Morning Sickness

Morning Sickness Remedies-Natural Remedies

If “all day” sickness is taking its toll, you feel sick when you are hungry, sick when you’re full, sick when you smell food, sick just thinking about food, sick when your tired…. To top it off, you may be working, running around after the family and keeping up with the house and morning sickness can really add to the strain. If you don’t want to tell people why you feel so awful (at least until the first trimester is over), now you often stuck suffering in silence (outside of the gagging).

When you are suffering from nausea or vomiting, you want relief. But you have to be careful. Some nausea remedies may be unsafe for your growing baby.

When trying remedies for morning sickness, start with natural remedies that are simple (and safely) with methods you can do at home. Check with your doctor is you are unsure, but many of these remedies are not only considered safe and are popular cures.

Habits

• Stay away from pungent smells and stong tastes like spicy food. The smell doesn’t have to be stinky to make you sick, just rich and full of aroma.
• Avoid lots of abrupt movement (a jerky, fast driver for instance) as that may may morning sickness worse.
• Get out of bed slowly in the morning.

Eating

• An empty stomach can aggrevate morning sickness.
• Eat light meals or graze during the day. Several light meals is better than 3 heavy ones.
• Keep a snack in your purse or glove compartment for an “emergency snack” so you don’t go hungry.

Good foods

• Foods that are less likely to irritate: crackers, ice, peppermint, broth, plain rice (white or brown), plain baked potato.
• Eat simple, healthy foods.

• Ginger and peppermint teas (without caffeine) tend to quell queasiness.

Cooking

• Cook with the windows open or turn on exhaust fans.
• Try cooking in the microwave as it will produce less odors.

Physical

• Try acupressure like a “acupressure” wrist bands (boat passengers sometimes use them for off sea sickness).

Look for more remedies in the ebook End Morning Sickness Now.

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