Morning Sickness Symptoms
You will be able to identify morning sickness if you are aware of the morning sickness symptoms. If not, you might mistake the symptoms to mean something else and start getting unnecessary thoughts in your mind. Of course, anything that you find to be out of order should mean consulting your doctor. But then if you are already aware that the symptoms could just mean morning sickness and nothing dangerous, you won’t panic and can keep yourself calm which is very important and especially so during pregnancy.
Morning sickness can hit you anytime
The first thing that you need to understand about the morning sickness symptoms
is that they can occur at any time of the day. Don’t just go by the name and
come to the conclusion that when you observe the symptoms in the afternoon or
the evening, they are not related to morning sickness. They just might be.
So what are the symptoms?
A sudden feeling of nausea that happens especially in the early hours of the
morning when you move from the state of sleep to the waking state may indicate
morning sickness. You might throw up or feel like throwing up. There is also a
tiredness that encourages you just lie down or sit down and stop doing whatever
it is you are doing. Other symptoms include general body ache inclusive of
headaches, backaches and aching limbs, swollen breasts, yearning for a certain
type of food, cramps, lots of salivation and an increased tendency to visit the
bathroom. These might be extremely pronounced for some women with regular bouts
of unbearable nausea while some others might be lucky to get away with milder
morning sickness symptoms. In some cases it gets unbearable with heavy vomiting,
signs of dehydration etc. in which case your doctor might advise intravenous
injection of liquids and salts.
How prone are you to morning sickness?
Well, statistics show that about 50 – 80% of pregnant women show symptoms of
morning sickness. That is a considerably huge percentage which means that there
is a real good chance of you observing morning sickness symptoms. However, for
some people the symptoms might show up intermittently, some others might observe
them for a period of about 2-3 months in the early stages of pregnancy and they
might be more prolonged for someone else.
Some believe that the absence of morning sickness symptoms might be abnormal
during pregnancy. This is totally untrue and you have no reason to worry if
another carrying woman you know is showing some symptoms while you are not.