OMG...8wks with morning sickness...any help?

Question

This is my 2nd baby, I had no sickness with my son. This time around I feel horrible, nauseas, dizzy, throwing up...is there anything that can help me through the day? I work 9 to 5. I've been eating saltine crackers and drinking ginger ale, but none are helping. :-(

Hi Charlene B. I knew I was pregnant with my now 4yr old son because my period was late. That's it. Throughout the entire pregnancy I did not feel a thing and was able to eat whatever I wanted and move around as much as I needed to without any issues (guess I was lucky). Btw, my son was 1 wk late, might I add. Lol.

Answer 1

24 WAYS TO EASE MORNING SICKNESS
1. Avoid nausea triggers. The most common offenders include body odors, stale or leftover food in the fridge, coffee, gasoline, solvent fumes, garbage, scented cosmetics and toiletries, and pungent aromas of cooking foods.

2. Make "designer" days. Compare your good and bad days. As much as humanly possible, design your day to avoid the known triggers. If wet dog smells or litter box stench gets to you, let someone else get them out of your way. Warning! During pregnancy, avoid cat feces because they may contain toxoplasmosis bacteria, which can cause serious damage to the baby.

3. Eat before your feet hit the floor. If you start the morning off sick, you are likely to stay sick all day. Set a tray of easy-to-digest favorites at your bedside. When you awaken to trek to the bathroom in the middle of the night, treat your stomach to a nibble or two. Continue to munch all morning, carrying your nibble tray around with you, if necessary—yes, even in the car and by your desk at work.

4. Ease into your day. If you don't have to awaken at a set time, don't. Ask your mate to get up quietly without disturbing you, and slowly awaken in your own time.

5. Graze to your stomach's content. Low blood sugar can trigger nausea, and it may occur upon awakening or anytime you go hours without food. Grazing on nutritious mini-meals throughout the day keeps your stomach satisfied and your blood sugar steady.

6. Nibble, nibble and nibble on stomach-friendly foods. Because high- fat, spicy, and some high-fiber foods are harder to digest, consume easily digestible foods, such as liquids, smoothies, yogurts, and low-fat, high-carb foods. Avoid hard-to-digest fatty foods and fried foods, such as premium ice cream, french fries, and fried chicken.

7. Eat nutrient-dense foods. Include avocados, kidney beans, cheese, fish, nut butter, whole-grain pasta, brown rice, tofu, and turkey. If peanut butter is too strong, try almond or cashew butter, and spread it thinly on crackers, bread, apple slices or celery sticks; a large glob of it may bounce back due to its high fat content.

8. Avoid dehydration by eating foods that stimulate thirst. Remember the three Ps: pickles, potato chips, and pretzels. Avoid letting your saliva hit an empty stomach. An empty stomach is hypersensitive to saliva, and nausea will soon follow. Line your stomach with milk, yogurt or ice cream before eating a saliva-stimulating food (such as salty foods, or dry foods such as crackers). Try peppermint candies or gum to help nausea but not on an empty stomach, and chew gum, containing sugar to avoid chemical sweeteners. Eat foods with a high water content to ease dehydration that aggravates nausea. Include melons, grapes, frozen fruit bars, lettuce, apples, pears, celery, and rhubarb.

9. Take prenatal vitamins with your biggest meal to prevent nausea. Vitamins can be a big trigger of nausea—unless they are taken with a large meal.

10. Eat high-energy foods. Complex carbohydrates (grandmothers called them starches) act as time-release energy capsules, slowly releasing energy into your bloodstream and helping to keep your appetite satisfied. The main food group represented here is grains (rice, corn, wheat, oats, millet, barley), found in breads, cereals, pastas, and crackers.

11. Stick to feel-better favorites. Make a list of foods that help you feel better or less nauseated. While this list may change, it can help you avoid food triggers that make you ill.

12. Make yourself eat. No matter whether you feel like it or not—eat something. If you don't eat, you will get an acid-filled stomach and low blood sugar.

13. Get out and see the world. Visit friends, go to a movie, rest in a hammock, take a walk at lunchtime, or go to a park with friends. Any change of scenery may provide a stomach-settling distraction.

14. Drive, don't ride. Some women find that by doing the driving instead of riding, they have less of a nausea problem. This explains why the helmsman on a boat is the least likely to get seasick.

