Suggestions PLEASE for Human Morning Sickness-UPDATE #56

[asher]

Basically, she has to keep some food in her tummy or it'll make it worse. Trust me.

Trail mix (just a little handful of nuts, raisins, etc.) works well. I have heard ginger cookies/ginger snaps. Lemonaide or lemon drop candies.

Peppermint candy works for me, too.

Good luck to her! I had 9 month all day sickness with my last two (girls). My boys don't make me sick hardly at all for some reason.

 

[SterlingAcres]

I also wanted to add that I bought a few 'Preggy Pops' from Kickshaw Confections (I'd add a link, but I see they've sold their shop). I do believe they sell them in health food stores and maybe even BabiesRus. Those were AWESOME! Just a suggestion.

 

[ChandlersChickens]

I had morning sickness with both of my kids for 6 months....here is what helped me:

Sleepy time tea (it comes in a green box)
Saltine crackers
Mashed potatoes
Red hot candy

Then eventually I had to get a prescription from my doctor.

 

[Hobbley_Farm]

Hi. Congrats

I suffered from morning sickness and found that Ginger Tea had a good natural calming affect on my tummy. I preferred the ginger tea from the health food stores because it wasn't ginger and lemon or ginger and XYZ. It was just plain ginger. I couldn't BELIEVE how it helped me. I nearly became addicted to it. But then found out that you shouldn't have mroe than 3 or 4 cups a day while pregnant. But some ginger tea with honey or sugar is really nice.

 

[francisfarms]

If she has medical insurance, the next time she goes, have the dr. give her a vitamin b-12 or b6 shot, it works wonders. I had one with my daughter, and it was a life saver. I did not know about the ginger ale, you learn something everyday.

 

[chickiebaby]

Okay; hope this doesn't seem too far out there - if you can get to a store that sells Japaneses food, or order this on line. Umeboshi Plum is a paste used in lots of Japanese cooking, for bitter taste, important in Japanese cooking.

Has the amazing side effect, if you dab a tiny bit on your tongue, of totally killing nausea. Totally.

Give it a try?

 

[PurpleChicken]

I'm not sure if I have any business being in this thread but I just wanna say you
women amaze me. If us guys had to give birth the human race would be doomed.

Best of luck to your DIL Grandma Ibpboo!!!

 

[SterlingAcres]

Quote:
How I love thee

 

[Indiana hens]

A teller at my bank solved her problem by drinking milk 1st thing in the morning. It made her puke and she felt better for the rest of the day!

 

[patandchickens]

Ginger works well for most (not all) people but it has to be REAL ginger -- hardly any ginger ales contain enough real ginger (most contain none!) to help much.

Three good sources of ginger: ginger tea if you like it, crystallized/candied ginger, and a hard candy called "Gin-Gins".

Also, if mornings are a bigger problem, have some ginger or crackers or whatever works for ya sitting on the night table and eat a little bit BEFORE sitting up, then lie/sit there for five or ten minutes before getting out of bed.

I think a lot of people make their morning sickness (what doofus named it *morning* sickness? I had it 24 hrs a day for most of my entire pregnancies) worse by following other peoples' prescriptions for what to eat and not eat. It is certainly worth trying peoples' recommendation but your d-i-l should remember to pay attention to what her body thinks about it and not persevere with something that's not helping or maybe making it worse.

Personally, I was best off eating a lot of spicy food (and Arby's 'Chicken Cordon Bleu' sandwiches, please don't judge me, I was PREGNANT dammit

) and just flat-out avoiding things that made me particularly nauseous (including most green veggies). Take a folic acid supplement, and a pregnancy-appropriate multivitamin if one is eating really weird, but remember that all of the complicated dicta about Thou Shalt Eat THus-And-Such-A-Way During Pregnancy are *almost* totally based on opinion and theory-of-the-day... in practice, as long as folic acid and vitamin intake are covered and you consume enough calories in the 2nd and 3rd trimesters there is really not much of a detectible effect (in research studies) of whatcha eat on how the baby does.

Oh and congrats to your d-i-l

Pat, kind of sad not to be gonna having any more kids, although personally I *loathed* all parts of pregnancy except feeling the baby moving around