Elizabeth:
Sorry today very busy, replying late to your response to me on your nausea... I tend to agree with Mini22 about the sour stuff. I think the symptoms that you've described sound quite like the acid reflux that I've been getting when I'm hungry, or if I take sour stuff. I'd be puking acid and bile rather than real food. And I believe that part of my nausea is actually caused by the acid rising upwards so you kinda get a whiff of it before it actually gets to the top of your gullet. When we get pregnant, the muscles and sphincters in our digestive system get more relaxed due to the hormones, so makes it easier for the digestive juices to travel upwards, which is the wrong way.
For the before-food nausea, I try to combat that by not going for long periods without eating, but also eating small portions at a time. Might be why you get it in the morning.
For post-food nausea, I watch what I eat very carefully, and avoid sour food, drinks and candy (funny when a pregnant woman says she can't eat sour things), tomato-based stuff including minestrone soup and pasta, gassy drinks and chocolate etc, there's actually a whole list of food to abstain from to minimise the effects of acid reflux, just need to google for them. Try not to ingest too much water or fluids during the meal. Then after eating, just make sure you sit up straight cos slouching would mean inviting the acids to creep back up on you......
Hope these will help!!! Okay, dinner time. Tummy rumbling.
