Congratulations! I'm in my 20th week and completely understand because I, too, had a ROUGH first trimester. Here are the recommended things I tried that didn't work for me (but might for you):
fresh ginger, fresh ginger steamed in water, crystallized ginger, decaffeinated ginger tea, real ginger ale, chamomille, FF crackers, crackers by the bed, crackers before getting up, acupressure bands (they sorta work for a bit but give me an excruciating headache), every safe hard candy you can imagine, prescribed anti-nausea pills, prescribed and specially made for me by the company that makes cancer patient drugs anti-nausea pills, B-Natal lozenges, anti-morning sickness hypnotherapy CD's, Odwalla drinks, aromatherapy, smelling lemons, increasing prenatals, B6, bananas, Luna bars, Morning Sickness Magic.
Here are the things that did help:
Smarties
Preggie Pop drops
lowering my stress
more sleep than ever
small frequent meals
slow deep breaths
smelling oranges
eating snacks constantly:
-dry Rice Chex
-plain mini bagels (Sarah Lee)
-Thomas bagel bread squares (safe & 12 grams of protein)
-Safeway Fat Free graham crackers
-French bread (had the Safeway pre-slice it)
-Mashed potatoes (boiled and then mashed with a hand masher with nothing in them except salt)
-White rice with fat free vegetable broth
-Plain pasta (later I could add salt & pepper & eventually mushroom or veggie broth - it took quite awhile to get down tomato sauce or "butter" and "cheese", though)
-Plain white english muffins (I get my HFS brand)(eventually I was able to add a bit of rice butter to this one)
-pb&j (sliced french bread with that peanut butter that you grind yourself at the HFS and jelly not jam - couldn't handle real fruit)
-I also made a great big pot of vegetable soup on Sundays and ate that throughout the week with fat free crackers when I could handle it.
I'll post again if I think of anything else. For so many years, I really looked forward to getting pregnant because so many people report that their IBS symptoms go away during pregnancy and/or they could eat whatever they wanted. I've found that's not the case with me, but I have been able to incorporate tons of other safe foods that I was always to afraid to try and work in. Good luck!
p.s. Keep in mind that a bunch of peppermint is not safe - my doc made me quit my pep capsules, Altoids and pep tea cold turkey and that was REALLY hard for me - I'd lived on those things for years!
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