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Threw up on probably seven planes
Chelsea Ryckis kept running Ethos Benefits through her pregnancy, and the work kept going. She threw up on probably seven different planes. She threw up right after speaking on stage. During client meetings she turned her camera off for a moment to throw up, then came back. She believed she was a badass and congratulated herself for it.
A year into motherhood, with the heavy sleep deprivation that has come with it, she is kicking herself over all of it. She asks why she treated herself that way. She was growing a human, doing the most important work of her life, and she put it behind other work her sense of worth was attached to. She had no idea what was coming, and she deeply regrets it.
Why does pregnancy cause so much nausea?
Nausea and vomiting affect roughly seven in ten pregnancies, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. It usually begins around the sixth week and often eases by the middle of the second trimester. The leading explanation is the rise in pregnancy hormones, which peaks in the first trimester, though researchers have not settled on a single cause. Despite its common name, morning sickness can occur at any time of day.
How does a plane trigger motion sickness?
Motion sickness is explained by sensory conflict theory, proposed by James Reason and J. J. Brand in 1975. The inner ear senses the motion of the aircraft while the eyes see a cabin that appears still, and the mismatch triggers nausea. Turbulence adds irregular motion that the inner ear registers and the eyes do not. Reason and Brand laid out the theory in their book Motion Sickness, which remains a standard reference.
Why is being busy treated as status?
A 2017 study in the Journal of Consumer Research by Silvia Bellezza, Neeru Paharia, and Anat Keinan found that in the United States, people who described themselves as busy were seen as higher in status. The researchers argued that long hours signal that a person is in demand. In Italy, the same study found the reverse, with leisure signaling higher status.
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