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Diarr“Breathing has always been a part of our well- ness arsenal, but somehow as one grows older, breathing becomes less and less scientific. It becomes shallow, and we begin to breathe in the chest, rather than the stomach,” explained Yoga Instructor at Art of Living, Pauline Sebina.

myself, I can’t really get out of bed and “Many stress related ailments, whether physical, I need a lot of support . Everyone tries mental or emotional, may be caused by imthpartowpeearllborweathing,

The nausea that comes with morning to advise you to drink water, snack and fortunately, they can be sickness is common in the first trimes- on biscuits, I don’t think they can understand by ter adopting of pregnancy, natural but some breathing women, like the severity of how you are *Mitchell experience symptoms thatNowfe,eclionmg.”paSrheetshaiysswthitehcyoonudritiownnalstoyle propearelyminocreasseevsetrheealunndgrsecqaupiraecimtyedicbarleathcionmg.eCs hwainthcesstigamreat.h“aItt yisoualmwoilsltfi, nthdathat oxygeantt.eThntieonlu. nHgosw’ mevaeirn, tfhuenycotifotennisgo udni-ffersw. Ihfeynoyuoaurebelcikoemme opsrtegpneaonptlea,nydoyuoruupp treated or undertreated because the are experiencing nausea and vomiting, condition is misunderstood or downplayed there is almost this expectation that by even the patients themselves. well, you chose this, and this is just a

Severe pregnancy sickness, or normal part of pregnancy,” she says. hyperemesis gravidarum (HG), is a Commonly lumped into the “morning debilitating condition that begins in sickness” category, it’s common early pregnancy. It is characterised by for women and pregnant people to severe and constant nausea and vomiting, be told that their symptoms are to be often resulting in dehydration that expected, and therefore normal.Gynaecologist, requires hospital treatment. The condition Dr Elof Modongo describes can be mentally and physically the conditBioYnRaAs CdHebEiLlitRaAtiDngIT. S“IEtBisE not debilitating, rendering sufferers unable normal morning sickness. The nausea to eat, drink, or even move due to the and vomitAinlgmcoanstgoa omnoanlltdhayi.nItocaint, severity of their symptoms. keep wombenreoaukt offwdoirakrrahndoebaeccaounsetinu

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Mitchell who is currently pregnant being in the Dhoiasrprihtaoleaalloiswdsehsecrritboegdetas t describes her experience as “harrowing”. fluids intralvoeonsoeusolry.wHaetreerleycstrtoloyltews horich A mother of three, she was diagnosed blood minleeraslst mtharyeaelstoimbessoinme2w4hhaoturs with HG on her third pregnancy abnormalc, uwrhs iaclhoncgasnidbee ncaoursreact,evdomi but knows she experienced it for all of through ananIdVfteovoe,”r.he said. The good them. “As soon as I open my eyes, I am news, accorDdiinagrrthooeDarcManodcoaunsgeo,aislot at a toilet or a bucket. Having to brush that the nausea usually goes away by my teeth is just about the worst thing I the end of the first trimester. “The first get to do to myself every morning,” she 12 weeks of the pregnancy is the most says. “I lot of the time I can’t really feed common time we see this though it can myself, most days I can’t really shower go longer for some patients.”