Feel the (heart)burn

[Booflies]

While I am not getting any yet, I know that killer vomit-inducing heartburn is on its way to haunt me.

Short of single-handedly supporting the employees of both TUMS and Zantac (like I did last pregnancy - and still threw up from heartburn every other day from month 3 to month 9)...what can I do to tackle the heartburn? Any interesting remedies I might not have heard of?

[buckysprplmonkey]

Milk sometimes does it for me and almonds are pretty effective as well.

[Patchfire]

I've already stocked up on papaya enzyme and slippery elm lozenges... they aren't perfect but they at least have let me minimize the Tums usage in the past.

[AugustineM]

I already have heartburn here and I can't believe it. I didn't have it until month 8 with both of my other pregnancies! What the heck!? I also feel nauseous though and didn't have that much at all with my other ones.

I notice that I don't get heartburn when I eat mint ice cream. Yum. Otherwise I don't really know what to do about it! But I have heard of papaya enzyme... maybe I should try that!

[MommaGreenBean]

I've started it now, which I'm guessing is hormonal because at 5 weeks my child is not big enough to put pressure on my stomach

Last time for the whole last trimester I took two calcium supplements before bed (it works like Tums but without the 'extras) and didn't eat after 4:30.

I've heard of papaya too, but never tried it. The calcium worked for me

[Booflies]

The heartburn started last night for me. Boo!
It wasn't bad ...so TUMS worked.
I just swear that I gained 10lbs last pregnancy from drinking milk (1%... I guess I should switch to skim) because I chugged so much due to heartburn. I'd rather not have that happen again!