Morning Sickness.

So you are pregnant and you feel like you have a hideous hangover or a bad case of food poisoning. You feel like you are on the verge of throwing up all the time. Maybe you are actually throwing up or, if you are like me, you never actually vomit, so there is never any relief.

Yep I'm afraid that's normal morning sickness and there ain't much you can do about it. Before I was pregnant I thought (from good old TV and movies of course) that morning sickness was where you just vomit occasionally. I didn't realise I would feel terribly ill ALL THE TIME. The only relief I had was when sleeping and unconscious.

So what can you do about it. Well nothing really. But here are a few things that helped me a bit:

1. Always carrying around snack foods such as peanuts and dried apricots. Somehow I felt worse when I was hungry, even though I didn't want to eat a thing! So keeping snacks on hand to nibble on when required always helped ease things a bit.


2. Vitamin B6 apparently helps. I did take this regularly and I think maybe it eased things by like 1%.


3. Ginger. I took regular ginger tablets, which again helped by about 1%.


4. Keeping food by the bed for when you wake during the night hungry and sick.


5. Having a supportive partner who can bring you food in bed first thing in the morning. Yes I did actually feel worse in the morning and needed to eat before I could manage to crawl out of bed. Toast with butter or vegemite worked well here.

There are also medications you can take (talk to your doctor) but none of them helped me at all.

The thing to remember, which is what I struggled with most, is that it does go away eventually. It was an extremely tough three months for me though. I just couldn't function as normal and couldn't eat properly. I had to give up pretty much everything during that time. I would somehow drag myself to work and then lie on the couch or in bed when at home. Eventually I was able to eat again and then food tasted exceptional. I guess it would to anyone who had a diet of dried apricots, peanuts and toast for three months!

I think it's also important to note that from my research I found that it doesn't matter if you are not eating well during those first few months. Babies have their own supply of nutrients during that time.

If you are reading this and are currently suffering from morning sickness then my heart goes out to you. Feel free to share your tips on how to ease morning sickness.

Introduction.

I am a mum to a currently 8 month old gorgeous girl (Em) and decided to start a Blog as a means of documenting the things I have learnt during pregnancy and motherhood. I guess if I go back for a second round of pregnancy, I can read back over my mistakes and the things I've learnt from them and try not to make the same ones again.

Since becoming pregnant and having my beautiful daughter I noticed that people don't talk about the truth of pregnancy, birth and raising a child - until you are there yourself. So my plan is to be truthful and hopefully helpful.

Happy reading. xx