Morning Sickness - How Did That Evolve?
By Pigglies
@Pigglies (9329)
United States
February 21, 2007 9:21am CST
To me it seems like morning sickness would be detrimental to a pregnant woman. She's trying to get all the nutrients she can, so it seems odd that pregnant women can't keep food down. It seems like that would be something that would have been weeded out by evolution.
Anyone want to try to explain that one?
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@lauriefnp (5109)
• United States
21 Feb 07
This is an interesting thought, and it is amazing that the human body has not been able to overcome this problem. The nausea of morning sickness is caused by the sudden surge in the hormone HCG which maintains the pregnancy. This is why the morning sickness is generally worse early in the pregnancy and tends to improve as time goes on and the body gets used to the stabilized levels of the hormone. For the majority of women, morning sickness is actually more of a nuisance than a problem. Most women are able to work with it and can keep down enough food to keep themselves and their babies healthy until it resolves. In severe cases, a woman may need intravenous feedings to provide nutrition until it resolves.
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@GnosticGoddess (5626)
• United States
22 Feb 07
laurifnp summed it up for me. I never had it that serve that I couldn't keep food down. It was very much a nuisance to me. I tried all sorts of things to help ease it. And the things I that would ease it some was usually different every pregnancy. And a couple pregnancies I did have any at all.
@cavywench (69)
• United States
7 Mar 07
Interesting topic.
Them dang hormonies! This could be why doctors shove those awful prenatal vitamins at you too, to make sure that mom and baby are getting the nutrients they need.
But I burped those up too! ugh! Remembering back when I was pregnant after the morning sickness went away I more than made up for tossing everything I ate!
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@Pigglies (9329)
• United States
7 Mar 07
I've seen babies were the moms didn't have good nutrition and didn't take vitamins, it's really sad. They give those because a lot of moms don't have good nutrition, and things like folic acid especially are essential. One of the baby cadavers actually had no top to the head, you could just see a brain. It was so sad.
Morning sickness is so nasty. I wish people would stay home from work while they're sick like that. This one girl at our work coughs and coughs and I'm like, "I hope she doesn't throw up in here, because I will have a chain reaction." It's gross! I am so not wanting to get pregnant after seeing how sick people get.
Although, my mom tells me that she wasn't all that sick with me mostly. But at work she felt sick because they worked with smelly chemicals.
@Pigglies (9329)
• United States
9 Mar 07
We're pretty nice here. We don't wear excessive amounts of perfume (and I've stopped wearing it). And then we throw out our trash elsewhere after lunch so the room doesn't smell like food.
I am totally grossed out by how much pregnant people want to talk about vomit.
I definitely don't want to work when/if I'm pregnant. And if I get my girlfriend pregnant, I'd make sure I could provide for her so that she wouldn't have to work unless she really wanted to.
@cavywench (69)
• United States
9 Mar 07
I had morning sickness, but later in the day - I worked 2nd shift. I worked at a hotel and I was fine until I got to work. Then the smell of food cooking got to me bad. I could NOT handle the smell of cooking meat. Ugh. Then I'd go home and one of my room mates would be frying something up...off the the bathroom I went!
But I took my vitamins AND my Rolaids and got through it.
@Justme2007 (1848)
• United States
22 Feb 07
I can't answer that but I know when I was pregnant with my twin I was sick all day long may have threw up a few times but not much. But sometimes just the smell,sight of food made me sick morning, noon, night.
@wmg2006 (5381)
• United States
23 Feb 07
Yes you would think we could evolve above this. I did not have any sickness with my son, but I carried a little girl for 6 months and was sick all day and night for over a month. If it is just morning sickness you will not deprive yourself of all the nutrients and vitamins you need to carry the baby. I was also on some powerful vitamins when carrying my son, so I am sure the body knows when you are harming the fetus. It would be nice for some though if it just never happened. :)
