Advice for HG

Bread 🤣 bread is your only friend for HG until it slows down, then I added in chips 🤣🤣🤣 Currently 16 weeks on Friday Tranna survive also but this is my 2nd pregnancy with HG x

We jokingly said I had a wheel I would spin every day and that was the food I wanted… I had phases. Jacket potato, pretzel sticks.. sorry, I don’t want to make you read different foods bc I know that made me sick lol luckily mine eased off and by week 20 I was much much better! After being sick several times a day until that point. Good luck, just remember it won’t last forever (I felt like I would never enjoy food again and that was my life now hahahah so dramatic)

Thank you so much Jess and Marina. It means a lot to read replies from ‘real people’ instead of online articles. How did you manage say, when even bread made you gag? My bread has been wheetabix and I’m finding that I’ll eat it but I’m now so bored of it that it’s a swallow without thinking job. I’m so looking forward to being able to eat normally again! I’m a real foodie so this experience has been… harrowing on different levels. Thanks x

When I had HG I was that sick that thinking about food set it off, nevermind seeing names of foods!! I can't imagine reading through here with HG😭 But for me, I was on bread and water, plain old bread. It still didn't wanna stay down but I would eat when tired and then sleep😅

Bless you Christina. I recognise the sleep theme. When taking my night pills, I have to try and sleep asap otherwise they come right back up.

@Fatima I feel that! I ended up on a medication called xonvea, it's a trial medication in the UK and the ONLY ONE that did something! Every other medication made me feel worse or didn't stay down at all. HG really is a pain

@Fatima oh god I can relate. I literally love food so much. I ran a food website and I had worked in kitchens for years. Every meal is something I look forward to, so it was devastating for my mood. I was in bed for weeks and was in hospital 3 times with fluids. Tried all meds until I settled on ondansetron and another one. I also tried acupuncture (did not work for me). I cried when I had energy and even though I wanted the pregnancy my whole life I regretted it and felt so guilty for wanting my baby to go away. Everyone told me I would forget it and I kept saying I never would, and I havent forgotten it but I do still want another baby (I must be insane) because she is everything to me now and I would do it all over again for her. So hang in there. My biggest win during that time is that I figured out my sickness wasn’t there as soon as I woke up, so I would swallow my vitamins and antiemetics then. It meant that at least I knew I had my vitamins. :(