I Have Morning Sickness PTSD


Most books predicted the morning sickness would end by week 14. By week 15, I scoured the Internet for stories of how it would end by 20 weeks and when I was still throwing up at week 30, it had become part of my routine. I hurled all over New York City; behind a dumpster behind the Rockefeller Christmas tree, in Central park on St. Patrick’s Day, and in a cab on the way to my sister’s apartment uptown. I ended up in the ER several times for IV fluids and an overpriced prescription for the overpriced anti-nausea medicine, Zofran, which replaced the nausea with blinding migraines which led to nausea.