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April 23, 2009- For all those moms out there that had to combat with morning sickness, a new research is suggesting that this is a positive thing and that it may lead to a smart child.

At Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children, researchers that performed a study, are stating that women who experience morning sickness, their children score higher on IQ tests. They even say that the sicker the mother was, the higher the scores the children got. The study is decribed as the first to evaluate the impact between morning sickness and the child’s brain development.

Morning sickness is one of the most common conditions of being pregnant. It affects about 80 percent of pregnant women. This miserable condition can lead to dehydration, weight loss, and vitamin and salt imbalances.
There are evolutionary biologists that believe that morning sickness is a type of defiance mechanism of the body to let women vomit things she ate that may harm the fetus.

Diclectin is a drug that is approved for pregnant mothers to take for nausea. This drug is provided by Duchesnay Inc. a Quebec drug company. The study done was funded partially by Duchesnay Inc.

Motherrisk is a hotline for women to call that has morning sickness. The study consisted of 121 women who called the Motherisk’s hotline between 1998-2003. The study was broken up into three groups of the women and their children. The three broken groups involved; women who didn’t have morning sickness; women who had morning sickness but didn’t take the drug Diclectin; and women who experienced morning sickness and took Diclectin. All the mothers involved had similar IQ’s and came from similar educational and socioeconomic backgrounds.

When the babies reached to be at a certain age, they were given psychological tests to take. The scores were all within the normal IQ range, but those children whose mothers dealt with morning sickness scored a higher rate. Diclectin didn’t appear to result in any negative affect on development of the brain according to the researchers.
This isn’t a definite thing, but with the study it sure highlights the idea.