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The following 5 simple tips are very basic. These are mainly what worked for me. They may or may not work for you. If nothing at all works and your morning sickness does not seem to let up at all as your pregnancy progresses (and you are vehemently vomiting several times per day), you may want to talk to your doctor/midwife about Hyperemesis Gravidarum.
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Without further ado, here are my 5 very humble, very simple tips for combating morning sickness:
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3. Drink a ginger tea. Now, I’m sure the best ginger tea is one with freshly-grated ginger that you make yourself, but I know that even the most basic cooking tasks can sometimes be difficult during those first few months of pregnancy! I drank the Yogi brand ginger tea, and I recently discovered Earth Mama, Angel Baby’s Morning Wellness Tea. You can get both of these at Vitacost* or iherb*. You can also order the Earth Mama, Angel Baby tea directly from their website.
4. Suck on ginger candies. This was honestly not my most favorite remedy. I much preferred the tea–but it could have been just the type of candy I had. I purchased an unknown brand from the bulk foods section of my local healthfood store. I also found several different brands on both the Vitacost and iherb websites. It might be worth a try if you cannot find them locally!
5. Change your vitamins. Some real foodies don’t worry about taking prenatal vitamins. They figure that as long as they are eating well, their diets will give them plenty of what they need. I agree…BUT, the problem is that many of us with morning sickness simply do not eat well. So, I still take a vitamin.
However, about halfway through my bout with morning sickness, I realized that my prenatal vitamins were making me feel even more nauseated. I frequently took them in the late afternoon or evening, and that is when I felt the worst! When I ran out of my vitamins and took my daughter’s vitamins in the meantime, I started feeling better! When I re-stocked, my morning sickness came back! I spoke to my midwife, and she said I could double up on the children’s vitamins. I did this and felt much better–although I had to take one vitamin in the morning and one at night. If I took my full dose at one time, I still felt just as ill.
I am now taking the Vitacost brand Omega 3 with Folic Acid as well as 4 capsules of the Vitacost brand 42 Fruits and Veggies supplement.
Honorable Mentions:
- Trilight Health’s Morning Soothe liquid herbal formula. Since I did not start using any of Trilight’s formulas until after I was over morning sickness, I cannot vouch for this particular formula, but I do use and love some of their other pregnancy formulas. I would definitely give this one a try if the morning sickness were to return!
- Ginger Wonder Syrup, New Chapter Daily Ginger Extract. Again, I have not personally used these formulas, but I found them on iherb.com. If nothing else works, I would definitely give these a try!
What are your tips for combating morning sickness?
*I have mentioned both Vitacost and iherb several times in this post. I am not an affiliate of these companies, but I do have a referral code that, if used, will give both of us coupons. Vitacost’s first-time customer coupon is worth $10, and iherb’s is worth $5. If you are interested in any of the products I mentioned, I would personally just price compare at both companies–and go with where you can get the best deal! You can get your $10 off Vitacost coupon here, and you can get $5 off your first iherb order by using code: OZU663.
Want to check out another great post on morning sickness? Lauren from Serving from Home is running a 5-day healthy pregnancy series right now! Check out her post from Monday on The Morning Sickness Phenomenon!
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I have read that part of combating morning sickness is liver support–so I have started taking Dandelion root and MIlk Thistle with this pregnancy. I am very early along, and have had a queasy stomach just starting today, but I am hoping the herbs will help keep it at bay (it is best to start them before you conceive).
I take the Vermont FoodScience Prenatal, and I took it last time I was pregnant and nursing also, and never had any problems with it! It’s a whole food, natural prenatal multivitamin.
Enzymes also help me a lot. Whenever I got MS last time, it was due to indigestion and heartburn first. so I try to eat slow, eat small meals often, and take an enzyme. And I eat a LOT of protein. Protein sounds gross, but it helps my blood sugar stay stable. If I eat crackers or soda or anything, my blood sugar goes wacky and then I start to get sicker. Also, eating a lot of foods that support the liver and digestion help.
That’s my humble advice!
Sounds like you are being really proactive about curbing morning sickness! Thanks for the suggestions–and congrats on your pregnancy!!
Children are a blessing from the Lord . Having had 12 full term births I have studied why some mothers have morning sickness. Usually, it is because of missing nutrients in the body.
And the reason why taking prenatals on an empty stomach can cause one to throw up is because they are synthetic vit. Not real food vit. And minerals from plants. It really makes a huge difference to take real food supplementts. http://www.healthyanswersonline
Thanks for the tips!
i had problems with my prenatals too which i thought were good. according to my midwife though it is very common for them to make you feel sick if you are not taking a food based vitamin. i switched to the rainbow light prenatal (which you can find everywhere now… even target and walmart) and had no more problems. i believe that it even has ginger in their formula to help with morning sickness. i also read a really interesting blog post recently about how lack of magnesium can cause morning sickness… here it is in case you’re interested
http://www.mommypotamus.com/the-real-cause-of-morning-sickness/
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Thanks for the link!! I switched to Vitacost’s 42 Fruits and Veggies (4 each day) in the second trimester, and I had a much better experience with these! They are kind of like Juice Plus.
Having had 10 pregnancies with extreme morning sickness, I’ve tried everything I ever heard that could *possibly* curb the morning sickness. One thing I’ve learned is that many cases of morning sickness, if not all, are caused by a liver that cannot keep up with cleansing the body of the increased amount of used and needing to be processed out of the body hormones. Eight of my pregnancies were debilitating and unfunctioning. My last two pregnancies were still bad but not totally out of life. The difference was that I was taking milk thistle and dandelion for gallstones, which in turn helped the liver to function better.
I never tried this, but I know others who have gone of the morning sickness bean diet where they ate a couple of tablespoons of cooked beans throughout the day. The beans contain a fiber that grab onto the used hormones to exit them from the body instead of them being recycled through the intestinal wall back into the liver to be reprocessed, overloading the liver.
Most moms I know who have had severe morning sickness also have gallbladder issues, which back up the sluggish liver possibility. I also recommend Beet Root capsules or eating beets daily as beets will thin the bile and help to prevent gallstones.
It was the 3 pregnancies where I did not get sick, that I miscarried. So, while the morning sickness is no fun and can be debilitating in some cases like mine, it was also a reassurance that the baby was doing well.
Thanks so much for these great tips! I am so sorry to hear of your miscarriages. I think morning sickness can be a reassurance as well. Blessings to you–and thanks for sharing!!