What is morning sickness?
Morning sickness can range from mild, occasional nausea to severe, continuous, disabling nausea with bouts of vomiting. Symptoms may be worse in the morning, though they can strike at any time of the day or night. Although its cause is poorly understood, morning sickness has been linked to increasing estrogen levels, along with other hormone changes during early pregnancy.1 • The first signs of morning sickness usually develop during the month following the first missed menstrual period, when hormone levels increase. • Women carrying twins or more have more pronounced hormone increases and tend to have more severe morning sickness. There is no way of predicting how long your morning sickness will last, even if you have suffered through it before. Nausea and vomiting usually go away by 12 to 14 weeks of pregnancy. But in some cases, morning sickness can last well into a pregnancy.
It is not clearly understood what causes nausea and vomiting in pregnancy (commonly referred to as morning sickness). However more than one-half of all pregnant women experience symptoms of this condition early in pregnancy. Experts believe there may be a combination of factors that lead to morning sickness. It is thought that morning sickness may be caused by a change in hormones or metabolism during pregnancy. Since morning sickness occurs in so many women, the causes are probably related to some factor that is common to many pregnancies. Usually, nausea and vomiting begins between the first and second missed menstrual period and may last until the end of the third month of pregnancy. Sometimes nausea and vomiting will occur in the morning and last until later in the day, or it may occur in the evening or night. In other words, morning sickness can happen at any time of the day. Weight loss may occur if nausea and vomiting becomes severe. If vomiting is severe enough to result in deh
Morning sickness can range from mild, occasional nausea to severe, continuous, disabling nausea with bouts of vomiting. Symptoms may be worse in the morning, though they can strike at any time of the day or night. Although its cause is poorly understood, morning sickness has been linked to increasing estrogen levels, along with other hormone changes during early pregnancy.1 • The first signs of morning sickness usually develop during the month following the first missed menstrual period, when hormone levels increase. • Women carrying twins or more have more pronounced hormone increases and tend to have more severe morning sickness. There is no way of predicting how long your morning sickness will last, even if you have suffered through it before. Nausea and vomiting usually go away by 12 to 14 weeks of pregnancy. But in some cases, morning sickness can last well into a pregnancy.
Morning sickness can range from mild, occasional nausea to severe, continuous, disabling nausea with bouts of vomiting. Symptoms may be worse in the morning, though they can strike at any time of the day or night. Although its cause is poorly understood, morning sickness has been linked to increasing estrogen levels, along with other hormone changes during early pregnancy.1 • The first signs of morning sickness usually develop during the month following the first missed menstrual period, when hormone levels increase. • Women carrying twins or more have more pronounced hormone increases and tend to have more severe morning sickness. There is no way of predicting how long your morning sickness will last, even if you have suffered through it before. Nausea and vomiting usually go away by 12 to 14 weeks of pregnancy. But in some cases, morning sickness can last well into a pregnancy.
