Morning sickness can be one of the first signs of pregnancy. 68% of our audience said they experienced morning sickness, 71% of our audience experienced morning sickness only in their first trimester. We asked our community to share their morning sickness experiences and here are the answers below:
- Feeling sick but never actually puked
- Nauseous all day every day for the first 18 weeks
- Nauseous while getting ready in the morning until I ate food
- Only lasted about two weeks thankfully
- It wasn’t sickness more of a sour stomach and indigestion that lasted all day till week 17
- Horrible lasted until 20 weeks
- Threw up 1-2x per day every day from 5 weeks- 12 weeks
- HG all pregnancy. Worst thing I’ve ever gone through
- Room was spinning as if I were drunk. Constantly throwing up. Couldn’t even keep water down
- Felt sick and threw up multiple times a day
- No puke. Just extreme nausea from the first meal to end of day
- Anytime I road in the car, sick. Greasy foods, sick. I lived on preggie pops.
- I had to take Unisom every night and wore a sea band ALL 3 trimesters
- Had Hyperemesis Gravidarum in beginning. Now at 22 weeks still nauseous all day long
- It wasn’t just morning, mine was mostly in the evening
- All day sickness. Magically gone as soon as I delivered 🙂
- Saliva would pour out of my mouth like a faucet. Felt like worst hangover 24/7
- All day nausea
- It’s like being hungover.. but all the time.
- It wasn’t just the morning. It was all day every day.
- Every day, multiple times a day, was on the verge of HG with both girls
- It was hell. I had to get IV fluids during the 1st and 2nd trimester in both pregnancies
- B6 + Unisom changed my life
- Every morning and nausea on and off all day/night
- Triggered by smells and certain food aversions
- Threw up in the shower every morning!
- Nausea off and on all day, Cheerios were my cure
- Had HG the whole time and it was hell- couldn’t do ANYTHING
- Puked at least three times every single day for 9 months
- WORSE in the evening. Zofran is the only thing that helped me
- Constant nausea throughout the day
- I’m currently in my first trimester and have night sickness. It’s horrible
- It was always worse in the morning or if I had to be in the car
- I never threw up but always felt hungover
- Would always happen at night- not in the morning.
- Constant nausea. Eating small bland meals/carbs helped a little
- I got night sickness and did my puking at night
- So lucky – felt sick over one weekend at around week 8
- Nauseous for first few weeks, puked 8 times in 24 hours. Got on Zofran, found out was twins!
- Wasn’t just “morning” would come and go whenever!
- It was after 12pm and it would last until 1am. Ate a lot of Jello-O, soups and bread. This lasted 20 weeks
- Lost 10lbs initially was sick until 6 months pregnant – started again at 8 months until I delivered
- I’d gag over the smell of any food for 4 months straight
- Zofran was my lifeline
- I had it until 18 weeks. I had to take 3 months off of work it was so bad
- Absolute torture. Only happened in the middle of the night 11pm- ON
- I only puked about twice but so was just soooo nauseous all of the time during 1st trimester
- Throwing up every time I brushed my teeth
- Puked every morning. Sometimes while at work. Eating often helped a little
- Sick everyday. Terrible gag reflux and awful taste in my mouth
- I had an all day sickness and was throwing up all the pregnancy before birth
- With my first I had it 41 long weeks, I didn’t actually gain weight. With my second I lost 30lbs
- Mine was more so night sickness. I felt sick and would vomit before bed
- All day everyday from 6-16 weeks, Nausea, vomiting, extreme fatigue etc. Wondered if I’ll ever be normal again
- Mine was more so night sickness. I felt sick and would vomit before bed
- Just constant nausea but never physically sick
- 1st trimester sick everyday. After that sick 2x a week every week until giving birth
- Getting sick everyday and barely being able to keep anything down
- It was more of an all day sickness. Thankfully I never vomited, just felt nauseous
- Severe hyperemesis – was hospitalized multiple times for IV fluids
- It wasn’t just the morning. Mine was worst midday and at night.
- I had hyperemesis gravidarum for the entirety of BOTH pregnancies
- Threw up 5-7 times/ day everyday up to 15 weeks. 33 weeks now and still sick
- Coupled with extreme tiredness until 20 weeks!
