Tips to combat morning sickness?

I was going to suggest ginger or lemon candies, ginger cookies and crackers but if it is more serious maybe you can try "Sea Bands?" I didn't get a chance to try them with my last pregnancy but others say they really help!

https://www.amazon.com/Ginger-Anti-Nausea-pieces-1-35-each/dp/B000K7B5FC
This gum helped me a lot when I was going through chemo. I was one of the "lucky" ones who did not have morning sickness (although my vomit reflex was strong when I smelled certain things, lol), but I gave my extra to one of my co-workers who had bad morning sickness and it helped her. Good luck! It won't last forever

I always had jolly ranchers and mints to help with morning sickness. Taking my prenatal before bed seemed to help a little, too.

Sounds counter active but eating small frequent meals. The nausea was worse when I waited too long to eat. I ate something every 2-3 hours.

sardelsa wrote: »

I was going to suggest ginger or lemon candies, ginger cookies and crackers but if it is more serious maybe you can try "Sea Bands?" I didn't get a chance to try them with my last pregnancy but others say they really help!

I second this.
My aunt found "Sea Bands" to be really helpful. I think there available at Target or Walgreens.

I also used sea bands - they were helpful. Not a miracle, but helpful.

And I know this sounds weird, but I would smear a tiny bit of menthol under my nose sometimes. My sense of smell was INSANELY sensitive when I was pregnant. I didn't actually vomit very many times, I mostly just felt nauseous 24/7. But when I did throw up, it was always in response to some smell that pushed me over the edge (dog food, some dude's really strong cologne/b.o. combination, sharing an elevator with a smoker eating a banana.)

I might get hate for this. I had morning sickness as soon as I ate breakfast, then I'd vomit and it'd be gone for the day. I learned to eat something like a small bowl of Cheerios or Kix, throw-up, and be fine until the next morning.

Maybe try what works for when you're sick (and not preggo). Crackers (saltines, Wheat Thins, graham) or bread with ginger ale/7-Up work for me.

what helped for me was eating small meals/snacks throughout the day and never having an empty stomach.

Zofran, ginger and crackers didn't work for me either. Unisom and B6 helped but I could only take it at night, it made me too tired during the day. I also took my prenatals at night so I wouldn't get sick on them during the day.

I stuck to eating small, plain meals like pasta and chicken, rice, cheerios without milk, any fruit I could tolerate and really tried to listen to what my body wanted to eat. I avoided heavy, fatty meals like the plague, they always made me sick.
I was also extremely sensitive to smell so I would dab mint or lemon on my collar, coat or a hanky so I could sniff that and not barf if a strong smell came my way. Sucking on anything, especially sour flavored did help.

If I knew I was going to throw up, to keep it from burning, I would eat a tums. Made everything coming back up much more pleasant and way less burning.
For some reason I could only drink water if it was ice cold, had chunks of ice in it. And only poland springs, I couldn't stand tap water or any other bottled water. Morning sickness is weird.

Had it til 20 weeks with both girls, lost about 20lbs my first trimester from morning sickness. Hope you don't get the spitting thing too, that sucks.

Vitamin B6 and sea bands. Had no morning sickness at all with my recent pregnancy once I started the B6.

Keep a small something by your bed. I usually say crackers, but I saw the gluten free thing. Before you even sit up in the morning, seriously, have a small snack. Morning sickness is caused from an empty stomach. Then, small frequent snacks all day long. Remember, the official first trimester diet is "does it sound like it will stay down?"

You can spend the extra money on preggie pops or something like that, but my friend had the same effect with dum dums.

I'm fortunately over my morning sickness, my doctor prescribed Diclectin for me, which worked wonders for the really bad days. Other things that helped me were taking my pre-natal with supper (having it on a full stomach really helps avoid the nausea associated with it), a vitamin B6 supplement (it's one of those vitamins where if you take in more than your body needs you just pee out the extra), and tostitos. Seriously, plain tostitos were the only thing I could eat before noon most days in my early pregnancy (and gluten-free as an added bonus). Potato chips as well, but for whatever reason I just didn't tolerate the taste of the potato chips as well as the tortilla chips. Jello also stayed down (usually), and by the evening I was able to tolerate most normal foods, so I'd save most of my calories for when my stomach settled down. Just my 0.02 worth, unfortunately every pregnancy is different and what worked for me might not work for you, but it might be worth a shot.