1st Trimester

All day sickness

Hello all. My partner recommended I wrote into fellow mums / mums to be.

I’m 9.5weeks pregnant, first time mum. The last three and a bit weeks have been horrendous. I haven’t loss my appetite but I can’t eat without being sick or having diarrhoea. Even without eating I’m still sick throughout the day. The majority of car journeys I’ve been on I’m having to be sick whenever I arrive at our destination. I went to out of hours two Mondays ago (after six times being sick before 5pm that day) and they said I had a urine infection which was making my sickness worse, so was given antibiotics and anti-sickness tablets over an 8 day course. The sickness continued within that 8days, consequently having to go to my doctor on the 5th day to say I wasn’t any better (sick five times before 3pm). He reassured me that the little I was eating (rich tea biscuits and potato scones for breakfast lunch and dinner), was giving my baby and I enough at the moment. He recommended me taking time off work and relaxing. I’m self employed, and with a baby on the way time off work isn’t an idea that I liked, but as the doctor ordered I took one week off. I got confirmation on the 8th day of tablets that my infection had cleared. My parents are commenting how much weight I’ve lost. I haven’t wore makeup or put any effort into myself in weeks, look like sh*t and feel like sh*t. Feel sorry for my partner having to put up with me. I’m miserable. I’m not working as much and that’s stressing me money wise but I have the fear of dedicating myself to more work and having to cancel as I’m not well. I hate sitting about the house doing nothing but I have no energy and also fear if I go out I’ll be unwell. My best friend is two weeks ahead of me, her worse symptom has been exhaustion.

Good news is, I had a 8.5 week scan last week and baby is healthy and growing positively.

I know 3.5weeks might not seem like a lot but there’s only been around 3 days within that period when I’ve not been sick. It’s been a struggle. Come Sunday, it’ll be four weeks since my sickness started. This is our little miracle baby, and I really want to enjoy pregnancy. Please tell me someone’s been in my shoes, and it gets better. I need reassurance🙏🏻

Re: All day sickness

  • Hey girly! Sorry you’re feeling bad. I’m in a similar position….. I’m 10 weeks today and my symptoms started about week 4 and I haven’t been good since. I am thankful to have anti nausea meds but it’s really all day sickness for me. I don’t think I’ve tracked it like you. I’m mostly sick when I pass my hunger point to wait to eat. Sometimes I just feel fine and when I’m hungry I’m hungry and need to eat something FAST. I have to have breakfast in the morning or I will not be okay. Currently my husband and I are over seas. We planned our honeymoon for this time, and woops we said “we don’t care, what happens happens” and it happened. So now it’s more of a baby moon where we’ve been traveling through Europe and now I have a cold, and I’d say that’s affecting me mostly now. I think my symptoms are getting better but I’m sick so it’s hard to tell, and all I can take is Tylenol. I hope that’s helping me but I’m hoping I get better bc it’s lovely here but I feel like crap, every, single, day. Please tell me I’m not the only one that’s grateful for being pregnant but feel like crap? It’s so hard to enjoy this right now, I’m just praying and hoping this all get better for us all. I’m keeping us all in my prayers ladies! Hoping I can find community here bc it feels really lonely right now. I don’t have pregnant friends, I don’t have a mom community so I’m hoping to make some friends. God bless friends! <3
  • I’m in the same spot, just 7 weeks waiting for it to subside. My real stressor has been my toddler though, she’s a very outside girl and I just can’t do that. I’ve been a TON sicker this pregnancy and really had to adjust my expectations of what this holiday season will look like. I gave myself until week 12 to be as sick and tired and lazy as possible, and be ok with both our TV time, then after that I’ll get up and be a mom and push myself a little more. If I were you I’d do something similar: OOO until week 12, give yourself some rest, then focus on getting better and going back to work. I know it’s stressful, but it’s been a lot better for me to be able to focus on one thing at a time. 
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