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well woop de do. Doesn't make me any happier to have thrown up every day for 36 weeks. They fail to point out that if you get sick enough, you're at risk for preterm labor and other complications because you're so weak and dehydrated you have to go in for IVs often... even on your birthday.. :(
Plus, by the time I finally had my baby, I was so weak from the prolonged sickness that I couldn't hold my baby by myself for a couple days. And, recovery was a lot harder than normal. Ya, I think I could handle a little higher risk in other areas and a little less puking, thanks.......
This article is a big DUH! Anyone who has had multiple pregnancies and lost more than one can tell you that being sick indicates a keeper. I could always tell when I was going to lose it when the sickness stopped suddenly in early pregnancy.
I hate to break it to you, but being sick doesn't indicate a healthy pregnancy.
Well then, my child was safe indeed. I developed morning sickness at about 6 weeks and kept it until the day I delivered...two weeks later than expected. :D
I am currently 27 weeks pregnant with my first baby and haven't had ANY morning sickness whatsoever my entire pregnancy. All is well, my son is healthy thus far and growing and kicking all the time! Not sure about this "study"...I also don't want to think that at this far along I'm at risk for miscarriage simply because I've had no morning sickness! I'd like to think I'm just one of the lucky ones :)
Welcome to the club! I had three healthy kids, all born after super fast, uncomplicated deliveries--not one incident of morning sickness--I didn't even know what it was. I suspect my mom didn't have it, either, or she would have said something. Great news to pass on to my daughters, I guess. Sometimes good things are genetic, too, but they are not as newsworthy.
Two healthy pregnancies. Only a couple episodes of rich rood related nausea with each. Good news for my daughter, I hope.
I had 4 kids and no morning sickness at all! My daughter, however, is pregnant with her first and has suffered with HG since before she even found out about the pregnancy. She is now 5 months pregnant and still taking her Zofran...the only medicine that helps even a little bit.
If it is hereditary, she didn't get it from me.
Well, there's always an exception to the general rule. I had my son at 38 without a day of morning sickness. Glad I hadn't read this article or I might have been more worried about a miscarriage. Alas he was a 9 pound keeper, a complete and wonderful blessing to us.
I never had morning sickness with either of my pregnancies BUT thirty yrs ago I was given this same information by my OB. I was put on the "high risk" list because of the lack of morning sickness. I loved being pregnant---I had tons of energy, never got sick so my immunine system was killer, my hair got thick and shiney, my nails were awesome. And of course the kiddos were wonderful. Now they are summa cum laude students one in law school and one in geek school.
I am 13 weeks pregnant with my 3rd child and still feel occasional nausea and vomiting. My first 10 weeks was a nightmare! This was true for my first 2 pregnancies as well, but by the 12th week, it completely went away. I miscarried a baby at 7 weeks 4 years ago and I knew something was wrong when I never felt sick, so I guess for me, this article seems right. I just hope for this 3rd one, the morning sickness completely goes away soon!
I would love to see if there is a correlation between nausea and vomiting in the first trimester with length of labor.
My nausea was horrific, vomiting was even worse. My daughter was induced (43 hours of labor) and my son came after only 14 hours, if this helps any.
I had only rare nausea. One labor 7 hours. The other 4 hours.
3 pregnancies, bad morning sickness with each one. I had to be medicated with them all for the first three months just to keep me from losing too much weight and miscarrying due to that. Each pregnancy the morning sickness got a little shorter, but the intensity was the same with all 3. Labors were as follows: 1st one 8 hrs and three good pushes. 2nd one 6 hrs and three good pushes. Last one I was induced for medical reasons and it took a while to get to active labor. All together the labor was 14 hours, but active labor was only about 5 hours. 3 good pushes with him as well.
If the study had included the blood levels of vtamin B6, an insufficiency of which results in morning sickness; and blood levels of tocopherols, vitamin E, an insufficiency of which can lead to miscarriage, then they would have simply reconfirmed what is already known, (but now seems swept under the radar).
