Morning Sickness May Actually Be a Good Thing

Sep 27, 2016, 12:17 AM

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Many women feel queasy in the early days of pregnancy, and while unpleasant, nausea and vomiting are a common symptom of being pregnant.

Still, to learn more about it, Stefanie Hinkle, staff scientist at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at the National Institutes of Health, and her colleagues decided to study a group of women from before they became pregnant and follow them for 36 weeks to better understand how nausea symptoms correlate with pregnancy loss.