Pregnancy is a very complex experience for the woman who is expecting, but there are certain things almost everyone knows, or at least thinks they know, about it. Much of this comes from popular culture: TV shows can show an expectant woman’s water breaking, will reference Braxton-Hicks contractions, and a trope has been made of the fed-up mother-to-be doing everything they can to induce labor. It can be difficult to know what the reality is and what has come from the (usually male) TV writer’s somewhat basic understanding. So let’s dig deeper and deal with the realities of morning sickness.

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