just sip sip sip.. ice cubes were good for me too.. i used to make some up with diluted juice too.. then mash them up so it was more like ice chips.. i just continually shovelled those into me for days on end which meant that they stayed down more, and at least i was getting some hydration. i can handle a glass of water now, just have to sip rather than gulp. its so tempting to just knock the whole glass down, i know i need it, but i just cant cos then none of it stays down & it defeats the purpose.

i think its totally normal to be scared about the scan, especially the big 20 week one. i was terrified. my mate is approaching hers next week and she is dreading it too. its only natural to be worried, but i predict that you will feel better after it knowing bubs is doing just fine in there!

at the min im taking pregnacare and a calcium supplement on alternate days, i cant keep any dairy down so worry about my calcium, hence the supplements!

Glad the vets went well and that you didn't have to go on your own. Pregnacare make me worse too (if that's possible), doc told me to lay off them until I was 20 weeks, I could probably really do with them though as my diet is crap and the fact that I'm keeping very little down doesn't help. I'm vegetarian too (have been since I was 16) so worried about becoming anaemic as I did when I had Jenna and was put on Iron tablets which then made me really sick too so I'm wondering if there are different vits I can take without iron in them.
I threw up really bad this morning too,haven't ate anything since as tummy is churning. It's crazy all I had this morning was some toast and an apple and yet the amount I threw up was crazy, it must be just all lying in my stomach waiting!
I really want to start buying stuff but I'm also scared in case something goes wrong as I haven't felt baby move yet, my scan isn't til the 2nd June - feels like ages away and although I can't wait for it, I'm also dreading it, I'm just so paranoid. I too felt like crap for a while before I started throwing up, I remember my boss telling me I looked really white and I found it a real struggle to get through my days and if we were running behind, I was so shattered, I came home and just cried my eyes out to Stephen. I had a day off one day (26th Feb) and I went out to Ards shopping centre with my Mum, I can still smell that magees butchers now, I had to pull my coat up over my nose! I started throwing up that night, so didn't go into work next day and ended up at Docs on the Monday morning, she gave me my first lot of cyclizine and I ended up in Hospital on the drip by the Wednesday of that week, when I came home from hosp I felt so rough although I didn't throw up for a few days but I just couldn't drink anything and 2 weeks later ended up back up in Neely ward again. My problem is now, like you Kat, I find it really hard to drink and I find if I don't drink I wont be as sick, although I will still throw up just not as bad, but if I don't drink I'll end up back on the drip again. It's a viscious cycle and I can't really see a way around it.

whoops! didn't mean to send that last reply twice! I can't handle juice or water at minute, I even have polly pineapples and porky pear ice lollies in freezer, they don't stay down either, it's so crap!
The only dairy I get is some cheese but it doesn't always stay down either,which calcium supplement do you take as I want to get one though not sure what's safe to take. I miss my yogurts and cereal but just can't handle anything like that at the minute.

i take osteocare.. started on the swallowy ones but they are HUGE and u have to take 2..ugh.. so have moved onto the orange flavoured osteocare chewey ones. still not great but better than the others for sure!

Must get Stephen to have a look for some tomorrow.

Hi girls!

(Is there anyone else out there and reading this except ourselves? C'mon out and make yourself known! We'd love to meet you)

Oh yeeeeeeees. This afternoon I had the full Magees butcher's experience. Oh My Glory! The smell of meat. In garlic. And tomatoey sauces. All coming out of the same place. Plus the smell of vanilla being pumped out of the Body Shop...

Fortunately I was chewing on an apple at the time in an effort to keep the nausea at bay, so I just stuck it up to my nose like some lunatic and sniffed it instead as I passed by. I felt like some Victorian lady sniffing her nosegay posy to avaid the small of open sewers! That bluddy shop should be banned for the next 7 months.

My purchases today consisted of two new bras (up a size already!) from M&S with 25% off. Not bad. A lovely floaty top from Next which should see me right for the next few months over the summer and a bag of liquorice. Noseyd at the prams in Mothercare and asked the staff there about Bump Bands. Girl looked at me blankly and hadn't a clue. Tried to direct me to the maternity trousers but I was having none of it. I'll have to get them over the net.

All in all it has been a relatively good day for me. I have stayed out of bed and away from the loo. I have kept everything I've eaten so far down, but still having difficulties like you girls actually drinking fluids. I bought a smoothie at lunch time but it tasted foul, so I just left it. Much to the disgust of the girl who had served me.

If this is the best I am going to feel for the forseeable future, then I'll take it!

I haven't yet been inside the Ulster maternity unit yet. What's it like girls? I can't wait till the 5th June till I get there!


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I've heard the staff in Mothercare aren't too helpful as well. Glad you had a good day though and managed not to be sick, maybe you'll be lucky this time and it'll pass quickly for you. I haven't had one day without puking since it started, it's crap! I was also wondering if anyone else is reading this, surely we can't be the only ones on this forum with HG??? Funny, I've took a thing for blackurrant and liquorice sweets, Stephen gets me a big bag every few days, I do throw them up again but at least they taste good on the way up again!!

Just been up at new unit in Ulster twice, for first scan and for triple test, it looks really nice but you don't get a tour round it now. The midwifes I saw have been really nice so far. My next scan's the 2nd June so not too long to wait.

the new unit is fab.. theres a website...
http://www.setrust.hscni.net/ucht%20...0Services.html

im planning to give the birthing pools a try!

just think girls... someday we will meet up at ards and dander past the butchers without a care in the world!!

i thought we would have more thread followers too! maybe we should all post in our own tri's to make sure people know we are here ;-)

wish me luck.. im heading out for food with an old mate tonite.. feeling a bit iffy so not sure how its going to turn out lol....

Have a great night, where are you going?