Morning Sickness

The stomach turns. In the mornings — sometimes all day long. Smells you never noticed become unbearable. Food you love turns into an enemy. Your body resists — not against a poison, not against an illness, but in the midst of one of the most natural processes there is: the emergence of new life.

Medically, morning sickness is attributed to hormonal changes — above all to the rapid rise of hCG and estrogen in the first trimester. That is the biochemical level, and it is real. But it does not explain why some women barely feel anything and others can barely keep anything down for weeks. The psychosomatic perspective asks a different question: what is your body trying to tell you while everything inside you rearranges itself?

Morning sickness is not a sign of weakness. It is a conversation between you and what is coming — a conversation that reaches deeper than any hormone curve.