Loosing your cookies--Pregnant style!

Ok so I'm going to repost this post I found from Lynn Spin 

I have only done a few of these ones but oh goodness have these tips helped me and I hope they help you as much!!

I think I have done #2,5,8,9,10,15,12,16 and they have helped but if you try the others let me know!!

1. Lime slushy drinks.  Saved my life!  I would put about 2 cups of ice in a blender, fill with water about 3/4 of the way up the ice, add 2 table spoons of lime concentrate, a little package of Stevia sweetener (a natural sweetener), and a squirt of a fresh lime if I had one.  Blend it all up and slowly suck with a straw.  Some days this was all I could handle.

2. Bean burritos.  Mostly I would have my husband make these.  Just a can of refried beans and a tortilla.  Occasionally I would ask for a tiny bit of cheese if I knew I could handle it that day.  He would heat up the beans then lay some in a tortilla on the stove, fold up, and brown on two sides.  Sounds nasty and might be hard to make your self.  But YOU NEED the protein.  It will help you not to feel so sick to get some protein in your body.

3. Oils- Peppermint oil and Frankincense oil. These will not take away the nauseousness completely, but they will give you a few mins or more of relief.  I would dab these on my wrists, around my nose, jaw line, and temples.  I have also heard that rubbing lavender oil on your feet with help your sleep at night, maybe try that if you want.

4.  Lemon Popsicle. These helped more toward the end of my sickness phase to help take the edge off some days.  Buy the most natural ones you can find with the least amount of sugar.

5. Pebble Ice.  Some days all you want to do it chew on ice and can only sip water slowly.  On these kinds of days have your hubs go grab a bag of pebble ice from the grocery store.  It is usually sold in the back by the butcher.  AGAIN- Might not want to go back there and see the raw meat.  Have someone pick that up for you. 

6. Vitamin B Drops.  These are nasty, but! they help a lot.  Put a few drops under your tongue and in a few short mins you will get a little bit of nausea relief.

7.  Vitamin B6 pills. These also will help you will your energy and nausea.

8. COKE! I really don’t like Coke, but some days when I couldn’t keep even keep water down Coke always seemed to do the trick.  Mostly it was Diet Coke that helped me, but I am not recommending that b/c I have heard there are issues with the sweeteners in it that can harm your baby.  BE WISE ABOUT WHAT YOU PUT IN YOUR BODY!  Moderation my friends.

9.  A Baked Potato with just a tiny bit of butter and salt.  Not sure why, but this was another staple life saver. It filled me up and I always kept it down.  Nice thing too is that IF you’re out and about you can pick one of these up at Wendy’s for like a buck.

10.  REST! It can be really hard to sleep when you feel crappy or have little ones that need something in the middle of the night breaking up your rest.  Explain to the hubs that you need more help at night so you can feel better and be a better mom during the day.   Also ask your doc what you can do.  Mine had to proscribe me some meds to help me. I could only take them ONCE a month, but at least I got one night that I actually slept.

11.  PHONE HOME! Call your mom, a sister, or a friend ask them to take your kids for an hour or a day or two or more   A break will do you so much good mentally and physically.  And while they are there helping or your kids are gone JUST SLEEP!  Throw up and sleep and watch stupid TV and sleep and read your scriptures, go for a walk or just open a window to get fresh air.  which brings me to #12

12.  Fresh Air.  With my first pregnancy fresh air felt soo nice.  And this time I was in my sick part of pregnancy in the middle of winter in Utah. I didn’t want to go outside much cuz it was freezing and I didn’t feel like moving AT ALL.  But, opening a window and breathing the cool air seemed to help a lot too.  Some times you just need a breath of fresh air. 

13.  Ask for and Accept Help. I really hate asking for help and accepting it when people offer it.  But accept the meals people bring over and say yes when they offer.  It will give you or your hubs a break for one night.  Even if you are not eating the meal, your family will be happy to have something to eat (after months of you not being able to cook)  :)  Sometimes it helped me to be able to eat if I didn’t have to cook the food or see or smell it being cooked.  :)  Let people help you and your family.  It is a good thing.

14.  Phone a friend again.  This can be a mental game, this prego sickness stuff.  A game that can be draining on you and your family.  Call a friend to talk about things other than your sickness.  It can really boost you up even if you aren’t thinking it will help, do it!

15. Have a good cry, then try to cheer-up. Laying in bed and throwing up for months on end can get really hard.  So it’s okay to cry.  But, be careful not to let your self get too down and out.  Talk to your doctor if you can’t seem to pull your self out of a funk.  You can get depressed during pregnancy and that doesn’t mean anything is wrong with you.  It only means you need a little extra help.  You are creating a child and that is a big job to do, don’t feel bad asking for help.

16. Take a bath!  Throw some epsom salt in the tub, dim the lights, watch a show on your phone, Ipad, nook, and relax.  You deserve it.  Take a big glass of ice water with you and don’t get too hot.  I used to lay down on my shower floor before I realized I was allowed to take a bath while pregnant.  Then I took like 30 baths haha… just relax your tired body.

17.   Nausea Bracelets. These may or may not help you.  It is worth a try!  I have tired TONS of different things.  Some helped right away, some helped only once or twice, and some made things worse. But, if you are sick like I was you are willing to try anything that won’t harm your or your babe.

18.  Pay it forward. Some time when you are feeling better, or when your children are grown up a bit; help a new mommy to be out.  Take her a bag of groceries of tricks/food that helped you.  Or take her husband and children a meal. Or!  Go clean her house- don’t give her a choice- just push your way in and do it.  She will hate it at the moment, but be forever changed and grateful later.  ;)  Or! Go bring her a meal after her baby is born.  Go hold the baby and let her take a shower or a nap.  Fold her laundry.  Go on a walk together.  Invite her out and remind her to get out   Tell her your remember what is was like and that you are there for her.  Be the friend that you wish you had had when you where there in that stage of life.  I hope I am this kind of friend, but am hoping really spread the love and help when I get to another stage of life.

Be careful and smart with your body and your baby.   And, take care of YOU mentally and physically.  Talk to other people about how sick you are feeling.  Talk to your doctor and ask for tips or medicine if you are at that point.  Be open with your spouse about all your feelings and pains.  Hopefully he will support and console you.  If not tell him is has to   OR call his mama on him lol,  And remember!! This too shall pass. It may feel like it won’t but try your best to remember it will.  I promise