How do you conceal your morning sickness at work? I work in-house in an open floor plan. I'm required to be in office 3x per week. This morning I've been gagging a lot and feeling nauseous all around. I was remote yesterday and need to be remote Friday. On top of it, my boss and one of my teammates is going to be in town this week. I'm only 5 weeks along and not ready to disclose my pregnancy yet.

This is my second pregnancy, but I don't remember my morning sickness being this bad.

I ended up telling my work really early because my morning sickness was so bad. I didn’t want to but it was what it was, because I usually worked early mornings but couldn’t be doing meetings early in the day anymore. You could try going to HR directly and getting accommodations for working from home.

Have you tried unisom and b6 before bed? That was what my doctor recommended when I was having horrible all day nausea. It has helped a lot at least with my morning nausea. If it’s still bad after that, there are other prescription meds you can look into like Reglan and Zofran.

First off, you are an in-house attorney and don’t have your own private office? That’s crazy to me.
Sorry you have to deal with that, and also that you have to deal with the morning sickness and contemplation of disclosing it before you’re comfortable doing so.
Hopefully you work with decent people and it won’t be an issue. You could always just say, “I’m feeling under the weather this week and need to work from home.” And leave it at that - no explanation, no nothing.

First off, congrats! I was in the same-ish boat. I ended up telling people sooner than I wanted because I had really bad morning sickness that lasted all day for my first trimester.

For the short term, you could always lie and say that you’re taking new medication that is messing with your stomach. No one should push further. But I kept peppermints around all the time and they helped with some of the nausea. Ultimately though it was the violent retching that gave me away at 6 weeks.

I use preserved sour plums and ginger candies. I also use this thing called white flower oil and I put a dot on my temples and under my nose to curb the queasiness

Try ginger chews and cereal (the b6 in cereal is supposed to help). I've been there and like others unfortunately had to disclose early. I get waiting until after your review though. Just hide out during lunch etc as much as possible. Try a naseau band too. But ultimately you'll just have to grin and bear it if you don't want to disclose.

Lorna doon cookies with ginger ale