My sister-in-law and I are pregnant at the same time; me with my fourth baby, and she with her first, our due dates are a week apart! (Not planned!)

We always get along fine, but we are not very close. I’m trying to reach out more during this pregnancy so we can stay in touch and kind of share the experience together, even though we can’t physically be together right now. However, I’m really trying not to be overbearing with it

since it’s her first pregnancy.

I’ve never had bad nausea or vomiting as a symptom in any of my pregnancies, but unfortunately she has had nausea really bad since day one. She’s basically constantly nauseous, can’t keep any food down, and almost can’t eat because nothing settles well. She’s through the first trimester at 17 weeks, and she’s still not seeing relief.

I’ve offered a few suggestions (my mom had vertigo and bad nausea recently, so I was sharing some things that worked for her), but I’m also trying hard not to always be giving advice. Just because I’ve been through pregnancy before does not make me an expert on this! But now I’m noticing it seems to be the only aspect of this we talk about anymore.

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“How are you feeling? Any improvement?”

“No, it’s still horrible.”

“Ugh. Bummer.”

(A paraphrase. 😆)

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I’m worried it’s just getting to be too repetitive, and could be kind of frustrating to constantly have to say “No, it’s not any better.”

For those of you who had bad nausea, did you get tired of talking about being sick all the time? Or was it nice that people were checking-in?

What kinds of questions did you appreciate, and which ones got to be too much?

Thanks for your thoughts!