It's a question every green-around-the-gills pregnant woman has asked for decades: Why do they call it morning sickness when it lasts all day?? (Usually this question is asked while hunched over a toilet bowl.)
Of course, morning sickness actually is confined to the a.m. hours for some women, but for others, it's all queasy, all the time.
Even worse, in some women, this seasick feeling lasts for months. Like, a lot of months.
Such was the case for actress Bryce Dallas Howard (Eclipse, The Help, 50/50).
The poor girl says she just recently got over her "morning" sickness -- and she's six months pregnant! Ohhhh my lord. That's no fun, no fun at all.
I was one of those sick-all-day types, but with both pregnancies, my symptoms magically lifted at the end of the first trimester. Before then, yikes! I was white-knuckling it all the way. My son is almost 6, and to this day I can't listen to theme songs from TV shows my daughter liked to watch while her brother was a bun in the oven without feeling like I'm going to be violently ill.
So my heart goes out to Dallas Howard and other women who endure two or three trimesters of that torment. Too bad some of her fellow new-mom celebs didn't reach out with their advice on surviving morning sickness ... like Natalie Portman, who reportedly beat the bellyaches by indulging her craving for vinegar. Or Mariah Carey, who attempted to stop herself from throwing up by staying calm.
Or if I'd known Howard was suffering so, I could have told her about the "remedies" that worked for me (kind of): Sprite, fried calamari with lots of lemon juice, and hours spent on the couch watching marathons of America's Next Top Model.
Did you have "morning" sickness? How long did it last?
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My first pregnancy the "morning sickness" lasted for 38 weeks (which is coincidentally when my son was born, imagine that!). I had to take Zofran throughout the entire pregnancy, and if I tried to skip it, I would be nauseous all day long. Luckily, pregnancy number two was kinder to me with the "morning sickness", and it only lasted through week 24. So that was nice.
I had nausea pretty much all day, but I thankfully didn't vomit. I dry-heaved once, because I hadn't eaten anything in a few hours. I ate something immediately after that. ;) I'd say it ended around the 3-4 month mark.
With my first I had ALL DAY sickness, but it didn't even last until the end of the 1st trimester.
With this current pregnancy, I'm in the throes of it and it's so much worse. I'm actually on Zofran because it was so bad. I'm hoping it goes away soon. I can't do this for much longer.
I know women who have had nausea and vomiting outside of the 1st trimester. My sister in law threw up almost every day for the entire 9 months with her first, and a friend of mine threw up twice a day for the entire first four months. My friend actually ended up in the hospital for a few days because she couldn't keep anything - even a sip of water - down.
I am currently 20 weeks with my third and didn't have morning sickness past the first trimester with the first two, but this pregnancy I am still on Zofran for morning sickness. At least you know the sickness is for a good reason and you get a special precious baby at the end of it!
@Eva - I also eat foods based on seeing them again. For me, green apples & pickles are the WORST thing to throw up :p
my newest baby who is only 3 weeks, i was sick right till i was 3 days late and she finally came!