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Ways to manage morning sickness.

Nausea and vomiting in pregnancy can happen for many reasons. About 65 per cent of pregnant people have nausea and vomiting while pregnant. It often starts at about 4 to 8 weeks of pregnancy and continues to 12 to 16 weeks or more for some.

Although it’s often called “morning sickness”, nausea and vomiting can happen any time of the day or night.

Tips to manage nausea and vomiting

• Get as much rest as you can; being tired can make nausea worse.
• Rinsing your mouth with water or mouthwash can help control unpleasant mouth taste that can make nausea worse.
• Ice chips and popsicles can help reduce the metallic taste in your mouth.
• Grated fresh ginger, ginger syrup or crystallized ginger added into hot water may help reduce your nausea.
• Talk to your doctor about taking just folic acid instead of your prenatal vitamin while you are feeling nauseated. Once you are feeling better, you can go back to taking your prenatal multivitamin.

Foods that may make your nausea worse

• Very sweet foods
• Spicy foods
• Fatty or fried foods
• Hot foods

Avoid strong smelling foods that bother you

• Try eating outside in the fresh air if possible.
• Ask someone else to cook, especially “trigger” foods, hot foods and high smell foods.
• If you have to prepare meals for yourself or others – make food you are able to eat and try to make cold foods that are easy to make.
• A breathable mask can be helpful when you have to be in a place where smells are too strong for you. These masks help to block some of the food smell.
• Smelling lemons or lemon essential oils might help settle the stomach.

Meals and snacks

• Try not to drink fluids with your food. The fluid plus foods adds too much to your stomach and can cause you to vomit.
• Eat when you feel hungry and eat foods that are appealing to you.
• Eat every 2-3 hours (small meal or snack) to keep food in your stomach. An empty stomach can make your nausea worse.
• Eat slowly. Eating too quickly can cause you to eat more than your stomach can handle, which can cause you to vomit.
• After eating, avoid lying down. Keep your body at least semi-upright (greater than 45 degrees) for at least 30 minutes after a meal. This helps the food stay down.

Keep hydrated

Try to get about 8 cups or 2 litres of fluid per day. Sip small amounts of fluid throughout the day. If plain water does not sit well in your stomach try some of these other suggestions:

• Water (add sugar and salt)
• Diluted juice
• Gelatin (Jell-OTM)
• Clear soda (no fizz)
• Popsicles
• Weak tea
• Oral rehydration solutions
• Ice chips
• Broth

Signs you may not be drinking enough fluid

• More thirsty than usual
• Darker urine than usual
• Passing little or no urine in 8 hours
• Dizziness when standing or sitting
• Dry eyes and dry mouth

Foods to eat

Once you have stopped vomiting, eat small amounts of plain, cold or room temperature foods with very little smell, for example:

• Toasted white bread
• Mashed potatoes
• Crackers
• Fruit
• Graham crackers
• White rice
• Plain hot cereal
• Plain white pasta
• Pretzels

Speak to your health care provider

• If you experience vomiting 2-3 times per day.
• If you are vomiting and have a fever.
• If you have pain, bloating or a swollen stomach, and don’t feel better after vomiting.
• If these tips do not relieve any symptoms.
• If you are considering medications to manage your nausea and vomiting.

Nausea and vomiting in pregnancy clinics

We offer clinics that provide care, counselling and education for those experiencing severe nausea and vomiting during their pregnancy.

Speak to your doctor or call the clinic directly to see if these services may be appropriate for you.

Morning sickness is one of the most common early pregnancy symptoms, but the severity varies for everyone. Some people feel a slight queasiness that comes and goes, while others feel sick enough to vomit. So when does morning sickness usually start and end? Here's a guide for parents-to-be.

When Does Morning Sickness Start?

While the morning sickness timeline isn't set in stone, most pregnant people start to feel queasy halfway through the first trimester, between weeks six and eight (though it may also start earlier. "Generally, it's not going to start after week 14," says Michele Hakakha, M.D., FACOG, an OB-GYN in Beverly Hills and author of Expecting 411. The exception: Late in pregnancy, your baby may push on your stomach and intestines, causing nausea. Many of the same strategies you use for standard morning sickness can also help with this late-pregnancy nausea.

Scientists still don't fully understand what causes morning sickness or why some pregnant people will only feel a bit queasy while others will vomit. The leading theory is that the pregnancy hormone hCG, as well as estrogen, begin to rise in the body and trigger a cascade of responses, including nausea and vomiting. Some researchers think that morning sickness may be the body's way of protecting a growing fetus by purging the body of anything potentially toxic. This may explain certain food aversions or sensitivities to smells that previously didn't bother you.

In one study, researchers found that people with morning sickness symptoms were less likely to have a miscarriage. But that is not to say that if you don't have morning sickness, you should be concerned. Lots of expecting parents will skip the dreaded morning sickness phase and go on to deliver healthy babies.

For many pregnant folks, morning sickness symptoms will begin around week 6 of gestation. They often stop by 10-14 weeks but may continue until weeks 16 to 18—or occasionally until the end of pregnancy. Despite common misconception, the nausea doesn't only happen in the morning for many people.

To manage some of the less-than-pleasant symptoms, try eating salty crackers or ginger. You should also talk to your doctor about your prenatal vitamins. For some pregnant parents, the iron content in prenatal vitamins can be high enough to cause an upset stomach, nausea, and vomiting. In one study, researchers found that by simply avoiding iron in supplements, pregnant people were able to dramatically reduce the amount of morning sickness symptoms they felt. If you do opt to avoid iron in your vitamins, make sure you are getting iron—and folic acid—from another source.

A few great sources of iron and folic acid include:

• Dark green leafy veggies like kale, spinach, and watercress
• Brown rice
• Fish and red meat
• Tofu, nuts, and seeds

When Does Morning Sickness End?

Most people start to feel much better by week 16. Only a small number (around 10% of parents-to-be) experience nausea and vomiting all pregnancy long.

There are certain items that can help you feel better, like ginger candy or a vitamin B6 supplement. Over-the-counter and prescription medicines can also help, so make sure to talk to your doctor. Severe weight loss as a result of illness may be dangerous to a developing fetus and should be treated either at home or in a hospital setting, says Marra Francis, M.D., an obstetrician-gynecologist in The Woodlands, Texas.

If your morning sickness isn't letting up, let your doctor know. You could be dealing with hyperemesis gravidarum (HG), which is a severe form of morning sickness that can last the entire pregnancy. HG can be a debilitating condition that may require hospitalization for IV fluids. Some of the symptoms of HG include:

• Nausea with extreme vomiting
• Weight loss
• Dehydration and disruption of electrolytes
• Inability to retain food or drink
• Nausea does not ease

HG is rare; only around 2% of pregnant parents will experience this severe version of morning sickness.

Also, alert your doctor if morning sickness stops abruptly during the first trimester—but keep in mind that this doesn't necessarily mean something is wrong with your pregnancy. For some, nausea is a symptom that they feel every day, and for others, nausea is intermittent.

Dealing with morning sickness may not be the glowing part of pregnancy you were looking forward to, but it will not likely last for more than a few weeks. To help deter morning sickness, you can talk to your doctor about supplements, diet, exercise, and other factors that can help keep you from feeling a wave of green.

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