When morning spoils the day | Life | Times Crest K ate Middleton was recently hospitalized for a condition called hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) or severe pregnancy-related morning sickness. Nausea during pregnancy can be miserable. At at time when many changes are occurring the condition is believed to be caused by higher-than normal levels of the pregnancy hormone, human chorionic gonadotropin or HCG. , Some women only feel ill or queasy in the morning, but for some it lasts all day and is even troublesome at night. Discomfort usually eases off by the third or fourth month, but not always. In the 1960's a drug Thalidomide helped many women find comfort from the condition only to encounter disaster when they delivered. The drug had disastrous side effects. Babies were born with shortened limbs, blindness, deafness, heart problems and brain damage...over 10,000 of them. This prompted physicians to be more judicious or cautious in prescribing during pregnancies -
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