Re: [ozmidwifery] Morning sickness

[Honey Acharya]

I had severe vomiting and nausea throughout my pregnancy (hyperemesis) and through all my research I found out different things seem to work for different women.  Particulary in the case of which foods work. Megan's suggestions below are all really good ones. Just adding to those.    Keeping your frequent fluids and food seperate by at least half an hour.   One thing often talked about particulary for people so nauseaous they don't feel like eating anything -eating whatever you are craving (within reason) can help.   Sucking on lollies, mints, dried ginger or ginger lollies.   Vitamin B6 has had alot of research done on it - from what I found small frequent doses of like 25 or 50mg throughout the day can help. Ongoing its not suggested to take more than 150mg a day but for up to 4 weeks it seems to be safe to take up to 250mg if its really bad and you need the extra mg, but reduce it back down to 150mg a day after that period.   The other thing that you can check is zinc- you can do a simple zinc tongue test at a health food store or chemist.   Restavit sleep tablets  (doxylamine succinate) available over the counter at the chemist is a drug combined with taking B6 often used to help with nausea and vomiting particulary for women with really severe nausea. It is sold in canada in a tablet together for morning sickness. It is a drug so it depends on how you feel about taking anything like that - it has had more research done on it than almost any other drug in pregnancy and considered reasonably safe i think it is category B. Do some searches online and you'll find more info. I took it for part of my pregnancy it is recommended in small doses throughout the day also. up to maximum of 3 tablets (75mg). I quartered or halfed the tablets that way it didn't make me drowsy and kept a regular amount in my body throghout the day. My obstetrician was happy for me to take it, I ended up taking stronger drugs (zofran) as my vomiting got so severe. I tried homeopathy, accupuncture and sea bands and a host of other natural things but my sickness was so bad I felt I needed the medication.   Nicky Wesson in her book MORNING SICKNESS talks alot about lemons (even just smelling them might help) and zinc.   Also a website that is helpful is www.hyperemsis.org they have a whole host of suggestions.   best wishes Honey