1st pregnancy

[Lisa96]

Hi I'm pregnant with my first baby.

Absolutely over the moon been trying since may.

If anyone had any tips about morning sickness and other things to help me. Much appreciated thankyou.

[PrincessDevine]

Congratulations! I'm just coming up to 22 weeks with my first, I have only just got over morning sickness. Lots of people at work told me that dry toast and arrowroot biscuits would cure it, nothing helped in the slightest! The only thing I could do is sip Lucuozade to get me through the early hours until I stopped vomiting around 2PM! Sorry if this information is upsetting, just remember it will all be worth it in the end!

[Lisa96 in reply to PrincessDevine]

Thankyou so much. I

[nae93]

There's nothing you can do to stop it but try to stay hydrated as this will make you feel worse. I'd say ginger beer or boiling fresh ginger tea helped sometimes but unfortunately it's just part of the journey! I'm 34+2 with my first and I'm experiencing sickness on the homestretch

[Lisa96 in reply to nae93]

Thankyou so much.

[Hidden]

Congratulations! I'm 35 weeks and had sickness and nausea up until week 18. Like everyone has said, it is something unfortunately we have to endure but I did find that the travel sickness pressure point bands helped me. I just couldn't wear them in public as I was keeping my pregnancy secret until the 12 week scan!

Best of luck to you! X

[Lisa96 in reply to Hidden]

Thankyou so much.

[Emmacollege5]

I had rich tea biscuits and bananas

[AdeleElliott85]

Congrats. & my sympathies as morning sickness/nausea side is fowl! - worth it though! 2nd baby on the way am 8 weeks. This time the only thing that works is not allowing myself to be hungry...easier said than done when no food is appealing. Lots of small snacks as constantly as possible. Staying hydrated.

Congratulations.

[Lisa96 in reply to AdeleElliott85]

Thankyou so much. When you say small snacks. What do you normally eat. I find my self nibbling on crisps most of the time and chocolate sometimes like kit Kats or something. Need to find an alternative if can please any help will be great thankyou

[AdeleElliott85 in reply to Lisa96]

Start the day as quickly as poss with small bowl cereal. Likewise...choccy and crisps are creeping in! So consciously balancing that with apples,bananas, satsumas. Grapes go down well. Finding chocolate chip cereal bars a bit of a winner too and they are slightly better as they have some goodness in them at least.

Try not to feel too guilty about giving in to the crisp & chocolate ones too though. I beat myself up over it last time and wish didn't.'

[Hidden]

Congratulations! Depending on how bad the sickness is I found ginger biscuits fantastic but with my 3rd nothing worked the entire way through and I had terrible sickness. Hopefully you will not be like that. I am nothing like that in my current pregnancy. I am now 25 weeks pregnant x

[Hidden]

Those snack sized packs of nuts and raisens are great but I admit my cravings have not all been healthy. At one point I had to have chips and gravy loads lol

[ChrisWest1983]

One of the best advice I had from friends once they knew I am expecting and very nauseous:

eat anything you can keep down to stay alive 😊

From week 8-15 I could not eat no fruit and nearly no veg as I would throw them up. Now in week 16 and starting to like them again and agree that flat Lucosade saved my life, gave some energy (I threw it up only once).

Tried ginger, peppermint teas, biscuits, sweets, polos - nothing helped: just tried to eat little portions and often (otherwise feeling very nauseating)

Congrats and good luck!x

[Beth235]

It can be part of the journey, but always contact your midwife if you are unable to keep anything down at all, you and your baby need the nutrients more than ever...

I'm 33 weeks with my 2nd and haven't been sick at all, however I've suffered from terrible heartburn throughout both, from start to finish. If you get heartburn make sure you get Gaviscon on repeat prescription for free as it's expensive to buy. I'm also on a tablet from the doctor which I take twice a day and they're really good with the Gaviscon. My friend had bad sickness but no heartburn, but started using Gaviscon to settle her tummy and it seemed to help ease the sickness. I'm not sure it's supposed to but it worked for her!

The best advice I could give is to always talk to your midwife about anything at all that you are concerned about, and share it all with your partner too.

Just try to enjoy your pregnancy it's a wonderful thing!

[Jessica2017]

I am 12 weeks today and I was so ill around weeks 7-9! I was off work for a week of it and unable to move from the sofa. I was never physically sick I just felt nauseas all of the time. It made me so down (I suffer with anxiety anyway) I went to my GP and he started me on an anti-sickness tablet with took the edge off and made me able to function and eat! I would say a bowl of cereal as soon as you wake up (coco pops for me) and then I have another breakfast when I get into work around 9am.

And with regards to snacking I have been craving anything cold.. Ice lollies, fruit, yogurts!

Good luck xx

[Lisa96]

Thankyou everyone for your comments. Means a lot. I will try all of these thing. And also try to enjoy my pregnancy. Thanks again everyone