Question from a new father

[Shawnski]

Originally Posted by Marv

My wife is in her second trimester with our first baby and she's having really terrible morning sickness. For you guys who have kids, do you have any advice on how to manage the morning sickess? The doctor put her on Diclectin (sp?) but it hasn't helped at all.

Perhaps she is seeing your sig. It makes ME queasy.

[Marv]

Perhaps she is seeing your sig. It makes ME queasy.

Lol. Thanks...

[gildo]

Tell her to quit watching Flames games!!!! The morning sickness will stop!

[bigtmac19]

I would agree that a hospital stay might be in order. I would worry about her getting dangerously dehydrated. I would really push the ob about this if it was me.

[CaptainCrunch]

Morning sickness is a great way for a couple to re-connect.

For couples that met in the bar, you can relive your memories of your first meeting by becoming her hair buddy.

You can play a game called , what makes you puke, you can gain points by bringing home road kill

As a man I always found that its important to share the pregnancy experience with your significant other. You know, the baby stimulator, the sore breast simulator, oh and eay a dozen rancid oysters when you get up in the morning so that you can share your wifes morning sickness.

I'm thinking of writing a book.

[Iowa_Flames_Fan]

Ginger candies were really helpful for my wife, who had morning sickness through 32 weeks of pregnancy. Sounds like your wife has hyperemesis gravidarum, which is the more severe variety. I think medication's the only thing that really helps. Try homemade chicken soup with some ginger and lemongrass--not because it will help that much, but she might just be able to keep it down. It worked for my wife. Also--remind her that in all likelihood the third trimester will be better.

[Tower]

There isn't much that can be done... It's the body's hormonal imbalance right now.

[redforever]

Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan

Ginger candies were really helpful for my wife, who had morning sickness through 32 weeks of pregnancy. Sounds like your wife has hyperemesis gravidarum, which is the more severe variety. I think medication's the only thing that really helps. Try homemade chicken soup with some ginger and lemongrass--not because it will help that much, but she might just be able to keep it down. It worked for my wife. Also--remind her that in all likelihood the third trimester will be better.

Great idea. Chicken soup, especially just plain broth makes a lot of things better and seems to be one of those things that most bodies will tolerate when you are not feeling well.

For a quick and easy way to make this, just use a liter of good quality canned chicken broth, add 2 or 3 slices of peeled ginger, bottom bulb part of lemon grass, even 1 clove of garlic. Bring to a boil, turn down heat to a simmer and cook for 10 minutes, discard the ginger, lemon grass and garlic. If she can tolerate the broth after a few attempts of eating it, then add a few egg noodles and cook in the broth, the fine kind that cook almost instantly.

[Iowa_Flames_Fan]

Originally Posted by redforever

Great idea. Chicken soup, especially just plain broth makes a lot of things better and seems to be one of those things that most bodies will tolerate when you are not feeling well.

For a quick and easy way to make this, just use a liter of good quality canned chicken broth, add 2 or 3 slices of peeled ginger, bottom bulb part of lemon grass, even 1 clove of garlic. Bring to a boil, turn down heat to a simmer and cook for 10 minutes, discard the ginger, lemon grass and garlic. If she can tolerate the broth after a few attempts of eating it, then add a few egg noodles and cook in the broth, the fine kind that cook almost instantly.

You read my mind, red! That's exactly what I made for my wife, and now we swear by it for whatever ails ya!

[redforever]

Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan

You read my mind, red! That's exactly what I made for my wife, and now we swear by it for whatever ails ya!

Then you will also know that this makes a great broth for wonton soup. Just add your wontons and cook, then add a bit of chopped cilantro and thinly sliced onions a few minutes before serving)))

[Marv]

Morning sickness is a great way for a couple to re-connect.

For couples that met in the bar, you can relive your memories of your first meeting by becoming her hair buddy.

You can play a game called , what makes you puke, you can gain points by bringing home road kill

As a man I always found that its important to share the pregnancy experience with your significant other. You know, the baby stimulator, the sore breast simulator, oh and eay a dozen rancid oysters when you get up in the morning so that you can share your wifes morning sickness.

