About three quarters of pregnant women experience nausea and sometimes vomiting during their first trimester. The nausea usually starts around six weeks of pregnancy, but it can begin as early as four weeks. It tends to get worse over the next month or so.

Morning Sickness

One of the most common signs of pregnancy is morning sickness. Just because it is common does not mean you are going to get it. Some women do and some women never feel a thing. It may also differ between pregnancies in the same woman. A woman who had no morning sickness during her first pregnancy may get a bad case of it during her second. You just never know. Morning sickness is not usually how it is portrayed on television however, and each woman will experience it just a little differently.

How to Cope With Morning Sickness.

Morning sickness can happen at any point in a pregnancy. Some get it in the earliest days and it goes away, while others are sick the entire time. There are some women who get it late in pregnancy though they were fine in the early months. When you get it will be up to your body. You may also have a short bout of it early in pregnancy only to have it disappear and then reappear later down the road. You never know when or where morning sickness will strike, but at least you know why you are having it.

Morning sickness also happens during any time of the day, not just in the morning. Morning may be the most common time to feel unwell, but that doesnít mean it will happen for you that way. Some women have it strictly at night, and yet other unfortunate moms to be have in throughout the entire day for the duration of their pregnancies. These women may be the ones who smile through their labor and delivery no matter how much pain they are in.They may just be happy to know the sickness if finally going to leave them alone.

There are many products out there that are designed to help combat morning sickness, but you should talk to your doctor before you try anything new. Itís not just your health that you have to consider now, as you also have to think of your baby. Any morning sickness cure that has to go into your mouth or on your skin can harm both of you, so ask your doctor first. Besides, you may be surprised to find simple remedies that your doctor gives you will work the best for you, and you may just have to sleep more and eat less during the part of the day you are more likely to experience morning sickness.

The tips below may help reduce morning sickness.....

1. Eat small meals throughout the day so that you're never too full or too hungry.
2. Avoid eating rich, fatty foods.
3. Try to avoid foods with smells that bother you.
4. Eat more carbohydrates (plain baked potato, white rice, dry toast).
5. Eat bland foods like crackers, when you feel nauseous.
6. The iron in prenatal vitamins can bother some women. If you think your morning sickness is related to your vitamins, talk with your doctor and he or she may change your vitamins.
7. Wearing "acupressure" wrist bands, which are sometimes used by passengers on boats to prevent sea sickness, may help some women who have morning sickness. available at boating stores or some travel agencies.

Article by P.R. Jones an independent writer for Healthy Help Files on Baby & Mother Health Issues.

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