New Tricks

I've found I have two forms of nausea: The type which is just intense and horrible and makes me moan but doesn't result in instant vomiting... and the other kind. The kind which I know is warning of imminent upchucking.

With the latter, the best strategy is to lie/sit very still and htink of something else, concentrate on relaxing everything, use the hypnotherapy to cast the nausea outside my body. Annoyingly my body's unconscious response to it is to tense my stomach muscles (and everything else), which is actually counter-productive. Relaxing all muscles but particularly the stomach helps.

With the other kind, I've found a few new things which work:

1. Ginger. This is funny, because I've been horribly grumpy whenever anyone's suggested ginger. Which they do, all the time. You can guarantee it. Tell anyone you're suffering from nausea, and the first thing tthey'll say is, "Oh, have you tried ginger?" I did try ginger last time, even before I had full-on HG, and it didn't work. But I guess this proves no two pregnancies are the same. I'm finding ginger and lemon tea is really helpful. Then again, lots of people swear by lemon, so maybe that's what's doing the trick. Then agian, I've been finding today that the most palatable drink is OJ diluted 3 parts boilgin water, 1 part OJ, and with some root ginger chopped up inside.

2. Dancing! I remembered this from the non-HG pregnancy, the one which miscarried. Well, I'm not dancing exactly. But sometimes I find it helps to stand up and sway to music. But not if I feel like I'm about to vomit.

3. Music. Loud music. Yesterday I spent some time lying on the sofa in the dark and listening to Bassomatic, which apart from anything else reminded me of my partying youth. I doubt this would work if I was fully HG though. It would almost certainly make it worse. But yesterday I had a really bad nausea spell and this worked.

4. Oh. I think there was something else but I've forgotten it.