How to Help Morning Sickness
If you ask moms-to-be what they wished they can skip during pregnancy, one answer you’ll likely get is morning sickness. This nauseating feeling and vomiting that occurs not only during morning, but throughout the day, can be unbearable and annoying. Morning sickness may be unavoidable, but there are some effective ways how you can ease it.
What You’ll Need:
Fresh ginger or ginger products
Lemon
Essential oils
Saltine chips
Crackers
Acupressure band
Try Ginger
A lot of moms swear that ginger helps alleviate the nausea that comes with pregnancy. Eat anything with ginger in it, such as ginger cookies, hard ginger candy or crystallized ginger. Drinking ginger tea is also great, calming your stomach naturally. Just break a piece of fresh ginger root, grate and put in hot water. There are also ginger capsules sold today. Check with your doctor first if taking this supplement is okay for you.
Suck On A Lemon
Munching on lemons or a product with lemon in it, can help curb morning sickness. The fresh smell takes away the nauseating feeling, and the flavor calms your stomach. Try munching on a sliced lemon or a lemon cookie or sucking on a lemon drop whenever morning sickness arises.
Sleep
Your body is working a lot for you and your baby’s health, so it’s only right to let it rest every now and then. Get enough sleep at night, and squeeze in a power nap or two in the daytime. Never underestimate the power of sleep. A mommy-to-be that’s more tired experiences worse morning sickness symptoms than one that gets enough rest.
Use Essential Oils
It sounds silly, but carrying a handkerchief with a few drops of an essential oil, like lemon or peppermint, can help make the nausea go away. Every time the feeling comes, breath through the handkerchief. If the morning sickness is caused by an unpleasant smell, this can help deviate it.
Munch On Chips And Crackers
Eating saltine crackers at night or as soon as you wake up in the morning can help avoid nausea. Keep them close by, so you can grab them as soon as you arise. Eat them while you’re still lying down, then rest a couple of minutes before you get up. It can be messy, but it works well.
According to many people, salty chips or salt and vinegar snacks also help lessen morning sickness. They remove excess saliva that can trigger nausea, and they also go down easy. Munch on these if you don’t have saltine crackers with you.
Adjust Your Eating Habits
What, how and when you eat can greatly affect the occurrence of morning sickness. Keep these eating tips in mind.
Don’t try new cuisines and food. Stick with what you like and know.
Eat often. Don’t leave your stomach empty.
Fatty and fried foods can irritate your system sometimes. Try eating bland foods whenever you feel nauseated.
Cold food smells less than warm food, making you gag less.
Drink water often. Pregnant women have to be hydrated all the time.
Eat protein-rich food items.
Wear An Acupressure Band
Remember that wristband people wear when they travel at sea to help alleviate sea sickness? Well, it also works great for morning sickness. This is a soft wristband made from cotton, where a button pushes against your acupressure point, just on your wrist’s underside. Just strap one on and notice you have less nausea spells. You can buy one at a drugstore.
If you don’t have one of these bands, try doing acupressure yourself. Press your thumb against a pressure point firmly. You can find it by going two finger widths up your arm from your wrist, just between the two bones in the middle of the tendons. If you find the right point, you’ll feel a faint pain, Hold your thumb there for a while until the nausea goes away.
You can’t skip morning sickness, but you go through it with less trouble than you expect. Follow these tips and have a beautiful and hassle-free pregnancy.