Pregnancy

Morning Sickness is Nature's Way of Protecting Mothers and Their Unborn

Published in Women's Health Weekly, June 22nd, 2000

As unpleasant as it is, the nausea and vomiting of "morning sickness" experienced by two-thirds of pregnant women is Mother Nature's way of protecting mothers and fetuses from food-borne illness and also shielding the fetus from chemicals that can deform fetal organs at the most critical time in development.

That is the conclusion of two Cornell University evolutionary biologists who examined the outcomes of thousands of successful and unsuccessful pregnancies. In the latest issue of The Quarterly Review of Biology ("Morning sickness: A mechanism for protecting mother and embryo," June 2000;75(2):113-148), Samuel M. Flaxman and Paul W. Sherman report that NVP...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2000-06-22)

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