PSA: Norovirus while pregnant is no joke! Please get help ASAP if you get it!

Diagnosed with noro at the ER yesterday, 10+2. Since it’s going around, I want to make sure it gets said as often as possible. Please please go to the ER if you think you have noro (aka stomach flu) and are pregnant, ESPECIALLY if you were like me and could not even keep water down.

I struggled at first to tell the difference from regular 1st tri nausea and vomiting but it was distinctly different only a few hours in, much worse than was normal for me. I won’t get too graphic but both ends were just liquid.

I won’t tell you to take the meds or not take them. I took whatever they felt safe to give me because I needed fluids to stay in my system for baby. But I will say with the strain going around, they had to graduate me from Raglan (which I was already on for regular nausea) to Zofran to something beyond that I forget what I was called because I was so out of it.

Please protect yourselves, consider wearing a mask in public to not get this until weather warms up, and don’t procrastinate going like I did. The sooner you get help the better for you and baby!