- Horrid
- More like all day sickness
- Couldn’t take hot showers without triggering it
- Puked 14 weeks in a row at 7:30 pm everyday
- It came back in the third trimester
- Sick all day. Nothing helped but Zofran and Phenergan. Lost 20ish pounds the 1st trimester
- It lasted allllll day during the 1st trimester. I lived on toast and scrambled eggs
- It was worse with my second and it was 24/7
- Found out I was pregnant after throwing up. Then had it all day everyday right up to in-between contractions
- Sick all day everyday from 5-20 weeks. Prescribed meds, nothing worked
- Nauseous CONSTANTLY. Only relief was sour candy
- Puking all day everyday if I did not take medicine
- Horrible! I ultimately needed medication in order to be able to work
- My kitchen cabinets grossed me out so much, I didn’t cook for 2 months
- Nauseous all day every day ( still at 13+ weeks) only threw up a little bit thankfully
- More like evening sickness, couldn’t keep dinner down. I would mainly get sick at night time!
- I would mainly get sick at night time!
- In-laws never believed I had it through all my trimesters because my mother in law didn’t experience it like that
- I was sick my entire pregnancy, literally. I threw up the morning I gave birth
- Constant nausea. Stronger than car sickness but never vomited
- Thankfully nothing life altering. Generally “felt sick” 70% of the day and only craved carbs
- Sick so much I wet myself with baby number 2
- Mine came in the evenings. I never got sick but I couldn’t eat ANYTHING for dinner
- 24/7 sickness, unable to eat think or be myself. No medicine worked.
- Felt like a constant stomach flu
- Not so much nausea, just a lot of vomiting after eating
- Sick multiple times a day at anytime. Fact it’s called morning sickness drove me nuts
- Not so much nausea, just a lot of vomiting after eating
- Threw up until 20-25 weeks with both kids. Hated food
- If someone recommended me ginger one more time I was going to shove it up their @*! . Did not help
- Severe HG, ER, fluids, 15 lbs weight loss, suppositories, all the medicine 24/7 for 16 weeks
- Had extreme hyperemesis gravidarum I was hospitalized multiple times!
- Whenever I had the feeling to vomit it was never food, just saliva
- Stopped right when we hit the third month
- It’s not just morning. I hate that term it’s ALLLLL day!
- Not just “morning” it was 24 hour sickness
- Nonstop nausea just wishing I could puke and make it go away
- Sudden major bursts of motion sickness. Also, if I left myself get hungry, activates nausea
- It was more of mid-day to early evening sickness
- Hungry, but I also hated food at the same time
- It was like having a hangover everyday
- Felt sick everyday, had to eat regularly, wasn’t sick so no relief
- Looming nausea all day – sour candy and ginger ale helped
- Hunger pains with queasy/nausea to most food and smells (especially meat)
- Not necessarily nausea but extra gaggy. Never threw up
- All day sickness is more like it
- I couldn’t stand the smell of garlic. I was nauseous in the evening not morning
- The worst! I had to get nausea bands, meds from doctor. Ginger ale and crackers didn’t help
- More like all day sickness
- Puked constantly and felt like death until I was put on Phenergan
- Couldn’t function without meds. Lost 10 pounds in 3 months
- Spent all day nauseous and bloated with no throwing up
- Horrible. Nausea all the time unless I was eating something bland and very slow
- Nauseous all day with occasional vomiting. Lasted about 15 weeks
- Felt constantly hungover – wasn’t actually sick many times
- Constant nausea
- I experienced morning sickness from 6 weeks to 26 weeks, so tough!
- Violently throwing up every morning, nausea during day, throwing up in evenings
- Puked, ate my cornflakes went to work. Only stopped the day after baby was born
- It was a different type of puke and the force coming up often pushed downwards also
- Never threw up but wanted to all day every day until 15 weeks
- General queasiness that lasted most of the day but ramped up in the evenings
- Puked everyday from 9-9:30 during our daily team call
- Lost 33lbs while pregnant
- So sick. I couldn’t function! Only food made me feel OK
- Threw up for 3 months. All day everyday. Still ate after throwing up. Gross I know
- It was 5-6 weeks of feeling constantly on the verge of vomiting. Sleep only “helped”
- Could only stomach pasta and pizza for 15 weeks
- Sick from 6-30 weeks. Everything made me sick! Threw up so much
- Felt like car sickness and a hangover for 15 weeks straight
- Picking up dog poop made me puke
- Worse was when I puked after eating things I love
- Just nauseous all the time, not much of actual vomiting, which is worse
- All day long. Mild nausea. Luckily only threw up a handful of times in 1st trimester
- It was ALL DAY sickness, nauseous but never really got sick
- I actually had NIGHTTIME sickness went to bed feeling horrible every night for 12 weeks
- I threw up all day for 9 months. I couldn’t even keep water down
- Disaster, always motion sick. Feeling sick everyday especially around dinner time
- It was night sickness more so! Started at about 4pm and was worst when in bed!
