My little sister is 12 weeks pregnant, and she has had nausea and vomiting from 6 weeks of pregnancy. At first, I got up in the morning and retched, and then I ate and vomited, and I even had to drink water and ride in the car. In her words, sitting on the sofa every day is like severe motion sickness, life is better than death, and I feel like I can vomit until I wake up when I fall asleep.
During this time, frequent vomiting caused the little sister to be unable to eat normally, and sometimes even drinking saliva would cause her stomach to turn over and vomit. Since she had morning sickness, she has basically never gone out much, and she has become good friends with the "toilet" at home every day.
Friends joked to her, you can lose weight without spending money! Xiaomei smiled bitterly and said: This is the most laughable way to lose weight in the world. After vomiting for more than a month, the little sister has visibly lost weight, her eye sockets have become sunken, her skin is sallow, and the whole person looks very haggard.
Wen Wen's father was distressed when he looked at it, and asked her to go to the hospital to take a look, but her mother said that morning sickness is very normal, and it will pass after enduring...... I went to the hospital to see it, and the doctor's prescription of medicine is not good for the baby. Therefore, the little sister has been enduring it.
Some time ago, I called my little sister and heard her vomiting again, she said helplessly: It's so uncomfortable, why do some people don't have morning sickness when they are pregnant, and I keep throwing up?
"Everyone's physique is different, don't worry, it should be fine after the first 3 months," I comforted, and my wife also had morning sickness for a period of time when she was pregnant with her daughter, but after 12 weeks, she basically stopped throwing up much.
Later, I asked my mothers in the office about morning sickness, and Sister Li, who had given birth to two babies, said that morning sickness was serious, and although the mother was guilty, the child was smart!
In Sister Li's words, the severity of morning sickness hints at the child's IQ and intelligence, the worse the vomit, the smarter the baby in the womb!
Is this really the case? Wen Wen's father, who looked puzzled, decided to look up relevant information on the Internet. Not to mention, after an hour or two passed, I really found something, so I had this sharing article.
01. Is it true that morning sickness is related to the IQ of children?
According to relevant survey statistics, more than 80% of pregnant mothers have experienced varying degrees of nausea and vomiting in the first three months of pregnancy. Does nausea and vomiting during pregnancy really affect a child's IQ?
There are not many studies on this subject, but researchers in Canada did a follow-up study in which they followed 121 mothers and children.
The 121 mothers were divided into 3 groups according to the morning sickness:
Group 1: 45 patients with severe morning sickness reaction and who had taken drugs to treat morning sickness;
Group 2: 47 patients had morning sickness, which was not serious, and had not taken medication;
Group 3: no morning sickness at all, 29 in total;
Subsequently, the researchers conducted detailed psychological tests on each group of mothers' children, including intelligence assessments, behavioral tests, and also investigated the mothers' economic status, work and intelligence assessments.
After research, it was found that the intellectual assessment of the children born to these 121 mothers was within the normal range. Among them, the children born to the mothers in the first group and the second group were higher than those born to the mothers in the third group in terms of intelligence test, language fluency and numerical memory.
The researchers also emphasized that the severity of morning sickness seems to be directly proportional to the scores of the children's IQ, behavior, etc., that is, the stronger the morning sickness response, the higher the child's assessment score. It can be seen that there is still a big gap between children born to mothers with morning sickness and those without morning sickness!
However, it is worth noting that there is very little research on the impact of morning sickness on children's IQ, and mothers should not be too concerned about it, and they cannot assume that their children are smart or not based on this alone.
According to brain science research, children's IQ, on the one hand, is affected by the genetics of their parents, and some scientists estimate that 50%-60% of a child's IQ is inherited from their parents; on the other hand, it is also closely related to the nurturing environment, education, diet and nutrition.
02. What is the difference between a child born with morning sickness and a child born without morning sickness?
The Boston University research team analyzed the relevant data of 560 children aged 5-12 and found that children born to mothers with severe nausea and vomiting during pregnancy performed poorly in the assessment of visuomotor integration ability (that is, the corresponding actions made by the body after seeing things) and some behavioral evaluations of children.
At the same time, New Zealand researchers studied the children born to 36 mothers with severe morning sickness and 42 mothers with no morning sickness.
It was found that children born with morning sickness had 20% lower insulin sensitivity than children born without morning sickness. In other words, these children may have a higher risk of developing diabetes later in life.
From the long-term perspective of children's health, there is a certain difference between children born with morning sickness and those without morning sickness, but there is very limited research on this.
03. Why do pregnant mothers vomit?
There is a very popular saying on the Internet: morning sickness is an act of self-defense by the fetus!
This probably means that the baby in the womb is sensitive to certain foods and smells ingested by the mother, and if it does not meet their appetite or tolerance, it will be considered a "toxic substance". So, in order to protect themselves, they will have a little emotional and let their mother protect themselves by vomiting.
This explanation has not been scientifically proven, when his wife was pregnant, Wen Wen's father asked an obstetrician and gynecologist about this, and the explanation she gave was that after a woman became pregnant, the estrogen in her body would increase significantly, and under the action of progesterone, the food she ate was easy to cause acid reflux, causing discomfort in the esophagus, nausea and acid reflux, and vomiting.
Although 80% of pregnant mothers will have morning sickness, most of them are not serious, and they do not vomit much after the first trimester.
Many mothers with severe morning sickness are worried: if they eat and vomit, the baby will be out of nutrition.
In this regard, the doctor's explanation is that the baby in the first trimester is very small and needs very little nutrition, even if the mother vomits a lot of meat and vegetables, and loses several pounds, but it will not affect the baby's growth at all, and the thin one is just the mother!
However, the doctor also reminded that the physical condition of the mother during pregnancy will affect the development of the embryo, so once the pregnancy is prepared, mothers should still pay attention to diet and nutrition, exercise more, and enhance physical fitness.
04. How to alleviate severe morning sickness?
• In terms of diet, adhere to the principle of eating less and more often, eat less than three meals a day, and should not eat too much;
• Rinse your mouth with warm salt water after waking up in the morning, and then eat breakfast without an empty stomach;
• Don't bend over or lie down immediately after eating, you can go out for a walk and breathe fresh air;
• Don't be blind, eat whatever you want, and don't force yourself to eat food you don't like
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