So lets talk options...
-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!
Taken at 16 weeks