Whats the best natural way of reducing/eliminating Morning Sickness?

Question

Gaviscon doesn't Work! and my partners in her first trimester...

Answer 1

Morning sickness, also called "nausea and vomiting of pregnancy" (NVP) or pregnancy sickness, affects between 50 and 95 percent of all pregnant women. It is also sometimes experienced by women who take birth control pills or hormone replacement therapy. The amount of nausea can vary from mild amounts to actual vomiting. In extreme cases, known as hyperemesis gravidarum, hospital admission may be required to correct the resulting dehydration.

When it occurs

Morning sickness is not confined to the morning: nausea can occur at any time of the day, though it most commonly occurs soon after waking, perhaps because the stomach is empty at that time.

Morning sickness usually starts in the first month of the pregnancy, peaking in the 5th to 7th weeks, and continuing until the 14th to 16th week. For 50% of all sufferers, it ends by the 16th week of pregnancy. For the other half, it may take up to another month to get relief but some women will have morning sickness off and on for their entire pregnancy.

Causes

There is insufficient evidence to pin down a single (or multiple) cause, but the leading theories include:

1. An increase in the circulating level of the hormone estrogen. Estrogen levels may increase by up to a hundredfold during pregnancy.
2. Low blood sugar during pregnancy.
3. An increase in progesterone relaxes the muscles in the uterus, which prevents early childbirth, but may also relax the stomach and intestines, leading to excess stomach acids.
4. An increase in human chorionic gonadotropin.
5. An increase in sensitivity to odors.
6. Eating vegetables. Vegetables produce a small amount of toxins to deter insect infestation and while these toxins are normally harmless to humans, they are potentially dangerous to embryos. One theory suggests that becoming nauseated during pregnancy is an evolutionary measure to prevent a mother from eating vegetables, thereby protecting the embryo from the toxins. Other studies, however, have linked consumption of fruits and vegetables to higher birth weights, which tend to mean healthier babies.
7. Intake of alcohol, sugar, oils and meat, which have been postulated to cause a natural trigger of morning sickness in the body as a way of discouraging ingestion of less healthy foods.

Treatments

Treatments for morning sickness typically aim to lessen the symptoms of nausea, rather than attacking the root cause(s) of the nausea. Treatments include:

1. Avoiding an empty stomach
2. Eating five or six small meals per day, rather than three large ones
3. Ginger, in capsules, tea, ginger ale, ginger beer or ginger snaps
4. Vitamin B6 (either pyridoxine or pyridoxamine), often taken in combination with the antihistamine doxylamine (Diclectin®). - Must be administered by the ob-gyne.
5. Acupressure applied to the P6 point on the inside of the forearm, one-sixth of the way from the wrist to the elbow
6. Lemons, particularly the smelling of freshly cut lemons
7. Fulfilling food cravings - THE BEST!

A doctor may prescribe anti-nausea medications if the expectant mother suffers from dehydration or malnutrition as a result of her morning sickness.

Answer 2

Set the alarm an hour before you want to get up, and when it goes off cram some food in your mouth (crackers or something you can keep by the bed) then go back to sleep. Eating an orange before bed helps alot too, though i don't know why. Generally, just eating anything that takes awhile to digest, like pasta, right before bed is a good idea.

Answer 3

Most morning sickness subsides after the first trimester. (You need to wait a few weeks more.) Bring her soda crackers and tea in bed each morning. That could help her if she eats a little before she gets up.

Answer 4

I had hyperemis (Not sure if I spelled that right) but that is when everythng makes u sick. Riding in the car, smells, sex, lights... I tried everything but nothing worked. I got so sick that one day i had nothing in my system that I could barely move out of bed. I went to the hospital and they put me on an IV for 5 hours to give me back what I had lost. Then they put me on a new diet BRAT... Bannannas Apple sauce Rice and Toast. That won't stop her from throwing up but it will stay down because it digests so fast. Also drink lots of gateraide and pedialite its gross but it keeps u with electrolites

Answer 5

I had morning sickness bad, if nothing natural works she can go to the doctor and get a prescription. I forgot whats its called. But it helped me most of the time, I still threw up until i was 7 months along!

Answer 6

I found having some crackers and something carbonated, like ginger ale, before I got up in the morning helped.

Answer 7

Keep Saltine crackers on her bedside table. She should eat a few before she gets out of bed. Have her eat small meals throughout the day....if she gets an empty tummy, she is likely to get nauseous again.

Answer 8

ginger in any form.
always having a lil something in the belly helps tremendously!
getting plenty of water.
vitamin b-12. NEVER taking the prenatal vitamin on an empty stomach.
nothing too sugary, too greasy, etc.

Answer 9

natrural way, get some ginger roots and boil it with water then sweeten with honey, that helped me a lil also try saltine crackers and peppermints. and try eating small meals throughout the day or fruits like apples or grapes.

Answer 10

Eating smaller meals more frequently.
Drinks lots of fluids. Keep carbonated drinks to a minimum.