by Melissa Willets posted in Pregnancy

If you?re like me, almost as soon as you peed on a stick and saw a positive pregnancy test result, morning sickness set in. I enjoyed a week of ?yay I?m pregnant!? bliss, before my head wound up in the toilet, and I was praying for the misery to end.
The (sorta) good news" If morning sickness strikes early, you aren?t alone. Three-quarters of us will suffer from at least some nausea and vomiting during the first trimester. Let that fact be a minor comfort while you?re lying on the bathroom floor.
For me, the hardest thing about having chronic, and all-day, morning sickness (dumbest name for what I?m feeling, ever!), is having to hide it. Like most mamas, I hoped to wait at least a few weeks before sharing my baby news. Mainly I hoped to avoid the comments about my fourth pregnancy: ?Really"! Again"!? Everyone has their reasons for wanting to keep a pregnancy hush-hush until the bump does the talking. But hiding that you feel like pregnant roadkill is easier said than done.
Here are a few tricks that helped me cover up my queasiness when I had to be around other people early in my pregnancy:

Under-eye concealer is your friend. Cake it on, moms. In this case, more is more. Because nothing says, ?I?m miserable? like dark circles. I know; it?s a small detail, but I?m convinced this one-step miracle makeup makes a difference in convincing people I feel great.

Carry food. Like, all the time. Empty stomach equals nausea. S...