Originally Posted by
atomic sagebrush
I had but not recently, thanks for posting.
I have suspicions that just like with autism, cancer, etc there are probably at least a couple different forms/causes of morning sickness and so it's really hard to tease out what is happening. Like, I'm envisioning some sort of convergent evolution where different groups of people end up developing pregnancy nausea (which it's been speculated actually IS evolutionarily adaptive because it makes us more likely to skip eating things that may be contaminated or harmful) for different reasons and so it very well may be the case that there are separate causes for different forms of morning sickness and HG is possibly some other thing entirely.
Super interesting that smoking was protective of MS! I've said before how my mom thought MS was all in the mind and so I was blindsided when pregnant with my first, because I truly thought it was psychological!! But she smoked a lot too so it makes me wonder how much that is really a thing. I also had nausea on BCP, have horrible motion sickness, migraines, and vestibular disturbance too (none of which she has) so that is all very fascinating.