15. Delegate, delegate, delegate. Delegate tasks to Mr. Mom or to older kids. Post a list of "these things bother mom...these things make me feel better." Let your spouse mop the floor. Cook easier meals. If the entire family eats cheese and crackers and carrots for a few meals, they will survive.

16. Plan ahead. If you know what makes you miserable, arrange for detours around the things that trigger nausea. Follow this checklist:

If cooking odors bother you, consider pre-cooking and freezing foods on days you feel well.
Buy more convenience foods.
If you are invited to another home for dinner, offer to bring a dish you know you'll be able to eat.
Carry your reliable edibles with you; when a hunger surge hits, the nausea is sure to follow if you don't have a tried-and-true tidbit handy.
17. Reduce stress. Prenatal researchers feel it's better for a baby in utero to be spared a steady barrage of stress hormones—and stress can increase your nausea cycle. Learning to reduce stress now is good practice for maintaining serenity as a new mother. Remind yourself that what your baby needs most is a happy, rested mother, both before and after birth.

18. Try acupressure. Both Eastern and Western medical practitioners describe a pressure point about two inches above the crease on the inner aspect of the wrist which, if stimulated, may relieve nausea and vomiting associated with pregnancy and other conditions (such as seasickness). Sea Bands®, available without prescription at pharmacies and marine stores, are worn around one or both wrists. Each band contains a button that presses on the vomiting-sensitive pressure point. These bands have been shown to work in research studies.

19. Dress comfortably. Wear loose clothing. Many mothers find that anything pressing on their abdomen, waist, or neck is irritating and nausea triggering.

20. Position yourself for comfort. Heartburn is another common part of the nausea-pregnancy package. This burning feeling, which is caused by reflux of stomach acids into the lower esophagus, occurs more frequently during pregnancy (hormones, again, which relax the stomach walls). For heartburn, keep upright or lie on your right side after eating. Lying on your back is more likely to aggravate heartburn.

21. Sleep it off. It's fortunate that the extreme need for sleep coincides with the morning sickness phase. So precious is this rest that you will want to ensure that sleep goes on as long as possible.

22. Have one last meal before retiring, preferably of fruit and long- acting complex carbohydrates (grains and bland pasta). These foods slowly release energy into your bloodstream throughout the night yet are unlikely to keep you awake. Add to these natural antacid foods—milk, ice cream, and yogurt— to neutralize upsetting stomach acids as you drift off to sleep. Take chewable calcium tablets, which act as antacids, before retiring or upon awakening.

23. Eat anyway! While it's not uncommon for women to feel that nothing tastes good, not eating can actually aggravate the cycle of nausea.

24. Be positive. Lastly, choose who you share your misery with. Mothers who have been there and felt morning sickness will understand; others won't. When you're having a day you can't keep anything down, keep your eyes on the prize—the precious baby-to-be!

SAY 'YES' TO TUMMY-FRIENDLY COMFORT FOODS
Applesauce
Avocado
Bagels
Cereal
Chewing gum
Frozen yogurt
Ginger, available as root extract, fresh ground, capsules, tea, sticks, crystals, or snaps
Grapes
Lemon drops
Lemons, for sucking on or sniffing
Mints, peppermint
Oatmeal
Potato chips
Potatoes (baked, boiled, mashed)
Puddings
Raspberry leaf tea
Rice cakes
Soda crackers
Sorbet, sherbet
Yogurt smoothies


SAY NO TO DISCOMFORT FOODS
Cabbage
Cauliflower
Coffee and cola
Foods containing monosodium glutamate (MSG)
Fried eggs
Fried foods
Greasy foods
High-fat foods
Onions
Sauerkraut
Sausages

Answer 2

I feel your pain. I tried ginger snaps, tea, ale, and lollipops. They work for some people, but not all. Also there is the whole cracker thing, but it seems that you have tried that to no avail. I am 11 weeks and still throw up 20 times a day. The doctor put me on phenergan. It makes you kinda sleepy, but you can still function if you have to. Also there is B6. I know some women that swear by it. As a last resort, they can install an insulin pump to directly drop anti nausea medication into your system. It worked for my cousin and some other women I know. It's just a lot to maintain. Good luck love, and know you are not alone!

