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How do you mentally cope with dealing with morning sickness for 9 months? I've only had one other pregnancy where morning sickness didn't want to go away, but I'm 19 weeks and it's still here and I'm thinking it's not leaving til the baby comes. I'm have a hard time with it mentally. I'm not real sick anymore but feeling somewhat sick a lot of the time is wearing on me. I'd like to eat better too but it's hard when I feel queasy and what (usually) makes me feel better for a little bit is snacking on bittersweet chocolate chips. I know it doesn't compare to those who have hyperemesis all pregnancy, but...it still sucks.

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I can identify, I’m 16 weeks and dealing with tons of food aversions and gagging every time I brush my teeth. I just eat what I can and try not to focus on how yucky I feel.

 

With my first child, I felt better by the second trimester. With my second I felt better during the second trimester then felt bad again in the third. With my third child I never felt sick until the second trimester.

 

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Drink lots of water and take your vitamins. Hopefully you have some fat stores to tide over you and the baby.  I remember I classified food by how bad it was going the wrong direction.  

 

In my case it was 5 months of 23-hour-per-day-sickness followed by followed by 3 months of baby using my kidney as a pillow and therefore a constant feeling of needing to pee.   I peed at every even hour.   She came two weeks early and I felt fine the first two weeks.  My doc said that morning sickness usually goes away the last trimester.  

 

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My friend just had her baby today, 9 months of hyperemesis. Not fun. She's half as excited about not being pregnant anymore!

 

Prioritise your rest. If you get exhausted, you get worse.

 

Get checked out medically, make sure you're not dehydrated or low in iron etc.

 

Get some support - mentally and practically. You can only do so much.

 

Take it one hour at a time. You can do this.

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((hugs))

 

I had so much vomiting that I had to have IV rehydration with each pregnancy. Advice would all be about eating healthy and I would then go to appointments where my NP would say eat anything you can keep down.

 

I often couldn't be around food smells at all. Various people (dh, neighbors) would set up plates or bowls of meals for my dc in the refrigerator so I could just grab them at meal times for DC.

 

It's hard and exhausting, but there's a great prize at the end.

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How do you mentally cope with dealing with morning sickness for 9 months? I've only had one other pregnancy where morning sickness didn't want to go away, but I'm 19 weeks and it's still here and I'm thinking it's not leaving til the baby comes. I'm have a hard time with it mentally. I'm not real sick anymore but feeling somewhat sick a lot of the time is wearing on me. I'd like to eat better too but it's hard when I feel queasy and what (usually) makes me feel better for a little bit is snacking on bittersweet chocolate chips. I know it doesn't compare to those who have hyperemesis all pregnancy, but...it still sucks.

My pregnancies were like this including IV fluids and a bleeding esophagus. Frankly I cried. I got through it by thinking if I would die for my child I can feel lousy for my child. Ask your doc for meds. They didn't make me feel well but allowed me to function.

 

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All of my pregnancies were all nausea all the time from the first month through the delivery. Frequent but not constant vomiting. Vomiting during deliveries. But never bad enough for IV, thank God.

 

Really, it was just a lot of complaining to my husband, family, and friends till they were sick of me lol. That was just me letting of steam and they were nice about it.

 

It was dreadful...but I really wanted each baby and the nausea was the price I had to pay!! Five times. Totally worth it.

 

But when I remember that feeling I just shudder...I feel for you.

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My friend just had her baby today, 9 months of hyperemesis. Not fun. She's half as excited about not being pregnant anymore!

 

Prioritise your rest. If you get exhausted, you get worse.

 

Get checked out medically, make sure you're not dehydrated or low in iron etc.

 

Get some support - mentally and practically. You can only do so much.

 

Take it one hour at a time. You can do this.

 

Your poor friend.  I had Hyperemesis, but only for the first 4 or 5 months.   I always thought it would get better, but I had it with each pg. 

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18 weeks here, same situation. I’m sorry! I find that getting outside for even a quick walk helps. Hang in there, and give yourself grace to muddle through.

I agree. I’ve been feeling so crummy. On Monday it was really pretty and I went for a 30 minute walk. I felt better than I had in awhile.
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I read recently the hyperemesis is quite a bite more common who test positive for h.pilori. This really made me wonder if treating the nausea as a symptom of an ulcer is the way to go. I've always had some relief when I up my probiotic foods. I hope that can help but I recognize that I might just be sending you on a quest for the end of the rainbow. Just try to remind yourself that this is only a season and you'll get a really cute little reward at the end. :)

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I had severe hyperemesis and was on IVs for quite a bit of my pregnancies.

 

I had little to no nutrition, but my babies were ok. Just eat whatever you can, that sounds good to you. Worry about nutrition later.

 

Take each day as it comes. Get lots of rest. Let the kids fend for themselves as much as possible.

