Take Two Crackers and Call Me in the Morning!: A Real-life Guide for Surviving Morning Sickness

By Miriam Erick, Kelly Lockett and MD Errol Norwitz

Nausea and vomiting affect 50-90% of all pregnant women to varying degrees, impacting not only nutritional status, emotional status, productivity and household economics.  This little book is the resource which provides tried-and-true suggestions to mitigate the severity of morning (noon and ni

• Language: English
• Publisher: Miriam Erick
• Release date: Jun 15, 2019
• ISBN: 9780996880800

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© 2019. All Rights Reserved including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever. Reviews including a cartoon need written permission from the publisher in advance of publication.

Grinnen Barrett Publishing Company, PO Box 590475, Newton Centre, MA 02459-9997

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Layout design: Karen Shea Design, Beverly, MA.

Illustrator: Kelly Lockett, Brooklyn, NY.

Produced in the United States of America

Foreword: Errol R. Norwitz, MD, PhD. Louis E. Phaneuf Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tufts University School of Medicine. Chairman, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA.

Erick, Miriam. Take Two Crackers and Call Me in the Morning! a real life guide for surviving morning sickness.

Includes bibliographical references.

Library of Congress Control Number: 2018909556

1. Morning sickness of pregnancy 2. Humor 3. Gestational malnutrition

2. I. title.

ISBN 978-0-9613063-9-7

ISBN 978-0-9968808-0-0 (e-book)

SAN: 294-8184

Note to the Reader: The ideas, suggestions and materials contained in this consumer book are NO substitute for care by a woman’s personal doctor. Pregnancy is a time of many emotional and physical changes and some changes can become life-threatening. While every person — man, women and child — should have a personal health care provider, it is imperative when a woman becomes pregnant to obtain care by a qualified, credentialed, licensed provider to ensure the well-being of a woman and the unborn. Please refer to the list of potentially serious complications which can occur with severe nausea and vomiting on page 80. If any of these occur, call your doctor immediately or call 911.

Table of Contents

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Introduction

Morning sickness doesn’t CARE who you are or where you live!

The Morning Sickness Quiz & Score

Morning Sickness Scoreboard

In the beginning....

Paradoxical feelings

First clues!

Mornings!

Afternoons

Evenings

Dinner date?

Remedies

Not a new problem!

Moral support

Nasty thoughts

Home sweet home

Tsuwari are us!

Perspective, experience and survival

Menacing meals

Bringing home the bacon!

Mooo-ve over nutrients!

Triggers

Universal ailment

Relief, pleaaazzsse!

A Royal Pain in the A…ah…anatomy!

Just NOT loving being pregnant!

Dr. Fraud’s explanations

Respect

I am not crazy!

The Tsuwari diaries

Stomach action!

Cicero understands

Toothbrush or not!

Am I losing my mind?

Bandage foods

Noise

And the rest is history!

Je fume!

The Armchair Quarterbacks

Baby thoughts

Travel turmoil

Finis!

WARNING!

A Real Life Morning Sickness Survival Sign

Bibliography

Index

Some pages in this book contain food references you might need to skip over if you are feeling nauseous right now.

DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to all the women universally who endured immeasurable suffering caused by severe morning sickness and/or hyperemesis gravidarum. Your suffering is clearly without parallel.

For those who prevailed to give birth to a child, congratulation is too small a word to describe your accomplishment. Your perseverance is in and of itself the first miracle.

There should be some sort of unique Purple Heart Motherhood international emblem, a special Medal of Valor, for women who fall victim to this age-old malady. If there were, I would have given it to Anuja, Jacinta, Laura, Caroline, Fabiola, Genelle, Carrie, Amy, Karen, Donna, Natasha, Suzanne, Marie, Sandra, Margaret C, Margaret H., Kathleen, Debbie I., Deborah M., Heidi, Christine W., Katarina, Angela, Shavron, and hundreds of women who’ve been ill that I have not personally met.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Special appreciation is extended to numerous colleagues and friends for encouraging this update. Especially Marlena Fejzo, PhD at the University of California, Los Angeles, Kimber MacGibbon at www.helpher.org, Roger Gadsby, MD at the University of Warwick, UK, Errol P. Norwitz, MD, PhD, Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tufts University Medical Center.

At Brigham and Women’s Hospital Department of Nutrition: Especially Kris Mogensen, MS, RD-AP, and many fabulous colleagues. In the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology: Janis Fox, MD, Robert Barbieri, MD, Louise Wilkins-Haug PhD, MD, Mari Kim Bunnell, MD, Tom Connolly MD, and Steve Ringer, MD at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Neonatal medicine. To medical librarians: Anne Fladger and Meaghan Muir. In Social Work: Claire and Sabrina. In the Department of Nursing; Joan, Carol, Lauren, Michelle, Phyllis, Connie, Lisa, Paula, Andree, Karen, Sylvia, Anne Marie, Marion, Drew, Monica, Stacy, and so many more.

To Jean Cox, MS, RDN, Donna Loranger, MS, RDN, Joanne Larsen, MS, RDN, Julie Beyer, MS, RDN, Juliana Ross, RD. Also to Greg Banks, Ed Bartley, Sherri Hayes PhD, Tracy Gay, Mike Aho, Carrie Kourkoumelis, Cammy Cantor, Colleen Weishaar-Davoudi, and Connie and Steve Ringlee and my family. To Pat Gleason-Claydon, Kay Coleman, Anne Korpi, Linda Heffner, PhD, MD, Bruce Feinberg, MD, Jeff Ecker, MD, and Kenneth Koch, MD. To Jim Bull and Emily Sewell at Bull Publishing Company, Boulder, CO. To illustrator Kelly Lockett. And, especially, Karen Shea for creative direction and more.

Thanks to Gideon Koren at the Motherisk Program in Toronto, Canada for endorsing Managing Morning Sickness and to the late Dr. Fredric Frigoletto, Jr. MD