I’m still struggling with my all day morning sickness and it’s still hard to do anything productive. I’m thankful the twins have started playing better together for longer periods of time. I have been reading other peoples’ experiences with morning sickness and have heard from some close friends and family what helps them with morning sickness. Here is a list of things that could possibly help with morning sickness. The thing is, sometimes nothing helps and you just have to wait it out. But you may run across something that your body responds well to. I hope something on this list turns out to be a help. When I was pregnant with the twins nothing helped. And I tried everything that was suggested to me, including pretty much everything on this list. I hardly kept anything down for the first 19 weeks. I was throwing up at least once a day but more often it was 2-3 times every single day. I’m just happy the twin pregnancy is over. This one isn’t quite as bad. But still, it’s never fun.
- Peppermint: Altoids, peppermint tea, and peppermint gum
- Take your vitamins and get B6 vitamins
- Ginger: Ginger pills, ginger tea, ginerale
- Nibble on Crackers
- Drink enough water. Add lemon or lime to the water to help with nausea, or drink lemonade
- Sniff or lick a wedge of lemon or lime
- Suck on lemon drops
- Sea bands that you put on your wrists for sea sickness
- Don’t let yourself get hungry….eat several tiny meals throughout the day
- Get enough sleep
- Eat beans
- Get enough protein
- Brewer’s Yeast
- Eat plain crackers or dry cereal before you get out of bed in the morning
- Open windows or turn on exhaust fan when cooking to minimize the “gross” smell of food
- Don’t drink too many fluids with your meals
- Take your prenatal vitamin later in the day or before bed if you can’t hold it down in the morning
One of the best things for me has been to eat TV dinners because I don’t have to see it being prepared nor do I have to smell it cooking (or I barely smell it). I know they are not the healthiest thing to eat as far as keeping things natural and/or organic, but sometimes you just gotta make exceptions. I’ll probably end up doing a post on why you shouldn’t eat TV dinners later. 
When I’m pregnant I’m not as picky about ingredients as when I’m not pregnant. You would think that I would be even pickier because I’m pregnant, but ladies, let’s face it: it is so hard to eat something that sounds unappealing when you feel sick! Sometimes you just have to eat what you can stomach, right? This time of sickness doesn’t last forever. On days that I do feel good, that’s when I’ll eat the healthiest food.
Another good tip is to prepare as many meals as you can and freeze them before the sickness sets in. I wish I had done that. I knew I was pregnant for 2 weeks before I started getting sick. I should have made better use of that time.
One of my biggest worries is not how I eat but how the twins eat while I feel sick. Normally they eat lots of veggies and a variety of food, but lately I’ve been giving them less of a variety and not as many veggies. I’ve found that they like steamed Lima beans with a little butter, so that’s an easy thing to prepare. Lots of spaghetti, chicken from the freezer, and peanut butter and jelly. Those things aren’t bad but I don’t want them to only eat that or they will lose their taste for healthier foods.
I would love feedback from you. Please share your advice too!
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Congrats! I didn’t know you were pregnant again!
None of the normal things worked for me, I think because I didn’t have any nausea. I just threw up all the time. At the end of my second trimester I started taking omeprazole. It’s the ingredient in one of the over the counter acid reducers for heartburn. I’m not sure which one because I was taking it in another country. Anyway, I’ve only thrown up 3 times since! I think if I had started it in the second trimester I wouldn’t have been so sick then. Apparently the acid that was giving me awful heartburn was also making me throw up. I can’t imagine doing that first trimester with twins to take care of!
Thanks Holly! Yes, I went so far as to try a prescription medicine with my first pregnancy but it didn’t help a bit. I don’t think it was what you just mentioned though. You’re almost there! I just saw that you are overdue? poor thing. hang in there!
Hey Megan…I feel your pain! I am 10 weeks pregnant and have felt sick for the past 5. I do consider myself lucky in that I do not throw up…but sometimes I wish I would, I think it might make me feel better! Like you, I feel like I have tried everything on the list that you provided with not much helping. I try to eat yogurt or ceral right before I go to bed and I nibble on Nutrigrain bars throughtout the night when I wake up (1 million times
) to use the bathroom. That has really seemed to help me in the morning to not wake up with an empty stomach. As for the rest of the day, I eat whatever sounds good at the time. I am feeling pretty guilty that my food choices have not been the healthiest, but like you said you can’t choke down something that doesn’t appeal to you. Thanks for sharing your ideas!
Emily, I’m so excited for you! That is just great. =) I know we are going through the sickness for the sake of a life, so in the end it’s more than worth it. Thanks for your tips too!