Morning sickness - help from Acupuncture

Congratulations to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on the news that they are expecting a baby. All my sympathy went out to the Duchess on hearing that she had been hospitalised with severe morning sickness.

This condition, known technically as hyperemesis, is thoroughly miserable, involving prolonged and persistent vomiting as well as nausea, and usually lasts all day, not just the morning nausea that traditionally afflicts pregnant women.  Any sickness is unpleasant, but a little passing nausea often comforts women with the reassuring knowledge that their body is behaving in a way that confirms their pregnancy.

The degree to which Kate has clearly been suffering ruins any quality of life and can be dangerous because of the dehydration that sets in. It takes the joy out of being pregnant.

I have helped a number of women, in the course of the last twenty years, to cope with nausea and vomiting in pregnancy, and to reduce the severity of their symptoms, and was interested to watch this video published by the British Acupuncture Council, as the comments voiced by the patient echo those made by patients of mine. 

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