Morning Sickness: Nausea and Vomiting In Pregnancy
Maybe all that nausea and vomiting has a payoff! I've heard that nausea and vomiting in pregnancy may actually mean that you have strong and healthy hormones.See also: www.getpregnantover40.com for more on pregnancy symptoms and strange early pregnancy symptoms
According to this article, the offspring of women that suffer morning sickness may have a higher IQ! That certainly makes me feel better since I was totally incapacitated by my morning sickness for the first three months of my pregnancy. Read more:
The same hormones which make expectant mothers feel ill could help their baby's development, doctors believe.
Children were more likely to do better in intelligence tests if their mothers had experienced nausea and vomiting during pregnancy.
The findings, published online in The Journal of Paediatrics and reported by New Scientist magazine, show that the severity of the sickness is a significant predictor of higher scores.
Dr Irena Nulman, from The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada, said: "Our findings suggest an association between morning sickness and improved neurodevelopment in the offspring."
She said that more research was needed to understand the range of effects caused by the common condition.
"Morning sickness is a widespread and puzzling physiological phenomenon that has yet to be sufficiently studied," she said.
from telegraph.co.uk
