help me! im soooo sick!?

Question

i am 7 weeks pregnant and am suffering terrible 'morning' or i should say all day sickness and am finding it very hard to keep food down is there anything anyone can sugest like teas or something to settle my stomach?

Answer 1

This works every time! The reason you are sick is because your hormones are "thick" in your blood stream... they cause nausea. So the only way to handle this is to thin out these hormones. There are two ways to do this... food and water. Start with lemon water... drink lots of it in small little sips until the nausea clears enough to start handle food. Try to do this laying down on a couch or in bed so that it owrks faster. As soon as you can handle food try saltines (absorbed fast by body and has no smell to trigger nausea). Take small bites as often as you can letting the cracker dissolve in your mouth or swalow it quickly according to your tollerance. Youmay add some ginger tea to this mix also, this settles the stomache IF you can handle the smell of it. You can use ginger tea bags or fresh ginger boiled in water for 45 minutes. Just continue to drink lemon water and/or tea and eat crackers slowly until the nausea starts to subside. Add any food that you can tlerate or that sounds good as soon as you can. This is hydtrating the blood to thin out the hormones and adding sugars into the blood to thin out the hormnes. The more thinned out they get the more the nausea will go away. BUT you must keep this up. So after it starts to owrk you MUST eat and drink AT LEAST every two hours, a small amount of food and a reglaur amount of water. In the morning beofre you get out of bed have a glass of lemon water sitting on the bedside table and saltines with it. Slowely get into sitting position, start the slow intake of water and saltines and this should allow the sickenss not to overtake you. THEN slowly get out of bed, continue to eat very small portions of food (saltines, apples, peanut butter and celery, carrots, fruit, bread, etc) throughout the day. Every hour is good, no more than every two hours and continue constantly drinking small amounts of water. This will keep the blood hormone levels stable throughout the day... then start the next day again with the water and crackers. This cycle never fails to work ONCE the intitial nausea goes away... so be gentle with yurself int he intitial stages of the process.. go slowly to start the body processsing the incoming food and water and allow it to settle down and then try as hard as you can to stick to the regualr feeding/watering regime until the first three months are over. have a lovely rest of your preganancy and I wish you a health baby!

Answer 2

I feel for you! I went through the same thing. What I ended up doing was only eating little tiny meals all day long (don't let your belly get empty), usually bland ones or fruit (cereal really helped me), taking my prenatal pills before bed, and just listened to my body. Your baby will grow, even if you can't keep anything down right now. Ginger Ale is good for nausea, even ginger root in a tea is settling. And rest, stay at a comfortable temperature, and only eat healthy, easily digestible foods. That way, whatever food you DO get, it will be beneficial to you and the baby. I hope you feel better soon!

Answer 3

I drank homemade ginger tea throughout my first trimester and it really helped. I totally understand what you're going through! Here's how it's done....

Go to the produce section at your local market (try a fruit market) and pick up some ginger root.

When you get home, rinse and cut some small cubes of ginger root and put in a pot of water. I suggest about 2 cups to about 3 or 4 cubes that are about 1" square. Boil for about 5 minutes. Pour tea into a cup and enjoy.

This won't cure it, but it will certainly take the edge off and calm your poor tummy! I liked taking a travel cup and putting the root in the bottom and then refilling all day with hot water.

Hope it works!

Answer 4

Ginger !!! Ginger Ale, ginger lolly pops, crackers, eat small meals through out the day. I was also told to keep crackers by the bed and before you get up in the morning eat a few. Hope this helps

Answer 5

peppermint tea is supposed to be good, but didn't help me personally. I found having dry biscuit, cracker or toast regularly seemed to help. If I went a hour without food the sickness got worse. If you cant keep food down you need to see your doctor. Hope you feel better soon

Answer 6

I was VERY sick at the beginning of my pregnancy also and everyone told me to eat/drink different things such as drinking plenty of water, eating bananas, eat some dry crackers either first thing in the morning or last thing at night, eat plenty of small meals during the day etc... to be honest for me all a load of cr*p LOL!! NOTHING worked :-( i had to grin and bare it i'm afraid but then again if you want to try any/all of the above they worked for others and didn't work for me... Its worth a go and u have my sympathy!!! ;)

Answer 7

I am also prego, and the mother of two. Pregnancy kicks my ***! I have learned that fruits are easier on the stomach. Tea leaves an after taste that makes me nauseas. Also, don't allow yourself to get hungry. Eat like five little meals a day, even if you don't want to. If the baby gets hungry its hell for you!

Answer 8

Hi,
I found dry crackers and dry toast helped with my sickness. My doctor also said if it got too bad there is a tablet they can prescribe that does not harm your baby. I think they only do it as a last resort tho.

Answer 9

I too was very sick and I got the prescription for diclecten,it worked wonders and made me feel normal again.I also ate mints that helped with the sick feeling as well!Good luck.

Answer 10

Crackers and sprite always help if that doesnt help see your dr. there is a pill called phenergan that they can give you while pregnant and it wont harm the baby for morning sickness. Good luck.