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10% of Women of Reproductive age Get Pregnant Each Year, and many will have morning sickness. It's been a huge dilemma for women and their physicians as to how to treat this nausea and vomiting that is so common, because until right now we have not had an approved medication. It's not that we don't like to use any medication. About two thirds of  pregnant women are prescribed medications during pregnancy that are not their vitamins.  If you want to know what you are taking is safe for a developing pregnancy, read the label, but it's probably confusing to both you and your gyno as often the label may contradict the science behind the medication safety. Some medicine is clearly not safe, but other mediation is safe but not labeled as such. . And the language it's written in and the research it's based on may be as confusing to your gyno as to you! And when you ask your gyno medication safety questions, the most important question to start with: what is your back...

Vomiting or Nauseated when pregnant? It's disturbing to patients because of how they feel, and even more disturbing if they worry about the treatments.  We have several effective therapies! But maybe your doc has forgotten them! Juliet bemoaning the ire the last name of her beloved Romeo would inspire in her family cried out in some of the most oft recited lines of Shakespeare:      What's in a name? that which we call a rose       By any other name would smell as sweet;       So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd,       Retain that dear perfection which he owes       Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,       And for that name which is no part of thee       Take all myself. And so too is the treatment of nausea and vomiting of pregnancy. There is a medication that was once one of t...