Hello! And Welcome Back! In today's video I'm sharing my first trimester morning sickness remedies that I used for my current pregnancy.
I actually started feeling nauseous before I even tested positive for being pregnant.
The nausea worsened making me throw up nearly every single day- if not twice in a day- up until I was about 15 weeks pregnant.
I suffered A LOT of morning sickness in my previous pregnancy that I learned a lot from but with this pregnancy I felt like I had even more sickness.
There are so many different factors that could play a role in that- I had girls in both pregnancies- but with this pregnancy I have a toddler to try to keep up with
-so I can't just sleep whenever I want to but a strong indicator with how well I felt the next day was how much adequate sleep I received the night before.
I learned A LOT from my first pregnancy and I learned even more with this pregnancy on how to combat morning sickness to still be a functional human being- especially being a functional mom.
To a two year old toddler.
So here are my 5 products I used to help me cope with my first trimester morning sickness.
1) I have to start with my favorite here----which are Pink Stork products. If you haven't heard of Pink Stork before,
it is a women owned company with products that are natural and organic to alleviate so many problems related to so many different things-pregnancy, postpartum, nursing, menopause.
And just for a heads up, this video is not sponsored by Pink Stork- I just really love their company and I really appreciate the way their products helped ease my first trimester morning sickness
symptoms. It didn't alleviate all of my symptoms but I think it did temporarily take the edge off the nausea when I would use Pink Stork.
Pink Stork is sold on their website (pinkstork.com) and also Amazon, Target, and Walmart. Usually I just buy everything from Amazon, since I live in a small town and it's the quickest shipping method.
shipping method for me so I will link everything that I have loved from Pink Stork in the description box below if you want to go check it out and buy it from Amazon.
My favorite product from Pink Stork is their Probiotic, which is claimed to attack the root cause of nausea by balancing the bacteria in your gut.
Another product I found relief from morning sickness was
The Morning Sickness Sweets. They are packed with Vitamin B6 and Ginger. They have two separate flavors- Mango Ginger and Ginger Raspberry. These were so useful with on the go relief- because just having something to suck on helped my gag reflux not be so bad.
relief- because just having something to suck on really helped my gag reflux not be so bad.
I also enjoyed using Pink Stork's magnesium mist. It has dead Sea Salt, purified water, and magnesium in it that is absorbed through your skin.
I only put this on the bottom of the feet- because when I tried my wrist or neck, my skin felt sensitive to it so I just recommend putting it on the bottoms of your feet.
I've also liked Pink Stork's prenatal vitamins- especially their Liquid Prenatal Vitamin----I did better with this pregnancy, but I could NOT swallow big pills in my 1st pregnancy
I don't know why make prenatal vitamins these giant horse pills.
But with the liquid prenatal vitamin you could just drink it plain- I honestly didn't mind the vitamin taste- or if you do you could easily just put it in a drink or smoothie.
I also enjoyed using Pink Stork's Labor Prep Tea. It is designed to support labor because of the red raspberry included in it
I honestly think that this helped me with my last stage of delivery with my first pregnancy because I delivered so quickly. I started taking this in my last trimester so I'll be doing that again with this
pregnancy. I just started my last trimester so I'll be taking that in the next few weeks.
I'll link the products I have mentioned in the description box below- but there are soo many other products Pink Stork offers
They offer DHA, folate, a sleep tea, lactation tea and vitamins to help support milk supply--- a postpartum reset to help balance hormones and mood.
They literally have something for each stage of motherhood.
2) My next tip to alleviate morning sickness is Sparkling Water:
I don't like fizzy drinks very often. I've never been a soda or sparking water fan before- but in my first pregnancy soda was one of the only things I could sip on to ease my stomach
which made me gain A TON of weight in my first pregnancy. I gained a little over 60 pounds!!
I did not want to go through all of that again, so in this pregnancy I tried sparkling water and it still helped ease my stomach but worked even better because it didn't have any sugar or calories.
3) Sea-Bands: These wristbands for nausa relief work by applying pressure to what is known as the P6 acupressure point on each wrist.
I get car sick easily so I usually wear these on long road trips, but when I am pregnant I wear these all day every day and I do feel a difference with feeling less sick when I wear them.
Number 4 is to take Unisom and Vitamin B-6. Unisom is an over the counter sleep aid that has been proven to help with morning sickness and it helped me sleep better at night.
I was having a lot of insomnia in my first trimester.
I only recommend the unison sleep tablets. I've read scary potential risks to baby taking the sleep gels.
Vitamin B6 also helps alleviate sickness. I read that it is safe to take between 10 to 25 mg of vitamin B6 three times a day and then I recommend taking a 25 mg of unisom only at night.
At first I tried taking the unison pill and splitting it in half and taking half in the afternoon and half at night, but that made me sooo tired in the day and sometimes would keep me awake at
night. For me the best relief was to take just 25 mg before going to bed at night.
Number 5 my last tip it to take ginger capsules
I would take ginger to also decrease nausea and vomiting. It is not recommended to take more than 1000 mg of ginger in a capsule because I read that taking too high a dose could raise
your risk for miscarriage. So make sure that you are watching your dosage.
Those are my top 5 products I used to help me cope with my first trimester morning sickness. If you have found anything else that has helped you, please comment below so other mamas can read more ideas and tips.
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