Of all the pregnancy related "discomforts" nothing quite gets my goat as much as the nausea euphemistically titled "morning sickness". pfffthh. I remember my first doctor's appointment when I was 44 days pregnant and I happily told the doctor I don't feel pregnant at all when she asked me if I had any fatigue, nausea etc and she called me lucky. If she had told me that all those would kick in after a few weeks, it would've been kinder.
A few days later I gagged while brushing my teeth in the morning and announced to my husband that my "morning sickness" had started. But I still cooked and ate all regular stuff. And then one morning I gagged and puked and had severe loose motion as well. I drank some water and puked non stop again. By now I was puking just bile since I hadn't ingested anything since dinner the previous night. I almost collapsed on the bathroom floor. I called in sick at work. Next day was again the same. As I was googling on dealing morning sickness tips, I read that it was hereditary. I called up my Mom to blame her for her genes as well as not warning me about how bad it was and she tells me "It took you 2 years to even think of starting a family when you thought it was a rosy deal. If you knew how bad it was gonna get, God knows how long you would've waited." I was too worn out to ask her what were the other scary stuff that she omitted to tell me.
I tried lemon tea, biscuits, crackers etc but nothing worked. On my third day spent on the bathroom floor, my in-laws who live in the same city came over in the evening with home cooked food and an ultimatum - if I didnt eat the khichadi in front of them, they were getting me admitted to hospital with an IV drip. My fear of needles was apparently greater than my nausea and I managed to eat something.
I resumed work after the weekend and all my colleagues were very concerned with how pale and worn out I was looking. After some time one of them came and asked me if I was pregnant? I replied back amused how no one in all girls team with 3 mommies came to the most obvious conclusion for the diarrhea and nausea :) That day at work I puked 17 times in 2 hours. By then I was so drained that my colleagues put me in a cab for fear I wouldn't be able to walk the 750 mts to my apartment.
After this my in-laws insisted that I stay with them. Now this is the weirdest part of the pregnancy nausea that plagues our family - We can eat outside our own homes, but we just cannot eat at home. And we are all good cooks. So even ordering in doesn't work. But I could go eat food outside no matter how dingy and dirty those places were. Admittedly I didn't eat much at my in-laws home either. But atleast I ate 3 meals of which 2 meals comprised of just rice, curd and pickle and maybe some vegetable.
Oh and I kept losing weight. Upto my 5th month, most people didn't know I was pregnant and used to keep asking me to share my tips for losing weight. I have never eaten so healthy ever in my life. I ate a lot of fresh fruits and vegetables. I couldn't drink my beloved tea or coffee. I didn't have sweets or snacks except for the occasional icecream and dark chocolate. My nausea never really left me till my delivery. I have puked alongside most roads in Pune since any smell could set me off. Heck I even puked alongside roads in US!!! In my entire 9 months of pregnancy I gained just 2 kgs. But since I was overweight my gynec wasn't worried.
My colleagues and my co sister still say that they have never seen anyone whose nausea was as bad as mine. Since my mom was against medication, I didn't take the anti-nausea tablets at first. But later on my mommy colleagues advised that they had all taken the tablets and had healthy babies and my not eating was likely to cause more damage. The tablets prevented my puking to an extent but never cured my nausea.
A few days later I gagged while brushing my teeth in the morning and announced to my husband that my "morning sickness" had started. But I still cooked and ate all regular stuff. And then one morning I gagged and puked and had severe loose motion as well. I drank some water and puked non stop again. By now I was puking just bile since I hadn't ingested anything since dinner the previous night. I almost collapsed on the bathroom floor. I called in sick at work. Next day was again the same. As I was googling on dealing morning sickness tips, I read that it was hereditary. I called up my Mom to blame her for her genes as well as not warning me about how bad it was and she tells me "It took you 2 years to even think of starting a family when you thought it was a rosy deal. If you knew how bad it was gonna get, God knows how long you would've waited." I was too worn out to ask her what were the other scary stuff that she omitted to tell me.
I tried lemon tea, biscuits, crackers etc but nothing worked. On my third day spent on the bathroom floor, my in-laws who live in the same city came over in the evening with home cooked food and an ultimatum - if I didnt eat the khichadi in front of them, they were getting me admitted to hospital with an IV drip. My fear of needles was apparently greater than my nausea and I managed to eat something.
I resumed work after the weekend and all my colleagues were very concerned with how pale and worn out I was looking. After some time one of them came and asked me if I was pregnant? I replied back amused how no one in all girls team with 3 mommies came to the most obvious conclusion for the diarrhea and nausea :) That day at work I puked 17 times in 2 hours. By then I was so drained that my colleagues put me in a cab for fear I wouldn't be able to walk the 750 mts to my apartment.
After this my in-laws insisted that I stay with them. Now this is the weirdest part of the pregnancy nausea that plagues our family - We can eat outside our own homes, but we just cannot eat at home. And we are all good cooks. So even ordering in doesn't work. But I could go eat food outside no matter how dingy and dirty those places were. Admittedly I didn't eat much at my in-laws home either. But atleast I ate 3 meals of which 2 meals comprised of just rice, curd and pickle and maybe some vegetable.
Oh and I kept losing weight. Upto my 5th month, most people didn't know I was pregnant and used to keep asking me to share my tips for losing weight. I have never eaten so healthy ever in my life. I ate a lot of fresh fruits and vegetables. I couldn't drink my beloved tea or coffee. I didn't have sweets or snacks except for the occasional icecream and dark chocolate. My nausea never really left me till my delivery. I have puked alongside most roads in Pune since any smell could set me off. Heck I even puked alongside roads in US!!! In my entire 9 months of pregnancy I gained just 2 kgs. But since I was overweight my gynec wasn't worried.
My colleagues and my co sister still say that they have never seen anyone whose nausea was as bad as mine. Since my mom was against medication, I didn't take the anti-nausea tablets at first. But later on my mommy colleagues advised that they had all taken the tablets and had healthy babies and my not eating was likely to cause more damage. The tablets prevented my puking to an extent but never cured my nausea.
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