Bjroase - congrats on your new pg! You'll just love having 4 kids, its a lot of work, but so worth it. I hope your m/s is manageable this time too. So I need a girl hey? Easier said than done unfortunately (I swayed girl with DS2), so I'll be just as thrilled with a new baby boy even if it means agonising sickness again.
Ryatha, I was dehydrated too, so I had to suck on ice chips all day! Fun hey. I found salty and greecy foods were better for me too, and also caused more dehydration. Problem is, that when I have HG I just dont want to eat anything at all because whatever I eat just comes straight up again. Dont know about you, but I ripped the lining in my stomach from vomiting so much.
Thanks for the tips ladies, I'll just try to eat as regularly as possible to reduce the chance of blood sugars dropping, even if it means vomiting even more, at least some of it will stay down.
Do I really want to do it again. Yes, oh course I do, I must be crazy.
It was the oddest thing - but my doctor with my first was - well - a flaming moron and used to tell me "You're pregnant, what were you expecting?"... So I figured that this *was* normal morning sickness. For 8 months the only things I could keep down were burger rings. The 8 week ultrasound was an utter joke. They wanted me to have 1.5l of water drunk... So I did that, got there said I am feeling EXTREMELY nauseous, can they see me soon.. Nope nope.. had to wait.. So I am fighting this desperate need to vomit for a good 30 minutes before I had to make a run for the bathroom and I only just made it. Then they wanted me to drink MORE water and wait for it to go to the bladder.. No sooner was she done with the dating scan and I didnt even wait for her to wipe the jelly off.. straight for the bathroom again. This was my first ever pregnancy experience so I just sucked it up.
In the end the HG turned into my definitive free pregnancy test, lmao! The first thing I lost the ability to stomach was citrus. I threw up my morning orange juice, I knew I would get a BFP.
DW has had hyperemesis three times. We've not encountered anything to either prevent it happening, or relieve it once it strikes. We did try some megadoses of Vitamin B21 before our last pregnancy, and in the end, it was the worst!
Good luck. I think the best thing you can do is plan well ahead to try and have your life and affairs in order so that you have as little responsibility as possible during your sick months. It has certainly been severe enough for us that it has led us to delay the conception of our next bub until our little ones are older and more independent (and in school!) and I can save up some money to take some time off work.
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