I do so love the know-it-alls - bad advice about salt

[Sheanie]

Wow this is so good to know. My DH is a gagger and can hardly get thru x-rays. He usually ends up throwing up, at least once, when getting a cleaning. Needless to say getting him to the dentist is like pulling teeth. Baahahaha!

Oh My God. I just remembered one child we had in our office for a cleaning. She was fine until the first rinse, when she realized the pumice was gritty in her mouth? She barely got out the words "it's sandy" before puking all over the hygienist. Next visit, salted her.

 

[Terri]

Okay, on the "nausea" topic, I was just talking to a newly pregnant friend with severe morning sickness. I told her what my midwife told me 24 years ago about curing nausea. Eating small amounts of protein all day long cures and prevents morning sickness. She was eating saltine crackers. I said, well, that's no good for growing a baby, protein will grow a really healthy baby. Then I told her about salt. Somehow, I am now worrying that she only heard the salt advice, damn it all.

If she is anything like me when I was pregnant she definitely only heard the salt thing. I swear with my second pregnancy I wanted to have a salt lick mounted on my desk at work.

 

[Sheanie]

If she is anything like me when I was pregnant she definitely only heard the salt thing. I swear with my second pregnancy I wanted to have a salt lick mounted on my desk at work.

You know, the cool thing about the protein and pregnancy trick? The kid I gave birth to weighed over ten pounds. He was by far the healthiest of my babies. I wish I would have known that eating protein took away morning sickness with all my pregnancies.