Morning Sickness Relief
Morning sickness relief can be found different ways for different people. Sometimes it’s awful, different people experience it to different degrees. Sometimes it starts right away sometimes it waits. Sometimes there’s even some comic relief in it.
My morning sickness with both children before the pregnancy test was positive and up to only a few days before childbirth. And unlike some people who only complained of nasuea, my condition was actual vomiting 5-10 times a day.
Solutions and non-starters for morning sickness:
Works all the time for me:
B6 vitamins – in prescription level doses
Prescription prenatal vitamins in prescription level doses
Works for some people, but not for me:
Ginger capsules
Ginger ale
Saltines
Doesn’t work for me or most of my friends:
Red raspberry root
Lemon water
Complaining about it to your significant other
Complaining about it to anyone else
Prayer
Morning Sickness Relief - Comic Relief, That Is.
It was more severe with my firstborn (a daughter), due to her being a girl. In many ways, it was worse with my second child (a boy), because I had a toddler under foot. Thus I couldn’t just lay down and recover, but had to get up and go be a Mommy while still feeling bad. And my daughter was almost two when I was pregnant, so I had all of a toddler’s questions and none of the understanding.
Shortly before her second birthday, I asked my daughter if she wanted a baby brother or a baby sister. The prompt reply was, “No!” I wondered if she understood the question. “Renee, do you want a baby brother?”
“No.”
“Do you want a baby sister?”
“No.”
“Do you want a baby bear?”
“Where?” Then she found one of her small “baby” bears and cuddled it. OK, we understood the concept of baby.
“Mommy is going to have another baby. Are you going to love the baby?”
“Huh?”
I then proceeded to try to explain that the new baby was in Mommy’s tummy. She lifted up my shirt and pointed at my stomach. “Belly?”
“That’s my belly.”
“Belly bu.” For belly button.
“The baby is in my belly.”
I don’t think this answer quite computed. “Are you throwing him up?”
But within a week, if asked where Mommy’s new baby was, she would reliably point at my stomach. She also began cuddling with her new cabbage patch doll, feeding it, carrying it, and carting it around. She’d also throw it on the ground and toss it about extensively. When I told her she’d hurt the baby, she’d pick it up, rock in her arms, and say, “Poor baby” in a sympathetic tone.
The more embarrassing part was morning sickness relief. Most mornings, I delayed eating until after I’d dropped my daughter off at daycare. One morning, it kicked in before we’d left home. My daughter came into the bathroom looking for me, thinking it was another round of hide and seek. She stared in confusion for a while. Then she pointed at me and asked, “What’s that?”
“Renee, Mommy’s sick. Go play with Daddy.”
“What’s that?”
Mommy being sick was a new experience, and hence far more interesting than playing with Daddy. “Mommy doesn’t feel good. Go get Daddy.”
“What’s that?”
The disadvantage of a toddler is that they’ll keep asking the same question until they get an answer that computes. She wanted a name of an object or action, and I was giving orders. “It’s a toilet.”
OK, a new noun was provided. She then raced off to find a toy to play with.
My most embarrassing moment with my daughter in public was while she was toilet training. Her teachers sent her to the potty. She then leaned over and spit in it before using it. The teachers asked why. “That’s what Mommy does!”
After two weeks of this, the teachers then asked me why I spit in the toilet. “I don’t!”
“Your daughter says you do it all the time,” I was challenged.
“I have morning sickness, and she can’t come to school until I’ve found morning sickness relief. Then the force of that makes me have to use the bathroom. She’s probably imitating me.”
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