JFF - Did You Have "Morning" Sickness?

The worst for me was when I brushed my teeth in the morning. I went for a few months with just mouthwash in the mornings and brushing in the evenings.

Mine wasn't too bad but was triggered mostly by my putting my toothbrush in my mouth. Seriously, I would get half way through brushing my teeth, throw up, finish brushing and then feel pretty good the rest of the day :-)

My son bout killed me!! I was deathly I'll from 5 weeks and puked the morning I was induced. I felt like I had the mother of all hangovers for 9 months it was awful! Now my daughter? I didn't feel good for about 3 weeks and puked only one time! I gained a lot of weight but I was hungry and compared to my first time around....I was glad to eat!

No morning sickness here. I was swollen enough for all of us though.

I WISH I didn't have morning sickness. Actually, morning sickness was a myth for me. I had all the time sickness. I was one of those extreme cases you read about. I was in the hospital all the time, in the doctors office all the time. I had to be put on IV's to make sure I had enough hydration. My esophagus was raw and damaged from all the puking. I took medication, just to drink some water. It was HORRIBLE. So much so, that I will never ever ever ever...be pregnant again. It was the most miserable experience of my life. I seriously envy people who could enjoy their pregnancy, even a little bit!!

If it matters, I think I got a fair trade off. I lost all the weight and bounced back immediately, and look the same as I did before. It's the least God could do ;)
(Just kidding...mostly.)

I never threw up, but felt 'pukey' every day for about two months. HUGE gag reflex that I'd never had before.

Each morning, it was the same routine: a vanilla soy steamer, then go to work.I was a nanny and the dad made pancakes every morning. I used to HATE pancakes before pregnancy, but golly gee, Bob made the best pancakes ever! I ate my fair share during that time. (He and his wife just thought is was funny and they had always offered them before- I used to decline.) On my last day with the family, the father made us all dutch babies-- those were fantastic.

Strangely enough, the only thing I really liked eating at that time besides pancakes was an eel and avocado sushi roll. :) and some salted licorice plums (a Hawaiian snack I grew up with and still love). Mmm.... my midwife said to be careful with those, though, as licorice is an herb to stay away from during pregnancy. Who knew?

I had all day sickness with my first son which lasted the whole pregnancy. My husband perfected yanking the car to the shoulder so I could puke. He also ate outside several times because his dinner smelled. The worst was when food would come out my nose. Terribly undignified and darn painful not to mention you were stuck with the sick smell for ages. I couldn't use mint toothpaste and switched to cinnamon instead. My second son was completely opposite. I wasn't sick once but I had wicked heartburn the whole time. Neither had much hair to speak of and they were both boys. The old wives' tales didn't hold true.

I had horrid morning (all day) sickness. I used to have to open the ice cream store where I worked,and I would be trying to serve customers through it. There were several times when I came out of the bathroom, after having obviously been sick, and having to explain that I was NOT handling their food while sick.

I learned that rice chex sucks coming back up. I got it thinking that hey, rice is gentle on stomachs... No. It just feels like puking up foam. Ick.

I had ONE WEEK throughout my pregnancy when I did not throw up at least once a day. :/ One glorious week, at the beginning of my 3rd trimester, when I thought I was done. But nope. It came back. Although, once I got past the first tri, once I threw up the nausea would calm down.

My cousin was the lucky b**** who never had morning sickness, at all. She was pregnant at the same time as me, so we used to joke that I got her share too.

I had morning sickness the whole time, with all 3 of my kids, literally puking my guys out in the delivery room with two of them!

~It definitely sucked but I had such easy births, literally 6 hours start to finish w/all 3 of them..,so I looked at it like a good trade off!!!

I never once puked, but the nausea was pretty tremendous every night.... 6:30 pm on the spot, every single day through the first trimester. There were days I felt crappy all day, but 6:30 was always when it kicked into high gear.

And then my husband would get home and insist we go grocery shopping (we lived next door to a grocery store for a little over half the first trimester)... and I still haven't forgiven him for making me go into the seafood section (neither of us were really *thinking* about it, but he'd go into the section every.single.time, and I FINALLY realized it was a bad idea and was making an already-bad situation worse every dang night... duh...). Because of this, I still can't eat most seafood over 3 years later (my stomach is gurgling now, just thinking about it, haha). :(

I am sure there are a lot of mommies out there that didn't have morning sickness. I had 2 kids and didn't have morning sickness with either one...didn't have labor pains with the first one either and had a c section with the other one!! Guess I was just lucky...my mother didn't have labor pains either...don't know if she had morning sickness or not.

