Whether you are a fan of Jersey Shore or not, you gotta admit that hearing Snooki talk about her pregnancy is beyond hysterical. I mean -- it's not exactly a huge shock that she's taking a pretty lighthearted approach to the whole thing considering that she really doesn't take herself too seriously. And despite the fact that she's had to ditch hitting the clubs and sucking back bottles of booze now that she's expecting, she isn't letting being pregnant rain on her parade. Snooks thinks pregnancy is pretty much one big party!

After the season finale of Jersey Shore last night, Snooki compared her bouts of morning sickness to being hungover. Hmm. I'd never really thought about it that way before, but I guess those two things are pretty similar.

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.

In the wake of the mass freakout over Amber Miller running a marathon while ginormously pregnant (and subsequently going into labor after she walked the last 13 miles), I keep thinking how impressed I am by her dedication—and how utterly foreign it is to me. I don't hold the opinion that she did anything unsafe, I just cannot for the life of me imagine what it's like to run a half marathon with a full term belly. (For one thing, I'm pretty sure I would have slowly but steadily peed myself the entire time.)

Also, I was way too busy to take the time to train for and participate in a marathon. You see, during both my pregnancies, I had one very important task that occupied nearly all of my waking hours and most of my nighttime dreams: food. Food, and the act of shoving mass quantities of it into my pregnant pie-hole.

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).

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 teas are beneficial to pregnant women!

I'm not just talking about the mint tea that was the only liquid I could keep down in the first trimester, but other teas. Both individual types and also blends can help cure what ails ya, from morning sickness and heartburn. There are types that can even help tone your uterus to prepare for birth.

Not to mention, they taste great.

Jewel is one of the most down to earth celebrities of recent time. She came from humble beginnings and has never seemed to let fame and fortune take her off onto a course she knew wasn't right for her. So it's not surprising that in pregnancy, she's also staying true to herself and what she knows to be right, but it is refreshing.

In a recent interview with Fit Pregnancy, she talks in depth about how pregnancy has changed her body, and how she's coped with the changes as she anticipates the arrival of her baby this summer. While she sees medical doctors, she's found listening to her own body and seeking natural remedies from naturopaths have worked best for her.

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 presence of Robert Pattinson was enough to cure her morning sickness! (Temporarily, at least.)