As promised, the following is the conclusion to a two part series on morning sickness cures. The first post is geared towards morning sickness tips that will make your first trimester wonderful. If you haven’t read the first post, go ahead and read it here. This post will cover the best foods for morning sickness relief. Let’s get started!
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The Best Foods for Morning Sickness Relief
My readers and friends have been so kind with all their suggestions for the best foods for morning sickness relief. Just as it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a village to help a woman through the plight of “morning” sickness.
Feel better soon by eating the best foods for morning sickness. The right foods make all the difference during the early months of pregnancy. Some of these would also be a great gift for someone with morning sickness. Without any further rambling, here is a list of the best foods for morning sickness relief!
Foods for Morning Sickness Relief
- Toast with a generous spread of peanut butter and banana
- Cheerios multiple times per day; especially before getting out of bed
- Bagel with cream cheese and/or butter
- Green olives (the tannins help alleviate nausea)
- Crystallized ginger combined with almonds (like you would see in a trail mix)
- Ginger gum
- Jolly ranchers
- Salted pretzels
- Cheese (sliced or cheese sticks)
- Baked potatoes (loaded if you can tolerate it)
- Fruit of all kinds
- Crackers and water next to your nightstand (eat and drink before you get out of bed)
- Ritz bits peanut butter crackers
- Yogurt (frozen yogurt tubes are great for morning sickness)
- Sour preggie pops
- Preggie pop drops
- Lemon drops
- Eat half a fresh orange before going to bed at night (not orange juice)
- Cut up a lemon to sniff (essential oils for morning sickness will accomplish the same thing)
- Make sure to snack between meals
- And also increase daily intake protein
Drinks for Morning Sickness Relief
It’s so important to stay hydrated and meet the daily water intake requirements for pregnancy!
- Drinking lots of cold water as soon as you feel nauseous
- Peppermint tea (optional: melt candied ginger in tea)
- Ginger tea
- REAL ginger-ale
- Cream soda
- Keifer, fermented milk, smoothies (with fresh farm egg yolks) with bananas, strawberries and coconut milk
- Lemon juice in ice cold water (not lemonade but 1 pt lemon juice to 3 pts water)
- Protein shakes
- Lemonade vitamin water zero
- Club soda, carbonated mineral water or sparkling water with or without lemon
- Avoid acidic drinks like orange juice
Other Things to Try
- Papaya enzymes
- Alfalfa tablets
- Sea Bands
- Acupuncture
- Anemia (check iron levels to make sure they are within normal range)
- Try a different brand of prenatal vitamin or take it at a different time of day
- Take an afternoon nap
- Don’t sleep in – eat something, and then go back to bed if you’re still tired
- Vitamin B6 and Unisom Combo
Don’t Forget
Remedies may work for a time, and then later on not so much. Keep trying new things until you find what works. Change it up when it stops working.
The Best Foods for Morning Sickness Relief
There you have it! Wasn’t that a helpful list of some of the best foods for morning sickness relief?
Natalie
Sunday 24th of June 2018
I am suffering terribly with morning sickness. Iv only been sick once but the nausea is all day every day. And i have another 3 weeks until the 12 week mark where im hoping it will disappear! Im struggling to find foods i like. I am put off all foods i used to eat all the time. Im finding it very hard. This is my first pregnancy so its all new to me.
Toni Hallam
Monday 26th of February 2018
I did not have a lot of vomiting during early pregnancy, but I certainly had very horrible nausea and food aversions, especially when smelling or thinking of certain foods. In general though, I’m just not much of a Puker. I can say though, that there are a few things that helped me get through the nausea. Vitamin B6 and Unisom combo for sure (it is important to take this consistently every 4-6 hours for it to have the best effect; 25 mg b6 and half a unisom tablet), waking up a little bit earlier than usual and eating a small bowl of plain raisin bran with almond milk, and also drinking a glass of Metamucil Right before bed kind of helped me to not be starving in the morning, which was one of the reasons I would often feel extra nauseous. Everybody has different things that seem to help them, and these were mine.
Ross Gallor
Monday 30th of September 2013
Indeed, lemon and ginger are the best and effective remedy for morning sickness. Apart from these two peppermint candy is another useful stuff in fighting with morning sickness. Some people prefer it as with tea but you can also take it with candies. You can also try peppermint tums which contains high concentration of pepper mint oil in it. Pepper mint oil is highly effective as compared to candies or tea, also it is portable and quite inexpensive at the same time. Apart from taking these cures its better to take advice from the doctor and from online websites.
Anna
Tuesday 6th of September 2011
During my first 12 weeks I sucked on peppermint life savers whenever I felt nauseous and they were great!!