A lot of pregnant women often have the same question in mind: when does morning sickness start? Morning sickness is one of the unfortunate symptoms a female would experience in her early days of pregnancy. The symptoms would include nausea and vomiting. Contrary to the term “morning sickness”, this does not occur in the mornings only, it can happen at any time of the day especially if a pregnant woman does not eat enough causing one’s blood glucose to drop resulting to nausea or vomiting.
So now back to the question at hand: when does morning sickness start? In majority of the cases, the morning sickness starts between the 4th week and the 6th week of pregnancy and would last until the 14th week or the 16th week. In order to understand this better, let’s look at a simple way to calculate this. It is important to remember the date of one’s last menstrual period. From this date, add 5 to 6 weeks and this would be the days when one would experience morning sickness when you are pregnant.
What Causes Morning Sickness
Morning sickness is when a pregnant woman starts to feel sick and dizzy at some points in her pregnancy. When does morning sickness start? It is experienced on the early stages of pregnancy on the first trimester. Four weeks after pregnancy, the hormones will start to multiply every three days. The abnormally high amount of hormones causes the pregnant woman to experience nausea and start to feel like vomiting. This usually starts on the 5th, 6th and 7th week of the pregnancy. This goes on and is expected to get worse until week 11. However, the hormones would eventually reach their peak and start to reduce and in the long run would level out making the nausea and vomiting, or popularly known as “morning sickness”, cease most probably on the 16th week of the pregnancy.
Signs and Symptoms that Usually Accompany Morning Sickness
Pregnancy involves abnormal increase in hormones. This causes a pregnant woman to experience sudden mood swings. Women become more emotional over small things or become angry all of a sudden. Other signs include backaches, darkening of the areola or the nipple and experiencing tenderness of the breasts. Pregnant women also often experience food cravings, excessive salivation and a constant feeling of exhaustion and sleepiness.
Home Remedy for Morning Sickness
Morning sickness cannot be prevented. However, there are some ways and means in which you can make it better or make it tolerable. Unfortunately there is no definite way to relieve one’s morning sickness. Here are some tips on how to handle or how to remedy one’s morning sickness.
• Adjusting one’s diet – To prevent that queasy feeling, start by eating small frequent meals. If you eat a full meal this might trigger you to feel like vomiting. Also, avoid fatty or fried foods. Always keep bland foods like crackers and breads nearby in case you get hungry. Identify the foods that make you sick and avoid eating them. And finally drink plenty of fluids.
• Ginger – Based on research, ginger is indeed an effective way to reduce morning sickness. Sipping hot ginger tea regularly or cooking dishes with ginger are ways to relieve morning sickness.
• Acupuncture – Sessions of acupuncture twice a week for two weeks often reduce episodes of nausea and vomiting.
• Other tips are pretty much self support:
o Upon waking up in the morning, get up slowly and avoid sudden movements that might trigger one to feel even sicker.
o Make yourself busy. The more you think about getting sick, the more you experience it.
o Wear comfortable clothes.
o Give yourself break times and take naps.
o Take prenatal vitamins daily.
When does morning sickness start? Know about it and try these ways to relieve yourself from it.
