Morning sickness affects a large amount of pregnant women and some even experience all day morning sickness throughout their nine months of pregnancy. Can you imagine? You can usually experience morning sickness during the first trimester of pregnancy. Which sucks I know. But I’m hoping these morning sickness tips and remedies can help you ease it and even cure it!
Having morning sickness changes your mood, your dynamic, your daily routine, to put it in more simpler terms, morning sickness changes and effects everything in your life. Finding helpful and effective ways to reduce and combat it was my goal when I was pregnant. You are going to survive this unwanted pregnancy visitor and you will enjoy your pregnancy again.
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What causes morning sickness?
Morning sickness is caused by your increasing hormones in your body. It usually starts in your first trimester. Even though morning sickness is the worst thing ever, rest assure that it does not harm your unborn baby.
Many doctors believe that morning sickness is a good sign because it means the placenta is developing well. (source)
What are the morning sickness symptoms?
The symptoms of morning sickness are feeling nauseous which can and in many causes follows by vomiting. You can experience only nauseous (like me!) or a mixture of both or you even have severe morning sickness. Which is also known as Hyperemesis gravidarum.
What should you eat to reduce your symptoms?
There are food that can definitely help you cure morning sickness. Or at least alleviate the symptoms. Bland food like bread and crackers help, also apple sauce and dry cereal can do the trick. Banana, watermelon, apples can also reduce the nausea feeling.
You want to stay away from sugary food and also spicy food. Greasy and fatty food can also worsen your morning sickness feeling. You might want to stay away from it, at least during the first trimester or until you start feeling better again.
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I gather 6 important and vital ways you can cure morning sickness that actually work. These tips worked for me and I truly hope they can work for you as well.
6 vital ways to combat and treat morning sickness during pregnancy
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1.Crackers
Salted or unsalted crackers are the best thing in the world. I had boxes of it because it would just alleviate the nausea feeling that I had. I used to eat crackers during my first trimester of my first pregnancy just because I thought it would prevent me from vomiting, it did work.
Saltine crackers are high in starch which helps absorb gastric acid and are perfect to help ease morning sickness, yay!
2. Ginger ale with lime
Ginger ale soda is the first thing that I grab if I have a stomach ache. I recommend giving ginger ale soda a try to help combat your morning sickness. It really does work. Try adding lime juice in it and it will rock your world, your nausea should disappear or at least reduce it because it did for me!
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3. Stay hydrated
Even though just thinking about drinking more than 6 glasses of water a day may seem like an impossible task. You have to make sure you are taking enough fluids in. Dehydration can increase and aggravate the feeling of nausea.
Staying hydrated during your pregnancy is super important. You can try adding fruits to your water to add flavor to it.
4. Avoid being too full or too hungry
When you are pregnant is always best to eat small meals during the day than big meals that will leave you feeling full. Being too full during pregnancy leaves you feeling tired, sleepy, and even feeling nauseated. Morning sickness can be triggered by eating larger meals and becoming full to the point where you can’t even move.
Break down your snacks and meals through out the day, eat small quantities and you will feel more energetic. Doing this will eliminate or alleviate the heartburn and morning sickness feeling.
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5. Lay down and Rest
Now you might be scratching your head on this one like say what!? But just hear me out, for some reason when I was experiencing morning sickness during my second pregnancy, I would lay down and it would make me feel so much better. The nausea feeling would slowly fade away and it also gave my body an opportunity to relax.
Try laying down after you have a drink of your ginger ale soda and have eaten some crackers. I will guarantee you that you will feel so much better so I had to add it to this list of morning sickness tips. This
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6.Yogurt or milk
Drinking yogurt or milk will definitely do the job of alleviating the morning sickness. I would always wake up right after my hubby would be up to go to work (around 4:30am) and he would always bring me yogurt or milk.
It would make me feel better since I would always wake up super hungry and that in return would trigger my morning sickness. Milk and yogurt has this smooth cooling effect that goes down your throat. Also, drinking milk can help with heartburn, so I think it’s just another great morning sickness tip to try and see if it works for you!
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Dealing with morning sickness during your pregnancy can put a damp on your daily routine and life. Giving these morning sickness tips and remedies a try, can definitely help!
Did you experience morning sickness during your pregnancy, if so what did you do to help combat it?
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Great tips! Where were these when I was pregnant with my kids 🙂 I always got really bad morning sickness and could always count on losing about 30 lbs because of it each pregnancy. Thanks for the great list 🙂 Have a great weekend!
These are all great tips! I didn’t have morning sickness too bad with either of my kids, but I remember that when I was in my first trimester around Valentine’s Day with my daughter and even the sight of a red velvet recipe on Pinterest would make me gag!
