morning sickness
Nausea: A Good Thing?
by Sheri Wallace

Geena Williams was excited about her first pregnancy. She was carrying twins and reading everything she could get her hands on to learn what to expect during pregnancy. But nothing she read gave her a clue about how bad her morning sickness would be. "I threw up several times a day for the first seven months. Toward the middle of the pregnancy I felt panicked and hopeless. I could hardly imagine how I would survive until the end. I would often awaken in the middle of the night, not to go to the bathroom, but to throw up. I would creep back to bed and cry out of sheer desperation."

Geena is not alone in her complaints of morning sickness. Most women complain of it sometime during their pregnancy, and although there are some treatments, often it is simply left to run its course. Would women like Geena find it easier to bear if they knew it was nature's way of getting their baby enough nourishment? That is the claim of researchers in a new study from the United Kingdom. (May, 2000 - Obstetrics and Gynecology)