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I had three HG pregnancies. The best I can tell you is to keep everyone in the same room (family room with you on the sofa or master bedroom...whatever works, depending upon number and ages of children. Babygates, if needed). Keep what you need nearby...snacks, things that don't require cooking (with HG, I could even smell the burner turned on on a different floor and it would send me heaving again), books, tv. Books and TV for distraction. This will help survival til spouse gets home and can feed the munchkins dinner, deal with laundry, and put kids to bed, etc.

 

Zofran was my friend. Reglan is now on my "allergic to" list. 

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I was like that with my 1st DD.  After about 4 months of throwing up every single day without fail, after having spent hours on the verge of throwing up I started making myself throw up first thing.  I would get up wait about 20 minutes (to make sure that it was inevitable) then I just went in the bathroom and did it.  Then I was able to start the recovery. Water sips, baking soda water, eventually crackers.  It saved me at least a couple hours of misery each day.  I would still have horrible days where I would be sick ALL day but they weren't every day like before.

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Zofran was my friend with DS. At the time our insurance didn’t cover it so we paid $35 a day for a pill to help me function. I didn’t have HG but had severe nausea until 28-29 weeks.

 

Mentally it was tough. I kept telling myself this was temporary and just took it day by day.

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Drink lots of water and take your vitamins. Hopefully you have some fat stores to tide over you and the baby.  I remember I classified food by how bad it was going the wrong direction.  

 

With Eldest I was sick about twice a day for several months. Strange thing was I never felt sick. I would just feel that the food was ready to come up. Then I would calmly vomit and get back to whatever I was doing. Not even a slight upset stomach at any time. 

I am vegetarian. If you nicely grill or bake vegetarian 'chicken' nuggets they are awful coming back. But if you microwave them they are just okay going down, but great coming up. 

 

I had no fat stores to tide me over. At one point the Dr. was going to put me on anti nausea medication just to hopefully decrease the vomiting. I did try all the other methods. But the food would just always come back up right after I was done eating.

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I have heard that acupuncture can help but I think you have to have it fairly frequently. I had pretty bad nausea with both of mine and with the second I had one treatment of acupuncture and it seemed to help for a short while but I lived too far away from the practitioner to make it a viable option.

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It is rough mentally.  My morning sickness never went away, and I've been dealing with daily nausea for almost five years now.  I'm just now starting to get the hang of functioning while on the verge of puking... a pregnancy just isn't enough time to get your mind around it.

 

The one thing that helps is telling myself I have to do <insert whatever tasks must absolutely be done by me> and that's that, sick or not.  Everything else can wait until a better moment comes along.  It really helps me focus on a small goal when I'm not feeling well, and I get the mental boost from getting done what I needed to do, even though I felt like garbage.  Unless your head is in the toilet 24/7, then hitting the bowl every time may be that necessary task.   :lol:

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It is rough mentally. My morning sickness never went away, and I've been dealing with daily nausea for almost five years now. I'm just now starting to get the hang of functioning while on the verge of puking... a pregnancy just isn't enough time to get your mind around it.

 

The one thing that helps is telling myself I have to do <insert whatever tasks must absolutely be done by me> and that's that, sick or not. Everything else can wait until a better moment comes along. It really helps me focus on a small goal when I'm not feeling well, and I get the mental boost from getting done what I needed to do, even though I felt like garbage. Unless your head is in the toilet 24/7, then hitting the bowl every time may be that necessary task. :lol:

Wait..you’re not pregnant and are still nauseated every day for the past 5 years? Yikes!

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Wait..you’re not pregnant and are still nauseated every day for the past 5 years? Yikes!

 

Yeah, that was pretty demoralizing to head in for the baby's newborn doctor visit and end up on the exam table myself because I was still throwing up.  My whole system is shot.  I want a robot digestive tract.

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24 weeks here and I deal with it by not having another option. It's not like there is any way to stop it, so not dealing isn't an option. I've had extreme morning sickness all 3 pregnancies so far, and it's the largest reason I've waiting 4+ years between kids.

 

I'm a mess while pregnant because of the morning sickness. I pretty much don't go in the kitchen. Family eats terrible, but still eats and they will survive. My 4yo knows not to bug mommy when she's vomiting. It's terrible, but it's just reality so you deal.

 

Things that help in the first half of pregnancy are laying down, cold air, and quiet. 

 

The later half of preg is different for me because the vomiting is caused more by extreme heartburn than nausea. In this stage sitting halfway up is most helpful as laying down all the way makes the heartburn worse. Carbonated drinks help.

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Yeah, that was pretty demoralizing to head in for the baby's newborn doctor visit and end up on the exam table myself because I was still throwing up. My whole system is shot. I want a robot digestive tract.

I am so, so sorry. I can’t imagine. All of us on this thread know how horrible the constant nausea is.

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