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You wake up one morning expecting your monthly flow to arrive as you prepare for the moods, irritability, cramps, pain, headaches, or however your body handles this monthly routine. After a few days of waiting, you begin to suspect something else is happening to your body and your not sure. Your husband suggests you are baking a bun in that oven, you try to deny it, finally decide it would be best to take a test and see. Sure enough the test reads “positive” or a “plus sign” is staring right back at you. Are you excited, nervous, scared, unsure? New moms may feel all of those emotions wrapped into one big one. Many of your friends will give you many tips on how to make it through your first pregnancy, so how do you stay calm and not get overwhelmed with the tips. It depends on which main tips you want to focus on: staying healthy, morning sickness, exercise, tips for each trimester, or summer pregnancy. There are many more topics that a pregnant mom can look into, but the main one we will focus on is morning sickness.

You just gave your husband the wonderful news of a bundle of joy will be coming in about 9 months and all of a sudden you wake up one morning to feel horrible, like a train has ran you over. You feel nausea, fatigued, and the that horrible smell of coffee brewing in the kitchen makes you feel like hurling, welcome to morning sickness mommy. How is a new mom to survive day-to-day with this horrible feeling? Here are five wonderful tips on managing morning sickness.

1. Sniff new scents – Bottle of lemon extracts in your purse
2. Monitor when nausea hits you during the day and what caused it – was it early in the morning? when your stomach felt empty?
3. Stay hydrated and sleep.
4. Find foods that work for you – start slow, build it up. Don’t be alarmed if all you are able to keep down is crackers and popsicles. You and the baby will be just fine.
5. Survival kit – toothbrush, gum, clean shirt, mints, crackers-when you are out of the home.

As a current mom myself going through pregnancy, I had morning sickness during my first trimester and used a few of the tips listed above. Every mom is different in how they manage their morning sickness. The best tip is to find what works best for you and your body, just like I did. You will get through this phase and move onto the next trimester where many more new joys await. Enjoy your pregnancy and help others manage their first pregnancy from your experiences.