- Nausea and food aversions. Never vomited. Wish I did so the feeling would pass
- Got sick everyday before when I started brushing my teeth on the morning
- Had it until 18 weeks then it came back at 36 weeks
- I would throw up all day and night. Ended up in the ER 6 times for dehydration
- Would randomly get sick throughout the day.. no warning!
- Couldn’t even hold water down
- Felt like the worst hangover (without the fun night before) for 19 weeks…
- Diagnosed with HG. Weekly IVs and five daily medicines
- Was diagnosed with HG first trimester. Ended up in the hospital for fluids a few times
- Unisom and B6 nearly eliminated all of it
- All day nausea but could keep it at bay if I ate every 2-3 hours- I had to eat a lot of carbs
- Threw up multiple times a week with my daughter. Not with my sons
- For me it felt like an all day sickness
- Hyperemesis Gravidarum is HARD
- It happened at night
- Vomiting almost every day through 19 weeks, at all different times of the day
- If I woke up hungry I’d barf right away, I had to eat the second I woke up
- Mine was at night. Felt nauseous when I was trying to go to bed
- It was awful, lost close to 20 lbs
- I’m 16 weeks and still puking daily
- At 5 weeks I only felt nauseous. At 8 weeks to 15 weeks. I would puke 1-3 times a day.
- Hangover nausea almost all day with puking at night
- Couldn’t keep anything down for almost 3 months
- Just nausea!
- All day! And worse in the car
- Never experienced morning sickness, but I got migraines all the time
- 9 weeks of constant nausea and fatigue. No appetite
- It was basically a hangover that lasted for weeks. Thank god second pregnancy isn’t the same
- It was all day…
- They were different with both. First was at night and it was hard to sleep. Second I wasn’t able to eat
- Nausea until about noon. Or until I ate something. Not fun but grateful it didn’t last all day
- Just throwing up when I took my prenatal vitamins
- Anything cooked even cooled down like pasta made me physically throw up!
- My morning sickness was always in the evenings!
- Had HG with all three babes. Throwing up 6X + a day until birth with two under two
- Hyperemesis with all 3
- From the moment I woke up until I went to bed
- Constantly nauseous for months
- Threw up acid first thing every morning
- Throwing up so bad my throat would bleed
- Zofran prescription before my 1st prenatal appointment
- All day, all night. Week 6 until birth until birth. A dozen hospital visits, so many meds. Sucked
- Only actually puked once after eating but usually dry heaved every single morning
- Nausea and felt like vomiting but couldn’t
- Anytime my eyes were open my brain was on a boat. Everything was a struggle. All day everyday.
- Daily vomiting, couldn’t eat green things!
- 20 weeks of constant sickness followed by an amazing twin pregnancy! Would do it again!
- I couldn’t stand the smell of anything and had no appetite. When I finally would eat something it wouldn’t sit in my stomach 🙁
- Constant nausea. Didn’t throw up but omg the nausea would wake me up in the night too
- I barely ate for over 4 months. Zofran made it slightly bearable
- I would wake up feeling thirsty/hungry/ nauseous all at once. It was not fun
- All day nausea could throw up at any time during the day or night for the first 14 weeks
- HG was terrible. Nauseous all day and months of puking up most food/drink
- All day. Never puked.
- They’re right- it’s not morning it’s allll day
- Felt hungover
- Mostly evening sickness or all day. No appetite, food aversions to everything
- It felt like a constant hangover until 14 weeks. Preggie pops were life savers!
- Sick all day everyday of my pregnancy!! Pills prescribed did very little. Made me go into early labor from all the contracting of my stomach muscles
- Lasts all day!
- 19 weeks with my 2nd and still puking every morning
- Sick all day every day with my first, literally lost weight. Think I had an undiagnosed HG
- Awful, I felt like I was going to die, my pressure dropped really low
- Only really got it on weekends and it happened after 10:30am. I t would last all day long
- My morning sickness started at 3pm on the dot every day
- I couldn’t brush my teeth without throwing up
- Whenever I brushed my teeth
- Felt sick when my stomach was empty. Threw up brushing my teeth and it was just bile
- I couldn’t brush my teeth without throwing up
- I was sick breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack time! I lived on saltines and Sprite for months
- I didn’t throw but felt nauseous. The whole pregnancy. If I felt nervous I’d gag 🙁
- The EVENING sickness. Dinner time was a struggle all first trimester
- Only with my second pregnancy and it was pretty much all day for 5 months
- I quickly learned that if I ate enough (usually protein) I’d avoid morning sickness!
- Horrible with 1st pregnancy, better with 2nd
- Lost 5-10lbs. Puked all day for weeks. Literally couldn’t eat anything. Miserable for 2nd trimester
- Zofran!!!! Saved me
- Puked around three times a day! Miserable!