Answer 3

When I was pregnant with my son I was sicker then a dog and I found sucking on a piece of peppermint candy worked for me. Try that it might for work you to.

I also heard that on babycenter.com there is a ginger candy you can get that will help.

Try keeping something in your belly at all times. They say if your belly is empty you will feel worse.

Hope that helps you a little and remember there is always a light at the end of the tunnel. My morning sickness went away one I reached about 12 weeks. Good Luck and congrats.

Answer 4

My OB told me to take a Unisom at night and 25mg of Vitamin B6 three times a day. It works wonders! I am 18 weeks pregnant and with my first two I was sick all day every day for 6 months! After I started taking the Unisom at about 10 weeks, I have been sick only once. Give it a try. It worked the first day for me! I tell you... I tried all the suggestions above at one time or another through 3 pregnancies and this is the first thing that REALLY worked!

Answer 5

Ginger snaps worked much better for me than saltines....

Also many times morning sickness is a B6 defficiency. My mom told me this and of course I tried to fight it and figure something out on my own. I finally broke down and took a B Complex vitamin. 30 mins later I kept down my first meal in 3 days.

It is always good to check with your doctor or midwife, but this helped me tons. I still have a few issues, but I keep 90% of my food down now without the bad nausia (sp?)

Answer 6

I am in the same boat. Waking up in the middle of the night to throw up is not my idea of fun. My midwife has me taking Unisom and B-6 supplements. It makes such a huge difference. The B-6 can be taken at every meal and helps so much. You can take one half - a whole Unisom pill at bedtime. You will be amazed at how much better you feel. I also took this regimen with my youngest son, it was great then too.

Answer 7

Sorry, Im going to completely rude and ask you about your pregnancy with your son. You say you had no more sickness, nothing? what systoms did you have? I have never known anyone to not have morning sickness and dizzy and sik feeling, please add a comment to this answer and tell me about your pregnancy with your son, how did you know you were pregnant?

In regards to your question, they are many old wifes tales, drink ginger tea, drink peppermint tea, eat dry toast, eat crackers, but to be honest you just need to wait a few weeks until it calms down or passes. Work can be a *****, but you just have to plod alond honey. Bet your carrying a girl, they can be little witches, boys I heard are much easier to carry....but agaim, just probably old wifes tales!!!

Good Luck xxx

Answer 8

I would try sea bands which use accupressure to push on a pressure point on the inside of the wrist. The other thing is ginger tablets. Or ginger root tea. (check with your doctor to make sure ginger tabs are safe for preg.) if your doc says no to ginger tabs, try ginger root tea. You can buy it at a health food store. Good luck! I had the same thing with my first child! It was awful! My garbage can became my best friend!

Answer 9

Ask your doctor about the drug Diclectin.
This is a perscription nausea drug that is a lot like Gravol, but meant for nausea during pregnancy and is also 100% proven to be safe for your baby.
I used it for my pregnancy with my second daughter.
If that still doesn't work, ask your doctor about testing for maybe a minor case (or worse) of hyperemesis gravidarum.
Here is the definition of this disease:

Hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) is a rare disorder characterized by severe and persistent nausea and vomiting during pregnancy that may necessitate hospitalization. As a result of frequent nausea and vomiting, affected women experience dehydration, vitamin and mineral deficit, and the loss of greater than five percent of their original body weight.

.... and only ask your doctor about it if the regular nausea pills really aren't working.

Good Luck!

Answer 10

The main cause of morning sickness is a combination of issues related to the chemical changes your body is going through. Mix a pinch of nutmeg powder with a table spoon of gooseberry juice, and take it thrice a day. Sip little by little ginger juice mixed with honey before you get out of bed. More instant remedies at http://usefulinfomorningsickness.blogspot.com/

Answer 11

What it sounds like is that you are having a GIRL! I had a boy and was not really sick either, now I have not had a girl but my friends who have said that they were so sick while pregnant with them. Apparently you are supposed to be really sick when having a girl, I have had allot of people tell me this and a friend of mine who has a boy and a girl stands by this theory!
She says she was sicker way sicker with her daughter! My mom said the same thing about my bro and I. So maybe just maybe start thinking PINK this time!!