- Morning sickness, (laughs)
Yeah no they lied, it's not just in the morning.
It's in the afternoon, it's at night.
It's in the evening.
It's pretty much all the time
and it makes you think you're never going to get over it.
It makes you never want to get pregnant again,
even though you really wanted this baby,
but the good news is there really is plenty
you can do to relieve symptoms.
And I'm going to cover all of the great stuff
in this video and I'm pretty sure
I'm going to be looking at some things
that you have not come across yet in other blogs or videos.
So keep watching.
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So yeah I'm wearing the same thing as in the last video,
and no it's not the same day.
It's just pretty much the only thing I can wear
at the moment.
It's cute though, want to see it?
(humming)
Even though it's pretty much covered in dog hair,
I hope the camera doesn't pick up on that.
Hello my lovelies and welcome to another one
of my bonus videos, in which we'll be talking about
combatting morning sickness.
And I've promised this for ages,
and honestly I wasn't able to shoot this video
until now that I'm 18 weeks, and really over it.
So I am going to share my top tips with you
and trust me, they are top tips.
I've been practicing them on my patients for years
and now I've practiced them on myself
and I'm ready to share them with you.
Do know that I'm going to give you lots of things
and it might be a trial and error thing.
If you tried one thing, don't give up.
And you know what? It's possible that one thing
might work for a while and then it stops working.
It was the same for me.
So here you have a good toolkit that
you can pick and choose from.
So first of all, you need to know why you're getting sick,
and yeah hormones, yeah.
But honestly that's not the only thing.
The reason we get sick is hormones.
It's struggling liver, it is poorly managed sugar balance.
Yes of course our hormones go up a lot
and we are not used to having as much estrogen
and progesterone in our system as we have now.
Or even the HCG for that matter.
So yes that can definitely throw you off.
However, having such high levels of hormones
means your liver needs to work harder as well.
And if your liver is struggling,
that will give nausea as well.
Or have you never had one glass of wine too much
the night before and felt unwell the next morning?
That's exactly the same reason.
Your liver is struggling because it needs
to be processing all the alcohol.
And it's the same with hormones.
And if you tend to struggle with your liver anyway,
which is not uncommon,
then it is going to exacerbate in your pregnancy.
Then the sugar balance is another thing,
because if you feel sick because of the hormones
or the liver, then you tend to not eat
or you might just eat crackers,
which are really only carbs,
which means that your sugar will spike
and then it will drop again.
So a poorly balanced sugar balance,
poorly balanced sugar balance,
you know what I mean,
will make you even more sick.
You know right if you haven't eaten for a long time,
you can start to feel a little bit queasy.
It's the same thing.
So if you have all of these three things together,
yeah no wonder you feel so crummy.
Now that you know that you've got all these three things
that you can work on, you don't have to feel
just like a victim of your hormones.
You can look at ways to alleviate symptoms
by working on all three of these areas.
So first of all, let's get the food stuff out of the way,
because if you are sick already,
you probably don't want to talk much about this.
After this, we won't get into that anymore.
But as I already mentioned,
the sugar balance is super important.
And yes it is recommended to have some crackers
when you wake up in the morning,
and that will put something in your stomach.
But as I mentioned, that is just going to spike
your sugar and then you are going to fall really deep
after that as well, because those sugars
will not be released over a longer period of time,
unless you use whole grains for example
or spelt, things like that, ancient grains.
So that is a good thing to start with already.
Make sure that you've got sugars
that are slow releasing.
And then the other tip I have is with every snack,
with every meal that you have some protein.
Because that will prevent your sugar from spiking
and then dropping a lot again as well.
So with that, I suggest that you have lots of small meals
across the day and this is recommended a lot anyway.
Because again that will balance your sugar very well.
Now this might be needless to say because
in another video I've already recommended to not use
any caffeine during pregnancy.
But some of you might still be happy with your cup of coffee
or a cup of tea, and then it's important for you to know
that caffeine also puts pressure on your liver.
So if you're nauseated a lot,
then maybe cut that out for a while,
although I wouldn't be surprised
if you are off it anyway
'cause I was off even tea.
