The Best Things In Life - Morning Sickness Edition

An ongoing feature of 5 of the best things in life.

These are what I found were my greatest comforts when in the worst throes of Morning Sickness

1. Gum- Something in your mouth counteracting that nasty metallic taste and helping with the too much saliva thing (what is that thing? I don't know but it make you want to puke and it's probably triggered by wanting to puke)

2. Showers- sometimes you're too weak and sick but when you muster up the gusto to take a shower, ahh, that's the good stuff. When you're sick you're gross, getting all clean, the water feels good and the best thing: you can spit anywhere. The too much saliva thing makes you want to spit all the time and sometimes you're on the couch weighing your options like "Get up and spit, stay here and suffer" in the shower you don't need to grab a tissue or head to the sink, you can just spit right there. Sorry, I know this is gross but I really wanted to share how great some things can be.

3. Alcohol. Sweet relief. Not drinking of course, that would be awesome if pregnancy and drinking went together but I'm pretty sure if you're already puky, booze doesn't help. Rubbing alcohol my friend. Someone told me to sniff it and it kind of works. Probably bad for you but wipe up a mess with a little witch hazel and you're happy for 0.168 seconds.

4. Here we go,  the good stuff. Pine Sol. I bought the blue one. I CLEAN EVERYTHING. Everything in the world smells bad except for Blue Pine Sol and Rubbing Alcohol. I took every single item out of my fridge and freezer, wiped down said fridge and freezer with Blue Pine Sol, wiped down every item that went back inside fridge and freezer with Pine Sol, then mopped with it. It is un-stink. The killer of evil. Maybe I'll put some in a Scentsy pot.....

5. This one is fantastic. The "Morning Sickness Button" on Pinterest. Haven't seen it? Eh, well, it hasn't been invented yet.YET. But if the coders in Pinland are cool they will make one. What does it do? It lets your sick self waste time, distracted from the pain in life, strolling on Pinterest with all the food pictures OMITTED. I don't care if you found a way to make a Paleo Chocolate Chip Oreo Casserole for under $5 with only 150 calories, or if it's something your great grandma taught you, IT MAKES ME WANT TO DIE when I see it. So if Pinterest could just get on that, yeah, that would be great.

What was your comfort in the black death plague known as morning sickness?

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