What Causes Pregnancy Morning Sickness?
No one knows for sure what causes pregnancy morning sickness but the theories that currently exist say that a combination of rapid changes occurring in your body plays a big part in your queasiness.
It would appear that the rapid increase in hCG (the pregnancy hormone) and estrogen play a part in the appearance of morning sickness. You start feeling the effects of pregnancy morning sickness once it raises to a certain level and many start feeling relief from the morning sickness around the time that the levels of hCG start to decline in your system.
Another change that occurs when you are pregnant is a heightened sense off taste and smell. Smells and tastes that once were appealing take on a whole new effect. Smells that once had you going Mmmmmm! now have you going Ewwwwww! and, if your pregnancy morning sickness is bad enough, running for the nearest bathroom. It is thought that the increase of estrogen is responsible for this change.
It is also thought that women who have a weak stomach or are prone to throwing up (due to stress, illness, birth control pills, etc) can experience pregnancy morning sickness more often and severely than women who have an "iron stomach".
In the first half of pregnancy, feeling sick or nauseated is quite common, as is vomiting. The degree of nausea and vomiting differs from woman to woman.
You may just feel a little sick in the morning and throw up once, or your may suffer from constant nausea and frequent vomiting throughout the day.
For most women, the nausea stops after the first three months of pregnancy. For a few, however, it is still a problem after four or five months.
Also nausea can be caused by a congested liver. More and more babies are being born "jaundiced". Yellow bile that is vomited in the morning during the first weeks of pregnancy is often a sign of liver congestion. For this type of morning sickness you can use (Kelp, dandelion, Alfalfa)1. kelp is high in vitamins, minerals and trace minerals. There have been tests showing it guards against fetus abnormalities. 2. dandelion has been used to prevent or correct anemia and is an excellent liver cleanser as well as being high in vitamin and mineral content. 3. Alfalfa contains 8 essential amino acids of good digestion and helps nausea during pregnancy. Also high in Vitamin, Mineral content.
Vitamin B6, taken 200 mg. for 10 days and then 5-9 mg. every day for the rest of the pregnancy , has controlled morning sickness for many women. Taking this with a B Complex vitamin and a C enhances assimilation.
Clove tea (common cooking spice, use whole cloves) steep 1 tsp to 1 cup boiling water
Around half of all pregnant women feel sick and vomit during early pregnancy. So, it can be considered a normal part of pregnancy. It is often called morning sickness, but symptoms can occur at any time - not just in the morning. Symptoms are mild in most cases. Feelings of sickness (nausea) typically come and go. They usually last between 1 and 4 hours at a time. Some women have more severe symptoms and have frequent and/or longer bouts of vomiting. You may just have nausea and no vomiting.
Sickness and vomiting usually start before the 9th week of pregnancy. In 9 out of 10 women, the symptoms have gone by 16 weeks of pregnancy. However, some pregnant women have some sickness throughout all of their pregnancy.
The exact cause of the sickness is not known. It is probably due to the hormone changes of pregnancy. Nausea and vomiting tend to be worse in twin and multiple pregnancies where hormone changes are more pronounced.
Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG): This hormone rises rapidly during early pregnancy. No one knows how hCG contributes to nausea, but it's a prime suspect because the timing is right: Nausea tends to peak around the same time as levels of hCG. What's more, conditions in which women have higher levels of hCG, such as carrying multiples, are associated with higher rates of nausea and vomiting.
•Estrogen: This hormone, which also rises rapidly in early pregnancy, is another suspect. (It's possible that other hormones play a role as well.)
•An enhanced sense of smell and sensitivity to odors. It's not uncommon for a newly pregnant woman to feel overwhelmed by the smell of a bologna sandwich from four cubicles away, for example. Certain aromas instantly trigger the gag reflex. (Some researchers think this may be a result of higher levels of estrogen, but no one knows for sure.)
•A tricky stomach. Some women's gastrointestinal tracts are simply more sensitive to the changes of early pregnancy. Also, some research suggests that women with a stomach bacterium called Helicobacter pylori are more likely to have severe or long-lasting nausea and vomiting. Not all studies confirm this link, though.
Some researchers have proposed that certain women are psychologically predisposed to having nausea and vomiting during pregnancy as an abnormal response to stress. However, there's no conclusive evidence to support this theory.Of course, if you're constantly nauseated or vomiting a lot, you certainly may begin to feel more stressed!
