Morning Sickness Remedies
When morning sickness strikes, it is honestly the last thing you need – it will usually start around the sixth week of your pregnancy when you’re already quite emotional and tired. More often than not, it’s before you’ve gone public with the happy news. The stress of trying to appear quite normal, while in reality you feel queasy and nauseous, is sometimes just too much. There is medication available but understandably you don’t know the effects that could have on the growing baby inside you. You need to apply some morning sickness remedies, so the obvious solution to try is the natural way.
Some Natural Options
- Acupressure is an old Chinese art. Most people have heard of acupuncture and, in a way, it’s like that – only without the needles! It works on the principle that the stimulation of different pressure points on the body will reduce or relieve varying symptoms you may have. People use it to lose weight, cure a headache, or perhaps even stop diarrhea. It can also be used to alleviate nausea and sickness – most obviously morning sickness. The pressure point related to this is called P6 and is situated on the inside of the wrist. Studies have shown that a continual pressure on this point helps reduce or even completely stop morning sickness in up to 85% of women. Adjustable wristbands with a small button on the inside are now readily available and prove to be a veritable god-send for the majority that try them. If, however, you find yourself in the minority percentile – don’t despair, there are other morning sickness remedies which are just as effective.
- A lot of women find themselves nauseous when they wake up, most probably because the stomach is empty and more likely to be upset. It may be a good idea to take a few dry biscuits or crackers to bed with you so you have them handy to nibble on in the morning before you even get out of bed. If possible, you should nibble on these and then stay in bed for another 20-30 minutes to let them have an effect and also to let your body become ‘fully awake’. When you do get up, do it slowly – any sudden jolting movement can trigger queasiness and nausea. It may sound silly but try it in stages. Sit up, then when you think you feel fine, swing your feet out of bed. Finally, again when you feel like it, slowly stand up.
- Strong odors are often to blame for triggering a bout of sickness. Just one whiff of a pan of frying sausages will find you heading for the bathroom. At home, this is easily remedied by banning the cooking of all pungent smelling foods. Incidentally, pungent food is mostly associated with spicy food which is also known to bring on sickness so a total ban may be the only way to go. This is more difficult to control when you’re out and about. One useful idea is to put a few drops of essential lemon oil on your hanky. When confronted with an unwelcome odor, you can simply breathe through the lemon and escape those queasy feelings.
- Certain foods also have the ability to soothe sickness. Try some ginger perhaps in a biscuit or candy or maybe in a herbal tea, the effect can be nothing short of miraculous. Another proven way which works for some is to increase your levels of vitamin B6. You can now get different flavored lollipops made with B6 which are good to suck on.
These are only a few natural morning sickness remedies and some may not work for you but, if you keep trying, you will eventually hit on one that does. You’ll be able to stop that wretched feeling once and for all.
