Need ways to alleviate morning sickness
I am in the throes of morning sickness with my fourth and I’m looking for advice. I have 24 hour nausea, but I find a little short-term relief when I’m able to eat something. I’d love some suggestions on things to add to my smoothies that won’t be too strong tasting but will have some staying power. I have to choke anything down so if I’m going to do it, I need it to be worth it!
I’ve heard ginger can help.
I already put a tiny bit of ginger in my smoothies. If you like ginger, you might try really ramping it up, since it’s common for combating nausea. Or maybe even have something with ginger in it first, and then the smoothie?
The mildest greens I have tried are lettuce and spinach. I made a smoothie with rainbow chard, and it smelled absolutely awful. It tasted great, but the smell, yuck. If I was pregnant, that would have done me in.
I swore by organic loose leaf raspberry tea and boiled fresh ginger when i felt nauseated during my raw pregnancy
Homeopathy worked well for me, enough for me to function, anyways.
Nux vomica was what worked most of the time for my symptoms. If vomiting was imminent, Ipecacuanha worked wonders. I would be hunched over the toilet, and within milliseconds of taking Ipecacuanha I would feel much better and lose the need to vomit.
Here’s a good site to help you match up your morning sickness symptoms to a homeopathic remedy:
http://www.publix.com/wellness/notes/Display.do?id=Homeo&childId=Morning_Sickness_hm
Also, I noticed I could keep cold things down, such as popcicles, better than many other foods. Good luck, hopefully it will be just a few more weeks. With the two pregnancies I’ve had so far I’ve been totally done at 14 weeks.
HI, my wife was having a lot of nausea, from health challages, and a friend recommened me to try Tahitian Noni in her smoothie, so that she
couldn’t smell the noni. So i started to put a teaspoon in at first to she how she reacted, and she seam to be doing ok. Then over a week or two,
I added two teaspoons, and this helped her nausea.It also helped her with other conditions. I hope this helps you.Try it, and if it doesn’t work send it back to the company and they will refund your money. I left a website for you, http://www.nonilove.com Thank you God Bless.
It’s good to cut back on fat, something to do with the liver and bile during early pregnancy.
I’m in the middle of morning sickness, too. Although not raw, I bought some ginger chews at the health food store and I even use those nausea/seasick bracelets. Both seem to work pretty well.
During my first trimester I had to eat very, very frequently or else I got sick. I was able to gulp down the Vitamineral Greens drink that Robyn recommends if I had it first thing in the morning, then I could only handle starchy carbs so I kept granola or granola bars with me at all times, ate high fiber cereal with almond milk in the morning, ate toast for lunch sometimes managed to have a salad or green smoothie (mostly fruit though, just a couple handfuls of spinach), usually had toast or potato for dinner and tried to eat more salad, usually just the baby lettuce mix, couldn’t handle much else. For me the main thing was I couldn’t let myself get hungry or eat large meals because both of those things triggered the nausea, I also had to eat low fat during that time. So I really was nibbling non-stop all day.
Thank God it wore off around Week 13 and now at Week 15 I can nearly eat like a normal person again! And am loading up my smoothies with about 5 handfuls of greens again (still mostly spinach, a little bit of kale, can’t do much else or it bothers my system).
I could not drink green smoothies in the first trimester, really. Here’s what I’m doing now for green smoothies: http://oceanskater.blogspot.com/2009/08/my-most-recent-green-smoothie-creation.html
Have you tried any cleansing or homeopathic remedies for the sickness?