Hey, guys, Dr. Axe here, Doctor of Natural Medicine and Founder of DrAxe.com.
In this video, I'm going to teach you how to avoid morning sickness in six simple steps.
And I know morning sickness is something that can be torturous for people.
What's worse than feeling nauseous all day long?
So in this video, I'm going to share with you how to start avoiding that in six simple
steps.
And number one thing you need to do if you want to avoid morning sickness and overcome
morning sickness is really pay particularly close attention to your diet.
And first, avoid foods that can cause the feelings of nausea.
Now, here are some of those common foods.
Number one is caffeine.
If you are typically a coffee drinker or consume a lot of caffeine, the problem there, especially
when you're pregnant, it can cause issues with your blood sugar and your energy to go
up and down.
What we want to create for you is a simple balance of energy and focus throughout the
entire day.
And blood sugar and insulin levels, when those insulin levels spike, it can cause us feelings
of nausea.
So staying away from caffeine or going very light switching, from coffee to tea is going
to be a smart thing to do to avoid morning sickness.
The other thing you want to stay away from is foods that have a very strong scent.
You want to stay away from food such as cruciferous vegetables during that time.
And again, I'm not telling you not to eat broccoli during your pregnancy, what I'm saying
is if you are in that period of time where you're feeling that morning sickness, that
nausea, cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli and Brussels sprouts and cabbage give off
that cruciferous, that sulfur smell.
And sulfur-containing foods and that smell can tend to make people feel nauseous.
Eggs are similar.
Egg are full of sulfur, as are onions, and those can cause people to have that nausea-like
feeling or increased morning sickness symptoms.
The other thing would be seafood, such as fish.
Now, there is particular concern with some people about mercury levels.
I do think doing wild-caught Pacific salmon is completely fine.
But I think, in general, for morning sickness, we know that seafood, whether it be shrimp
or any type of fish, that can bring up morning sickness symptoms as well.
And so those are the big ones.
So again, if you have morning sickness, I would really look at your fridge and have
your spouse clear out those foods that might make you feel nauseous or cause morning sickness.
And then, the number two thing to do is replace those foods with foods that are more mild
in flavor or more bland.
And here are some of the best foods if you have morning sickness.
One of the top foods in Chinese medicine is rice or congee.
So again, rice is really long, slow-cooked rice, whether it's white rice or brown rice.
But doing rice or congee is one of the best things you could do.
So you could do a cream of rice for breakfast, you could do rice pudding for desert, just
regular rice during the day, but rice is one of the best foods.
The other thing is fruit.
Just in general, fruit is bland, it's easy to digest, has a mild sweetness to it.
So again, doing fruit is great.
The next would be cooked veggies.
Now, not necessarily broccoli and cabbage and those, but things like carrots are fantastic.
And so carrots and squashes, like butternut squash or pumpkin, those things are very mild,
they're easy to digest and also in Chinese medicine, they're nourishing to what's called
the earth element, which is really important during pregnancy.
So again, squashes, those types of vegetables are great.
You want to make sure they're cooked and not raw, but cooked vegetables.
And then organic meat like chicken.
Chicken is one of the best meats you can eat.
And then, one of the best ways to get protein is through bone broth.
You could do a bone broth powder or a bone broth liquid.
But a bone broth soup is one of the best things you could do to help avoid morning sickness.
And the other food I do want to mention as well is ginger.
Drinking ginger tea or doing ginger root.
Ginger has been shown to relieve nausea so ginger is very great as well.
And also doing some peppermint.
You could do a peppermint chocolate smoothie for breakfast, do some chocolate bone broth
protein powder, a drop of peppermint oil and some fruit.
It's a great thing to do there for breakfast and can help with nausea and morning sickness.
And actually, coconut can be good as well.
Coconut, for many people, especially coconut oil or coconut milk, is good for blood sugar
levels.
The number three thing you should do to get rid of nausea and morning sickness is to not
skip meals.
This is one of the biggest lessons.
Even if you're feeling lightly nauseous and don't feel like eating, you should eat something
small because when you get really hungry and your stomach gets empty, that's when that
morning sickness can really kick in or that nausea that you're experiencing.
So listen, do not skip breakfast, especially even if it's just something small and light
like a little bit of rice and broth or a few bites of fruit.
Just getting a little something in your system can help.
Number four, try acupuncture.
Acupuncture is great for morning sickness.
It's great for supporting your organs during pregnancy.
Again, try acupuncture from a licensed acupuncture therapist.
Acupuncturists can actually go to certain organs in the body, help strengthen them,
which can help relieve morning sickness.
Number five, use essential oils.
Here are my top four essential oils for morning sickness.
Number one, chamomile oil.
Roman chamomile is very good for your digestion.
It's also good for relaxing the body.
So chamomile is great.
You can just do a couple of drops.
Rub it on your temples and on your neck.
Chamomile oil.
Number two, lavender essential oil.
Lavender is a floral oil that has a great and beautiful scent.
It's been shown to and been proven in medical studies to reduce nausea and morning sickness.
Number three, ginger.
Ginger essential oil, similar.
Great for digestion, great for creating healthy levels of inflammation in the body.
Similar thing.
Ginger oil mixed with some coconut oil, great to use topically.
And last but not least is peppermint essential oil.
Peppermint oil, you can rub that on your neck.
So I'd do one to two drops of peppermint oil, a teaspoon of coconut oil.
Just rub it on your body, your chest, your neck, your temples.
And that can help relieve morning sickness and nausea.
And last but not least, doing light exercise.
Now, when you have morning sickness, the last thing you feel like doing is moving.
What you probably feel like doing is laying in bed in the fetal position and not moving.
But getting out and getting some light movement is actually very good.
So once you feel even generally well enough to get up and move, eating something very
light, a light meal, and then just doing . . . now, I'm not talking about doing hardcore exercise.
You don't want to be going and doing probably CrossFit or Olympic weight training, but getting
and doing 20 to 30 minutes of something light.
Some light weight, some light cardio, just getting some good movement is a great thing
to do for morning sickness.
Even though you may not feel like it, doing some light cardio, some light weights and
some stretching.
Something like a barre class, actually, can be fantastic, one of the best things to do.
But light exercise actually, overall, even though you may not feel like it, can actually
relieve that morning sickness symptom.
So I hope you've enjoyed these tips on how to get rid of morning sickness.
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This has been me, Dr. Axe, talking about how to avoid morning sickness.