I was lucky. I only had a bit of queasiness with each of them. Ironically, I had the most queasiness with the 4th pregnancy (which ended in a miscarriage). But I did suffer with HORRENDOUS heartburn all four times.

With my first I had morning sickness 24/7 for weeks 6-8. This time I had it off and on for about 4-5 days between weeks 6-7.

With my first pregnancy I never had morning sickness. I'll be 10 weeks on Monday with this one and have been dealing with morning sickness since week 5-6. Here's what I found works for me:

I can't eat or drink anything immediately after waking up. If I do, I'm stuck on the couch the entire day feeling miserable. I have to wait an hour or two, and then I HAVE to eat something so that I don't get nauseous from being too hungry. Then I'm good most of the day. Sometimes I get nauseous after coming home from work at 5-5:30, but nothing too bad.

I don't think I ever threw up but I do remember mild nausea. I suspect that was because of the iron in the prenatal vitamins. Some odors, like garlic, made me a little nauseous too.

When I was pregnant with my first and second I threw up exactly once with each one. But I would get pretty nauseous and get dry heaves if I wasn't careful. With my third child I was sick so often it was getting absurd. I don't know if it was because my first 2 were boys and my third was a girl or if it was because of the tremendous amounts of stress I was under while pregnant with my third. I had one other pregnancy that ended at 8 weeks. I was never really sick at all, but I think that was because it wasn't viable.
There were times with my second when I would wonder if I was really still pregnant because I felt a lot better than I did with my first. But it was never completely gone all the time.

No I didn't really have any with my son. Though my Mom had 4 boys, and 2 girls. She said with the boys she was fine, but with us girls she had terrible morning sickness and that's how she knew we were girls.

So I guess if I should become pregnant again, it would be interesting to see if the pattern continues :)

Not with my 1st one.
Hoping when i am pregnant with my second i wont

I never got morning sickness at all.
No nausea.
Smells and foods didn't bother me and I seemed to like broccoli more than ever before.
I did have really bad acid indigestion once child was big enough to squish my stomach and it didn't go away till he dropped back down into my pelvis as he got close to birthing time - I didn't go anywhere without a supply of Tums.
Our son was born with hair that was over an inch long.
Everyone said 'you must have had an acid stomach'.
Is there a correlation between having an acid stomach and the baby having long hair?

Had it for all 3, much worse for the girls than the boy, I think that is how I knew #3 was a girl. My SIL never threw up for any of her 3, so I guess it does happen.

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Had it for all 3, much worse for the girls than the boy, I think that is how I knew #3 was a girl. My SIL never threw up for any of her 3, so I guess it does happen.

My first pregnancy, I was sick as a dog. I went to the doctor thinking something was REALLY wrong with me (I jokingly told him I thought I might have diabetes, AIDS, something "bad") because I was sick of everything. Going into a grocery store, I felt like I was coming off a helicopter into a war zone, assaulted on all sides from smells: coffees, breads, deli, dust, meats, I could smell the freezers, and the dairy fridge to get milk was just impossible to open: not all of those smells were bad, but it was just weird how STRONG my sense of smell was. My husband likes to tell about how I couldn't go in the kitchen because the pantry smelled weird. He cleaned it all with a citrus scented cleaner (I didn't mind citrus) but then it still smelled weird and he was like "well what are you smelling?" and I said "sniff sniff.....dried goods!" We both just laughed at that. It wasn't just a sick "feeling" though---I vomited a lot and lost 14 pounds in 3 weeks, it was messed up. But then it lifted, my body got used to it, and though my sense of smell stayed strong during pregnancy, it stopped making me sick and I LOVED my pregnancy.
My second pregnancy, I had the sense of smell and wasn't able to get the milk from the cooler in the store without shuddering or gagging, but had no morning sickness. Much better. :)

With my first pregnancy, my son, I didn't have any sickness, nausea nothing. It was a easy pregnancy up til 30 weeks when things got hairy with him. With my second, my daughter, I was throwing up from week 5! I couldn't eat anything, except tacos...I had horrible heartburn and had to sleep sitting up almost my entire pregnancy. And for what it's worth my daughter was born with a full thick head of hair, that never fell out. And now at 17mo her hair is halfway down her back.

I didn't have morning sickness, I had ALL DAY sickness. Literally, anything I ate would be in the toilet up until around 4 p.m. This lasted the first trimester with all my kids. Not fun, and I did try everything and nothing worked. The meds my doc gave me made me way too tired to function so I didn't take them after day one. With my failed pregnancy's I knew something was wrong when I didn't have morning sickness or when it went away early. If I were to get pregnant again that would be the only reason to be happy to have morning sickness.