Morning sickness

When expecting my girls I went off tea and with my son it was coffee. When I went into hospital to have my daughter I had to be moved to a private room as the smell of food brought in by other patients made me sick 🤢
I did crave grapefruit with my first daughter and she loves to eat fruit no cravings with the other two.

I had no sickness in either pregnancy and no problem with my menopause. I was lucky.

I had morning sickness, quite badly, not the very severe kind. I had little problem with PMT and the only menopause problem I had was fibroids, which didn't need treating because they end with the completion of the menopause..

DD has been exactly the same, although her fibroid bleeding was so bad that she had a hormone coil inserted.

Something has occured to me..some of you lucky ladies who never had morning sickness. Does this have any bearing on PMT or easier Menopause symptoms. My DiL Mum had no trouble with anything.I hate her!!! no not really?

Hated the smell and taste of fried onion. Made me feel dizzy and nauseous, but I was never actually sick.

Loved fresh peaches.

No sickness or food aversions with any of my three pregnancies. I was very lucky.

I went off coffee in every pregnancy and still do every time I’m ill. I always said pregnancy sickness felt exactly like travel sickness and have suffered from that all my life. I haven’t thrown up for years but still feel nauseous in cars.

Never suffered with morning sickness with any of my pregnancies. Felt sick once with the first when I put on a pan of chips to fry for tea. Went upstairs while DH cooked them and felt fine, wasn't sick. Ate tea and all ok. That's it never happened again.
Feel so sorry for other posters on here.

DH thought I was pregnant when I had a craving for 'crispy seaweed' from the Chinese takeaway. (It's not really seaweed - it is actually curly kale, I found out through an internet search). I couldn't get enough of the stuff for about a month or two. But I was definitely not pregnant. Possibly my body needed a mineral or vitamin, or something.

Went off coffee and sausages, but craved a pint of blancmange every day when pregnant with both my girls. No sickness with first one, nausea only with the second. Looking at some of the other posts I realise I was very lucky. And I still love blancmange!

Fourth pregnancy..went off cauliflower...still hate the smell 40years on....

I went off mashed potatoes with my eldest, who will soon be 35, and still can't eat them. It was the texture. I also went off smoky bacon crisps. My husband likes his fried eggs sunny side up, and then smashes them on a slice of bread. I could cook them for him, but had to leave the room while he ate them.

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

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.

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.

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 !

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 !

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

So many fat fingered typos! Apologies!

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.