Heart burn

[shellsbubs]

Just wondering when you started to get heartburn during pregnancy - very early or later on?

[BubbaLicious]

I had it pretty early with my second.
I drank heaps of peppermint tea....it did the trick for me :thumbsup:

[FourAngelKisses]

I can't remember with my first 2 pregnancies as they were so long ago, but with my 3rd it started at 18wks. I was going through a 96 box of rennie tablets a week after that. :eek:

[rinksmum]

With my first I didn't get it until towards the end, but with DS2 I got it much earlier, before 20 weeks. I always kept the rennies handy too, and avoid eating certain things that seemed to set it off.

[LMenz]

I started getting it around 18 weeks - it's horrid. I've been using "tums" to help but it doesn't do a lot. I find a big glass of milk in the morning helps too

[FourAngelKisses]

Try Rennie tablets. Tums, Mylanta and all the other heartburn things did absolutely nothing for me. Rennie was the only thing that worked.

[HanCh]

I didnt have it at all with my other pregnancies, but with this one it started at about 30 weeks (I had no idea what it was, and I thought I was dying!!!!:thumbsdown: ) I have lived off Quickeze ever since. Get the chewy ones though because the hard ones are too chalky......

[Mum&bubs]

With both pregnancies I had it very early on & all the way through :thumbsdown: :thumbsdown:

[Cian's Mum]

I started to have reflux / heartburn at 20 weeks .

I'm now on Gaviscon Peppermint night ( A bit hard to suck on Rennie at night ! ) and Rennie tablets during the day .

I'm still trying to find out what can trigger it , and it looks like eating chocolate in the evening does not help !! plus spicy food of course .

Drinking a glass of milk or eating yogurt helps as well .

Good luck .

[AmandaMum2B]

My experience of heartburn started at 25 weeks, I'm now 36 weeks so heartburn has become a regular occurence. I even got heartburn with the glucose drink I had to have for my gestational diabetes test!

My doctor did prescribe something for me and I've tried tonnes of herbal/natural remedies (small meals, bland food, herbal teas) but I've found Andrew's Tums are great (and they taste nice too). I've always got a pack in my handbag and boxes and boxes lying around at home. The other great thing is Coles sell them so they're easy to find.