Morning Sickness
Posted by Laurie
We moved to a new house a few weeks ago and the other day a good friend asked me how I like it here. “I don’t know. The house makes me nauseous,” I answered.
“Oh, and my car also makes me nauseous, so do the streets and my backyard.” There really was no other way to answer the question. I think I love it here, but I need to wait another few weeks before I can know for sure.
First trimester is icky. Thankfully, I haven’t thrown up (yet), but the head spinning in pretty frequent. If I think too deeply about something like my house or where to go out to dinner on Friday, I might gag. My morning sickness wasn’t this bad during my first pregnancy (and I’m hoping that a different experience of pregnancy might mean that I’m having a girl. I know, it’s delusional, but let me hope.) One more complaint to add before I change the topic – I’m also extremely tired. “How tired?” asked my father. “Well, on some days, it’s as if I woke up in the morning and took NyQuil and then tried to go about my day.”
My new neighbor told me that during her first and second trimester of pregnancy, she was puking many times a day. The hardest part was that she’s also a stay-at-home mom to her toddler. Her two-year-old would sit with her while she laid on the bathroom floor. That must have been unimaginably hard. As a working mom, I have help during most days, meaning that if I slack off on the job because of morning sickness, my son doesn’t bear the brunt of it and I don’t bear the guilt of that. I think that being a good stay-at-home mom is one of the hardest jobs in the world.
My neighbor had hoped her morning sickness would end at 13 weeks, but it went on and on for another 13 weeks. I didn’t realize that could happen.
How long did your morning sickness last? What’s the hardest part?
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I am currently a little over 10 weeks. We were in France from June 4 – June 18 and I had horrible sickness. I didn’t throw up either, but I had a horrible time eating, I always had to stop and I just felt miserably sick. Toward the end was the worst.. we were in Nice and I couldn’t STAND to be in the car. I was just sitting there taking slow breaths, clenching my eyes, waiting for the ride to be over. Now that I am back home, my nausea has greatly improved, because I am not nearly as physically active as I was in France. I found that getting overheated and being really active are triggers for the nausea. I still have some issues, but it’s gotten a lot better. I also suffer from extreme exhaustion. Some days I am exhausted by 11 AM and some I can make it until 2 PM.. but then the rest of the day I am totally useless. It’s been really hard.
I am not the best case scenario by any means…my sickness lasted 5 months til they put me on a medication (I was paper thin on on IV’s) and I only had to take it 3 days til a flip got switched in my body and then I was fine. I think it is typically supposed to through 1st trimester.
Things that helped me were eating things that -and this might sound bad- but things that would be easy if they came back up. Malt-o-meal, bananas, etc.
Protein sweetie! Lots of it! Like 80-100 grams a day. I had it really bad the first pregnancy than heard about the protein before my second and it worked! Eggs chicken, meat. You don’t have food poisionong or the flu so crackers won’t settle this. Your making a baby and you really need protein. Plus a prenatal that’s easy on the tummy helps too.