If you find that the lemon wedge advice given upthread helps ease your nausea, please check with your dentist regarding protecting your teeth.
I also have a suggestion that should settle your stomach and ease your constipation.
Don’t know if you’re into trying different things, but just in case you are. This product is 100% natural herbs and spices and has been used by millions of Asian’s for over one hundred years, so, yeah, it’s safe.
You can buy it in an Asian market, it’s called Po Chai Pills. Now you’ll need to be prepared that is doesn’t look exactly like you’d expect. It’s not full size tablets like we’d have here, its many tiny balls in a small vial. Take two vials.
This is an amazing product that will not disappoint in it’s effectiveness. I can’t tell where you live but if there’s no Asian grocery, I’ll happily send you some, just let me know.
I promise, it’s completely herbal, it’s completely safe, and it will work!
elbows, I’m a western herbalist working primarily with plants that are grown in the US, so I called a Chinese herbalist/acupuncturist who specializes in pregnancy and childbirth, and is more familiar with Chinese herbs, and she said absolutely not, Po Chai should not be used during pregnancy. She said, “There’s a lot of Cold and downward energy herbs in there, as I would expect in something that treats heat and damp. But heat and damp, unfortunately , is what you want to encourage while you’re pregnant. “Downward” energy could lead to miscarriage, as that’s the direction of “out”. The same herbs that get constipated stool moving might trigger pre-term labor.”
It may be safe and effective for a lot of people, but it does not have a traditional history of use during pregnancy.
I’m not an herbal alarmist by any means. I’m not even particularly interested in double-blind placebo controlled studies and all that jazz. So please don’t think I’m contradicting you from a Western medicine bias. There are lots of great herbs out there that can be wonderful medicines, but just like most pharmaceutical drugs, there’s just not a lot you should mess with while you’re pregnant. The things which keep the baby safe and growing well are often the very things that make you so miserable.
Ginger tea didn’t do much for me, but I really liked (and needed) my candied ginger for nausea.
I never had “morning” sickness - but I had to eat at least every two hours or else life became very unpleasant. I had food stashed everywhere by the end.
I was lucky and didn’t have much morning sickness while pregnant with Baby B, but the stuffiness…crap, that SUCKED. I put a humidifier in my room, and used a lot of saline nasal spray. I also took some Sudafed (the real stuff) after the first trimester, which had been approved by my midwife.
For what m/s I did have, I ate a lot of ginger Altoids. They tasted HORRIBLE to me, but they worked really well - that strong ginger taste really helped.
And just warn DoperGuy that there will more than likely be a few moments of craziness. When I was about eight months pregnant, ElzaHub refused to go across the street to the drugstore and get me an ice cream sandwich. It was July, 90 degrees out, my hips were killing me, and I wasn’t sleeping well at night. All I wanted was an ice cream sandwich. He said he didn’t feel like it.
I burst into tears, stomped upstairs, and threw myself on the bed sobbing. I am NOT a ‘throw myself on the bed sobbing’ kind of girl…so my behavior shocked even me. After apologizing profusely to him, I dried my tears, went downstairs, and proceeded to watch an episode of Cops, forgetting the entire thing had happened. (He did go get me the ice cream sandwich, though 
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Oh, and we also got into a huge fight over whether I was 8 months pregnant or 9 months pregnant at 36 weeks. We were YELLING at each other over it, and I was so pissed off that he’d even dare to argue with me about this. I think he’d just had it with the crazy moods and was yelling back. It was a really stupid thing to fight about, and we both knew it, but neither of us was willing to concede.
E.
Oh - and baby brain has made me forget to mention Breathe Right strips.
I can’t sleep if I can’t breathe through my nose (unless I am deathly ill) and I wanted to avoid as much nasal spray as possible (pre-pregnancy I was using it several times a week) so I tried the strips. They actually worked fairly well, with no guilt or worry about drugs.
First, the bad news: my wife is about 28 weeks along (planned C-section on April 30th), and she still throws up sometimes. It’s not as bad now as it once was; there at the beginning, she hardly kept anything down at all. But the puking was pretty constant for quite a while. At one point, she went to the ER for IV fluids because of dehydration.
I can’t remember what the doctor prescribed for her first, but after the ER episode, he prescribed a drug called Reglan, which apparently promotes peristalsis and keeps your food moving the right way down the track. Since then, the vomiting has almost completely ceased (she’s had a few spells lately, but she’s been feeling better and hasn’t been taking it). If the vomiting doesn’t slow down, it might be worth asking about.
Incidentally, I have some advice for “intelligent vomiting”, if you will: if you’re not gonna make it to the toilet and vomiting is beginning, STOP! Don’t keep going for the toilet, just get your pukin’ done where you are and keep it contained to one area. I’d much rather wash one bath rug, or clean one spot on the carpet, than clean a splatter trail all the way to the john.
A tip for other folks: thorough steam-cleaning, followed by an application of an OxyClean carpet cleaner, will get the vomit smell out of a car’s seat belt.
I discovered peanut butter on toast during my second pregnancy. It was a life-saver. I started each day of my first trimester with that and tried to nibble frequently during the rest of the day. It worked far better than trying to eat full meals only three times a day. Something about the stomack acids interacting with the hormones, I was told. Once the first trimester was over, it pretty much stopped.
Sorry to disappoint you, but when my wife was pregnant with our son she threw up every day up to and including the day of delivery. She was working downtown and, everyday when she and her coworkers would go out for lunch, she would stop in the same alley and throw up. She also would throw up in the same potted plant outside her building as she left for the day. She threw up while driving, too (no time to pull over, had to do it in her lap). The only thing she could regularly keep down was Taco Bell burritos. She’d be in the bathroom, heaving like a drunken frat boy, and ask me to run to Taco Hell because she would be hungry later. I now can’t stand the site of the freaking place.
She also got constipated so badly that she developed hemorrhoids. They ‘roid required surgery. Normally they would put you into a twilight sleep but she was six months along so they just numbed it and did the surgery.
My wife talked like she had a cork up her nose for the last trimester. Plus she she got gestational diabetes. And her ankles began to swell. And her face broke out.
But, in the end, we had our son.
Enjoy the good times, though. Feel the baby move, and try to figure out what body part is pushing against your belly. We actually could grab it sometimes and could tell it was a foot or a knee. Plus, when you are around six months or so, the baby can sense light. Put a flashlight to your belly and you will see him/her wriggle around.
Best of luck to you. May your pregnancy be trouble free and your delivery be smooth and painless. Don’t be shy about asking for more drugs. Both for you and your husband.
ah, morning sickness. I fondly remember a little 18 month old walking into the bathroom, bending over the toilet, and making retching sounds. That’s what it was for, right? that’s what he saw me do anyway. Now that I think about it, three of my kids thought that toilets were for puking in when they were toddlers. good times.
that said, you might try B-6 vitamins. My dr. recomended it to me. B-6 helps your body digest protiens and can help some women with nausea. It made a big difference for me.
It probably won’t help to mention that my pregnancies gave me a permanent weak stomach and I still gag when brushing my teeth. yuck. (I’ll be checking my toothpaste for that ingredient now. I apreciate the tip.)