subject: Cures for Morning Sickness – And Quickly Please? [print this page] Congrats to you and yours for the upcoming birth of your child! And here is your present. Months and months of morning sickness so severe that you would think that you live on a small boat!
Is this how it feels to you these days? Has your morning sickness completely taken over your life and you feel like you can't do anything, go anywhere or eat anything without taking into consideration whether or not you're going to be able to keep it down? Do you just want your life back and regain some control over your body so you can actually enjoy being pregnant?
Sure, a doctor could prescribe medications to help alleviate the symptoms of your morning sickness but you are hesitant to take any drugs or pills while you are pregnant, and rightly so! After all, with a list as long as your arm of what you shouldn't take or expose yourself or your baby to it would be wise to be cautious about any medications that you put into your body.
Natural cures for morning sickness may hold some promise for you and many women have found relief from the queasiness and often violent sickness that comes often suddenly and without warning. But you wonder how effective these cures are and how safe they are.
While some natural cures for morning sickness like ginger root and vitamin B6 might seem like a bunch of baloney, their effectiveness in settling your stomach can be quite amazing. Neat little tricks like eating many small meals during the day so you never really fill your stomach up can be helpful advice and keeping some crackers or peppermint sticks on hand in your purse are great lifesavers when you're out and about.
Avoiding smells or foods that seem to make your morning sickness worse like fried or fatty foods or the smell of fish can also help keep your nausea to a minimum. Unfortunately, it isn't always possible to tell little old ladies not to wear tons of cheap perfume and your husband might not understand the seriousness of your request to not cook fish in the house until it's too late.
The truth is that in clinical studies of 88 pregnant women it was found that those who chose the natural forms of treatment to cure their morning sickness felt that they were more able to live their lives as they did before their pregnancy than those who took anti nausea drugs prescribed by a doctor. The natural methods of treating the nausea we similar to the methods mentioned above in addition to some more advanced technique but the point to note was that these women became more functional and more able to enjoy their pregnancy and live a somewhat normal life by using natural methods of treating their morning sickness. This should be a testament to the effectiveness of natural methods and all the proof that you might need to move forward in trying some of these methods to try to cure your morning sickness.
