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Why is my pregnancy making me so sick?
As if you weren’t baby crazy before this.
I’m serious. Between the exhaustion and vomiting, I am literally sick.
Think of it as helping the baby.
I’m the one who needs help.
Morning sickness drives food aversions that lower the risk of food borne illness that
pose a risk to the baby. There’s a correlation between morning sickness and a lowered risk
of miscarriage and stillbirth.
That does not make me feel better.
Around 2% of women have hyperemisis gravidarum, what I’d call super-sickness. They throw
up so much they get dangerously dehydrated and can’t do anything.
Can’t doctors do anything?
Bed rest, an IV, injections of drugs to stop the morning sickness.
My doctor recommended ginger ale. My friend recommended Preggy Pops.
In severe cases, you end up with medications and anti-nausea drugs they give cancer patients.
I hope it isn’t that severe.
You might need medication that acts like antacids, to control acid production. The buildup can
lead to vomiting, while the baby’s pressure on your stomach causes it to occur more often.
Someone recommended acupuncture, but I don’t want to add needles to this misery.
Talk to the doctor about pain relievers, anti-nausea medication and other things to solve this
problem. Don’t suffer through a pregnancy because everyone pushes you to endure.
Endurance is for parenting.
But I think that morning sickness that bad just leads to the woman suffering through
once, and getting her tubes tied afterward.
Why is it making me so sick?
You could blame it on the hormones, or you could blame it on the baby.
The hormones are because of the baby.
Then you’ll suffer through this stomach bug until you give birth, or get a good doctor.