Baby daddies of the world rejoice. What I always thought was just a myth perpetuated by men may actually be true. Science says the best cure when it comes to treating and preventing morning sickness during a woman's pregnancy is ... semen.
According to Gordon Gallup, a SUNY-Albany psychologist, the best way to cure and prevent morning sickness is to ingest some semen -- either orally or vaginally. Yes, he IS a man, but the research behind it seems pretty solid.
There's a catch though -- it can't be just ANY semen. It has to be the semen of the biological father of your baby in order to work. In fact, if you ingest semen of a man who is NOT the baby's biological father, your morning sickness could actually become more severe. Hear that cheating pregnant women?
According to Salon, Gallup found that the "more exposure a woman has to her partner’s semen—that is to say, the more often she’s inseminated prior to conception and during the early stages of the pregnancy—the more tolerance her body develops to his genetic material. This tolerance generalizes to a tolerance for the fetus and leads to successful maternal immunosuppression—and subsequently allows her to feel less like an infected zombie with serious stomach troubles."
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In other words: The more sperm from the baby's daddy before and during the pregnancy, the better you should feel. That means risk factors for morning sickness include: condom use, infrequent insemination, and not being in a committed relationship. Interesting ... and it's totally making me question my friends who had severe morning sickness.
Of course, it's still just a theory, but there seems to be enough science to support at least giving it a try. So depending on your ... uh, tastes, this may or may not be good news. For some, knowing that relief and prevention maybe so easily accessible could be a godsend. For others the very thought of it may make them gag. For men, it's pretty much just a win-win situation.
Have you ever/would you use semen as an antidote to morning sickness?
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Comments 55
Wait... research by a psychologist?... I'll stick with REAL science, thanks! (Yes... I just dissed psychology. As an engineer, I find Freud laughable and a bit of a perv...) You tell me that there are some chemical properties that make the stomach muscles relax or even pheromones that aid in digestion... ok, I'm more inclined to believe it. But tell me that my body needs to ingest semen to normalize... and I'll believe that there is a psychologist who is thinking with the wrong head.
Im sorry, I laughed at some of the 'ew' or 'thats gross' comments. Maybe i just have an odd sense of humor, but I don't see anything gross with people ingesting the stuff. Whatever floats people's boats is what I say.
"Hear that cheating pregnant women?" Not all women who are pregnant with a child that is not biological to their partner are cheaters. Some used donor sperm (so their husband's sperm is no good, even though he IS the intended father). Or perhaps she got pregnant with one guy and he ditched her, and another guy came along and is willing to accept the pregnancy. Or she was raped"...THANK YOU ZIZZLER..and I think you should say significant other or partner rather than husband...this article is just poorly written and stupid, and it could have been funny...risk factors for morning sickness..CONDOM USE? okay...dumb...waste of my life, do these people actually write for a living or are they just randoms...?
Pretty sure most women are not going to go for much oral during morning sickness.
I didn't have much morning sickness during my pregnancies and did this and had lots of sex. That being said, his work seems fundamentally flawed. I would not give this advice to someone who gets morning sickness. I don't even know why I barely had morning sickness. Even though I did give lots of blowjobs and swallowed plenty and had lots of sex, I strongly doubt it was because of what he claims.
@AdrianzStar: Modern Psychology is as much a science as engineering. Freud is not seriously considered in psychology. The best that real psychologists can say about Freud is that he got psychology into thinking about how the id, ego, and superego explain human behavior. Back in his time, modern psychology didn't exist. What did exist was structuralism, which was based on experiences.
Lol, what a crock of bull
Ugh. No way. That was the FARTHEST thing from my mind at that time.
What if you start to hurl during the act? Talk about a mood killer.
Yeah...didn't work for me. Nice try though.
Yeah, that's crap! No matter how much sex we had with my first one, it was horrible for 5 1/2 months. I was hospitalized with the 2nd one because it was even worse, and spent the rest of my entire pregnancy on zofran! Not true!!!