Back on it though,
and speaking of drinking stuff,
don't forget to hydrate, because if you're dehydrated,
that will make you feel sick too.
And then my favorite topic, homeopathic remedies,
because those are usually helpful,
although you need to have the right ones.
So if you've tried homeopathic remedies in the past
or you're using mixes and haven't helped,
then keep watching, because there is a remedy
out there for you.
And I might not be able to cover all of the remedies
that are out there, but I'll cover the top one,
two, three, four, five, six,
five, six, five, five!
So all of these remedies fall into the categories
of helping you deal with your spiking hormones
that you're not used to,
or supporting your liver to do its job better.
And you don't need to know which of the two is bothering
you the most.
Just listen to the symptoms and you'll know
which remedy is the most likely to help you.
So the first one is nux vomica.
And nux vomica you can use if you have difficulty
falling asleep, especially if you wake around 3 o'clock,
may you can't fall back to sleep again,
'cause 3 o'clock is liver time.
With nux vomica, you will also feel constipated
and - duh - the nausea.
If this suits you, nux vomica is one to try.
Another remedy that kind of looks like nux vomica,
but is different, is cocculus.
And with cocculus you will also struggle with insomnia,
but the difference with nux vomica is that
you don't wake up specifically at three perhaps,
but that you are woken up really easily.
You're a light sleeper.
During the day, you will feel very tired.
Cocculus is also used for when you suffer from
motion sickness or sea sickness.
So during the day you might feel bit queasy
and bit jet laggy or a bit weak.
Those are typical symptoms for cocculus.
Chances are with cocculus is also that
you are a very caring person
or that you nurture or nurse other people.
So if you already have a baby
or a toddler or whatever, that you have to take
care of during the night and you have lack of sleep,
cocculus could very well be suiting you.
And now I've got two remedies
that I kind of like to mention together
'cause they're similar and different
like cocculus and nux vomica.
And they are sepia and pulsatilla,
and these remedies are often taught in college
as THE hormonal remedies.
Now it's not just for hormonal stuff
but often it will suit hormonal pictures
and that's why it's ideal to use these in pregnancy.
There's a great way to distinguish between the two though.
So if you don't have any of the sleeping issues
or the liver stuff that you think
and you think it's mostly hormonal what's going on with you,
sepia or pulsatilla could be good.
The way to differentiate is like this.
Sepia, you are most likely to feel especially sick
in the morning, so you have the classical morning sickness.
You will feel more annoyed like PMS or PMT
than anything else.
And you will also feel better from eating,
or the opposite, you feel especially worse from not eating.
Pulsatilla on the other hand feels a lot worse
in the evening.
They feel worse from eating as well
even though they need to eat
and they are more tearful.
So if you turn on the TV
and every commercial makes you just cry,
and want to cuddle with your husband,
then pulsatilla might suit you.
Pulsatilla also feels a lot better from being
out in the open air.
That brings me to the next remedy,
Ipecacuanha, that's the one that helped me.
Ipecacuanha people also feel much better
when they are outside.
Like sepia, they also have that empty feeling
in their stomach and they feel worse
from not having eaten, but they especially feel better
from drinking cold, cold water.
And what was the other thing?
Oh yeah, this is very typical for when you don't
actually feel better from throwing up,
or maybe you are not able to throw up.
You might think, if only I could just toss my cookies,
I'd feel way better.
And then lastly Ipecacuanha can
also have like these empty burps,
so if you have that and that kind of alleviates
but then you feel sick again,
Ipecac could be the right remedy for you.
Now if none of those things work,
there's another remedy that you can try.
This remedy feels so much worse for motion,
like cocculus, and cannot bear the smell
of any type of food and doesn't want to eat at all.
And this is symphoricarpus racemosus.
Now that's the name that you want for your shortlist
for your baby don't you?
Alright on to vitamin B6.
You may have come across this already,
and this is really an important one to mention.
It helped me a lot.
But you need to stick with it.
Chances are that if you use it for two or three days,
you're going to start to see a difference.
Vitamin B6 has been known to be very low in women
that suffer with severe morning sickness.
And the way that B6 can help is that
it helps us process certain types of proteins.
