Exhausted, incoherent and nauseated

Hi Gail

I didn't work throughout the pregnancy. Was a real fortunate circumstance as I slept through most of it... couldn't find the energy to get up til past 12 despite getting lots of rest everyday and lots of throwing up til about 6 months pregnant all through the time i was awake! Not working was really quite good as it helped me cope.

So, all quite normal :-)
 
Ohhhh hang in there!! I puked so much for both pregnancies. I hated being pregnant!!! I love my 2 sons dearly tho so in retrospect it was "worth" the suffering but really it is tough. I used to try and explain to non-parents that it was like being severely hungover for 4mths...I remember I was so sick that I didn't want to eat anything the whole day and when I did, I would cry because it was so hard to swallow the food when I just wanted to gag and vomit it back up.

I did find the following helped:
-taking vitamin b6- check with your doctor if this is ok for you.
-keeping salty crackers next to the bed and eating 3 or 4 pieces every hour. having that little bit of food in my stomach seemed to help a lot
-bubbly water & ginger ale
-in the worst case, throwing up before I ate a meal. It would let me feel better just until I could finish a small meal and then I would close my eyes, set the timer for 2hrs before I let myself vomit again. When the 2 hours was up, I would drink a glass of water and throw that up because it's MUCH BETTER than dry heaving. 2 hours, because after so much experience, i was able to figure out that my body would digest the food in 2hrs and then I wouldn't have "wasted" any of the effort I put into eating!!

My goodness, as I type this out I am sure now that I won't have another baby...

sorry to hear it was so hard for other mums too...
 
forget food, couldn't even be in the same room as someone eating for about 3 months...if someone called to ask me for a recipe, i'd start heaving...i couldn't go into the supermarket, walk past a 7-11 or mcd's...the ONLY thing i could occasionally stomach was roast chicken with mash and gravy...nothing else.

but...

worse than the lack of food....BRUSHING MY TEETH! i puked EVERY TIME! which kind of defeats the purpose, no?
 
yes, brushing my teeth the first 3 months was like H---!! Forget about food too although i never did vomit but the first 12 weeks i just can't have any kind of food, not even thinking of it so all i had was water, a little of juice, a little of fruits and crackers. After the 3rd month - all things are beautiful!
 
we're all on the same boat.

i puked day through night until 4+ months for both pregnancies and honestly i HATE to being pregnant. But i know I've always want two kids so now I'm done :)

I actually felt better after vomiting. I vomited before and after meals and plastic bags were ready everywhere in the house. Funny thing was my daughter even pretended throwing up >.<.

Hang in there, Congrat to you!
 
ha, my son did that too... walked around the living room with a rubbish bin under his chin going, "blaaachhhhhh, blaaaaachhhh!"
 
Glad to hear I'm not alone! I still have my head in the toilet at 31 weeks and its mainly the smell, look and thought of cooked food that sets me off.

When it got really bad and I was so dehydrated and started having fainting spells I had 3 weeks of acupuncture sessions every second day with IMI. They also gave me 2 homeopathic remedies which took the edge off it.

I too had severe exhaustion and would wake up tired even after sleeping for 12 hours. Some days I was too tired to get out of bed to take a shower. After some blood tests my GP discovered I was aneamic and also had a poor functioning thyroid. I'm now taking Thyroxin and its made such a difference. Maybe worth mentioning this to your GP if it continues after the 12 weeks.
 
The only things I've been able to eat during the first trimester was hamburgers, bread, rice and Nutella... and still I managed to lose some weight ! I couldn't even go out my apartment because of the smell of food in the corridors... so the only thing I've found to help against the smells, is to have a tissue with a few drops of perfumed oils, like mint, lemon, lavander...to put under my nose, that really helped !
 
Yeah.. The whole diet was bizarre!
I went off ALL meat, hated chocolate (made up for it after birth though) and pretty much everything i used to like eating was a total turn off. Mostly vegetarian throughout the ordeal.

I'm going to agree on the Soda/Bubbly solution... strangely enough... I had to have a cup of Diet Orange soda everyday... not regular orange soda, not Coke, had to be Diet Orange soda from Sunkist. Really bizarre!
 
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