| Nausea and vomiting, if it's occurring during a woman's | | | | a bad time with nausea during the first pregnancy, |
| first pregnancy, is greeted by most women with mixed | | | | enjoyed milder symptoms during the next one. Some |
| feelings. It verifies her pregnant condition. The self | | | | other women had the opposite experience. |
| administered pregnancy test gave correct results. She | | | | The nausea associated with morning sickness ends |
| is definitely in a "family way." This can be either a | | | | when the changes to the mother's body that causes |
| happy or a sad moment, depending upon the woman's | | | | nausea, end. It has been difficult to isolate the specific |
| circumstances. For most women it's a proud moment | | | | changes to the mother's body that are responsible for |
| that they excitedly share with friends and family. The | | | | nausea and morning sickness, but several conditions |
| excitement over this physical confirmation of her | | | | are suspected as major contributors. Rapid changes in |
| condition overcomes the minor discomforts of the | | | | hormonal balance, heightened sensitivity to certain |
| nausea. She basks in the excitement and joy of her | | | | foods, and an enhanced sense of smell with increased |
| friends and family who share her excitement while | | | | sensitivity to certain odors are a few. Fortunately, the |
| thinking back to the joyful days of their own | | | | symptoms will eventually pass. In the meantime, when |
| experience. | | | | it seems they will last forever, physicians can prescribe |
| It doesn't take long, however, before the initial | | | | medicines that alleviate the discomfort from most |
| excitement of the mother to be and of her friends | | | | symptoms. Morning sickness, for most mothers to be, |
| wears off. The nausea has done its job of notification, | | | | is a simple annoyance that they must bear to realize |
| and physically uncomfortable morning sickness events | | | | the joyful experience of the coming birth. |
| no longer carry any social benefit. The mother to be | | | | If you happen to fall into the small minority of |
| begins her impatient wait for the nausea and morning | | | | expectant mothers who experience frequent and |
| sickness to become a memory. | | | | severe vomiting, or if these symptoms of morning |
| Usually, morning sickness and its accompanying | | | | sickness continue into the second trimester, you should |
| nausea end at the cusp between the first and second | | | | see your obstetrician as there may be a more serious |
| trimesters of the pregnancy. Most women find that it | | | | problem that needs attention. In most cases, although |
| ends during the twelfth week, although for some | | | | annoying to the mother, normal vomiting and nausea |
| women, the nausea continues up until the sixteenth | | | | have no ill effects upon the baby. Severe and chronic |
| week. | | | | nausea, however, can lead to poor nutrition and |
| It's important to remember that these numbers are | | | | dehydration, both of which can affect the baby's |
| simply statistical averages based upon the study of a | | | | overall health. If you cannot keep down fluids or food |
| large population of pregnant women. Many women | | | | for a period of more than 24 hours, seek medical |
| see symptoms cease abruptly near the start of the | | | | treatment. |
| fourth month, while others find that the symptoms | | | | These severe nausea and vomiting symptoms are |
| continue with decreasing intensity until near the end of | | | | rarely encountered, and affect around three women in |
| the pregnancy. A statistically small number of women | | | | a thousand. For most mothers in waiting, morning |
| never experience any nausea and vomiting | | | | sickness, nausea, and vomiting are a mild annoyance |
| whatsoever. Interestingly, many women report that | | | | that they accept as part of the rite of passage into |
| during their subsequent pregnancies, the nausea and | | | | the joys of motherhood. |
| morning sickness was quite difference. Some who had | | | | |