Hello Fellow Moms!
I have two requests. The first one is I'm 11 weeks pregnant with fourth child and I have morning, noon, night sickness. My doctor has prescribed me Zofran to help with nausea and vomitting. It helps sometimes. My problem is I constantly have an awful taste in my mouth, water doesn't taste good and if I dare eat or drink anything with a hint of sugar I also get that awful taste. Brushing my teeth helps a little but still I get that awful taste. Is this side effects from the medicine or hormones from being pregnant. I had this my last pregnancy but it wore off after the middle of second trimester. I'm sure it will subside again but just wandering did or does anyone else out there experience this.
Second Request:
I have a 3 1/2 yr old son and 1 3/4 yr old daughter and they get along pretty well for the most part but they seem to be out of hand lately. They are constantly into things they have been jumping on the sofa and beds. We put them in time-out, swat them on the butt or put them in their beds for awhile. Our son laughs and thinks it's funny and seems to not care. Our daughter on the other hand will calm down only until she sees brother acting up again and then she is right there with him again. We are wits end and any advice would be appreciated on how to get these two back to being well behaved like they used to be.
Zofran does really well for a lot of women, and it sometimes worked for me. However it caused some random side effects. The best naseau meds I took for my sickness was anzemet. I'm one of those glorious women that is sick the entire 9 months, all day every day, so especially on pregnancy number 3 I needed something that worked!
Anywho, good luck!
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S.
Sadly, I can only respond to your first request. The second is out of my league. :o)
I had to take Zofran from month 3 to about month 6 when I was pregnant just to be able to keep anything down! Like you, I had an aversion to water and couldn't even look at sugar (and I'm a chocoholic!). It all wore off after the 6th month and I only took one Zofran a day, but in the meantime: avoid the sugar! I found some sugarfree hard sour candies and sucked on those. It took the taste away and helped with the nausea too. As for the water, I tasted all brands of bottled water (tap water made me throw up) until I found one that didn't taste too bad. Then I loaded up my pantry with it and drank it for the rest of my pregnancy. Other women I talked to had luck with sports drinks or flavored waters, but those made me nauseated as well. But, hey, every woman is different so it might just work for you! Good luck and congratulations on your new little one!
I would put them in timeout away from each other. Don't put them in their beds cause they might associate their bed with dicipline and start giving you problems going to bed at some point. I t may take a little longer with your son but your daughter will love a reward system. Marbles or something like it and each child gets their own jar to decorate. Each child will earn marbles for good behavior and get them taken away for bad behavior. At the end of a couple weeks they get to get something at the store for their marbles then you start over again. They should get the message soon enough. Your son may not get it until he gets his first reward. This will teach them the value of good behavior.
Hi K.,
Ginger tea is a safe and (for many women, but not all) effective remedy for pregnancy related nausea. I would also consider getting a mint plant and sucking and chewing a leaf every hour or so to see if that helps with the bad taste as well as the nausea. It grows like a weed under the right conditions. Good luck.
Just wanted to add...I had an adverson to sugar (left the awful taste)for my 3rd pregnancy, too. I was never on any nausea medicine for any of my pregnancies (but could have used some for #2 and #3) except the B6 and 1/2 of Unisom at night. In retrospect -- I wonder if it was my body craving fruit and veggies (my only craving for all 3 pregnancies). Good luck and I will check back to see if anyone knows why alittle sugar appears to make us feel awful during pregnancy!
Try reading "Have a new kid by Friday" and Love and logic.
I had a really hard time with feeling sick and the one thing that actually gave me some relief was Vitamin B Sublingual Complex. I guess the main ingredient was B6 that is supppose to help. You put in under your tounge and wait a few seconds and swallow. Within 10 minutes I had some relief.
I am also on my 4th child. Due 7/11. Come July they will be 19, 9, 7.5 plus the new one. My guess to the kids acting up is cause you feel terrible and they can tell. They might just need some really good quality time with lots of praise. That is the main thing that makes my kids totally new again and get along. When they don't feel like they are competing for my attention or when they are not feeling afraid that one of them might have gotten something the other did not. Might sound crazy but it really works.
I am also pregnant with #4. Had day sickness as well up until going into the 4th month but am fine now...hopefully time will heal that. Not sure why you have the awful taste. Ginger is a natural remendy for stomach upset, to me it tastes awful but it works a little too.
As far as the kids, I have a 7, 5 ,and 2 1/2. They can be crazy too but at the same time they are kids and have so much energy. Now we bought a couch specifically good for jumping cause I knew it was going to happen and well I don't want to say no all the darn time. But we've taught them not to do it at other houses. Maybe get them a small trampoline to put outside to get their jumping urge out. Send them outside to play or if you can't set up projects for them..painting, or somersault races or something. They just need to be active and re-directed. It's hard to have patience especially when you feel horrible. But if you get some projects ready for them for these kinds of times, you'll be relieved.
In my experience, kids just intuitively know when you are too worn-out and frazzled to deal with them, and they get wilder and act up more during those times. I don't really have a solution -- sounds like you will be having a hard time until mid second trimester.
Good luck. It will pass.
Greetings K.: Congradulations on the baby! Being the mother of 5 I know that the chaos monster has arrived because you are not up to setting boundries. I spent 7 months in bed with the last pregnancy. All I can promise you is that in the end it will all be worth it. And you are a hero for going through all of this.
Children seem so wise as to mom not being in full function and controll. You might consider seeing if someone from your church, family, or a friend can come over and get them playing outside on these nice days. Create an area (for us it was putting all the children in one bedroom so that the 3rd room became the playroom )and they can be contained and entertained in there. They are testing the boundries and seeing where the limits are that just goes with the ages of your children. See if you can give each child a responsibility that they must doso they are busy and also apart of helping you. For example My sweet husband made bagged lunches and at lunch time the older child got it out for the younger ones. Then the children cleaned up the mess. One child would get the books out and another would make up stories for the pictures if I wasn't able to read.
To help with the taste try a trick that we learned with my husbands cancer treatments. Rinse your mouth out with rootbeer or ginger ale. Don't have to drink it. It will coat the taste buds and cover the taste of other things. This worked well for my daughter in law that was so sick.
Good luck in the great adventure of parenthood it is a action packed ride, and the greatest thing you will ever do with your life. Nana Glenda ps 12/26 is my son Samuels birthday.
