How not to Throw Up

This is part of a special series devoted to the pregnant and unprepared.

(1) Press the inside of your wrist. There is a pressure point known to give relief 2 inches above (away from your hand) the crease on the inner aspect of the wrist. Seabands look dorky and don't work as well as your own thumbs (which never get lost).

(2) Ginger. I recommend smelling it (cut a fresh root) or drinking it (tea), not eating it, though I suppose any of the above might work. Also, Badger makes a high quality lip and body balm that you can apply right under your nose. This is now available at some drugstores, and definitely at Whole Foods or drugstore.com.

(3) Jolly ranchers. Preggie pops are just overpriced oversized oversweet jolly ranchers. Stick with the original.

(4) Eat fruit and drink water. It just goes down easy. There will be plenty of time for meat in the later trimesters.

(5) Get your vitamins from nutrition bars or childrens chewable vitamins (a few stores have chewable vitamins without gelatin, for example, Trader Joes's brand chewables). This way you can avoid the enormous prenatal pills, which are really gag-inducing after a point.

(6) Deep breaths. Use in combination with the pressure points.

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