Pregnancy and Nausea - Chicago,IL

real ginger products are best. ginerale used to be recommended, but it no longer contains real ginger. I was very sick (hospitalized a few times from dehydration due to getting sick) with my 2nd child - and my doctor pushed ginger (which did help) and i ended up needing supository medication - not the funnest thing - but worth it if you are really sick!

Taking bottles of vitamin water or gaterode-freezing them and then eating it like a slushie always helped me. Or popsicles. Seemed like the slowness of eating that way helped me keep it down rather then drinking it.

Plant toast.

Suckers. mints-like peppermints. I hear straight giner helps, but I don't like ginger.

Honestly thought-throwing up always helped as unpleasant as it was. I t/up everymorning until 23 weeks w baby #2-so I'd hold off trying anything in the morning until that happened-then suckers, etc helped for the rest of the day.

you poor dear. It is quite miserable. The things that made it tolerable for me were:

hard candy and preggie pops during the day

phenergan at night (it makes you drowsy) I used the suppositories vaginally since I would often throw up the pills. If you use them rectally it really burns.

God bless you and your little one and remember the nausea WILL pass eventually so hang in there!!

I had awful morning sickness and migraines with both my pregnancies.
Per my OB/GYN... he recommended Acupuncture.
THAT is the only thing, that stopped it. Completely.
Just 1 half hour session, and it was gone.
It does not hurt and I found it relaxing.

all the best,
Susan

Hi A.,

If you are on a GOOD prenatal, the nausea should ease. You can also take ginger supplements that will do a lot more than ginger ale will. The ginger is the trick in the soda and some soda's only have ginger flavor not real ginger. Constant nibbling will help but watch what you nibble and daily exercise will help as well. Chiropractic care will help as well. When your body's nervous system is at it's optimum the body will balance itself out.

Hope this helps...

M.

Only time eventually helped me feel a little better, than birth...the minute the baby was out, my stomach felt totally normal again....I had nausea 16 weeks with the first, 20 with the second. I didn't throw up, just felt awful and dry heaved a lot all day long. I could dry heave walking down the street without anyone knowing!

Here are things that kind of helped (and I tried everything but the Zofram, my doctor was hesitant to give it to me since I was not throwing up, although some days I would have paid a million dollars for it!)

1)Getting enough rest....lots of sleep!
2)Keeping my stomach full, lots of snacks all day long...this did lead to more weight gain, but I lost it easily and my doctor said do what is takes
3)Eating enough protein.
4)Apples - funny they tasted good to my stomach...
5)Mint gum - tricked my body to think I was eating.
Did I mention sleep?

I also took Unisom at night per my doctors orders. Some days I would count the minutes until I could take it and go to bed....

The best advice is that you do actually (kind of) forget about it after the baby comes, and seem to remember the good stuff, or else why would we ever have another!!!!

Hang in there!

Oh I forgot one...crying. Seriously, sometimes I would feel so awful I would go in the bathroom and have a good cry...and then my nausea would subside for a bit....funny....but it worked. No one tells you pregnancy can be really hard, and it is OK to not like being pregnant...and still be a great mom!

Congrats!! Buy a really good ginger tea, it will usually do the trick.

I recently used Preggie Pops and they seemed to help. Also, somebody recommended the Altoids with ginger. Apparently ginger seems to help since it is in the Preggie Pops, too. Good luck!

This is strange, but little sips of cold grapefruit juice. Sounds harsh but I had a strange "instinctive" need/knowing that this was what I needed. Then, an ob nurse recommended it at the hospital where I was doing a clinical rotation. Cant hurt to give it a little try!
You will get lots of helpful suggestions but remember everybody is so different. Try not to get discouraged. Somehow we women have been making it through this for centuries and we keep going. ;)

I tried everything and was sick at least 3 times a day for 8 1/2 months.

Usually a sign of B complex deficiency. B's are extrememly important during pregancy. ( folic acid is one of the B's) You might look into additional supplementation since B's are water soluable and leave the body when we urinate.

I had morning sickness all day for 8 months. I found hot foods made it worse. The salad bar was my friend.

1/2 tablet of Unisom and vitamin B6. I had to take it every night of my pregnancy- my morning sickness lasted from week 6 until 3 days after my daughter was born!

Lemonheads or mint flavored gum. You might also switch taking your pre-natals to night. I switched from taking them in the morning and that helped too.
Good luck!

Well I would take the 1/2 Unisom and a B6 vitamin every night before bed. it's safe to take and would take the edge off in the morning. Like instead of actually throwing up I would just feel a little sick. But another thing that really worked for me was cutting my prenatals in half and taking half at lunchtime and half at bedtime. I started doing that and within 3 days all my nausea was completely gone. I halfed my prenatals until I was about 15 weeks and then I started taking them whole again.

I think everybody is different. Eating anything sour (like sour candy) really helped me for some reason.

EDIT: I loved the Peggie Pop Drops, they were sour enough and really helped.

preggie pops, preggie pops, and more preggie pops :)

I just delivered twins two days ago and have now enjoyed 2 days without feeling sick to my stomach. It lasted my whole pregnancy!
Anyway, the only relief I received was from the drug Zofran...total life saver!! Do not be afraid to get help. If its safe for your baby, you be silly to go through all that. I actually only took 1/2 a pill each morning and it just gave me the edge I needed not to get sick and eat better each day. (Otherwise I was eating tummy soothing foods for me instead of foods for the babies) That better nutrition was the most important thing to creating strong healthy babies. Today they are perfect two day old little girls!
Don't be afraid to get help!

I sucked on peppermint candies...it's the only thing that worked for me.

Dum Dum suckers. Otherwise, with my 1st pregnancy, if I didn't have something in my mouth at all times i was so nauseas. Good luck and CONGRATS!!!

Google..preggie pops and get a container of those. it helps a bit

I was coping with severe nausea all the time and nothing was helpful until I started no to morning sickness tea. It helped a lot easing it.