poll: m/s and stress

merrieberrie

My doctor kept telling me my morning sickness, which lasted until about 19wks was "stress" related and that I should cut down on my work time, etc. I found this annoying, and not especially helpful since it was the ONLY advice he gave me about keeping it under control. For me not being able to leave the house or eat out in a restaurant, for fear of puking all over was FAR more stressful than my part-time, make-my-own-hours job! I guess that if anything, I might simply be stressed out by the normal pregnancy things, but what can you do about that? Anyway, I've been feeling much better for the last week or so and then this morning DH and I were arguing and not soon after that, the nausea was back and I threw up. This was the first time I saw a correlation between the two but maybe the dr. was right.

Do you think stress makes the m/s worse? ?What do you stress over and how do you deal with it?

DAuger

Stress makes mine SO much worse. DH and I once had an arguement and I threw up afterwards. I am stressed today with holiday stuff and I feel really sick.

babesnyder

Stress makes my M/S tons worse. I stress over my house not being cleaned, our finances, dinner etc. They are little things but DH doesn't help with any of it. He used too until about a month or two ago he jsut started really being a lazy a-hole.  I just have to learn to manage my time to get it all done because if not and I say something to him. We will just end up in a fight.

Waterthrush

My everyday stress is actually a lot less during this pregnancy than normal and I still have horrible morning sickness. I have gotten a ton of support from my friends and I work with mostly women who are happy to have a baby around soon. I also had a great time working with kids this summer at camp so emotionally I'm in a good place about this pregnancy.

 Advice about stress? I have heart conditions caused by my nervous system, so I'm under doctor's orders not to get stressed out if I can help it. Sometimes just telling yourself that you can't afford to do it helps. I also try to stop what I'm doing when I stress and take about 30 seconds to reevaluate the situation. Then if I can I'll step back and take longer, if I can't, at least I got a mini reset. I also like to have an activity I can look forward to towards the end of the day. It may be a relaxing bath or cuddling up to my husband for about 15 minutes or so. Also listening to slow tempo music can slow your heart rhythm. Also pulling out favorite old movies (where you're so use to the tense spots those spots aren't tense anymore) are good choices... or movies like the Princess Bride.

I also try to remind myself that right now the most important thing I can do is take really good care of myself and everything else is secondary, much of it a far distant second or third.