to think this is a load of rubbish

[Sallyingforth]

washington.cbslocal.com/2012/08/10/study-oral-sex-cures-morning-sickness/

[BettySuarez]

Only a man eh?

[Binkyridesagain]

DH is now thinking of having his vasectomy reversed

[PicklesThePottyMouthedParrot]

God I cant even read it, the title is enough to make me gag! Oral sex, with morning sickness? Oh behave!

[Olympia2012]

Mine was all day long sickness..

[FrankieMyDearIDontGiveADamn]

Haven't read the link but my immediate thought was that at least being on the receiving end would have taken my mind of it!

[beagreassive]

That is possibly the most mysoginistic idea I have seen in a while. Your penis can save me from my baby? Oh, how wonderful!

[Sallyingforth]

Oh dear. Now I know it's rubbish. The Daily Fail has got hold of it.

[LRDtheFeministDragon]

Or is it just the case that any woman who can bring herself to swallow semen is, um, quite possibly not suffering from morning sickness?

There are times when you just think ... did we need that bit of 'research'? Really?

(I did hope it'd be receiving rather than giving, though I suspect that's not top of the list either.)

[SardineQueen]

"Gallup believes the reason a pregnant woman gets morning sickness is due to the unfamiliar semen in their body due to the pregnancy."

This is clearly the most appalling load of cobblers

Honestly.

[MrsTerryPratchett]

I'm sure DH would have been delighted to have his knob thrown up on, because that is exactly what would have happened.

[NeedlesCuties]

Oh dear me. The 'worst rated' DM comments are particularly endearing

I ended up being hospitalised with hyperemesis during my 2nd pregnancy, yet didn't have any morning sickness with my 1st. Both are with the same DH, so how about that for not tallying with this 'scientific' study.

A load of cobblers.

[SarryB]

Officially the biggest loads of Bollocks I Have Ever Read.

[noblegiraffe]

Semen in the body causes morning sickness? Isn't the semen long gone by then? I'd have thought it was the baby in the body that caused it.

[Thumbwitch]

Since oral sex would make me gag/vomit all by itself, I cannot see how it would help reduce morning sickness.

So they can swivel.

And if Gallup believes that pile of steaming shite then they have serious gullibility issues.

[Thumbwitch]

Sorry, he, not they.
And he's a moron.

[noblegiraffe]

Gallup appears to be a psychologist not a doctor or biologist or someone who has a clue about how the human body works.

[elliejjtiny]

Oral sex made my morning sickness worse, so did any kind of sex where I wasn't lying completely still

[NameChangeGalore]

I wonder what type of people help conduct these kinds of studies. Do they get paid?

[SardineQueen]

Surely most people have enough rudimentary knowledge to see the gaping great enormous flaws in the statement "Gallup believes the reason a pregnant woman gets morning sickness is due to the unfamiliar semen in their body due to the pregnancy".

[Shellywelly1973]

PMSL!!!!

[JumpingThroughHoops]

"Gallup believes the reason a pregnant woman gets morning sickness is due to the unfamiliar semen in their body due to the pregnancy".


Having watched JK and a "whos the daddy" episode involving multiple DNA tests of an endless stream of men, I can well believe that statement.

However that statement has been taken out of context from the article. Unfamiliar semen = foreign body within the mothers body. There is a logic, if warped that vomiting it a normal response to getting rid of matter which will damage the body. Not all pregnancies are harmonious or viable within the mothers body, hence spontaneous abortion, Rhesus factor etc. Therefore the homeopathic route would be to introduce more of the cause to alleviate symptoms.

Not convinced.

[TheCrackFox]

Is he the same person that came up with the theory that sex and a curry can help to bring on labour?

[SardineQueen]

What on earth, jumping?

You think that when women have a regular or long term partner, maybe a husband, they become violently allergic to semen which does not belong to their "mate"? What a very peculiar idea! I would be interested to hear you expand on your theory.

The reason it is patent bollocks is that a. women are not violently ill every time they have unprotected sex, despite the presence of semen in their bodies, and that semen does not remain in the body for the course of a pregnancy. I think sperm live about 48 hours. They don't get a magical life extension to 9 months by dint of one of their number fertilising an egg.

Seems that more than one person does not grasp some pretty rudimentary facts of biology. Peculiar.

[LRDtheFeministDragon]

I didn't read jumping that way, SQ - is she not referring to the fact that women's bodies can react badly to semen (which is by nature unfamiliar to the female body) and this can cause problems with becoming pregnant/getting pregnant?

I admit I base this purely on the ep of the West Wing where Toby's ex-wife has to have treatment because she's struggling to become pregnant as a result of some kind of reaction to his semen, so it just might be less than medically accurate.

She's correct the homoepathic 'logic' would then be to introduce more semen. Homeopathy is, of course, bollocks (no pun intended), but we knew that.