- Sick 24/7 for months
- Only really nauseous when I had an empty stomach
- Vomiting and dry heaving all day every day. Weeks 5 to 25 then just nausea up to week 41
- I got unlucky. I threw up my entire pregnancy up until I gave birth. It was awful
- It was so bad! All day sickness, I threw up after every meal, after smelling almost anything
- I threw up all day everyday for 2 months in the 1st trimester and on and off for the rest of the pregnancy.
- Alll dayyyy longggg
- 20 week long hangover feeling. No barfing but terribly nauseous
- Nauseous during the day, sick occasionally in the evenings for a few weeks
- All. Day. Long
- Constant nausea
- Couldn’t smell my refrigerator, garage, or my husband’s breath. Never puked though
- Morning sickness 24/7. Couldn’t eat or drink
- Afternoons
- Just nausea all the time. No actual vomit. Ended first day of second trimester.
- Afternoons
- Just nausea all the time, no actual vomit. Ended first day of 2nd trimester
- Hyperemesis both pregnancies! Sick from 4-35 weeks! I lost so much weight and teeth now
- Just nausea all the time, no actual vomit. Ended first day of 2nd trimester
- Was sick 24/7 throughout both my pregnancies
- Random vomiting at any point in the day regardless of what I ate
- It was like a hangover
- All day sickness. 9am- 3am. Lost 11 lbs. Could barely move for almost 15 weeks
- Awful, threw up every day until I finally got a combo of meds in third trimester
- Spend weeks and weeks puling all day long. Had to get IV fluid at the hospital a few times!
- Got Zofran to help
- Never gain
- Puked a lot, had anti-sickness tablets
- So awful 🙁 throwing up upwards of 15x a day, wound up in the hospital more than once
- Lost 20 pounds. Sick until 22 weeks but didn’t have HG because I could still eat
- Threw up at least once every single day until the morning I was induced
- Gag reflex all day long
- Sick and threw up every single day. Had to get Zofran and I still threw up
- Mostly just a queasy feeling and horrible food aversions
- Just nausea mainly at night but no vomiting
- I would get sick when I drank coffee
- I was nauseous and had food aversions until 20 weeks. It was debilitating. Needed IV’s twice.
- I would get sick when I drank coffee
- All day nausea.. food aversions
- With my 1st I was sick ALL DAY I could barely keep water down
- Never had any. I know how lucky I am
- All damn day sickness
- All day nausea. Thought of food made me angry
- My morning sickness was only at night!!
- Worse with my first! Second hardly any
- I had HG and it was absolutely horrific! It was so traumatic!
- Vomiting up to 40 times a day. Spent most of my pregnancy in the hospital
- 3rd trimester, vomiting from 12am-3am every night
- Constipation
- 24/7 nausea … similar to hangover..whole body yuckiness
- Lasted 18 weeks. Heightened in the morning but on and off all day. Big food aversions
- A nightmare
- It was all day everyday during the first trimester and the beginning of the second
- It would describe it as all day nausea and I needed to eat every two hours
- Started around 5-6 weeks, I was on 2 medications, could not keep anything down. I had it EVERYDAY until I gave birth. Even on the day I gave birth, in labor
- I would get severely lightheaded and dizzy. Made working near impossible
- 20 weeks of laying on the bathroom floor. Basically dying
- I couldn’t keep anything down! Not even water
- Only vomited once, but felt motion sickness the whole
- All day every day
- Lasted until 14-15 weeks, would vomit every morning without fail
- Awful. Vomit and nothing stopped it
- Vomited from 7 weeks, everyday multiple times a day/night
- No puking but very nauseous ALL DAY LONG!!
- Suffered with HG the whole way through. The 3rd trimester also severe reflux and insomnia
- I was throwing up 10-15x/day. Currently on 2 IVs
- Included motion sickness. Even a 10 minute car ride got me so sick, it was terrible!!!
- Worst hangover of my life for 12 weeks straight. Cried every day
- I had it every day up until 30 weeks
- It was ALL DAY sickness until 20 weeks! Even when going to bed at night. I felt like being sick
- Absolutely horrible debilitating, literal nonstop
- Vomit. All day
- Easily the hardest experience (mentally) of my life. Vomiting all day until week 20
- All day all night zero reprieve
- A little nausea
- Waves of nausea. It used to wake me up in the middle of the night. I’d be so ill!
- Lots of dry heaving
- Sick and vomiting every day from 6-14 weeks
- I would vomit so aggressively, I’d pee myself
- With my second pregnancy I have morning and nighttime sickness.
