Taming the Nausea Beast

As mentioned, the first few weeks of pregnancy can be pretty grueling for your preggie partner.  One of the most infamous of symptoms is "morning" sickness.  Ignore the morning part.  It's a lie. I don't know if the powers-that-be decided that "all day, everyday" sickness didn't have as good of a ring to it or what, but the nausea is certainly not limited to the morning. There's a lot you can do to help with the nausea though. 

Avoid, avoid, avoid - Keeping your wife away from smells that make her nauseous can be extremely helpful.  This means almost any and all smells. Doing the grocery shopping and keeping the garbage can empty is an obvious measure. But also your cologne, deodorant, or even shaving cream can cause set off the nausea beast. Me eating a ham sandwich and then kissing my wife was even a bad idea.

Ginger - Lots of options here. Ginger tea, candied ginger, chocolate covered ginger, ginger gum, ginger ale, ginger mints. If you want to use fresh ginger in tea, the easiest thing to do is keep ginger root in the freezer use a grater when you need it. 

Peppermint - There's about as many options here as with ginger. 

Citrus - Smelling a lemon, squeezing it into some water, or just straight up sucking on one can relieve nausea.

Nauzene - This is an OTC medicine, found at most drug stores (it's hit or miss at grocery stores).  My wife has had way more success with the chewable tablets, but not with the liquid.

Vitamin B6 - Can be found in tablet form, but also "preggie pops" which are vitamin b6 loaded hard candies. 

Diclegis - This is a new prescription medicine for pregnant women suffering from nausea. There's even a little pregnant woman on each pill.  (Glad Viagra didn't have the same idea)  This is a time released Vitamin B6 and antihistamine.  This will make your spouse more tired, but help a lot with nausea.

In addition to all of these remedies listed, a little patience goes a long way here.  Having a wife that's constantly nauseous flat out sucks, no sugar coating it. Continue to be empathetic, and if you guys planned on having more kids after this one, this is not the time to remind her of this fact.

Thanks for reading!