morning sickness

hey everyone im ashley and i planned every little bit of my pregnancy and i knew i would suffer extreme morning sickness as i was born with a weak immune system and to add im very tiny and 23. iv had one other pregnancy in nov 08 but lost them in jan 09 and the story can go on for light years.

so what im basicly making this topic on is not just morning sickness for that first tri but for the whole gosh darn 9 months!!! im 6 months in about a week and i have a speacial bucket at home AND at my mothers whom looks after me 4-5 days a week while my partner is away working. oh to have my dinner made without lifting a finger is amazing. but who else brings at least half of it up within the first hour in lil mouthfuls at a time. its turned into a 'oh ive vomit in my mouth i thougth i burped' instead of running to the bathroom... but only part of the time then its up to 2-3am with the big time painful hurl.

my midwife, docs, friends, family do the whole 'wait it out' thing except my mum who know the body inside out is so sure my liver and kidneys have gone downhill... shes never once wrong.

for those mums who wish they could have morning sickness so they can feel pregnant... you can trade places with me.

who else has a horrid experience?

Edited by Ashleya

Poor you. im 21 and suffer from the same! i never brought it up in little bits, always in one horrible big go, but it's yuck both ways.
I have hyperemesis - sounds like you do too - and have to be hospitalised and on meds etc for my pregnancies. This time around I was on zofran for most of it (cost about $800!) but have now switched to cyclizine 3x a day. I simply can't manage without meds, and like you, had to have my mum look after me 24/7 for the first few months while my DH was working.
it's really important that you keep your fluids up - I suggest you go to the dr to have your urine tested for keytones - these indicate dehydration. it's also important that you keep eating little and often, even if you throw it back up. i suggest you stay away from rice and noodles. yogurt and chocolate taste pretty much the same coming back up. lol sorry i know that is gross, but it's true!
it's also really important that you can talk about how you are feeling to your partner or mum, or someone else you trust, as sickness like this can really get you down and can lead to ante-natal depression; it did for me.
hope this helps, and hope you feel better soon!

zofran $800?? that seems extreme? i had zofran during this pregnancy for the whole first trimester and going into second and it only cost me maybe $10 max?

there is absolutely nothing worse then morning sickness.. ive had hyperemesis in the past also and it was just awful.. the saver for me this time round was eating constantly whatever i could stomach and the zofran, without it i know i would have developed hyperemesis again as i was very sick

take care of yourself and get lots of rest, also milkshakes are easy to vomit and sometimes can be good at staying down also if you can stomach them too..

Wow only $10 for zofran? Lucky you! I was taking 3 a day at one point though, and dropped to 2 1/2 then 2. I took them until about a month or so ago, and every 90 tablets cost me a couple of hundred. thankfully my dear pa paid for most of them; he lives in england and wanted to help out. phew! i couldn't get them subsidised, dr said they only do that for cancer patients.

i don't know how medically sound this advice is, so check with your midwife, but i was of the opinion that you just eat what you can stomach, so if all you can cope with is donuts, then eat them - obviously within reason, you need proper sustainence too and can't live on junk.

also, if you are feeling like you might be dehydrated - no energy, etc...at one point in my last preg i just fainted all the time - then i would demand (or have your mum demand for you, if you're not up to it!) that your dr at least do a urine test for keytones, regardless of whether you 'look fine' or not. also try drinks with isotopes like Mizone. I would avoid milos personally, because the milk won't be so great for your stomach and they are more likely to come back up. also, i would water down juice if you drink juice as it can be too strong for your stomach.

I think you need to change doctors asap! As above poster, doctor can't tell just by looking at you!

I went into acute renal failure before this pregnancy due to severe dehydration and my doctor needed to do a urine sample to send away, not just dip stick, as well as bloods. My kidneys are playing up again and only doing a urine dip stick picked up blood in the urine, despite the fact I'm well hydrated.

You sound so down too, I'm sure a decent doctor can find medication for sickness you are not allergic to. Sounds like you need a thorough physical check up by someone who *cares*.

With my daughter my ms went up to 38 weeks, but I didn't have nausea with it
With my son I had nausea and only threw up twice (good baby )
this one is a combination of both , for the first 16 weeks I had to run to the bathroom and was constantly nauseous ....and now my MS has come back.
I sympathise, MS is arse and on the whole mine isn't really that bad

Yup...you can be pretty sick!! It's horrible! Pregnancy is overrated, but the reward is SO worth it, so hang in there!
I had it daily until my DD's birthday...so, the whole time!! Medication was helpful (there are a few options for this), and fluids at hospital if you need to. Is your midwife getting you to pee on a stick at your appointments? They can check your ketones (as mentioned above) and make sure you aren't dehydrated.    

Thing is - babies of mum's with hyperemesis are generally healthy!! Baby takes what s/he needs...mum suffers through!! GOOD NEWS IS: once bubba is born, sickness goes!!! BLISS. (it is really really hard to imagine that when you are in the middle of it though)

If you are wanting to see other's experiences with MS do a search...I remember I wrote an "help me I feel awful" post when I was sick last year & heaps of lovely helpful people responded.

Look after yourself!

ETA: I'm little too - just weighed 46kg pre-preg - lost about 5kg in first trimester...


Edited by Sally

You poor thing Ashleya, totally sympathise. I didn't have it as bad, was all day nausea until I was 21 weeks but only threw up twice, but I know how that constant feeling gets you down and takes some of the joy of pregnancy away. I really hope it ends fast for you, I think that was what really got me, was when after 13 weeks I was still feeling really bad felt like it would never end! It will soon for you, hopefully it won't go right thru. Only things that seemed to help me was eating little bits and again, eating what I felt like. I say if donuts all you can eat, like previous post, eat away! It will do no harm at least you will be keeping something down. Salt n vinegar chippies settle my tummy and once I figured that it won't matter if I have lots in the 1st tri so long as it helped me keep off meds and gave me apetite for other food I would be fine, don't beat yourself up - or let others beat you up over what you can manage to eat! Best wishes for beating it fast

oh I second the weetbix thing. Didn't hurt that much coming back up, but the taste of it coming up was fowel!

id love to even just try peanut butter. iv always been allergic my throat closes up and the itching is horrid. never had to go to hospital or anything fro it thou lucky for me my mothers a nutritionist/ natralpath personal trainner and all this stuff so rescue remedy had alwasy been shuved under the tounge and id be off doing my own thing in no time. however the amount of lectures about stretching beats me down most the time i get too tired halfway throu a stretch dvd thing i sit down almost fallnig asleep but then comes the 'get up it needs to be done or youll have a horrid labour' down point is i know how right she is my midwifes already wanting me to get scans abit later to check growth im so restricted. now im wishing i kept up kickboxing i swapped it for bmxing in my late teens.

weetbix smells sooooo bad when brought up the smell makes me gag in itself haha. i had my partner home for about 2 weeks off work to have a break with me and it made a huge diff in my MS i would still be making sign language for my cornflakes or porridge in bed. signs of letters M S M C is milo lil sugar milk cornflakes and N P is nutty porridge XD or ill just tap my mouth for a morning kiss to show im feeling slightly better.

whos going to the parent child show? im trying to attempt to go. my partner hasnt gotten his restricted in awhile since we didnt have a place for a car and he pretty much lives at his work till weekends plus we live in an apartment with everything around us. hes got it booked for oct 28th just before the show and my first antenatal class. trying not to keep my fingers crossed that ill be bucket free thou for those days.