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6 stupid but popular myths about toxicosis
Pregnancy is generally a very fertile topic for inventions, superstitions and stupid signs.
Everyone strives to touch your belly, ask an intimate question like “Is your husband happy? Will they give birth with you? ”, Give unsolicited advice and somehow prove yourself. Although it would be better to give up the seat on the bus. In general, it is not so easy to be pregnant, you have to listen to a lot of nonsense. For example, about toxicosis.
1. “It will take place in the 12th week”
Well, yes, I will turn the calendar over, and the toxicosis will immediately get up, cry and leave. Like a click. Gynecologists say that the peak of morning sickness occurs in the tenth week of pregnancy. This is due to the dynamics of the production of the hCG hormone. At this time, he is also at the maximum, and your body does not really like it.
Everyone’s bodies are different, so someone does not have toxicosis at all, someone really ends at the 12th week, someone has a respite from nausea only during the second trimester, and someone is doomed to suffer all 9 months.
2. “But the child will have good hair”
This is our favorite sign – if a mother has heartburn during pregnancy, then the child will be born with thick hair. They say that the hair tickles the stomach from the inside, so it feels sick and generally unpleasant. It sounds, you see, absolutely idiotic. In fact, the intensity of toxicosis and heartburn is associated with the production of the hormone estrogen. If there is a lot of it, the sickness is stronger. And a child can really be born hairy – it is this hormone that affects hair growth.
3. “Everyone goes through this”
But no. 30 percent of pregnant women are spared this scourge. True, some get acquainted with all the delights of toxicosis when they are expecting a second child. But the first pregnancy is simply cloudless.
So most of us do go through this unpleasant state, but not all. And, of course, this is not a reason to deny a woman’s sympathy. Or even in medical care – in 3 percent of cases, toxicosis is so serious that it requires the intervention of doctors.
4. “Well, it’s only in the morning”
Yes, of course. Can vomit around the clock. Imagine: you get seasick simply because you walk. Sick and sick. Scientists suggest that toxicosis has an evolutionary component: this is how nature makes sure that the mother does not eat anything poisonous or harmful to the fetus during the period when vital organs are being formed. Therefore, she is sick all the time (well, really all day!).
5. “Nothing Can Be Done”
You can do it. There are ways to cope with toxicosis, but you have to try them all to find your own. It helps many to eat something else before getting out of bed in the morning. For example, a dryer or a cracker cooked in the evening. Others are saved by fractional meals in small portions throughout the day. Still others chew candied ginger and call them a gift from heaven. And even acupuncture and motion sickness bracelets help someone.
6. “Think about the child, he is feeling bad now too”
No, he’s fine. He is busy with an important task – he forms internal organs, develops and grows. And in the literal sense of the word, sucking all the juices from the mother. So only a pregnant woman is puffed out. This is our mother’s share. However, it’s worth it. You just need to get through this unpleasant period.