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Re: Ladies - morning sickness

From: lynn (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon, 10 Mar 2003 09:56:58 -0500

Barbara, Hang in there...you're almost at the 12 week mark. For me, I had severe morning sickness too, and lost 10-15 lbs my first trimester. I'm thin to begin with, so that amount of weight was significant. My morning sickness stopped completely once I was in my 12th week, which is very common. I went on to gain the weight I lost, then another 10-15 lbs, and delivered a 9 lb. boy. As far as I know, there is no correlation with sickness and gender. This is another one of those old wives tales. Morning sickness is not imagined, or in your head -- it is a real physical condition. Don't pay any attention to your mother-in-law. She should keep her mouth shut. What a nasty insinuation to make. You are not a wimp. It's a horrible feeling to know you're body and your baby needs to eat, and not physically be able to.

I personally never found any relief with the morning sickness, only hitting 12 weeks. The one recommendation I will make to you is to be sure to take your prenatal vitamins religiously. I had a tough time with those horse pills, but found that taking it right before bed was the best, to avoid them "repeating" on me.

Best of luck. Let us know how you're doing.

Peace, Lynn

>From: anonymous@obgyn.net (Barbara)
>Reply-To: anonymous@obgyn.net
>To: Multiple recipients of list PREGNANCY-BIRTH
><pregnancy-birth@mail.medispecialty.com>
>Subject: Ladies - morning sickness
>Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 05:29:51 -0600
>
>Hi,
>I am 11 weeks pregnant and having a lot of morning sickness. I am
>nauseous 24 hours a day and throw up at least 4 days a week. I am
>starting to think that I am not going to make it. I am so excited about
>having this baby, but I never thought that I would feel this terrible
>all of the time. I can't even eat a healthy diet and have lost weight.
>My husband and I plan to have 3 or 4 children and I can't even imagine
>how I will function if I feel like this and have a toddler to take care
>of. None of the tips that I have heard have helped. Is there really an
>end in sight to this? Is it really true that if you have pretty bad
>morning sickness that you are more likely to have a girl? One of my
>fears is that I am having a boy and that if I have a girl next time, my
>morning sickness will be even worse. My husband and I would like both
>boys and girls, but I feel like such a wimp. Not to mention that my
>mother-in-law keeps telling me about how she never had morning sickness
>because she saw pregnancy as a "beautiful and natural process so how
>could she possibly get sick from it". She is driving me crazy by being
>so condescending. I think that pregnancy is beautiful and natural, but
>I still feel terrible. Does anyone have any advice to get me through
>this? I guess that I just needed to vent, but I am also really curious
>about the link between morning sickness and gender. Thanks.
>

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