Is Having No Morning Sickness During Pregnancy Healthy?
For most pregnant ladies start to experience nausea and dry or wet heaves between week 6 and week 8. For the lucky ones it will go away around week 14 or 16. It is unfortunate that morning sickness affects between fifty to eighty percent of pregnant moms.
As all too many of us have discovered that morning sickness doesn’t just hit in the morning. It will strike all throughout the day. For me the worst part are the dry heaves and the nausea. That feeling like you are going to throw up, but you don’t. Or worse, the dry heaves. Going through the motions of throwing up without anything coming out. It is like your body is playing tricks with you.
What causes morning sickness?
Unfortunately, your OB/GYN doesn’t really know. Mine acted like she knew the exact cause, the rapidly rising levels of hCG (human chorionic gonadotropin) hormone. Ok, what is that? It is one of many different hormones that are your body is making to sustain and build your growing baby. Doctor’s think that the rapid rise of the these hormones cause mom’s stomach to get queasy and throw up.
Besides hormones, smells set me off. It is amazing how the old nose goes into over drive. It seems like you can smell stuff from miles away. My dear husband was forbidden from wearing his favorite cologne while I was pregnant. When I got a whiff of it, it made me very nauseas. And it wasn’t just when he put it on. I could still smell it for days after he had used it. Yes, he did take a shower every day, but I could still smell it on his skin.
Cooking during pregnancy? Not for me. I couldn’t stand the cooking smells. If walked into the kitchen while dinner was being cooked, the nausea would overwhelm me and I had to run to the bathroom.
My husband was amazed at how efficiently I could pull the car over, open the door, hang my head out and throw up on the side of the road. All of the time never having to unbuckle my seat belt. Yeah, that is a skill I would have rather not have learned and perfected!
During this time of misery there were times that I didn’t want to go to work. Waking up in the morning and running to the bathroom for a round of dry heaves wiped me out physically and emotionally. How am I going to provide the nutrition, protein and vitamins that my growing baby needs, if I am barfing up just about everything that I am eating?
I loathed going to work every day because everyone I worked with acted like I should suck it up and deal with. No one cared what I was going through. I would be in tears on the way home. Did they ever consider that I wanted to feel this way?
What can you do to stop / control morning sickness?
In my first pregnancy I tried the “standard” morning sickness remedies, eating saltines before getting up, drinking ginger ale and eating lots of small meals regularly. None these remedies worked very well for me. The eating all of the time made my OB/GYN upset at me because I gained over 45 pounds during the pregnancy.
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