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My response is pretty much the same as @wonderstruck. Sleeping on my right side made it worse sometimes too. My doctor put me on pills that made it much better.

I don't remember when exactly, but mine started pretty early! First it was just when I ate something spicy or acidic, and then as I got bigger it didn't matter what I ate, I got it all the time. Eating a lot close to bed time was the worst! Pepcid made it a little more tolerable. Birth made it go away!

First pregnancy, I got it around the beginning of the third trimester. Anytime I ate, I'd get it. I popped a lot of Tums. Chocolate seemed to be the worse. Second pregnancy I got it even earlier (20 weeks).

I'd never had it prior to being pregnant. But while pregnant I usually get it mid-second trimester. It's worst in the evenings after I've eaten carbs. I live on tums by the end of my pregnancy.

With DS I had it from probably 16 weeks until the end. I was throwing up all the time from the acid that would creep up. I wasn't taking enough OTC Zantac. Dd I had heartburn but minimally compared to the first child.

I've had a lot of luck controlling my heartburn by eating very small meals throughout the day, about every two hours, and by sleeping on an incline, propped up with my pillows. I do still get it but so far I can manage with tums. Sometimes in the night I'll accidentally roll out of my incline and lay flat and then I'll wake up with killer heartburn. Some triggers I noticed for me have been bread, sugar and tomatoes so I try to avoid those now.

it started second trimester, i'm not exactly sure when. it gets worse throughout the day, usually flares up right after i eat, so i have to eat smaller meals and that helps a little. i eat a lot of tums and have one pepcid after dinner so that the heartburn doesn't wake me up at night. i also try not to eat a really big dinner and try not to drink too much water before bed.

Orange juice does it for me

So many tums...it was bad at the end. Usually right before bed.

I started getting it early on, then it disappeared until the end of the last trimester when it was pretty brutal. It even woke me up at night! Nothing in particular seemed to trigger it.

It started at like 8 weeks and didn't stop until pp. It was constant and the only thing that helped was extra strength zantac twice a day.

It hit me pretty early in both pregnancies and it did not matter if I ate plain pasta, plain oatmeal with water, cereal or something spicy. I was miserable. It was so bad that I often threw up an hour or so after going to bed. I am not a fan of taking any medicine and Pepcid was not a cure all when I did take it. I looked up natural remedies. The most palatable option was a red delicious apple. I ate an apple after most meals and always just before bed. The heartburn would magically disappear and I could eat anything I wanted. I know this seems crazy and this remedy can't work for everyone, but I highly recommend trying it. I wish I had discovered it during my first pregnancy!