Earliest Pregnancy Symptoms

For most pregnant women, morning sickness starts generally in the first trimester of their pregnancy and ends by the second, but this isn’t the case in all pregnancies though.

Nausea can happen immediately or you may get lucky and have no morning sickness at all while some women will continue with it until the very end of term.

No one is certain about what causes morning sickness, it is due to a change in the body that happens during pregnancy: the changing
levels of estrogen in the body.

Even if morning sickness can be one of your earliest pregnancy symptoms, this doesn’t always mean that you’ll get sick only in the morning. In fact, this can happen, morning, noon or night.

How To Deal With Morning Sickness

Many women seem to get sick after taking the prenatal pill. If this is the case, try taking the pill later in the day. Why wouldn’t you ask your doctor if you may take some other form of vitamin instead of the pill. But always find out first with your doctor before taking anything new or taking yourself off medication, even prenatal pills.

Another reason why you should go to your doctor would be if you begin losing weight because you are constantly sick. If you become dehydrated, faint, look pale, confused or throw up more than four times in a day. Your doctor may be able to prescribe something that will stop it.

If you are looking for remedies for your morning sickness, you may try buying some pregnancy pops. Or if you’d prefer to stay away from the sweets, you can wear a bracelet designed to stop morning sickness, they are just like the motion sickness bracelets.  They don’t work for everyone but they could work for you.

A Few Way To Minimize Morning Sickness

There are a few ways to minimize the sickness, but they don’t work for everyone:

• Try drinking some ginger ale, it calms the stomach down.
• Dry cereal is another good thing to eat, your stomach may just be a little bit hungry and trying to tell you. Remember to take small portions, this way you know if it is all going to come up or not.
• Try keeping crackers on hand, I prefer saltines for some reason.
• Sleeping is another good way to avoid it, however it will wake you up.
• Keep yourself hydrated, not only can this make your sickness come but you can become dehydrated and need to go to the emergency room if you aren’t careful.

Smells is another thing that seems to cause morning sickness.
Bad smells and even certain tastes may provoke pregnancy nausea: imagine walking into a restaurant and the first thing you smell is grease. Yes, this can easily set it off. Same with certain smells like cigarette or cigar smoke, strong perfume, coffee, etc… Get the feel for your body during the pregnancy and figure out just what sets it off. Knowing how to avoid it, can make a world of difference.

Try slowing down a bit. Sometimes, when  morning sickness starts, it means that your body is just exhausted from all the errands you are running and it tries to give you a break. Listen to your body, take a nap, relax and watch a television show…take some time off.

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