Pregnancy prep and morning sickness

[Anonymous]

This is luck and genetics, op. 100%. It also may not be true at all if you become pregnant again.

[Anonymous]

Not everyone gets morning sickness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is luck and genetics, op. 100%. It also may not be true at all if you become pregnant again.

+1

And if you blame everything that goes well as a parent on your excellent prep, you’re going to be insufferable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is luck and genetics, op. 100%. It also may not be true at all if you become pregnant again.

+1

And if you blame everything that goes well as a parent on your excellent prep, you’re going to be insufferable.

LOL, going to be insufferable? She already is!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is luck and genetics, op. 100%. It also may not be true at all if you become pregnant again.

+1

My diet/lifestyle was the exact same prior to each of my successful pregnancies, and first I had no morning sickness and the second was absolutely horrible and needed medication to manage it. OP, expect a lot of eye rolls every time you brag about your pregnancy prep routine.

[Anonymous]

Oh I could have been cocky after my 1st pregnancy too. The 2nd one then tried to suck the life out of me and I was nauseous until the 3rd trimester and then I just felt generally blah.

Good luck!

[Anonymous]

Oh FFS

[Anonymous]

Lol this is a troll post right? Come talk to us after you push that watermelon out and let us know how awesome you’re doing with that screaming newborn who gets fed every 2-3 hours. Newsflash: you are running a marathon here and are bragging after the first 100 yards about your performance. It’s smug and annoying and no one wants to hear it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is luck and genetics, op. 100%. It also may not be true at all if you become pregnant again.

+1

My diet/lifestyle was the exact same prior to each of my successful pregnancies, and first I had no morning sickness and the second was absolutely horrible and needed medication to manage it. OP, expect a lot of eye rolls every time you brag about your pregnancy prep routine.

I’m pregnant with my second and similar. I had zero morning sickness with my first and felt generally well in the first trimester. I’m exhausted and nauseous and have bad back pain now with my second. I work out five days a week (or did before I started feeling this unwell), take vitamins, and eat well, just like I did with my first. I definitely feel pregnant, whereas I did not in my previous pregnancy. My doctor told me not to expect subsequent pregnancies to be similar to my first.

[Anonymous]

I give this troll post only 6/10 because it was too over the top to be convincing. At least throw in a few pounds weight gain next time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh FFS

+1. I'm about to give birth to my third and had a textbook easy first pregnancy with the exception of developing pre-e the day before my due date. The doctor told me I had pre-e and I actually told her I didn't think it was possible because I'd done everything right from starting out my pregnancy as very thin and athletic to running every day to only gaining 27 pounds. Luckily I was able to have a vaginal birth but it was a tough experience. I wouldn't wish it on anyone but I would say that comparing your pregnancy to others' pregnancy and thinking you can control things into perfection is not realistic as a pregnant woman or as a parent.

[Anonymous]

On the flip side - I am 38 years old. Don’t live a very healthy lifestyle - not the worst, but totally overworked, over-stressed, eat junk at least a few times a week and perpetually sleep deprived. Hormones always ‘seemed’ out of whack (super short periods, terrible PMS, probably permi-menopause already).

Accidentally got pregnant after having sex only once in the applicable month.

Really have had a pretty easy pregnancy so far.

It’s 100% luck. I did zero prep - it was an accident - and frankly was not really in a good physical shape.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:On the flip side - I am 38 years old. Don’t live a very healthy lifestyle - not the worst, but totally overworked, over-stressed, eat junk at least a few times a week and perpetually sleep deprived. Hormones always ‘seemed’ out of whack (super short periods, terrible PMS, probably permi-menopause already).

Accidentally got pregnant after having sex only once in the applicable month.

Really have had a pretty easy pregnancy so far.

It’s 100% luck. I did zero prep - it was an accident - and frankly was not really in a good physical shape.

As Lenny Kravitz sang: "It's not over till it's over." Don't hold your breath.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On the flip side - I am 38 years old. Don’t live a very healthy lifestyle - not the worst, but totally overworked, over-stressed, eat junk at least a few times a week and perpetually sleep deprived. Hormones always ‘seemed’ out of whack (super short periods, terrible PMS, probably permi-menopause already).

Accidentally got pregnant after having sex only once in the applicable month.

Really have had a pretty easy pregnancy so far.

It’s 100% luck. I did zero prep - it was an accident - and frankly was not really in a good physical shape.

As Lenny Kravitz sang: "It's not over till it's over." Don't hold your breath.

That’s my point. I didn’t control this so far - it’s luck. And that could change. I don’t control it.

[Anonymous]

I just want to say that while OP is probably a troll and if she isn't she is an idiot posts like this are really harmful to people who are suffering with extreme morning sickness.

I had hyperemesis three times and my mom had hyperemesis with all four of her children. I pray to a god I don't even believe in that someone finds a real solution to this before my daughters want to have children. That they never lie on the bathroom floor thinking they will die and contemplating ending a desperately wanted pregnancy because the idea of throwing up even one more time fills them with dread. So they don't spend the rest of their life dealing with PTSD and living in constant terror of getting a stomach flu.

Morning sickness, and frankly most pregnancy miseries, are maddingly under researched and misunderstood. Every woman who gives herself a pat on the bat for running 5 miles at 37 weeks is holding back the women who get SPD at week 21 and can't walk. It is luck and genetics and if we all really believed that instead of telling women that they just did something wrong to bring these horrible things down on themselves then maybe we could make better progress at helping the next generation.