Top 5 Morning Sickness Misconceptions
Morning sickness is just one of the early symptoms of pregnancy. Not every pregnant woman will have severe morning sickness, but most women will experience some degree or another of pregnancy-induced nausea. Still, there are plenty of myths that have cropped up regarding morning sickness. Here are five of the most common.
- Morning sickness happens in the morning. While some women who have pregnancy-induced nausea experience it in the morning, this isn’t necessarily the case. Many women have their “morning” sickness in the early afternoon, and some even have it in the evening.
- Morning sickness starts immediately after conception. While many women claim to experience morning sickness right away, most of the reliable data available suggests that morning sickness sets in sometime between weeks 4 and 8, and lasts through the 12th week or so of pregnancy. The timing is likely due to levels of Human Growth Hormone, which tends to see its most dramatic rise during this part of the first trimester of pregnancy.
- Morning sickness can’t be treated. This is nonsense. There are plenty of treatments for morning sickness, from certain anti-nausea medications to various herbal and natural remedies. No woman should have to deal with severe morning sickness if she doesn’t want to. Talk to your doctor before taking anything, but realize that you’ve got options, too.
- Morning sickness leads to miscarriage. There is no scientific data to suggest any correlation between morning sickness and miscarriage. Vomiting, especially during the early days of pregnancy when morning sickness occurs, does not pose a threat to your baby. In fact, some recent research suggests that miscarriages are actually higher in women who haven’t experienced some degree of morning sickness, although this isn’t yet certain.
- Morning sickness is related to gender. While some women will swear up and down that they experienced morning sickness while pregnant with a boy and didn’t experience it with a girl, these are just anecdotes. They don’t prove anything. Here again, there is no solid research to suggest any link between morning sickness and gender.
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