All About Pregnancy
-
Hiya jenniferjoey,
Hang in there. Great girl, your daughter (is she the cutie in your avatar?).
You may like to try controlling your breathing as well as a herbal sack (dried mint and ginger) over your forehead. It worked for my friend who had it bad like you during her pregnancy.
First you lay flat on your back, palms at your side facing up and relax your whole body. Control breathing by breathe in thru your nose and out thru your mouth. As you breathe in, expand your stomach (not your chest) and pull in your stomach as you breathe out. Take 10 counts to breathe in and 10 to breathe out, ie. breathe in slowly counting 1 to 10 and breathe out slowly counting 1 to 10 too. This is a relaxing technic that can help regulate your breaths. Try it when you are tired or tense.
The herbal sack you can try making it yourself. Buy a bunch of fresh mints, wash and pick the leafs and dry them in the sun. Wash and grate ginger with skin on and dry them in the sun too. Just mix equal potion in a gauzy bag that you can get in those cosmetic accessories store. Gently rub it to give off the smell. If you don’t mind drinking ginger tea, grate some ginger and boil it with some brown sugar, store in a thermos. Drink it warm before food can help too.
Try to do some walking or any light exercises that can help relaxes you. When you are tense, your body will react strongly too.
Take care… -
MLR:
Thanks MLR,Hiya jenniferjoey,
Hang in there. Great girl, your daughter (is she the cutie in your avatar?).
You may like to try controlling your breathing as well as a herbal sack (dried mint and ginger) over your forehead. It worked for my friend who had it bad like you during her pregnancy.
First you lay flat on your back, palms at your side facing up and relax your whole body. Control breathing by breathe in thru your nose and out thru your mouth. As you breathe in, expand your stomach (not your chest) and pull in your stomach as you breathe out. Take 10 counts to breathe in and 10 to breathe out, ie. breathe in slowly counting 1 to 10 and breathe out slowly counting 1 to 10 too. This is a relaxing technic that can help regulate your breaths. Try it when you are tired or tense.
The herbal sack you can try making it yourself. Buy a bunch of fresh mints, wash and pick the leafs and dry them in the sun. Wash and grate ginger with skin on and dry them in the sun too. Just mix equal potion in a gauzy bag that you can get in those cosmetic accessories store. Gently rub it to give off the smell. If you don't mind drinking ginger tea, grate some ginger and boil it with some brown sugar, store in a thermos. Drink it warm before food can help too.
Try to do some walking or any light exercises that can help relaxes you. When you are tense, your body will react strongly too.
Take care....
Will try out your methods, hope can get better.... Can the ginger tea be those packet type or must be fresh ginger?? I hardly step into market anymore as I no longer can take the smell of the market... or even the bus... In the bus every person who has abit strong smell I will vomit.
Thanks for your advices, so nice of you all...
-
Hiya
The ginger bag is gd enough. The fresh root is tastes better to me. Just make the whole lot and sips a little whenever you feel nausea.
Hopes it helps, take care and keep your spirit up. :celebrate: -
Hi Everyone,
I am back after 1 month...
I am now 16th weeks pregnant I think... 24 more weeks to go... :?
After hospitalised for 2 times for rehydration, and fainted once outside, I am better. (Cross my fingers and toes) Good news is I only vomit one time massive one for the past 1 week. Now I felt so much better as I restored enough food and energy for me and my bb. Bad news is I develop serious right hip bone pain, and Gynae suggested me complete rest in bed and I shouldn't be sitting up or walking around too often. Hmm... Due to my serious morning sickness, I rarely go out and rarely move, rarely do housechores...
Can I have a voting of whether hubby should see to wife's needs esp when wife is having a difficult pregnancy? My hubby complaint of tiredness one night when he's suppose to massage my feet so that I can sleep. (His skills isn't good but I need him to massage so that I get the comfort and circulation going and I falls asleep within 10min, if not I will be imsomnia whole night.) Then after argument we have cold wars for a week and he's happy and free for a week while I get insomnia for a week.
Hmm... and also wonder if is it real that when pregnant wife got craving hubby will try their means and ways to get the food right away, but my hubby can just tell me dun have and the next day forget about it totally... I have to hint or even tell him where to get... Hmm.. He's trying to get away from this right? Now becos of pregnancy I am blurr and forgetful.
Is there any advices for me of how to get over with it, any mums suffering from this too? Or know how to make hubby doing things willingly at least for this period of time when I rarely can step out of the house? -
jenniferjoey:
...I am back after 1 month...
I am now 16th weeks pregnant I think... 24 more weeks to go...
Welcome back jenniferjoey! Sorry to here of the difficult pregnancy you are having... perhaps when your kids grow up, they can refer to this thread which is a historical archive of what their mummy went through just to give them life!
As for what hubbies are supposed to do to help out the wife during pregnancies, well, there are some really involved ones and there are some who still do not have a clue. But sometimes, even the very involved ones do get tired... we are human, after all. Focus on the little things that your hubby does that make you happy, and tell him how happy and appreciative you are that he is helping you during this difficult time. The last thing you want to do is to try to make him feel guilty because that will make him defensive and things can spiral downwards from there. Just my 2 cents worth
-
Is your husband close to your present daughter? If so, engage her to engage him. I know this is a bit scheming, but … who cares! Talk to your daughter and sort of get her sympathy. If she’s old enough she should be able to sympathize with you, esp. with her sibling on the way. One possibility, get her to go to your husband and say something like, "daddy can you please teach me how to buy [food you are craving for]?" … and I hope he gets it.
