How do I deal with pregnancy sickness?

Question

I am 7 weeks pregnant with my first baby. :)

I am not experiencing morning sickness, but I feel yucky most of the time. I don't want to eat, but then I feel sick when I don't! And when I do eat I feel like the food is sitting in my stomach like a brick.

Did you feel this way when you were pregnant? How did you deal with it? What can I eat that won't feel so heavy in my stomach?

Answer 1

I am almost at 11 weeks and between 7 and 10 weeks, I have to say, it was hell. I did not vomit as much, but the nausea was so severe that I didn't feel like eating at all.

Even if you don't feel like eating, you need to force your self. Try eating lighter meals, specially at night and try to eat more often.

If you start feeling sick quite a lot, your doctor can prescribe you medicaton for pregnant women against nausea.... They might make you sleepy so go easy on them.

If you are not suffering as much, then good for you and you are one of the lucky ones!!!

Congratulations and good luck!

Answer 2

All I ate during the first trimester was a variety of fruit, sometimes with cottage cheese and when nothing else sounded good I ate frosted mini wheat for breakfast, lunch or dinner. I tried to eat meat, beans, and veggies (esp green ones) when I could. I was more successful with beans. Apples and chicken (tagine) was tolerable. Thank goodness for prenatal vitamins!

As far as the fruit I ate, it was generally fresh honeydew, cantelope, pineapple,peaches and strawberries.

The look and smell of meat made my stomach turn during the first and part of the second trimesters.

Make sure you eat a little something every few hours, whether it is a fruit, some veggies, a few crackers, whatever. Saltines are great for this. This helps keep something in your stomach, so you won't feel sick from not eating.

Eating a small snack like a pack of lance crackers or saltines and cheese or something with the prenatal vitamin will help if that on an empty stomach is causing some nasea.

Ginger tea made by boiling a bit of ginger root in water with sugar to taste soothes the stomach and works for nausea or "yuckiness". It tastes good, too. If I'm not mistaken, ginger helps digestion or sometihng to that effect.

Answer 3

Vegetables fruits, or just keep trying foods in the first three months eat whatever you can keep down and anything that doesnt feel so heavy, also try broths. Stay away from large meals just eat a little at a time like once every two or three hours have a quarter of a normal meal. All the hormones are seriously throwing your insides for loop and you have to slow and gentle to avoid being sick. And if your taking your prenatals on an empty stomach STOP that will make you sick too, or it did me any how. and you have to eat or you will keep feeling sick you have to keep something no matter how little in your stomach whenever my stomach gets completly empty I feel sick too, im 28 weeks pregnant.

Answer 4

I had morning sickness every day of my pregnancy starting when I was 3 weeks. It was the worst thing I have ever gone through, my advice to you is eat small meals a lot throughout the day. Make sure you eat your three meals a day but snack as well to help keep the nausea away as when you don't eat and start to become hungry you can feel sick. I stuck to eating a lot of fruit and vegetables and that was about it. In my case I ended up being prescribed Diclectin which is a medication that figts off the nausea and throwing up. I hope you do not have to go that far and that you are just going through a little bout of nausea, good luck!

Answer 5

Hello! I am 7 weeks pregnant also. I have only vomited twice but I feel nauseated most of the time. From what I have read, complex carbs help with that feeling. Also, there are these things called Preggie Pops that help. You can get them at most maternity stores and probably order them online. I also keep gingerale and saltine crackers with me. If you are constipated (which is common in pregancy) try milk of magnesia or even having a yogurt everyday. It helps regulate your digestive system! Feel free to email me if you like!

Answer 6

Oh do I remember them days they were not fun. How I ate is what sounded good to me like if mashed potato sound good to me in the morning I ate them lol. I mostly just drank lemon water and had some dry toast. But you need to be eating something so you don't get that sick feeling and even worse feeling light headed.

Answer 7

Well you just need to be proud that you do not have morning sickness. I had it for like 6 months straight and it was horrible I wish I felt like you. I would tell you to eat light things like crackers...etc. and eat small meals. You will have to force yourself to at least eat something( can be very small) and make sure you are well hydrated!! Good Luck to you and be glad that is your only problem.

PS it is very common to loos your appetite!!

Answer 8

take it from a mother of five plenty of saltine crackers. the sickness will go away in a couple of weeks.

Answer 9

A review of several studies concludes that ginger may be a safe and effective treatment for women suffering from the morning sickness of pregnancy .

these sites will help you :

http://www.bastyrcenter.org/content/view/631
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/466746

and you may regester in these useful sites :
http://pregnancy.baby-gaga.com/
http://www.pregnancyweekly.com/mystartpage.asp

Answer 10

I feel the same when i was pregant of my 2nd baby , i ate must but i 'm now fat ,finding it very difficute to reduce,more over my advice to you is that ,you should eat much fruit & vegetable .here you will not be fat ,but fresh& health.And your baby will be very wounderfull&healthy.Wish you great delivery&Good luck.May God see you through.