During pregnancy, women tend to worry a little more about everything in general, and more so, what is going on in their pregnancy.  Since morning sickness is one of the first symptoms to arise, having no morning sickness can cause you to get nervous.  So what exactly does it mean if you find yourself without any nausea or vomiting?

You may have heard that a lack morning sickness means that your body is not producing enough of the right hormones.  Although research has shown that women who experience morning sickness do have a lower rate of miscarriage, not having morning sickness does not necessarily mean that anything is wrong.  Also the thought that “the sicker you are, the healthier your pregnancy is” is simply not true.

In order to understand why, you’ll need to look at the causes of morning sickness.  Although nobody can say for sure what causes it, it is thought to be brought on by the change in a woman’s hormones when she becomes pregnant, especially the rise in HCG or human chorionic gonadotopin.  This is the hormone that is responsible for giving you a second line on a positive pregnancy test.  The level of morning sickness is thought to be related to a woman’s sensitivity to these hormones and therefore can fluctuate from woman to woman. A women may find herself with no morning sickness, she may have very mild morning sickness or she may be so severely sick that they she has to be hospitalized.

So, a lack of morning sickness does not mean anything definite either way.  It really cannot tell you if your pregnancy is healthy or if something is wrong, it merely means that your body is likely reacting to the new levels of hormones.  Take some time to enjoy your pregnancy, and try not to worry – even if you have no morning sickness.

Of all the aches and annoyances that ail mothers to be, pregnancy morning sickness is by far the most common. Around 70% of all pregnant women go through this period of nausea and vomiting early in pregnancy.

As you’ve probably noticed, morning sickness isn’t limited to the earlier part of the day. In fact, the medical term is “nausea and vomiting in pregnancy” (NVP) or nausea gravidarum, Latin for nausea of pregnancy. The condition took on the name morning sickness only because for many women the nausea hits hardest in the morning and lessens throughout the day.

Pregnancy morning sickness typically makes its entrance in the middle of the first trimester, around week 4 to 6, although it can start earlier. Once the symptoms come on, they tend to get progressively worse for the next month. The good news, though, is that for the majority of women, symptoms completely disappear by week 14. There are those “lucky” few who experience morning sickness off and on throughout the whole pregnancy, though.

Medical science hasn’t determined the exact cause of pregnancy morning sickness, in part because there seems to be a variety of causes. Some, like increased hormone levels and genetic predisposition, are out of your control, but controllable factors like potent odors, certain foods, and skipping meals can also set your stomach churning. Fortunately, there are numerous home remedies for morning sickness, like sipping ginger tea, smelling lemons, and eating cabbage. Many of these natural cures do a good job of curbing queasiness, but for severe cases, OTC and prescription anti-nausea medications are available.

Perhaps surprisingly, there is a positive side to morning sickness. As miserable as a continually sick stomach is for the mom-to-be, baby won’t be any worse for wear. In fact, it’s thought the whole reason morning sickness occurs is to protect the developing fetus. Studies suggest that food aversions crop up to discourage the mother from ingesting anything that could harm the baby, such as alcohol and potentially harmful pathogens and phytochemicals.

When you’re dealing with pregnancy morning sickness, the important thing is to stay hydrated and try to get a reasonable amount of nutrient-rich food. Home remedies can do a lot to ease your discomfort, but the only real cure is time.

Although there are other symptoms that that you may notice when you become pregnant, morning sickness early on is very common.  Just how early you can start to feel the symptoms varies from woman to woman and will usually happen one of three ways.

1. You may start to feel nausea immediately following conception. Some women are so incredibly sensitive that the slightest change in hormones will make them feel queasy.  As soon as the fertilized egg starts emitting hormones, you can possibly notice a nauseous feeling.  This is a pretty rare thing though, so don’t get your hopes up too much if it happens.
2. You’ll start experiencing morning sickness early on during weeks 4 – 7.  This is the most common time for women to start feeling nauseated as the increasing hormones start flooding the body.  Typically at this point, a woman will already know she’s pregnant as she will have missed her period.
3. You don’t have any morning sickness early on in your pregnancy. Some women are fortunate enough to not experience morning sickness and other women may suffer from an acid reflux type of morning sickness later on in their pregnancy.

If you are looking for an indication that you might be pregnant, morning sickness early on is not a common symptom.  Although it is not impossible to start feeling nauseous after conception, chances are good that if you’re pregnant, other symptoms will pop up before the morning sickness starts.

Nausea early on in your pregnancy is no fun and finding a cure for morning sickness can be a difficult and tricky thing.  Instead of feeling discouraged, keep these two guidelines in mind when you are searching for relief.

1. What works for one woman, won’t necessarily work for another. You will probably receive a ton of advice on what to do for your morning sickness and you’ll probably hear more horror stories than you’ll care to.  Everyone has “thee solution” to end your nausea and you’ll often find yourself disappointed when it doesn’t work for you.  The problem is that the cause is morning sickness is not 100% clear, so different remedies may not work for everyone.  Instead of giving up, just try the next solution that you hear about and maybe you’ll be able to get some relief.
2. Just because something works for you one day, it may not work for you the next. This has got to be the absolute most frustrating part of it.  You suffer for so long and you finally find something that makes you feel half way decent.  Then the next day you try it again and it doesn’t even take the edge off your misery.  The only thing you can do in a situation like this is to just go back to square one and try more remedies.  You may even want to try some of the previous remedies that didn’t seem to help.

Finding the perfect cure for morning sickness will probably not be an easy task.  Remember that nausea comes and goes and not to get discouraged when you have these up and down feelings.  Take it one day at a time, keep trying new and old remedies until you can at least get a little relief and remember that eventually it WILL pass.