Jennifer Connelly's Morning Sickness

Poor Jennifer Connelly, she is currently expecting her third child with her husband, actor Paul Bettany, and had to endure three straight months of morning sickness.

While appearing on CBS's The Late Show With David Letterman, Jennifer likened her survival methods for the first three months of this pregnancy to dealing with poor phone service. "I'm feeling great - now!" she laughed. "The first three months were no fun; very sketchy. It was like sketchy cell phone service. Like when you have your cell phone and you have to stand in one spot... I have to stand in one spot in my apartment to make a phone call. It was like that with nausea, I had to stand in one spot which happened to be in front of my refrigerator which was open with me dipping pretzels in cream cheese and stuffing them in my mouth! If I did that I was good!"

I can definitely sympathize with her. In fact, the term 'Sketchy' is perfect to describe my state of being while trying to get through morning sickness. Unlike most people, I had it for the entire pregnancy. I spent entire days cuddled up on the bathroom floor or desperately trying to find that miracle morning sickness remedy that would save me from all the nausea, vertigo and spewage.

In fact, let me share with you one of my very favorite memories;

During the early part of my pregnancy, before I was showing, I was finishing off a semester trying to complete my degree. Riding the bus in the early morning was a sure recipe for disaster, but it had to be done so I prepared. I had my school bag with my books and notes and then I had my conspicuously large but mostly empty tote bag. Inside the tote were tons of plastic grocery bags, baby wipes, water bottle and gum. Yup, you guessed it... it was my portable vomit/hazardous waste/morning sickness remedies sac-O-fun.

As the motion of the bus took it's tole, I would calmly open up said tote, blow out a grocery bag, prep a few baby wipes and wait for that hideous feeling. You know the feeling too, don't you? Light headed, hot but cold too, anxious and definitely not a happy camper.

Any way, I would 'ralph' into the bag, quite calmly, (no one wants a stampede to the front of the bus.. it might have tipped over), wipe my face with the baby wipes, pop all the icky-ness in and tie up my lovely bag of organic blech. That bag would be double bagged and popped back in the big tote (to hit the closest garbage bin I could find). Then I would try to sip my water and suck on the gum until the next episode. Sometimes, I would try to explain to the horrified people around me, but I actually took a deranged pleasure in letting them think I had the early stages of ebola... had to find the fun where I could right?

Eventually, I began adding lemonade and crispy oatmeal cookies to the sickie tote as those became my go to products for morning sickness relief. It wasn't an easy time in my life, but I can say that it was entirely worth it for the wonderful son and fabulous, if somewhat gross, memories.

Have you found your special recipe to ward off morning sickness? Is it more of a routine or a quick patch kind of thing?