How to Deal with All-Day "Morning" Sickness

So you've peed on a stick and found out you are pregnant. Congratulations! There is no doubt you are a happy mother-to-be. But a week or two later, many pregnant start to feel nausous. "This must be morning sickness", you think. However, you begin to realize that it does not go away once noon hits. It lasts all day long and into the night! And for many moms, it is no walk in the park. For some moms, they vomit so much that they need ot be hospitalized. I am one of the moms who have puked 24/7 the entire 9 months. I never needed to be hospitalized, thankfully, but it was pretty bad. After a few pregnancies I do know some tricks, and am passing them along to moms who need them!

Ok - let's talk about the foods that supposedly help. Someone has probably suggested saltines and ginger ale to you. Ginger has been known to calm the stomach, and saltines being dry and tasteless are often good for upset stomachs. I have found that yes, these work, but not all the time. But ginger alse tends to leave an aftertaste that sends me brushing my teeth. And the toothbrush makes me gag, which starts the cycle all over. The same goes for the "Preggie Pops" and hard candies they sell at baby and maternity stores. These candies promise to settle stomachs. They fist of all have never worked for me - and if they ever would, the sugar coating they leave on my teeth needs to be brushed off immediately. I can not stand sugary aftertastes in pregnancy so these are on my list of things not to bother with.