I'm thinking of writing a book.

I'm not sure if your intent was humerous but I'm not really laughing. I've taken my wife to the hospital twice in the past week for intense dehydration due to vomiting and am very concerned about her well being and that of our baby. I find this in pretty poor taste dude.

[MacDougalbry]

My wife went throught this all the way through both pregnancies. You really have my sympathies. It was gruelling for her both physically and emotionally. No offense to people who have normal pregnancies with normal morning sickness, but they really don't "get it" and their advice is charming if not misguided. NVP can be very dangerous to both the mother and child. If you don't feel your doctor is giving you adequate advice, you may want to get a referral to a specialist or seek a second opinion. The following web site has soom good info on NVP too:

http://www.motherisk.org/index.jsp

[Marv]

That's awesome, MacDougalbry. Really good stuff there. Thanks a lot.

[4X4]

Originally Posted by redforever

For a quick and easy way to make this, just use a liter of good quality canned chicken broth, add 2 or 3 slices of peeled ginger, bottom bulb part of lemon grass, even 1 clove of garlic. Bring to a boil, turn down heat to a simmer and cook for 10 minutes, discard the ginger, lemon grass and garlic. If she can tolerate the broth after a few attempts of eating it, then add a few egg noodles and cook in the broth, the fine kind that cook almost instantly.

Originally Posted by redforever

Then you will also know that this makes a great broth for wonton soup. Just add your wontons and cook, then add a bit of chopped cilantro and thinly sliced onions a few minutes before serving)))

I am totally making wonton soup for dinner tomorrow.

What the heck is lemongrass?

[Circa89]

Sounds like a pretty severe case so I'm not sure something this simple would help but my wife swore by them. It's a pressure point wrist band. It looks like a standard terry cloth wrist band with a plastic pearl inserted on the inside of the wrist that puts pressure on the two main tendons of the wrist. Probably a psychosomatic cure but for the $9.99 it can't hurt. Good luck.

[bigtmac19]

I was thinking maybe look into Acupuncture. I don't know too much about it, but it might be something to try.

[You Need a Thneed]

Originally Posted by Marv

Thanks Bingo, but she's already on diclectin and it hasn't helped at all. She's eaten enough dry crackers to choke a horse and still throwing up. It was so bad one night I had to take her to the ER for dehydration. Thanks again, though...

My wife was on diclectin for a bit, it worked a bit too start, but after a week or two didn't seem to be helping out at all. We went to the ER after she hadn't been able to eat or drink anything (not even water) for 2 and a half days. The doctor there gave her a perscription for ondansetron, which is an anti-nausea drug(often given to chiemotherapy patients). It worked wonders, she was finally able to go back to work. She took it for about 2 months. If you are going to go this route, it would be good to line up some percription drug coverage, as ondansetron costs about $10 a day without it.

It's a powerful drug, but the benefits probobly outweigh the risks if your wife is getting dehydrated and starved all the time.

Hope that information helps.

[Eagle Eye]

My wife was extremly sick (vomitting and dehydration) from taking pregnancy vitamins (can't remember what they were), she went to the doctor and they told her to take just Folic acid and things turned around significantly. They also gave her some little pills with a picture of a pregnant women on them (can't recall what they were called either)

[You Need a Thneed]

Originally Posted by Eagle Eye

My wife was extremly sick (vomitting and dehydration) from taking pregnancy vitamins (can't remember what they were), she went to the doctor and they told her to take just Folic acid and things turned around significantly. They also gave her some little pills with a picture of a pregnant women on them (can't recall what they were called either)

My wife went off the multivitamin and took just folic acid for a while too. The iron in multivitamins can comtribute to morning sickness.

[fredr123]

My wife felt ill when she took her prenatal vitamins on an empty stomach. If she had some toast and juice or something she was usually fine. Most of the nausea disappeared after the first few months.