Morning, noon and night sickness

by Sharon Dempsey © 2009 irishtimes.co
“I think we are all conditioned into thinking pregnancy is not an illness so that it is hard to admit you are really suffering and I certainly thought people wouldn’t take me seriously. Luckily I have been treated very well.
A NEW study carried out at Cork University Maternity Hospital has shown that a higher number of female babies are being born to mothers who have experienced the extreme pregnancy sickness condition, hyperemesis.
Most pregnant women experience morning sickness, nausea and sometimes vomiting but, for a few, pregnancy sickness is so severe that it leaves them weak, dehydrated, malnourished and desperate for the pregnancy to end.
Some 70-80 per cent of pregnant women will experience what is generally referred to as morning sickness, leading to 35 per cent of pregnant women being absent from work on at least one occasion.
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