morning sickness; nausea of pregnancy
Medical term for pregnancy-related nausea and vomiting, commonly used in everyday conversation.
Around three months into my pregnancy, my morning sickness was so bad I couldn't eat anything.
My wife has bad morning sickness and can't eat much.
Morning sickness is a common symptom in early pregnancy.
My morning sickness started as soon as I found out I was pregnant.
My morning sickness was so bad I couldn't even stand the smell of rice.
Around the fourth month, my morning sickness finally subsided.
妊娠 means 'pregnancy' itself, while つわり is the nausea symptom that can occur during it, so the two are easily confused but not interchangeable.
sympathetic morning sickness; sympathetic pregnancy nausea
Usually written in kana; the kanji form 悪阻 is a jukujikun spelling that is rarely used in modern Japanese.
Jukujikun kanji spelling; learners will almost always encounter the kana form.
The origin is uncertain; the kanji 悪阻 is a jukujikun spelling that does not reflect the word's derivation.