| Grandma Mary might say the morning sickness cause | | | | levels. If you ingest too many fluids, the sodium |
| is that you are having a girl. Your doctor might say it's | | | | electrolyte levels in your body won't be able to keep |
| due to hormonal shifts. | | | | up and the blood will be diluted. |
| Everyone has their own view of what causes this | | | | * I know numbers 5 and 6 seem like such |
| condition. And, indeed, it may be just a little different for | | | | contradictory statements. What's a girl to do? You |
| each woman. The more you can learn about the | | | | know your body better than anyone - drink as much |
| causes, the better you'll be able to fight them off. | | | | as you think you can handle. If your morning sickness |
| After doing lots of research, I've come up with a top | | | | suddenly becomes worse, check with you doctor right |
| ten list of morning sickness causes: | | | | away about one of these two issues. |
| 1. Protection - It may just be your body's way of | | | | 7. Hypoglycemia (or Low Blood Sugar) - Try to eat |
| protecting your unborn baby from foods and food | | | | frequent, small, nutritionally-balanced snacks or meals |
| additives that would not be good for the baby. You | | | | throughout the day. This will help prevent your blood |
| are forced to slow your life down as you deal with | | | | sugar from falling too low. |
| morning sickness. Once you are resting, your body can | | | | 8. Hypokalemia (or Low Blood Potassium) - Once |
| use all energies for growing that beautiful baby. | | | | again, the onset of morning sickness could make |
| 2. Low Electrolyte Levels - Electrolytes are electrically | | | | hypokalemia worse because vomiting and diarrhea will |
| conductive substances in your body. These | | | | deplete your body of even more potassium. |
| substances are important for many things, such as | | | | 9. hCG Levels - HCG (human chorionic gonadotropin) is |
| body hydration, blood pH, and nerve and muscle | | | | produced during pregnancy initially by the tiny baby and |
| function. If you are low on electrolytes, your entire | | | | then the placenta takes over. The higher your hCG |
| body suffers. | | | | level, the more chance of severe morning sickness. |
| 3. Pregnancy Hormones - How often have you heard | | | | 10. Too Much Girl In You? - Even though this has been |
| that hormones might be the culprit? Probably as often | | | | looked at mostly as an old wives' tale throughout |
| as I have! But, in this case, it's probably a pretty good | | | | history, some have legitimately linked more severe |
| indicator. The estrogen and progesterone hormones | | | | cases of morning sickness with girl babies. In my own |
| fluctuate so quickly during the first trimester, it's hard to | | | | experience, this holds true. I've had three girls and two |
| believe it wouldn't make you sick. | | | | boys and my "girl" pregnancies were worse than the |
| 4. Relaxed Digestive Muscles - Another outcome of | | | | "boy" ones. Your "girl" hormones working to produce a |
| shifting hormones is that the muscles in your body are | | | | baby with even more "girl" hormones means way too |
| being relaxed through the additional amount of | | | | much girl stuff going on! |
| progesterone in your body. Your stomach then | | | | This certainly doesn't cover it all! Many will agree that |
| empties more slowly and this may be effecting your | | | | the collective "we" of humanity cannot really determine |
| nausea during early pregnancy. | | | | an overall morning sickness cause. Because each |
| 5. Dehydration - Water is an extremely important | | | | woman is so different in so many aspects, I don't think |
| building block for our body. Once your body starts to | | | | we'll ever pinpoint one factor "the" cause for morning |
| form another life, the need for water only increases. In | | | | sickness. |
| fact, dehydration is one of the number one causes of | | | | But, we can learn about the vast majority of what |
| pre-term labor. So, drink up! | | | | might be causes out there and benefit from that |
| 6. Hypotremia (or Low Blood Sodium) - This is actually | | | | knowledge. I hope you have benefited from the |
| a combination of low blood sodium and low electrolyte | | | | knowledge shared in this article! |