With baby #3, I actually took a medication (can’t remember the name of it off the top of my head, since my baby is now 5!) and that seemed to help, although it did make me sleep a lot. If your stomach doesn’t settle down, you might talk with your caregiver about that.

Good luck to you – and here’s hoping that the sickness gets milder and you start to feel better SOON!

1) I was on Ortho-Tricycline when my husband and I were first married and it most definitely made me nauseous every month. once I finally figured out that it was the birth control that was making me sick, I called my doctor. 2 different prescriptions later, he finally got me on a low enough dosage to not make me sick. It definitely makes sense that the hormones in birth control pills would mimic the symptoms of the hormonal surge at the beginning of pregnancy that causes morning sickness. You might talk with your doctor about changing your birth control pill to a dosage that’s more manageable for your body.

2) While your mom’s experience with pregnancy and child birth may give you some clues as to how your own body will respond, it’s most definitely NOT the tell-all that we all wish it would be. My mother also experienced little to no morning sickness with my sister or myself and I had TERRIBLE morning sickness with all three of my kiddos. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but you might have morning sickness even if your mom didn’t.

3) One of the keys for me (and for a friend of mine, too) was not to fear the nausea and vomiting so much. If you just kind of wrote it off as something your body needed to do to get through this time, it made it much more manageable and easier to get through the day. The minute you start obsessing about it and how you shouldn’t be feeling this way and trying 50 different things to make you feel better, you’ll ultimately make yourself feel even more sick. Probably the best piece of advice I could give you about it now is to just relax and go with the flow – and that’s true of child birth and motherhood in general, too. The more you fight it, the more stressed it will make you, and the worse the symptoms will be. Of course, this doesn’t mean that you don’t do the common sense things that you know help make things better, it just means you shouldn’t focus on them so much.

Hope this helps – and whenever you do wind up getting pregnant, I hope that you DON’T have to experience morning sickness!!

I found somewhere that birth control pills can actually make you feel as though you’re experiencing morning sickness. I was on the generic brand for ortho tricycline from February to July, and 5 out of those 6 months I had a week to a week and a half of severe nausea but no vomiting The pills in my packet were divided up into three colors (the amount of estrogen changed with each color) and the very first color I took each month would leave me feeling so sick. I didn’t eat because I felt sick after everything. My head hurt, and I was sleepy alot because I would wake up in the middle of the night thinking I was about to be sick. I caught myself thinking a few times “Gosh this feels like what morning sickness might feel like!” and after doing alot of reading I discovered that the pill can actually make you have those symptoms. Does anyone know how my symptoms with the pill would compare/contrast to actual morning sickness? Would the fact that my mom didn’t experience it horribly have an effect on my symptoms?

I don’t plan on having children for a LONG time, but it would be nice to know!

Also, don’t worry so much about baby getting nourishment. Your baby is the first one getting nourishment. Before your body gets anything, your baby is getting it. That means that even if the baby has to get it from stored fat cells, etc…, it will do that. So, the baby should be fine. Of course, YOU need nourishment, too, so definitely keep trying different things AND be sure to take your pre-natal vitamins!

Hang in there! It doesn’t last forever. Eventually your hormones should settle down a little and give you a reprieve.