-Preggie pops and Drops
Basically a vitamin B supplement, but a nicer way to take it. Morning sickness symptoms can be increased when you have a lack of vitamin B in your system. Very normal since you now have a little bean sucking it our of you...Bottom line, take a vitamin B complex of some variety; this is one many women like and has natural ingredients. B-Natal and other companies also make a version of the pop.
-don't want the sweet? try chewy vitamin B supplements if the pill is to hard to swallow.
-Morning Sickness Magic
This is again using vitamin B complex, but with a few other things. The ingredients include ginger, red raspberry leaf and extra floic acid. I would be aware of how much you are taking if you can manage to get your prenatal vitamin down as well...you could be getting a lot of folic acid!
-Ginger
Great stomach soother. Comes in many different forms, including candies, bonbons, loly pops and more!
- Teas and aromatherapy
There are lots of teas out there, just read the back and see the list of ingredients before buying...they may be more hype then real soothers in there.
Aromatherapy is used for so many things, energy booster, calming, nausea, you name it!
one example of aromatherapy (but you can find more at your local whole foods or health food store)
http://www.morningsicknesshelp.com/queaseease.html
-Accupuncter and Reflexology
Both really great techniques if other options are not working. Both very relaxing and have lots of health benefits besides preventing morning sickness. To learn more about the techniques and benefits try out
these links:
http://www.tai.edu/NCCAcupuncture.aspx - a local teaching clinic and great community resource.
Reflexology
http://www.naturalhealers.com/qa/reflexology-massage.html
A fun chart
http://www.reflexology-research.com/whatis.htm
http://reflexologychart.info/history.html
-Unisom
25 mg of doxylamine succinate (Costco sells a generic for cheap!)
So why 12 weeks?
At 12 weeks your amazing body dose a few great things. Prior to this time your body was producing the amount of progesterone needed from the cyst (or corpus luteum) left over after ovulating. For normal healthy women this is the perfect amount of hormone to sustain a pregnancy until the placenta has developed a health blood supply and well established in the uterine wall. Yup, you guessed it, 12 weeks is when the placenta takes over the production of progesterone and all the side effects related to the hormone being produced by the corpus lutuem resolves...or so the theory goes, lol. Some women are just more sensitive to progesterone then others and the symptoms can last longer, and for others the whole pregnancy. My frist pregnancy I didn't get relief until ~18wks, this time right around 12 weeks, it was amazing the change...I thought, yup the placenta just kicked in. It is really awesome what our bodies can do as women and how different each pregnancy really is!