As supplementing being anathema to Docs. and dieticians, (I wonder why they dont want you to be in robust health), these causative insufficiencies were omitted from the study, that making the study meaningless.
Supplementing with a B complex 100s eliminates morning sickess, and with up to 1000 iu of mixed natural vitamin E, should ensure a successful term.
In veterinery science, pregnant breeding horses get their massive vitamin E injections.
The Docs. and dieticians today advise against supplementing, using the `may be harmful`scare tactic, which is much more powerful than the previous, wasted money comment.
This scare tactic is based on a designed-to-fail study, with beta-carotene. Compromised, elderly, Danish smokers, were either given a placebo, or 2 X 25mg doses of syntrhetic beta carotene. Quite by chance, more of those on the minute amount of synthetic, and quite useless beta carotene died of lung cancer. Headlines screamed beta carotene CAUSE cancer, and that is the basis of their new battlecry.
Its your body, you decide how to nurture it. But, be aware, that a proposed EU-based Codex Alimentarius, is planned worldwide. This will attempt to ban all natural vitamins, herbs, nutrients, aminos etc, in dosages that have health-giving properties. They would be classified as drugs!
The FDA has already warned cherry growers NOT to promote their particular cherry variety as having anti-arthritic-pain properties, (even though that is scientifically documented), as the cherry then becmes a drug, and thus encroaches on Big Pharmas profits.
You obviously haven't ever seen a woman suffering with HG. Simple injections with vitamins might help 'normal' morning sickness, but HG is not normal. I threw up 50 times a day, every day, for 6 months. I had vitamins, E and B6 included. Nothing helped.
I have to cry BS on this one. I took pre-natal vitamins with each of my pregnancies and I still had horrible morning sickness. I was given extra B vitamin supplements with my middle child and it did nothing to lessen the effects of the morning sickness. The duration of it was shortened somewhat, but the intensity was still horrible and I still ended up on the same anti-nausea medication they give to chemo patients. Vitamins may help some women, but they sure aren't a catch all fix. Oh, and it isn't just me either, I have several friends who suffered through morning sickness despite vitamins and even injections.
Yeah, my daughter is taking Zofran. I never had any morning sickness with any of my 4 kids.
Preggie pops and B vitamins may help for some women, but not the ones with HG.
I suffered with HG during both of my pregnancies, for 9 weeks with my daughter and for 6 months with my son. It would have been longer with the boy but he came 7 weeks early. I had a pick line with both kids, was on TPN (couldn't even keep down water), and I STILL threw up about 50 times a day. Every day. I left my house only to go to the doctor and hospital, couldn't lift my daughter out of her crib in the mornings because I was too weak. On top of that, I developed pancreatitis and was on valium, demerol, and dilaudid to deal with the pain. My doctors have never seen someone as sick as I was, and we all thought that, for a while, we were going to lose both me and the child.
My mother and both grandmothers had wonderful pregnancies. All of my friends have had wonderful pregnancies. I was told by some doctors that all I had was morning sickness and that the rest was in my head. YEAH - like I WANT to throw up for 6 months! I'm so glad to see some national attention brought to this issue. I felt so alone in my pregnancies and don't want anyone else to feel that way.
I'm glad to see national attention being brought to an
I don't think there is anything healthy about morning sickness. That title must have been written by a man. Mine was always late afternoon sickness right at dinner time.
I've had to be hospitalized during both of my 2 pregnancies. Frustrating when people say "yeah, I had morning sickness too." I'm sure they didn't have to be hospitalized for a week for deyhdration and didn't have to give themselves IVs at home (not to mention a 6-drug cocktail)
Check out a foundation on hyperemisis at http://www.hyperemesis.org/ it is nice to relate to others who are actually going through the same thing.... not just "morning sickness." There is also a survey for those who have had HG for research and hopefully one day a cure!