Morning sickness is the pits.
Like...THE. WORST.
You find out you're pregnant and you are so excited and ecstatic for about 5 seconds and then your morning sickness kicks in and you feel like you want to die.
All day.
Every day.
For weeks.
I know there is that select group of individuals that is very positive about it, saying that they are thankful for being sick, thankful that it means the baby is growing and is healthy.
While I am thankful, I am not one of those people.
I HATE being sick.
Being nauseous and throwing up....I hate it with an unrealistic passion.
I have been doing a lot of research lately on health.
We are trying to eat more natural, and be very conscience about what we are putting into our bodies.
So after my last pregnancy I really went to researching "natural" cures for morning sickness.
We always hear about:
ginger
lemon
peppermint
unisom and b6
the list goes on and on...
If you are anything like me though, you know that none of them really work.
Although I will say that I never tried any prescriptions or medicine offered by my doctor.
I just never felt right about, that was a decision I made.
Who knows, maybe they would have helped.
I was very sick with my last pregnancy.
While I stopped throwing up by 18-19 weeks, I was still nauseous off and on until (and even after) delivery.
I knew that I had to do something so that my next pregnancy wasn't quite so miserable.
So I researched and researched and came across
this post.
And it made a lot of sense to me.
So I looked more into boosting Magnesium stores in your body, and came across several other posts of women who had similar experiences.
Here is another good one.
While I could try and explain how this helps with morning sickness symptoms solely on my limited knowledge - I will probably just confuse you more, so instead I will just link up to those posts that know exactly what they are talking about and explain it really well.
I will admit I was a little skeptical at first.
I ordered myself some Magnesium Oil back in January and would use it spontaneously - and by spontaneously I mean like once or twice a week.
Then when I found out I was pregnant I stopped using it, because I didn't know if it was ""safe." Even though all the research I had done said that it was completely fine, even beneficial.
I talked to my doctor who OK'd it...and then I began using it on a much more regular basis.
Knowing what I know now, I should have been using it much more regularly PRIOR to getting pregnant, because once you are pregnant your body changes and the absorption of the Magnesium changes.
So let me fast forward to how this pregnancy has been different.
With Reagan I felt GREAT until about 8 weeks...and then I was sick pretty much the rest of the time.
This time around I started getting sick at 5 WEEKS!
To say I freaked out was an understatement. I was certain that this pregnancy was going to be lightyears worse than my last, because I started getting sick so much sooner.
So that is when I started rubbing the Magnesium Oil on my like it was my job.
I kept thinking that it was going to get worse.
I had nausea off and on, but it never really peaked.
I kept expecting it to get worse, or for me to be laying on the couch day after day feeling like death, but nothing really changed.
There were 2 or 3 days where I did feel really sick and threw up, but they were all on Monday's after a really long and busy weekend up north...and guess what? I had left my Magnesium Oil at home...so I had gone all weekend without it.
Hmm.
At first when my morning sickness wasn't going anywhere, just kind of had some nausea off and on, I was a little nervous. I kept thinking something was wrong, because I wasn't getting SO SICK like before. However, I definitely wasn't lacking pregnancy symptoms. I still have an awful gag reflex, nothing really sounds that good to me, strong odors I try to steer clear of...and I have been MUCH more tired this time around. So even though the nausea and vomiting seems to be "fixed" I still definitely feel pregnant.
Now I completely understand that every pregnancy is different...and maybe I just didn't get as sick this time around, but I honestly don't think so. You better believe that I will be using my Magnesium Oil regularly prior to a next pregnancy.
I don't claim to know much, but I honestly do believe this is working for me.
If it is the "cure" that we have all been looking for, I wanted to be sure to share it with you!
Because morning sickness really is the pits...
This is the bottle that I use.
Magnesium Oil makes it sounds like an oil...which is odd to put an oil on your skin, but its not really an oil, but it does kind of have an odd "oily" texture. I just typically rub it on my legs after I shower. Although a lot of sources say that if you are sensitive that you may need to dilute or something, because it can have a burning sensation. I purposely bought a "sensitive" more diluted kind for that reason, and it worked great up until the time that I used it right after shaving my legs and OH.MY.OUCH! My legs were on fire! So I learned not to do that again. I know you can take it in pill form as well, but your body absorbs it better by topically being rubbed and absorbed through your skin, so that is the route that I chose to go.
I still have some nausea off and on. Actually the last two days I have been more "sick." But I use that term lightly because I wasn't throwing up and was still able to function fine. I am hoping that as my second trimester draws near that my energy will return and the spontaneous nausea that I have will completely go away! I guess we will see...only time will tell!
Let me just add a disclaimer so no one goes all crazy on me that this has just been my experience. I urge you to do your own research, and I would love to know if you came to similar findings.
