Home Remedies for Morning Sickness
Being pregnant is a glorious and wonderful adventure, except when morning sickness makes an expectant mother to miserable to enjoy the development of her baby. Fortunately, there are many home remedies for morning sickness that work quite well for most women who suffer from nausea, vomiting and the general feeling of queasiness so common in mothers-to-be with morning sickness.
Practical Home Remedies for Morning Sickness
You can often minimize bouts of morning sickness by doing a bit of sleuthing. Start keeping a diary of every instance of morning sickness, recording when it occurs (it isn’t limited to the morning hours, despite the name), what you were eating and what you could smell at the time. You can often stop morning sickness simply by avoiding the tastes and scents that churn up the nausea in your stomach. You may be surprised to find that foods that were always your favorites are now guaranteed morning sickness triggers!
Always keep small snacks available such as crackers, fruit or cheese so that you can nibble throughout the day. Studies have shown that always having just a little bit of food in your stomach can quell an upset stomach and make it easier for you to eat when you do sit down to a meal.
To prevent morning sickness when you get up in the morning, try having a light protein snack just before you go to bed. This gives your stomach something to digest and alleviates the production of too much acid in the stomach. If you wake up with morning sickness, try eating some dry crackers before you get out of bed. This is one of the simplest and most effective home remedies for morning sickness you can use. It seems that something dry and salty soothes the stomach so that you can get up and move around more easily.
Kitchen Home Remedies for Morning Sickness
Ginger tea and ginger ale are two popular drinks that are famous for settling an upset stomach. They work very well for morning sickness, but should be sipped in moderation. Peppermint tea can also soothe the stomach when you’re feeling queasy and has a nice, refreshing flavor that isn’t likely to disturb your sensitive stomach.
When you can’t brew up a cup of tea, try tucking a small piece of peeled ginger root into our mouth and sucking on it when you feel a wave of nausea coming on. You can also sip some water (the colder the better) with a bit of fresh lemon or lime juice squeezed into it. This is a great home remedy for morning sickness you can use even in a restaurant.
A bedtime remedy for morning sickness can be made by adding a teaspoon of apple cider vinegar and a tablespoon of honey to a cup of cold water and drinking it just before going to bed. This settles the stomach and lasts for hours so that you are less likely to wake up with an upset stomach (but if you do, don’t forget those salty crackers!)
If you enjoy milk, try dissolving some wheat germ (one or two heaping teaspoons) into some warm milk, then take two teaspoons of the mixture every hour. If you do this faithfully, your stomach won’t have the chance to be totally empty, which tends to cause more severe morning sickness. The wheat germ adds fiber to your diet and the milk soothes the stomach.
You can crush about a tablespoon of fennel seeds until nearly a powder and steep them in boiling water for ten minutes for another excellent home remedy for morning sickness. Keep the liquid in a jar after you’ve strained out the crushed seeds, and sip small amounts of the water throughout the day.
The final and best of all home remedies for morning sickness is time – in almost every case, morning sickness stops sometime toward the beginning of the second trimester. It usually stops as quickly as it started, much to the relief of many expectant mothers!
As with anything you do during pregnancy, check with your doctor to make sure he or she approves of any natural home remedy for morning sickness that you are considering.