| Morning sickness is a condition that affects 85 plus | | | | should see a doctor if you aren't sure what is causing |
| percent of pregnant women. Knowing if you actually | | | | your symptoms. |
| have it can be difficult sometimes. There are some | | | | You also need to take notice if either symptom |
| women affected by it in the morning, and there are | | | | happens too frequently. Hyperemesis gravidarum is |
| some that are affected by it in the afternoon and at | | | | diagnosed in 1 of 300 pregnancies and is associated |
| night. If some can have symptoms in the afternoon | | | | with extreme nausea and vomiting. It's so extreme that |
| and at night, then I'm sure you are wondering why it's | | | | the pregnant mother has to be hospitalized in order to |
| called morning sickness. It's something that every | | | | maintain nutritional balance and rehydrate; this is done |
| women wonders at some point during their pregnancy, | | | | through intravenous fluids and feeding tubes. |
| but it's not easily explained. | | | | The cause of morning sickness isn't known for sure, |
| Are you not even sure that what you are experiencing | | | | but there are theories of hormone changes, multiple |
| is even morning sickness, especially since it's not | | | | births, you're having a girl, and helicobacter pylori. |
| happening in the morning? In this article, we'll run down | | | | Figuring out the cause would be nice because then |
| some of the symptoms and statistics to give you a | | | | women wouldn't have to endure these symptoms, and |
| better idea of what's going on with you and whether | | | | they could just enjoy their pregnancies. Until that time, |
| it's normal for it to be happening. | | | | there are treatment options available to keep the |
| The first symptom, of course, is nausea. It can be a | | | | nausea and vomiting at bay. Acupuncture, |
| little difficult to determine if you have some sort of bug | | | | acupressure, and herbal are just a few of the |
| or if it is morning sickness. Generally, if you have it for | | | | treatment options available. |
| a couple of days in a row, certain smells or foods | | | | With any luck, you will be fortunate enough to be one |
| trigger it, and you don't have a fever, it is probably it. | | | | of the approximately 50 percent who is free from the |
| The symptom that goes along with the nausea is | | | | nausea and vomiting by the end of your first trimester. |
| vomiting. The vomiting associated with morning | | | | There are some who carry these symptoms along |
| sickness can also be hard to determine if it's because | | | | with them for the whole pregnancy; right up until their |
| of that, or some other food-related illness. Again, if it is | | | | baby is born. |
| set off by certain foods or smells, then you are | | | | Knowing that you can have morning sickness in the |
| probably experiencing it. | | | | morning, in the afternoon, and through the night can be |
| The problem with these symptoms is that they come | | | | frustrating. Hang in there because that baby you will |
| with all sorts of illness not related to pregnancy. We're | | | | have when all of this is done will make all of your |
| talking flu, virus, food poisoning, allergic reaction, | | | | suffering worth it. |
| dehydration, etc. To rule out anything serious, you | | | | |