Morning sickness, also called pregnancy sickness, usually affects women in their first trimester of pregnancy. Some women however, are plagued with nausea and vomiting throughout their entire pregnancy. The symptoms can become severe enough to warrant medical intervention. According to information found online, there may be relief in sight for pregnant women trying to keep [...]
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Have you ever heard of the word synergy? Basically it means that 2 forces combine and the sum of their forces together is greater than the sum of their individual effects. Cool word…sometimes.
This weekend, I had “pregnancy synergy”: I got a virus which my toddler shared with me. The synergy between the effects of my [...]
Tags: diet, morning sickness, Pregnancy, synergy, virus
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I was hanging out at my house one day, and started feeling odd. It’s hard to define the feeling, but there was certainly something different. So I headed out to the drugstore and bought a pregnancy test.
I got home, peed on the stick, and was startled to see it turning pink. My dog had followed [...]
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Just when I thought I was out of the woods, it struck. That horrible, nothing sounds good to eat, nothing sounds good to drink, I think I?ll just lie down right here and wait for it to be over feeling also known as morning sickness. Except my morning sickness (as is the case with most) [...]
Tags: Health, morning sickness, nausea, Nutrition, Pregnancy
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Most of us have morning sickness to some extent. It’s no fun whatsoever, but it usually goes away around the end of the first trimester, and is considered by many doctors to be a sign of a healthy, normal pregnancy.
But sometimes normal morning sickness becomes anything but. Fiona Shaw, a mom from Britain, was so [...]
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