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These are really great tips – I will pass them along to my pregnant friends for sure! I never thought of yogurt or milk to help with morning sickness.
I I’ll be directing a good friend to this post! I thank you on her behalf I’m sure!!
Such great tips! I will have to forward these to my pregnant cousin.
xx katie // a touch of teal
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Thank you Katie! I hope your cousin find them helpful 🙂
Ahh Great! Thanks Maya 🙂
Thank you! Yes, milk and yogurt helped me a lot during my twin pregnancy 🙂
Thank you Chelsea! For my twin pregnancy my morning sickness lasted about a month only thank the lord! haha! But gosh it sucked. haha!! you are so funny ” the sight of a red velvet recipe on Pinterest” haha!! I think I would have felt the same way.
This is great advice for expectant mothers. When I was expecting my first child certain food smells would trigger morning sickness. For me lying down or drinking milk would really help.
Your welcome Jessica! Wow I can imagine what you went through, morning sickness is not fun at all and I only experienced it the first month of my twin pregnancy. Have a great weekend to you too 🙂
Great tips, unfortunately, I had that hellish type of morning sickness that gets labelled with the medical term hyperemesis. I would go to emerg for a bag of IV fluids at times because I was dehydrated from so much vomiting. It really puts a wrench into life, I could no longer work in the mornings, and barely got through the afternoons…Oh, the stories I have of all the places I vomited haha! One thing that did give me a tiny bit of relief was sucking on a hard candy like a mint or those preggo pops.
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Yes to the crackers and soda. I never ever drink soda normally, but I do almost every day during my first trimester because it’s so helpful! Also budgeting a bit more for groceries you wouldn’t normally buy just to have a wide variety in your pantry is really helpful since almost everything sounds gross. I would beg my husband to search the back of the pantry to surprise me with something I didn’t know was in there just for the novelty 🙂
Oh man,that’s crazy! I know some women do need medication for morning sickness which sucks but is part of life. I can imagine the stories that you have lol. That’s a good one having hard candy around, I remember that would make me feel better too. Thank you Andrea 🙂
Yes to soda and crackers all day everyday, haha! That’s a good idea to stock up on different kinds of food that way you can choose and hopefully find something that will not make you sick to your stomach.
Great tips lovely. So agree on the eating abs crackers! I was sooo hungry all the time. It so changes your mood and life; feeling sick is awful xx #twinklytuesday
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Great tips!will keep these in mind if I ever have another child. Morning sickness is horrible xx #TwinklyTuesday
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I didn’t find that anything worked for me sadly. With my first I was vomiting from 6 weeks right through to 21 weeks in the morning and after about 6pm. With baby number two this lasted until 24 weeks and with babies 3 and 4 I was sick at all times of the day and until 31 weeks. YUK ! #TwinklyTuesday
My morning sickness was horrific, I would throw up every morning, food smells made me nauseas which would make me throw up again, I lived off of rice and breadsticks for 4 months. The worst was travelling in to work on the tube during rush hour. The only thing that helped me was ice lollies and for some wierd reason orange juice! X #TwinklyTuesday
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I had rotten morning sickness with both of mine – first time until 10.5 weeks and the second until about 18 weeks. I munched through tonnes of crackers, in fact I craved pretty much anything if it involved carbs and salt! Agree with not being either too hungry or too full, too 🙂 linking up from #TwinklyTuesday x
Nothing worked for me, it was just 12 weeks I had to get through, I really feel for those who have it all through a pregnancy #TwinklyTuesday
I had terrible morning sickness with my first. In the early days I was sick up to 15 times a day and whilst it did get a bit better I was still often sick at least once a week up until three weeks before I had him. I tried all of these and nothing worked for me, unfortunately. However, when you have sickness like that you’re willing to try anything so hopefully someone else will get some benefit.
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Oh wow, yeah I know some women have morning sickness until they give birth, which sucks! Sometimes is good to try a lot of different methods to help ease the morning sickness in hopes that it works. ThanksLady!
Oh man..it could have been worst like you said. Sometimes nothing that we try works to ease the morning sickness unfortunately.
So sorry you had terrible morning sickness, at least it didn’t last throughout your whole pregnancy right?? Crackers were my best friend for the whole month of my morning sickness.
Oh wow! That’s not fun at all, sometimes no matter what we do, morning sickness just isn’t tamed. Thanks for stopping by!
Thank you Wendy! I hope these tips can help you out if you get pregnant again ;). I agree morning sickness is horrible!
Thank you Sarah!true, feeling bad changes your whole mood and it’s not fun at all. Crackers are such a life saver!
What excellent advice! Will definitely be sharing this with my wife, who is really suffering at 13 weeks…#TwinklyTuesday
Thank you! Hope these tips can help her and congrats on your new baby 🙂