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haha congrats on your first pregnancy symptom! Just wait until your colleagues start whipping out their stinking lunches!

Can you eat a snack? That was the only thing that helped me during those weeks of unending nausea. (Or maybe a candy to suck on?)

Snacking seemed to help me a bit, too - if I got too hungry I always felt worse! I honestly don't think you can explain to someone what nausea during pregnancy feels like unless they have experienced it themselves.

I totally agree on the carbs. All I did was eat. And drink ginger ale and Gatorade (water made it worse for me). Also sucked on sour patch kids and then spit them out after they weren't sour anymore

Aw it's so awful isn't it? Like pp have said, food is often key I kept crackers by my bed and grazed every time I woke up. Also don't be afraid to ask your doctor for meds if it's really bad. I had s horrible time with it bit shudder to think how much worse it would have been without my amazing meds.

Feel better soon! I found that eating a handful of honey nut cheerios in the middle of the night when I got up to pee and then again before I even got out of bed helped keep the acidity in my stomach to a minimum. I hope you find something that works for you! I also drank a lot of ginger ale. Not sure if it helped or if i just *thought* it did. But water wasn't my fave

@Cherrybee: It definitely comes in waves. Some people with time of day (morning!), others when they get hungry, etc. I usually felt worst around dinnertime!

I've had very little morning sickness, but I have found that if I don't have at least a little snack in my stomach at all times, I just feel *wrong.* I've only puked once, yay, and I think it's starting to abate, but snacks are definitely my friend!

Eek..sorry to hear the nausea has started

I found saltines to be incredibly helpful. I also found massive relief in slicing up a piece of fresh ginger, putting it in the bottom of a covered mug and filling it with hot water. I would sip on that all day long and (a) it helped tremendously with the nausea, and (b) my colleagues were none the wiser, as I kept the lid on my mug so it just looked like I was drinking tea or coffee.

Good luck - hopefully your bout with nausea will be short lived

@Mrs. Lovejoy: @sorrycharlie: @mrs. wagon: And now, I want some red Sour Patch Kids. Thanks, ladies!

@sea_bass: Oh my gosh! The stinking lunches were the worst in the first tri! I can never smell healthy choice asian delights ever again. BARF!

@sea_bass: I wonder this, too! I cannot open my refrigerator without throwing up. Kitchen smells are the worst! Am I going to have to avoid the kitchen my entire pregnancy or will it get better after the first tri?

34+week preggo here reporting in.....
It gets better
My nausea passed at 11 weeks to the day. I literally woke up better that morning. I can eat just about what I want (no chicken with bones in it though). All those gross smells don't really bother me too much any more.

I just had DH do anything food related for the first 11 weeks. Now it's normal again.
You will soon have other fun side effects to look forward to though...

Vitamin B6 helped me a bit. You might want to check it out.

Sprite and ginger ale didn't do it for me, but sipping on Dr. Pepper (from a can/bottle, not a fountain) helped a lot--the bubbles were so refreshing. I always had dry Cheerios around during first tri, and Unisom + B6 took the edge off for a few weeks (then I switched to Zofran).