Black women and Pregnancy

Tips on Morning sickness & Salivating
There is no cure for morning sickness and drugs should be monitored medically. If like me you went through morning sickness and salivating,welcome to my tips which I hope you find useful. I talk of salivating which sounds quite offputting but is a reality for many women especially African carribean women. It can also makes morning sickness worse. I do not know why.

There are no quick fixes and these tips may not solve your problem. I suffered morning sickness and salivating and had to give up my job due to costant flow of saliva!. Thus the reason why Iam compelled to discuss it should other women need tips. All my pregnancies experienced this for all nine months so I became quite conversant in managing the issue.
Outings were difficult. I simply could not keep the flow at bay!. Eating late, wrong small snacks through the day did not help either. By the second pregnancy, I knew better how to manage things.

My take is, morning sickness is a natural process and if you are to be sick you will be. After all thats nature's way of indicating that things are ok and you will feel better soon enough.

African carribbean women particularly are prone to salivating. It helped, strange though it may sound to eat cooked meals from my childhood days in Africa. Pasta and sandwiches were simply not the thing for me and made matters worse but are an option for many women here in the U.K.

Eating healthy meals you crave will relive morning sickness & salivating

So what are the tips that helped...

Eat regularly,small snacks througout the day so breakfast,mid morning snack,lunch,mid afternoon ,dinner and a drink or small bedtime snack.

• Increase your protien,carbohydrate,vitamins and mineral and good fat intake.
• Popcorn with little salt helped with saliva and are better for you than crisps.
• Icy cold water with lemon to bite and lots of water .
• Mangoes slightly unripe,guava and other exotic fruits helped.
• Milo a less refined powdered form of cocoa rather than the chocolate drink  in milk has less sugar. and makes agood bedtime drink.
• Good wine with small alcohol levels, know your limits.
• Roasted peanuts if no allergies are an issue. We are talking roated yourself type peanuts here. These can be bought raw,cleaned out and roasted in the oven.
• Quality,quality and quality are the mantra. Pregnancies can be very discriminatory and will want. and respond well choosen food products.

What may not help with decreasing saliva flow?

• Sweets  and sugary foods in most forms, icecream and sugary tea seemed to have and may increase the saliva flow. Remember though, these are personal experiences and you need to watch your own reactions to foods.
• Prolonged gaps inbetween meals and hunger pangs.
• Fizzy drinks of most types. 

You will need to go by your bodily cravings to direct you to what will help. All pregnancies are different and one thing may not help another. If you are thinking of steering clear of fatty foods, think again. Good fat from the right foods is necessary to help boost energy levels and store a degree of fat needed in the body and developing unborn baby. The good news is morning sickness eases for most women after 3 months, so relax and enjoy your pregnanacy after all its only 9 months.

Enjoy wholesome meals of your bodily cravings

Posted by Jackqueline