Combating morning sickness

What are some things that you have found work/ed to combate the evil morning (all day) sickness?
I know I tried everything!! from motion sickness wrist bands to ginger and I think the only thing that I got to work was lays potato chips and lemonade, lol!! :laughing:

What did you find that helped?

 

I had ginger altoids and candied ginger. But the best thing for me was actually throwing up. I would feel so much better after throwing up. :bad:

 

I ate Wheat Chex the minute I woke up and then continued snacking on it throughout the day. I also drank tons of water so that, when I did throw up, it at least came up easily. I'm with Bex- I felt a million times better after getting sick. It was that wall of nausea that made me crazy!

 

I had barely any morning sickness, but ginger and constant eating helped for me. Getting hungry at all made me feel sick, so I just snacked all the time. Then I found some water at Whole Foods with ginger in it (ginger lemon I think) that just totally knocked out any nausea I had.

 

When I was pregnant with my twins, it was red meat. Seriously. I struggled with being anemic through most of my twin pregnancy, so that might be why. It's gross, but sometimes I'd go to McDs and get a sausage muffin and throw away the bread and instantly I'd feel better. Strong mints helped some, with most of my pregnancies.

Like Rachael said, getting hungry is a big trigger. At least it was for me. With my last pregnancy, I didn't have "morning" sickness, I was actually great until about 11am. Then it would start and by the evening I was miserable and nothing totally helped. But it was always much worse if I felt hungry.

 

Nothing helped me except diclectin (I don't know what it's called or if it's available in the US). I threw up multiple times a day until my third trimester. I was really resistant to taking any drugs during pregnancy, but man, I wish I would have started that one sooner. For a while the only thing I could choke down was milkshakes.

 

Oatmeal and grapefruit juice in the morning - I drank so much of it that I still cannot bear the sight of it. That kept the worst of the morning sickness at bay. My nausea increased as I grew more tired in the course of the day and by evening I had trouble even keeping down water and nothing but sleep seemed to help so I had to make sure to eat and drink enough early in the day.

 

You mentioned lemonade... lemon flavored hard candies helped me a lot!

 

I eat breakfast first thing in the morning, usually something like a bagel with peanut butter, usually in bed. I have the same experience with what someone above said about eating all day, in little amounts. But mostly I just rest and hope not to throw up at work, lol! I have missed about 1 work day a week for the last 4 weeks. I am 10 weeks, 4 days and yesterday I thought things were easing up but today I'm feeling pretty bleh. I just keep reminding myself that it's all worth it and that's pretty much the main thing I do since nothing else really does much for me.

Rachael, good tip on the Whole Food's water, I'm going to try it!

 

It's awesome. I can't remember the brand, but it starts with an A. It's got an orangey brown label.

 

Zofran is the only thing that helped at all for me and that just barely took the edge off so that I didn't lose weight. I wasn't throwing up (at most I would dry heave) but food was not appealing at all and I struggled to take more than a few bites at a meal. And it wasn't any better with my oldest, just started a week later.

 

Double Zofran dosage and Diclectin. I WAS SiCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Mint gum.

 

Reglan is the only thing that helped me. I was miserable for 12+ weeks.

 

I took meclizine 3x/day and still vomited quite a bit but it helped a little. I never let my blood sugar get too low so frequent snacking and just whatever sounded edible It would change every day since once I felt sick on something I'd never want to see it again. Also, if I felt like I was going to vomit really soon I'd make sure to sip some Crystal Lite or a popsicle so I wouldn't have to try to throw up on an empty stomach. It wouldn't keep me from throwing up just made it a little less unpleasant.

 

Zofran was my life saver & even then I would still throw up at times. Always snacking also made me feel better. Never let your stomach go empty!!

 

I was nauseous all day, but I kept saltines and flat ginger ale by my bed and would drink a little and eat a couple of crackers before I got up.  That seemed to help.  The first 4-5 months of my pregnancy, I had no appetite because I was so nauseous and food was not appealing...the latter half of the pregnancy made up for that though!