Anyone up? pregnancy dehydration question Updated

[oswin]

I've thrown up 10 times in the past 6 hours. I've been trying to sip liquids but they keep coming back up. At what point do I need to think about going to the ER for dehydration? I don't know how dehydrated I really am yet, but I'm getting paranoid due to lack of sleep. Going to the ER would involve either driving myself, which I don't feel great about or waking DH and DD, which would be awful.

ETA the cause seems to be a stomach bug DD had earlier this week, but it might be exacerbated by dehydration and pregnancy nausea.

Update: I got an hour of sleep and haven't thrown up in 2 hours, so I'm trying a little more liquid. Fingers crossed that the worst is over.

[sent]

What time is it there? It's almost 3 am here. In your situation, I'd probably call my doctor's line at 5 am so that if they told me to go to the hopsital, it would be "morning" already. I got sent to the hospital twice for IV fluids during my pregnancy though it wasn't deydration from vomitting. My OB was able to let L&D know I was coming so I was able to skip the ER. Also I'd drive myself. I never knew what time I'd be allowed to leave when I used to go to the hospital. Having my 15 month old there sounds very stressful to me. She's better off at home with my husband.

[oswin]

It's 2am. I managed to finally find some guidelines on the internet that say to call after 12 hours, so I think I'm going to take that as permission to at least wait until morning - like you say it would be much easier. ETA thanks for the late night response. 

[speyedr]

I had a 24 hour GI bug early in my pregnancy in Nov. and after 8 hours of vomiting and diarrhea and not keeping even water down, the in call OB told me that if I wasn't keeping anything down at the 12 hour mark to head to the ER for fluids.

[curbsideprophet]

Do you have any zofran? I got a stomach bug in third tri with DS and that helped me stop throwing up.

[ringstrue]

Don't freak about fluids. Drinking water can make you puke more if you do it to soon. I'd wait I guess 4 or 5+ hours or until you feel hungry again. You can do like, ice chips or mini sips of water but just to wet your whistle, no real drinking.

[july]

I would do ice chips right now and call in the morning.

Don't drive yourself. You could pass out from the loss of fluids.

[anna7602]

I hope you are already feeling better! If you do end up going to the hospital, I would just order an Uber. It seems well worth the cost to avoid bringing your family along.

[sjh722]

I hope you're feeling better! If you still aren't able to keep anything down (ice chips, sips of sprite or gatorade), I would probably call and go in for fluids.

If you need to go in, can you call a friend for a ride? Or a taxi/uber? Please don't drive yourself. (I wouldn't mind giving a friend a ride to the ER. I'd feel terrible if I knew you were sick and drove yourself there!)

[mae141]

When that happened to me, I called my ob after about 7 or 8 hours and she said to go to L&D for fluids. I hope you are feeling better soon!

[oswin]

Just back from getting fluids at the ER. Threw up once more after my last update. Ended up with extremely painful gas pains, so spent a while there recovering from that. Got a prescription for zofran, hopefully that will help recovery from all this nausea.

[curbsideprophet]

Hope the zofran helps and you start feeling better.

[sent]

I hope you're feeling better!

[oswin]

Thanks! I'm feeling much better, but of course I'm still drained from barely eating anything in the last 24 hours. At least I'm well hydrated now!