Pregnancy is a game-changer. Not only does your life change forever, but your day-to-day becomes much different. One of the most stressful things can often be how hard pregnancy can be on the body. Sure you may be glowing, but those aches and pains, heartburn, and hemorrhoids are making you cranky. To top it all off, you can't just go taking a lot of medicine since many things aren't safe or the effects aren't really known when it comes to the baby inside your belly.
If you're planning on going a more natural or home-based route, or just want some easy pregnancy-safe OTC meds, I've got some suggestions approved by doctors.
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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.)
I adore tea. In fact, I love it about as much as I love coffee (which certainly says something!), and we have a huge stash of many different kinds. So imagine how pleased I was while pregnant to learn how many different types of 
I was shocked when an August heatwave hit during my third trimester with my son and my early pregnancy queasiness came back full force. "I thought this was only supposed to happen in the beginning!" I wailed to my OB. "It's the heat," she explained. "This isn't uncommon." Bummer. Everybody talks about pregnancy being a time of ravenous hunger and strange tastes, but hot summer temps can zap your appetite even when you're eating for two. Of course, you still have to keep eating (and drinking -- whenever I got dehydrated I would have a Braxton-Hicks attack strong enough to make me double over in the middle of the sidewalk!). After much experimentation, I found these snacks to be the easiest to stomach -- hope they help to get you through the summer, too!
If only Robert Pattinson had been around when I was pregnant! (Well, I guess he was, but he was younger than I'd like to admit ... not sure if he'd even made it to the Cedric Diggory portion of his career yet.) Anyway, I'm regretting the absence of R Pattz from my gestational days because pregnant Twilight actress Bryce Dallas Howard (Victoria) made a shocking discovery at the MTV Movie Awards: The mere
All I wanted to know during my first trimester of both pregnancies was "Why do they call it morning sickness?" Whether you're queasy only when you wake up or 24/7, there's no question that morning sickness is one of the most unpleasant aspects of pregnancy. If you've asked your obstetrician how to ease the symptoms, you've probably gotten the standard "eat a few crackers before you get out of bed" advice and not much else, unless you're so violently ill that IV fluids come into play.
Over the weekend, a friend of mine went public with the news that she's pregnant. She and her husband are confident that they are having a girl, based on the fact that she was so sick throughout her first trimester. Once upon a time, I might have bought that logic, but I have four other friends who are having babies this year, all of whom were sure their morning sickness indicated extra estrogen, but all of whom are having boys. And I know several women who were sure their easy pregnancies meant they had a son in the oven, and ended up with a little lady. True, most who had it easy ended up with boys, but not across the board.
I am putting it out there. The First Lady of France is hot. So is our first lady -- Michele Obama is one gorgeous woman. But, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, the wife of Nicolas Sarkozy, former model, is really hot. What is she not so hot at: answering the questions about