Pregnant with Emetophobia? Learn How to Avoid Morning Sickness

Emetophobia is the fear of vomit and vomiting. There are several different levels of emetophobia. Most emetophobes fear the act of vomiting and structure their lives in such a manner to avoid exposure to anyone and anything that can cause vomiting. This is important to note because women with emetophobia are afraid to become pregnant. They may be happily married and yearning for a large family, but can not imagine ever becoming pregnant themselves for fear of morning sickness.

This is one of the hardest realities of the phobia. Women who are perfectly capable of having happy and healthy pregnancies will choose to adopt because they simply can not bring themselves to risk getting morning sickness. They may spend there lives longing for that child of their own, but to afraid to even try.

One hard truth that emetophobes do not grasp is that morning sickness, to be more specific vomiting, does not happen to every women who becomes pregnant. Forty percent of pregnant women do not suffer from morning sickness. The other sixty percent are not that lucky, but that does not necessarily mean that they are going to be vomiting during their pregnancy. Morning sickness doesn't even begin until the sixth week of pregnancy and is often over by the end of the first trimester.

Women with emetophobia can successfully become pregnant and avoid morning sickness. The key to having a safe and happy pregnancy when you suffer from emetaphobia is to properly prepare for your pregnancy.

The journey to a vomit free pregnancy begins with talking to your doctors. You need to let them know that you are looking to become pregnant and suffer from emetophobia. This decision is stressful for you. Speak with both a licensed therapist and your OB/GYN. There is a chance that your OB/GYN may never have heard of this phobia, or has never encountered a patient who suffers from it. You will need to explain to them that emetophobia is a real affliction and is the fifth most common phobia. Explaining this phobia to your OB/GYN can be scary, but prepare in advance with the help of your licensed therapist.

You will also want to soothe yourself by stocking up on items that you might need to ease your morning sickness should it be an issue. Items to purchase include the over-the-counter medication Emetrol for nausea and vomiting, motion sickness wrist bands, ginger, crackers, sour candies, preggie pops or preggie pop drops, and vitamin b6. Having these items around, whether you ever use them, often times eases an emetophobes fears.

In talking with your OB/GYN they will be able to give you the true facts about morning sickness. They will let you know that serious bouts of morning sickness, or Hyperemesis Gravidarum, occurs in one of three hundred women. If you are in that rare group of women who is afflicted there is medication available to treat this that will ease the vomiting.

Many women with emetophobia have successfully become pregnant. They have managed to get through their pregnancy and through their fears of being pregnant with the wonderful reward of a child at the end. If you suffer from emetophobia you can get pregnant and you will survive. It is scary, but you can do it.