Oh lordy.. does this get better?! (TMI!)

Talk to me about constipation/hemorrhoids..

7w0d today.. and OMG.. I thought nausea was bad...

I knew I had to start drinking more water.. but holy moly.. I already drink 2 64 oz bottles of water daily...

Re: Oh lordy.. does this get better?! (TMI!)

I'm sorry, and I'm sorry to say this, but it only got worse for me. When baby started to really move, like at 24 weeks it was a little easier. But now that the baby is doing what looks like jumping out of my belly button (29 weeks) I'm back to the usual constipation.

I have something, I'm not sure its a hemorrhoid but its something that I don't remember being there before.

Oh here's is what I notice, if I drink the water on an empty stomach and drink lots of it at once, it really helps to flush out stuff, in a non-painful way.

A few girls have also said they take colace and it helps.

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Oh do I know how you feel. I have IBS w/constipation so this is the story of my life! Pre-BFP I was taking miralax everyday now my dr told me to drink a glass of prune juice every day. So I wash my pre-natals now with that. It actually has helped but can make you a little gassy

Re: Oh lordy.. does this get better?! (TMI!)

If you take prenatals, then the iron is probably doing it. Try a prenatal with low iron.

Re: Oh lordy.. does this get better?! (TMI!)

im hit at like 18w and its so bad that i wont go for like a week and then ill wake up in the night with really bad cramps (tmi) and go. I drink water alot a day. my md said senakot for when u need to go and metamucil for fiber.

ask you md if you can take something daily. feel better

Re: Oh lordy.. does this get better?! (TMI!)

my ob lets me take 2 colace per day and that is helpful most of the time.

Re: Oh lordy.. does this get better?! (TMI!)

Apple juice. I buy the organic brand. My mom always use to say when we were kids don't drink too much it will make you poop. Also lots of fruit will do the drink.

Re: Oh lordy.. does this get better?! (TMI!)

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but DS is 8 weeks old and I am still constipated. I was so bad during my pregnancy that I was on a laxative 3 times a week. I tried everything to help me go. Tons of water, fruit, fiber, colace, I even tried sugar free candy, but nothing really worked. I was allowed to take sennekot 3 times a week to help me out. Dr said I could use children's suppository's. Between the Zofran for the M/S and the iron for my anemia, I was bound up for weeks at a time....I hope you have it easier...

Re: Oh lordy.. does this get better?! (TMI!)

I found fiber tabs helped - the orange flavored kind. Also, my prenatal has a stool softener in it, which also helped.

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ask your doctor if you can add a fiber powder to your drinks. i am not having this problem now, but when i first started prenatals years ago - i did and the powder helped after just a few days!

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It was so bad in the beginning. At my first prenatal appointment (at 7w) my doctor said to take 2 colace a day, EVERY DAY, and that will help.

I take one every day (at night when I take my prenatals) and it has helped!!! I was in PAIN before starting them. But yeah, you have to take them everyday otherwise it doesn't really help. Colace isn't a laxative - it won't make you go, but it will make it easier to go when you need to.