Ease PREGNANCY SICKNESS

Nausea doesn’t make for the best of starts in pregnancy – but our expert tips can help you cope

WORDS LOUISA PRITCHARD

Your first trimester is an incredibly exciting time but, for some of us, it can also be marked by waves of nausea and mad dashes to the loo to be sick. Rest assured, though, if you’re struggling with pregnancy sickness, you’re definitely not alone. ‘Around 70 to 80 per cent of women will get some form of vomiting and nausea during pregnancy,’ says Caitlin Dean from Pregnancy Sickness Support. ‘That means 20 to 30 per cent of women won’t get any sickness – and that’s nothing to worry about either. For normal pregnancy sickness (I avoid calling it morning sickness because for so many women the sickness isn’t in the morning!), it usually starts around six to eight weeks, and eases off around 12-14 weeks. For more severe cases, it…

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Mother & Baby (Digital) - 1 Issue, November 2019

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