Now the recommendation is to take 10 to 25 milligrams
and then three times a day.
Make sure you have it with food.
So I would suggest that you start with 10 milligrams
and work your way up if you need to.
And CBD oil, yeah can you tell that I'm Dutch?
Obviously the CBD oil you're going to get is
without THC, so that it doesn't affect your brain.
CBD oil, I am not going to say too much about,
because there's so much research out there,
there's not enough space in this video.
However, CBD oil is known to be very useful
in many types of diseases.
It's also used for cancer patients
and it helps them increase their appetite again,
and it really, really, really helped me
in the first couple of weeks.
You can vary in dosages.
I would go by what is recommended on the bottle
or the website from the company that you buy it from.
Just make sure that you buy a high quality.
Don't just go to any type of drug store and get whatever.
Get really nice quality.
So yeah you'll spend a bit more,
but it will benefit you way, way more as well.
Also it can help you relax and help you sleep.
Honestly, if I take a couple of drops,
it can really put me into sleep.
Sea bands, oh yeah, these didn't help me at all.
But I have to mention them because they do help
a lot of people.
They work on the principle of acupressures
and these are also used for people that suffer
from motion sickness.
So you can see how it could possibly help with
morning sickness as well.
I didn't like them because it really
hurt my wrist eventually
and I guess I'm just very sensitive.
But I didn't care initially.
I thought if it's going to help,
I'll just try it.
So if you want, you can consider maybe borrowing
it from somebody or splurging on it,
because that's the way I was.
I could spend a lot of money
if only I would feel better.
Alright, I have two more tips.
So you ready?
First, coconut oil.
I wonder if you've heard of this one.
I doubt it, because I just kind of figured it out myself.
Lot of women that struggle with morning sickness
will also have a bad taste in their mouth.
It might be bitter.
It might be like metals
and again this has to do with the hormones.
The problem is or the problem was for me
that because I didn't have a very nice taste in my mouth,
the food tasted even worse.
And even if I had food that I liked,
the after taste was so bad to me
that I couldn't eat that food later again.
So what I started to do was floss more
besides my normal oral hygiene routines.
And I would rinse with salt water
and I started to rinse with coconut oil
like people do when they do oil pulling,
because I thought maybe I could just clean my mouth
and it'll feel better.
And then I found out that this coconut oil
really, really helped me cleanse my palette
and I felt so much better.
And then in between meals, I'm brushing my teeth
and doing the coconut oil rinsing.
I would usually have gum on me.
I haven't used gum in years
but that really helped me to tide me over as well.
Then lastly, we've got essential oils.
I'm pretty sure there are loads of essential oils
we could talk about.
We could have a separate video
but I'm not a specialist in essential oils.
I recommend that you search online for someone that is,
but I do want to share these two essential oils,
because my sister-in-law recommended them to me.
And I think they're great.
So these are lime and peppermint.
If you diffuse them like back there,
and it will be in your environment
and that can really, really help with your nausea as well.
You can also put it on a tissue and sniff it every
now and then or put it on your pulse points,
but honestly I find that a little bit too overwhelming
because I was so sensitive anyway to the smells
and you might be too.
So diffusing is a great option.
Yay! So now you have some tools to tackle this nausea
and not feel like the victim right?
Just remember it won't last forever.
It really, really won't.
And promise me one thing.
If you are still really, really sick
beyond the 12 weeks or you are vomiting all the time,
please, please, please find a really, really good homeopath
to find you a good remedy,
because the right remedy will really help you
and prevent you ending up in hospital on a drip
or having to take medication.
Trust me, it is possible.
If you've tried all the things in this video
and then your homeopath is finding you
the right remedy, you will feel so much better.
If you have any other tips that I haven't mentioned,
then please comment below.
Everybody here reads the comments,
so there might be a woman out there
that would be hugely benefited by your suggestion.
And if you have any ideas for me to do future
pregnancy related videos, then let me know below as well,
so I can use those as ideas for my bonus videos.
And if you haven't seen my previous pregnancy videos
make sure to click on the playlist on your screen right now.
That's my natural pregnancy playlist
and it will keep growing as my bump does.
And then in the meantime, see you in the next video, bye!