- Daily morning vomit as soon as I got out of bed! Then awful nausea most of the day.
- Had to advocate for myself for HG – My first provider was unhelpful.
- Mine was night nausea. Around the time of making dinner
- It was more night time for me! Not usually in the morning. Was so hard to fall asleep!
- Started with just nausea after wake up. Turned into mild HG and taking Zofran for 7 months
- Couldn’t keep any food down… instantly sick- worst feeling
- No vomiting but nausea ALL day long
- I would puke up my dinner every night for the first few months with both pregnancies.
- Sour stomach like after a night of drinking but that’s about it
- I quickly realized I didn’t just have “morning” sickness. Had to google if it was normal. Found out it was HG
- Brutal! All day from weeks 5-15, this is my 4th pregnancy and what helped in previous didn’t help in my 4th
- Everything smelled and and made me nauseous .. including my husband
- I had HG and had 3 ER visits, 1 admittance, lost 24 lbs and couldn’t do anything
- Nauseous- no vomiting. B6 was the only thing that helped
- All day, everyday. Dx with hyperemesis gravidarum for both pregnancies
- Puking in the kitchen sink every day on my way out the door to my full time warehouse job
- Migraines turning into throwing up
- Nauseous 24/7. Could only eat mangoes. Lost 10 lbs
- I puked after every meal. The only thing I could hold down was spaghetti
- Felt hungover 24/7 even though I obviously wasn’t drinking. Tired, nauseous, hard to eat..
- More like ALL day sickness. Nothing seems to help much
- Had HG, and one time I was vomiting so much that a little wee came out. I laugh now
- Puking so much I had to get IVs
- It would last all day and all pregnancy
- More at night than morning
- Morning gags and constantly feeling hung over
- I had borderline HG, Vomiting 6 times a day, and everything, including water made me gag
- Triggers: toothbrush, toast, eggs, peanut butter, water juice
- Starving but everything sounds and smells disgusting. Can’t stand the scent of fried food
- Nausea and vomiting until week 18. I only ate green grapes and toasted tortilla. No cravings
- 3 months on couch, 1 migraine that lasted 20 hours too sick to eat or drink
- I dry heaved every morning, then threw up every afternoon/evening and gagged all day for 17 weeks
- Constant nauseous/ wanting to gag feeling all day. Not just morning
- The smell of coffee. I had to be in the opposite side of the house while hubby made it
- Actually was hyperemesis. so lucky it was diagnosed! I was so sick for all 9 months
- So sensitive to every smell! All day long for most of my pregnancy
- I had hyperemesis gravidarum and was bed ridden for most of my pregnancy
- Felt constantly sick snacking on apple sauce saved me
- First pregnancy- vomit in the morning then all good! 2nd pregnancy – nausea all day long!
- It was more like “all day” sickness that never followed through with vomiting
- Would throw up even if I drink water. Nothing stayed in the stomach
- Had to be hospitalized because I couldn’t keep ANYTHING down
- I couldn’t go into my garage or load the dishwasher. Didn’t matter what time of day!
- First baby almost entire time. Second baby, first trimester and sort of getting gaggy again at 32 weeks
- Even water was too much! I couldn’t go to work
- I had morning sickness all day everyday up until around 28 weeks then it got better
- Morning sickness the entire day. Even bright colors made me sick. Nothing helped
- Nausea throwing up but was day 24/7
- Hyperemesis gravidarum survivor! 24/7 vomiting
- Experienced waves of bad nausea without actually vomiting thought the first trimester
- It was very overwhelming and for someone who has not had sickness before, it was very hard
- I would puke at the smell of food. Lasted until about 18 weeks
- It was worse in the evening
- I thought I could take on Mcdonald’s breakfast (pancakes) and spewed it up whole outside of the cinema
- Projectile vomiting paired with constant nausea starting at week 7. Mine was an all day sickness, some parts of the day it would less
- Mine was an all day sickness, some parts of the day it would be less but not very often
- I would wake up with thick saliva that would gross me out
- Threw up all 3 trimesters, every day both pregnancies
- Nauseous all the time but only threw up once!
- I had HG! I ended up in the hospital on multiple occasions, it started from 7 weeks and eased at 30
- Worse with my daughter, mild compared to many. Just needed to wake up and eat a few saltines
- I only threw up a few times, but I would be so nauseated I couldn’t eat and lost 15 pounds
- I never really felt nauseous. The urge to puke would just come out of nowhere. SO awful!
- Morning sickness came about 6pm almost every day. Vomit then fell better
- Hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) was vomiting my entire pregnancy .. up to giving birth
- I didn’t get morning sickness at all! I got horrible pelvic pain and no one talks about that
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