To all those who are suffering or have ever suffered from morning sickness...

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Apparently latest research says that women who suffer from morning sickness have children born with higher IQs.

I'm signing this one up to Mensa when she arrives!

Can't find a link for this but read it in Mother and Baby magazine so it must be true!

Something to do with the hormone that causes morning sickness also helps brain matter to develop??!

I'm starting to think these researchers are paid to come up with this stuff by GPs to make us feel better and stop calling them up begging for anti-sickness drugs!

well i was very sick and my children are very clever and beautiful and wonderful

but i would think that wouldn't I?

Look I found it in the Telegraph!

hooray! i'm 7 weeks and i've been worried about whether or not there's actually a baby growing in there (another 5 weeks till the scan) let alone whether he/she will be bright or not. naturally i assumed he/she would be anyway, but still...

I am sick of feeling sick. Can't I have one with a low IQ instead?

yeah, i think i'd gratefully trade a few IQ points for a few weeks of feeling great. and besides i've already got one incredibly smart child, what do i need with another smartie pants!?

I felt horribly sick with DCs2, 3 and 4. And not at all with DC1 - who is by a long way my most intelligent child.

But if it gets you through the nausea ...

I read this too. Not sure it helps when I'm puking nothing up every morning and evening!

It's supposed to mean a healthy pregnancy too apparently. Can't help but wonder how women in the third world without a spare stone to lose and no access to MacDonalds cope though!?!

I read that it shows a lower chance of miscarriage, but if it means a higher IQ as well then thats fine by me...

I was very lucky with my morning sickness - I felt constantly sick up until about 12 weeks, but was only actually physcially sick for the middle three weeks, which were a total nightmare.

I hope any of you suffering at the moment feel better soon! Cramberry juice was helpful...

yay, super intelligent one being brewed here then!! Unless of course there is more than one !

Mine must definately be Mensa material then! I was sick several times every day from week 5 to week 14 and constantly queasy, even water was unappealing! Now its just the killer heartburn

Wow my 2 must be geniuses!!!!

It was in New Scientist last month:

Sick Mummy Bright Baby

Has made me feel a little better about the hyperemis last year?

I'm not convinced that this is true, my friend didnt have any sickness at all and her little girl is v v clever.
However, I was v sick so n the sickness is just startin to return (36 weeks) so for the purpose of comforting myself I'll tell myself that my little man is a brainy one

Is there any proof what hiccups mean? If not lets create our own theories... Even a sip of water has me going for hours!!!

spewed violently from the moment DD2 was conceived until about 6 hours after I delivered her.

I think I should lurk around the G&T bit.

Be careful xxhunnyxx I thought my MS was returning at the end of my last pregnancy and it turned out to be Pre-eclampsia!!

Thanks sarah I'll keep an eye on it. I did only see the mw yest n bp is 100/64 so don't think I've got pre-eclampsia. MW said sickness can return at the end cos u get another rush of hormones so fingers crossed that's all it is.

I remember wiht DD1 some syupid twunt of a scientist came out with the theory that morning sickness was all in our heads - must have been a man, my god if I'd got my hands on him.....

Yeah I've read recent things sayin similar things, that morning sickness is in our heads. So that's why some of us are sick before we even know we are pregnant? Defo made up by a man!

Of course its in our heads - I mean, we're only PREGNANT, right? Not something serious, like man-flu... rolls eyes Got to have been a man...

Thank you so much for this - it has cheered me up immensely. I will email it to DP immediately.

Hmmm, i'd better start playing Mozart next my tummy incase the poor little bean is under stimulated.

I actually tried the Mozart thing... Just ended up giggling because the vibrations tickled my tummy. Sorry, "Nelson", you'll just have to go without the music for now...