How to survive morning sickness during your wedding
Morning sickness can strike during the first trimester before you are ready to announce your pregnancy to guests or coworkers. Managing unpredictable nausea and fatigue stops you from fully enjoying your celebration and forces you to secretly cope while standing at the altar.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Hoping nausea does not appear before or during the wedding
- 2Sharing the news to deflect questions about kids
- 3Eating frequent small snacks (crackers, fruit, sour candy)
- 4Using mints, ginger candies, or peppermint oil
- 5Sniffing alcohol swabs to temporarily curb nausea
- 6Prescription medication (Zofran, Unisom, B6)
- 7Keeping spare clothes, trash cans, and ginger ale nearby
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“I’ll be coming up on 8 weeks at the time of our wedding in 3 weeks! We’re beyond excited, I’m just praying my morning sickness won’t be terrible!”source ↗
“Does anyone have any advice on dealing with morning sickness while teaching? No one at works knows I’m pregnant yet because I’m barely 6 weeks, but the morning sickness is slowly getting worse for me.”source ↗
Where this came up
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