Morning sickness

Had all day sickness from 3 -20 weeks. The faintest smell of coffee or cooked food sent me flying to the loo. Lived on toast and rich tea biscuits. This episode was probably the start of the end of my first marriage.

I had the reverse of cravings with my first baby, I had always loved Batgers Chinese figs, and used to stock up when they hit the shops at Christmas. When pregnant I couldn’t touch them - weird, second time round I became sick around midday ever day for weeks and weeks. I took my watch off, turned clocks faced down, but afterwards when I checked sure enough it started between 11.55 and 12.05. I was an early bird in those days too.

NotaGran55 I too suffered HG in both pregnancies. I shuddered remembering how awful when reading your post. 2nd pregnancy was the worst. No ultra sounds in those days and was carrying twins. Six weeks before due date visit to GP when a student midwife declared two heart beats. Shipped into hospital immediately as already lost weight. Pumped full of fluids, drugs and HG reduced a lot. One food I almost became addicted to was tinned tomatoes, something I had never eaten before but hospital served them with breakfast. I asked for more and more and as I was basically being fed to gain weight they appeared whenever I asked. First time they appeared after delivery I started to eat and spat them out, they tasted awful. Couldn't understand why I had liked them so much for the 6 weeks before.. Pregnancy does strange things to your body.

I went off coffee in one pregnancy and tea with the other- one boy one girl but can't remember whch way round it was!

I was sick from day 1 no missed periods doctor treated me for a ulcer ! Nurse suggested a pregnancy test lol .Puked for England hated coffee any meat cooking smells beer and cigarette smalls were terrible too

Caffeine gives me horrendous migraines
Coffee chocolate tea Can have them
But it’s a small sacrifice
Much better than the migraines which laid me up for days.

For about 10 years I used to smoke 20 a day. One evening I thought "yuck, I'm not enjoying this ciggie" and stubbed it out. A week or so later I missed a period which was very unusual. Turned out I was pregnant and I've never smoked since. I must have only been a few weeks pregnant then. I was nauseous, but not sick, 24/7 until I gave birth though. I had a particular liking for soft, freshley baked white bread lathered with butter. Needless to say I put on too much weight. Not so bad with the 2nd pregnancy.

Meant can’t have ‘em not can

Sick both times with both babies, but only for about 14 weeks. I feel so sorry for the ladies who are sick all the way through.

My cravings were for tomato ketchup and prawns. Happily we lived near an Indian takeaway where the staff knew me well. I had worked in the pub next door a couple of nights a week for a few of years. They used to give my husband cut price prawn starters.

The sickness used to stop round midday. Ginger biscuits helped a lot. Them and just some water.

No morning sickness thankfully but awful craving for pink grapefruit!!!

Three pages of personal bodily functions of over 40 years ago?
Have I logged into Mumsnet by accident.
Apologies if this is brusque OP, but certainly as far as I am concerned I have no interest in my own biological details of between 41 and 50 years ago and certainly don’t expect anybody else to.

I had no morning sickness with any of my four pregnancies -probably part of the reason I was happy to be pregnant that many times - but I had cravings with my second. My fridge was stocked with black cherry yogurt, crunchie bars and Tizer.

It was different with each pregnancy, I used to smoke in those days and first signs were I couldn't smoke and I couldn't drink tea. With the 1st one I loved lemonade powder, not the crystallised sugar but it was actual powder, used to eat it by the bag fulls. The next one was peppermints and oranges. fish and chips for the 3rd and I was actually ill with the last one and could only keep green apples and lemonade down for several months.

In 1946 pregnant with my daughter I was sick all the time not that I had much to bring up because I gave my husband most of my rations because he had a heavy job so I lived on tins of soup. I went down to seven stone" After a difficult birth she weighed seven pounds.
With my son I couldn’t stop eating and was never sick. Had a thing for baked Beans and weighed eleven stone at his very easy birth. He weighed seven and a half pounds.Couldn’t stand baked beans for a long while afterwards.

Vomiting from before I missed 1st period until around 7 months. At least a dozen times a day and at any time throughout the day not just mornings. Lost loads of weight but then once the sickness stopped I piled on the weight as I just ate and ate, such a relief not to throw up everything 5 minutes after eating. Horrible time but lovely, healthy son at the end of it all.

I love runner beans but walking in our kitchen garden,walking past the runner bean plants,I just wanted to heave. I took marmalade sandwiches to bed at night and as soon as I opened my eyes in the morning I ate a marmalade butty.No morning sickness.

The smell of cigarettes which has never left me 50 years on. I still heave walking behind a smoker.

I felt wonderful throughout my pregnancies and for some reason expected my DDs to too. Both his gave birth on the same day, but one was so I'll with HG she was in and out of hospital, even considering a termination as life was so awful. She couldn't move an inch without retching, so miserable. She and her husband would love another, but it's such a thing to weigh up, especially as their son would find it so hard to witness. I'm interested that some posters have said they didn't suffer every pregnancy, as the hospital told us she would have it if she got pregnant again. Other daughter was fine.

So many fat fingered typos! Apologies!

The only thing that would settle my stomach was drinking fizzy drinks mainly lemonade

Having gone off coffee - I normally drink several cups of freshly ground - for both my pregnancies like so many others on this thread I thought I'd google whether there may be a reason for this - www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/aug/24/no-safe-level-coffee-drinking-pregnant-women-study-says !

Went completely off coffee, couldn’t even smell it almost from day one of pregnancy !! Not much else though did have cravings for salty foods and oddly peach Melba !

Tea and coffee here too. And the smell of cigarettes was really nauseating. Only actually sick with the twins (and how!) Other three pregnancies just felt horrible for first 12 weeks.

I couldn't bear coffee either, though I loved it before and after all my four pregnancies. I also couldn't bear the taste of minty toothpaste and had to switch to Euthymol.
My SiL was extremely sick, I remember seeing her just a couple of weeks before she had her second baby and she just had a slight pot belly, as if she'd been eating too well for a few days. She apparently lived on tinned peaches and was regularly in hospital.

I also hated the smell of cigarettes and found that drinking fizzy drinks (in my case diet tonic water) eased my sickness.