Morning sickness is extremely common, affecting 70% of pregnant women. The most severe form, called “hyperemesis gravidarum” can require hospitalization and is more rare, affecting somewhere between 0.3 to 10.8% of women who are pregnant. While referred to as nausea and vomiting of pregnancy (NVP) in the medical community, it is typically called “morning sickness”, which is actually a misnomer: only 1.8% of women experience nausea or vomiting only in the morning, 80% report that they have it all day long.
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