old twins and I lost 32 pounds being pregnant...I never stopped feeling sick and threw up constantly until the day they were delivered..Not to put a damper on things but I tried everything but nothing worked for me...However, other people swear by the above methods. I feel your pain and wish I could help...hopefully some of the suggestions will work for you.
SIncerely,
D.

Anything with ginger. You can actually get ginger caplets and take them if you can't stand to eat anything but crackers. I lived off saltines, water and plain cream of wheat for 14 weeks b/c I couldn't keep anything else down. The ginger helped get me through the day, as I was teaching high school at the time. I couldn't stand the preggie pops b/c I was really sensitive to sweets and carbonated anything made my heartburn kick into overdrive. The ginger caplets were the only thing that got me through. Congratulations and know this too shall pass!

Chew Gum - it was my lifesaver. I was sick my entire pregnancy and nothing else helped. It won't stop you from feeling nauseaus, but will stop you from actually throwing up.

That and make sure you keep eating/snacking throughout the day.

I have heard from a lot of mom's that they are extremely tired with the second one. Try taking your multiples and extra time released B vitamins just as you are falling asleep at night. You can also get the ginger in capsule form at most health food stores. The folic acid with the b helpers and the extra ginger should give you more energy and less nausea.

Remember when it is really tough, this too shall pass. You have my sympathies and congratulations in the meantime.

K. @ The Nestingplace

I just had the exact same thing happen! I have 2 boys and I never had any morning sickness with either of them and then this pregnancy.....watch out! I am 14 weeks now but I assure you for the first 11 or 12 weeks, all I did was EAT EAT EAT! Eating was the only thing that helped me feel remotely alive...and it was so wierd because one minute I felt like I was going to get sick and then next minute I was shoving food in my mouth! Go figure! I don't really have any tricks to teach you other than to just eat even when you don't think you can....eat eat eat! And know that it does go away in a few more weeks! :) Good luck!

Gina,
I would recommend Gingersnaps and Canada Dry Gingerale. I was throwing up in my first trimester and both of those helped immensly. Ginger soothes the stomach and I thought it wouldn't work until I tried it. Also, I sucked on Preggie Pop Drops in the evenings (can find at Babies R Us). I sometimes even left the box of Gingersnaps by my bed for first thing in the morning. At World Market and Ikea, you can get the thinner kind of gingersnaps which taste even better. Good luck!

The first couple of months that I was pregnant with my now 5 1/2 month old daughter was horrible - I was exhausted all the time, and I threw up constantly. At the time I was working in a restaurant, so the smells were making me even more sick - the smell of bacon cooking was enough to send me running to the bathroom every 5 minutes. Ugh! The only thing I can reccomend is to get some liquid prenatal vitamins. The horse pills that I had at first were awful, but the liquid ones were a little better. I got mine at Vitamin Shoppe.

Good luck!!

When I was pregnant with my twins I was so sick my entire pregnancy my doc ended up giving me a scrip for the nausea and throwing up. It helped a little. But I was also sick my first two pregnancies and they didn't offer it then. It may depend on just how sick you are and how far along you are before they offer the perscription...

I have four kids and had nine months of morning sickness 24/7 with all of them. Crackers did not help at all. Nothing did. With the last one, the doctor actually prescribed me something for the nausea. It worked wonders. Don't quote me on the name but it was something like Fenergan. It was nearly 4 years ago so it's hard to remember.

H. D

Hi! I was very sick the first 15 weeks of my pregnancy. Here are a few things that helped me, I hope they help you:

1. Ginger Ale - sipping Ginger Ale really helps!
2. Saltine Crackers
3. Don't go without meals for too long - eat small meals several times a day and don't let yourself get hungry. You might not feel like eating, but honestly, if you go without food, it will make you feel worse.
4. The vitamins were hard for me too - even though the instructions said to take without food, I always took them with crackers. Oh, and don't lay down for 30 minutes after taking them if you can help it.
5. Fresh Air - walking around the neighborhood and breathing fresh air seemed to help, or maybe it was just getting out of the house. :)

I'm sorry you are having a rough time! Hopefully it will pass soon...

Preggy pops and graham crackers were what helped me and maybe juice. I'm not much of a soda drinker, but orange soda was good too. Oh and we switched my prenatal until the queaziness subsided.

Congratulations on your pregnancy! I would recommend you get some saltine-type crackers at the health food store that do not contain any partially hydrogenated oils in them and are made from whole wheat flour. Keep them next to your bed and eat some before you even get up in the morning. Also, keep them with you and get in the habit of snacking on them and anything else you can tolerate somewhat steadily throughout the day. Hopefully, your morning sickness will go away after the 12th week.

For an easy way to get all the nutrition your growing baby needs (much more effective than vitamin supplements), you can visit my website at www.GoodHealthMadeSimple.com.

Good luck with the pregnancy and God bless you and your new baby!

M.

OK so you've got a ton of advice, which I'm going to use too since I'm also about 7 weeks preggy, with an almost three year old and feel yucky! I've been fortunate not to throw up but just feel icky all day long. So what is working for me is taking my vitamins (Citracal with DHA) with lunch, it seems to be when I can eat the most (Mac & cheese, baked potato, crackers with hummous, rice with plain yogurt, anything pretty much bland and uninteresting!) I also make sure I drink at least a full 8 oz of water or more and it seems to help, and then of course I nap. God, all I feel I do these days is eat and sleep, just like our babies to come! Anyway, I also use a peace of mind product from Origins that you rub on your temples and neck that smells like peppermint and it seems to work awesome and of course I find myself sniffing my fingers a lot too! Peppermint gum also helps me and keeps me from all the mass amount of carbs I feel like I'm consuming constantly. Another thing is Gogi juice. It is the new miracle fruit that a Doula recommended and although I have to force myself to drink it (it doesn't taste bad at all, just sweet which is one of things I just have no interest in right now), the days I do I find I have a lot more energy and less nausea. If you're interested let me know and I can connect you with her, she's a distributor and super nice and wonderful. Anyway, I guess this is no where near short, but good luck and we will survive! =)

Hi Gina,

I felt the same way with my preg.. The only thing that I found that helped was to take my vitamins and pills at night before I went to bed.

Gina, There is a homeopathic remedy called "Nux Vomica". It works great for nausea. You put 2-3 pellets under your tongue and let them dissolve. If it feels better but not quite gone repeat the dose. If after 3 doses its not gone, then its done all its gonna do and you need to try something else. Its safe for pregnancy and you can't overdose on it. If the nausea is caused by your body trying to detox to make a safer place for the baby then you should try 1 tablespoon of "Bentonite" in a little bit of juice or water twice a day. Some women combine these remedies and have great results. You can get both of these at a health food store. Hang on for that second trimester! Blessings,

A. Crowell, CPM, LM
Gentle Beginnings
Birth Center
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