1st Trimester
Embarrassing Question
OK I have a question I am a little embarrassing to ask. I am currently six weeks pregnant with my first child. Now on to the embarrassing part, The past week I have had the worst gas I have ever had. It is so bad that I think my husband is considering moving into the garage! Lol Any suggestions? I have tried to alter my diet and stay away from foods that normally seem to make me gassy but nothing has seemed to help.
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Re: Embarrassing Question
Annelise 3.22.2007 Norah 10.24.2009 Amelia 8.7.2011
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I had terrible gas starting very early on and honestly I just learned to embrace it and kind of make a joke out of it. I would try to time it right and fart near or on DH whenever possible
Ha, I'm an awful wife.
Carina 12.28.2010 | Aurelia 9.23.12 | Chart - Round 3
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Baby Maryn was born 8/18/11
You're very normal! Our metabolism slows down drastically during pregnancy, particularly during our first trimester. I'm normally not gassy at all but had trouble during the first few months. It started to go away during the second trimester and I learned to avoid (sadly) large salads in particular. Roughage/fiber is the worst! Small portions only. Let your husband know that the gassy situation will diffuse by the second trimester.
Also, my OBGYN said NO to Gas-X. I saw that someone else posted it was safe. Make sure you ask your doctor before taking anything. She advised me to avoid it, told me Tums was a safe solution for indigestion (which, gratefully, hasn't been a problem).
In the meantime, keep some good-smelling room spray handy.
Actually, your metabolism speeds up. That's why you need to eat more. In any case, if you limit your carbs (eliminate all refined/white/sugar carbohydrates and limit all other ones to small portions) you probably will not have much of a problem with gas or constipation.
When I was 6-7 weeks pregnant, I was eating loads of carbs. I was constipated, I felt sick all the time and I had mega gas. Over the past 3 weeks I've stopped eating so many carbs (all carbs have been drastically reduced...including fruit) and made sure to eat enough fat (I don't buy low/non fat things and I use unsalted butter (not margarine) and olive oil regularly) to make my insides all slippery. I have had little gas and ZERO constipation. So basically, all the carbohydrates I was eating was making my life miserable. Just try it for a few weeks, and see if it works for you too.
Gas is absolutely normal.
My daughter is four months old now and even the gas afterwards is awful! It's noisy AND stinky. Be prepared, the gas wasn't the worst thing. At the end of the pregnancy (around 32 weeks) I started to snore. Like the kind of snoring a trucker with sleep apena would do. My husband knew the second I fell asleep because I would start wheezing and honking away. The last few weeks, he would escape to the back bedroom for a few hours while I was out so he could sleep without being woken up. It wasn't personal - the good news is that the snoring went away!
sorry, but i think your husband's an ass and unfair!
everything and anything makes me gassy, and i'm 22 weeks, and although my boyfriend and i poke fun of how gassy i've become, if he ever insulted or belittled my pregnancy in that way i would suggest he walked away from my life.
it's a part of pregnancy and i believe he needs to be there for you even with your gasses and everything else being pregnant comes with. he shouldn't make you feel this way, he should stick through it! in fact he should learn to love your gasses because you and your body are sacrificing a lot more than he ever will for the sake of your child.
Sdye84,
I am 16.6 weeks and have gas a lot. On Sunday, my DH and I were sitting on the bed while watching our nephew play the new Michael Jackson Wii game. Our nephew looked so funny trying to dance like MJ. My boyfriend made a joke, and I laughed a ripped off a big-one. Talk about embarrassing!! I excused myself and we all had a big laugh. I know that my body is not my own these days and I'm just going with the territory. Sometimes it seems like no end to pregnancy symptoms.