Is anything (else) bothering your husband? Eg. at work? I would like to say, as a father/breadwinner, that we men often don’t like to talk about problems at work, but when we get home, it surfaces as a general dislike to deal with family chores, etc. cos it’s our only place of escape (from office). And yes, I know this comes across looking like we’re being irresponsible and unsympathetic. -
Hi jenniferjoey, hope you are feeling much better.. your gal is so caring.. :love: hang in there!
hmm.. when I was preggie, DH also did not immediately fulfill my every craving.. after first 2 times, :idea: I kinda make mental preparation that weekends shall be extra special coz that is when we will go food hunting for the stuff I crave.. good thing - I stopped feeling so upset with him... bad thing - gotta be patient and wait... and you know what, the cravings tamed itself, weekends became exciting for us (me mainly) and special and I was no longer bitter that he was not like other hubbies who go out looking for french fries at 2am (last time 24hr MacDonalds not in yet)
as for his complaining for his sleep being disturbed because of my cramps.. I leaned over give him 2 big fat kisses,
told him thank you from me and little baby for being so caring... he stopped complaining after that.. 
:wrongmove: the trick I use is not to make him feel he has to but let him do it willingly by getting involved in the changes. I arranged for night checkups to make sure he went for all the Gynae trips. This helped alot coz he could get really involved and see baby growth and heartbeat every month thru the ultrasound...
Hope my sharing helps somehow.. .Come back here and let us know whenever you need support... Think happy thoughts.. me sending imaginary flowers to cheer up your day (too bad no emoticons of flowers)... -
Hi Chief,
I felt I more to grumble and forget type till the next time it happens again. Hmm... My good luck seems to be only one week, I start vomiting again... And mayb becos of the weather, my body temp shoot up, and I have severe headache... Hands and body hot, but head cold... :faint:ChiefKiasu:
Welcome back jenniferjoey! Sorry to here of the difficult pregnancy you are having... perhaps when your kids grow up, they can refer to this thread which is a historical archive of what their mummy went through just to give them life!jenniferjoey:
...I am back after 1 month...
I am now 16th weeks pregnant I think... 24 more weeks to go...
As for what hubbies are supposed to do to help out the wife during pregnancies, well, there are some really involved ones and there are some who still do not have a clue. But sometimes, even the very involved ones do get tired... we are human, after all. Focus on the little things that your hubby does that make you happy, and tell him how happy and appreciative you are that he is helping you during this difficult time. The last thing you want to do is to try to make him feel guilty because that will make him defensive and things can spiral downwards from there. Just my 2 cents worth -
jenniferjoey:
I felt I more to grumble and forget type till the next time it happens again. Hmm... My good luck seems to be only one week, I start vomiting again... And mayb becos of the weather, my body temp shoot up, and I have severe headache... Hands and body hot, but head cold... :faint:
Hi jenniferjoey,
Just hang on there. Come to think of u have passed the most yikes part-the 1st trimester. Now u r in your 2nd trimester. 2nd trimester should be enjoyable.
Try talking to your baby,\"Darling, mummy is suffering. U be good, ok? mummy loves u\" As u say these to your baby, rub gently against your tummy. Sometime, this is pyschology that helps.
Bear with it. Just another 24 weeks to go. :ugogirl: Take care!! -
Sometimes I find myself lucky, even though my girl is already 6 yr old now, I won't need to worry that she will get jealous, not wanting a sibling, or very hard to cope when baby is born with two children as a SAHM.
First of all, beside my hubby, in-laws, my parents... hoping me to have 2nd child, dropping hints every now and then. The most wonderful moment is my girl asked me to born her a sibling. I questioned her back, who is going to help me to looking after the bb. She replied ' I dun know how to feed or bath the bb, How? But I will help mummy to fetch things for you and feed you.' That's the moment I am 100% glad to have a 2nd one, as I know such a young girl also think for her mum.
Thruout these 4 terrible months, my parents and in-laws have been helping me to fetch my girl to and from school and send her to classes which are all my jobs, even Sat and Sun, my MIL surprisingly will call up to bring her over to her house so that I can rest. I hardly step out of the house, the further is nearby shopping centre to acc my girl to ballet class and borrow library books.
With my girl at home with me, I feel so relieving, she looks after not just herself but also me. When I have been lying in bed for sometimes she will check on my latest status, any headache, still giddy, feel like vomiting, need any water, need to call daddy... Then she will fetch it for me, but I still need to wake up early to make her milk. :lol:
Currently my health is very out of control, my vision start blurring at times, when I went downstair to fetch my girl I almost faint in the lift. So scary. Now whenever I am alone at home, I am quite worry that I may just faint anytime. I carry hp almost everywhere at home. At least I can make phone call after I wake up from fainting.
Hello! It looks like you're interested in this conversation, but you don't have an account yet.
Getting fed up of having to scroll through the same posts each visit? When you register for an account, you'll always come back to exactly where you were before, and choose to be notified of new replies (either via email, or push notification). You'll also be able to save bookmarks and upvote posts to show your appreciation to other community members.
With your input, this post could be even better 💗
Register Login