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To not want a minute by minute account of Kate's pregnancy and little sympathy for her.

511 replies

babbas · 03/12/2012 21:15

She's rich, she has all the support in the world and will have no cooking, cleaning, vocational work or responsibilities. I really really really do not want to have daily updates on her condition or her pregnancy for the next nine months! It's so typical of everything she stands for that they have already announced she will have to be on rest for the foreseeable future. As opposed to doing what exactly??!

My best friend had HG and lost a stone in 8 days. She went to hospital and was told to pull her herself together as most women had morning sickness. No time off work, no help whatsoever.

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KellyEllyChristmasBelly · 04/12/2012 15:16

Wow, some of you on here are just really bad minded and devoid of empathy.

VikingVagine · 04/12/2012 15:21

I had HG with my 2nd DC. No amount of wealth or status would have made me feel any better.

Plenty of sympathy here.

What an unpleasant thread.

lashingsofbingeinghere · 04/12/2012 15:57

OP, what's the problem? Change channels, change your newspaper (the Indie rarely covers Royal news) if you really don't want to know about Kate's state of health.

I find it easy to know absolutely nothing about TOWIE "stars", Russell Brand, Tulisa etc etc by the simple expedient of never clicking on anything to do with them, or reading anything about them. You should try it.

Bunbaker · 04/12/2012 18:54

"And maybe all those bitter and ignorant thick sods who compare it nornal morning sickness will learn something. I've seen people on Facebook saying they had to still work while having sickness. Obviously they didn't have HG then"

Like those people who struggled into work with flu. They obviously didn't have flu, but a bad cold.

Glittertwins · 04/12/2012 19:41

It's not just the constant vomiting, it's also the complete loss of strength to do anything at all. I couldn't even walk 100m without collapsing. Thankfully I didn't have any other children to look after.

thebody · 04/12/2012 19:49

Childbirth is a great leveller, like diarrhoea.

amillionyears · 04/12/2012 20:13

If you cant keep even liquids down, you are in a bad way.

Yellowtip · 04/12/2012 21:36

Bunbaker she's feeling better, according to the news.

maximusminimus · 04/12/2012 22:05

Hmm.

I agree that I'm already bored with the fawning over it, as though this is the only baby ever to have been conceived (and I also don't care that it's the heir to the throne - people should earn respect and admiration, rather than just be born into the right family...). And I'm afraid I have little sympathy for her in respect of the media attention: whilst it's not nice or even acceptable, she knew what she was getting into.

But I do have a lot of sympathy for her in respect of being so utterly utterly ill. That must be dreadful.

So sympathy from one woman to another, but I'm with the OP on not really caring much about the pregnancy itself (other than hoping it's healthy and happy blah blah blah, just like I would in respect of any other woman's pregnancy).

PickledInAPearTree · 04/12/2012 22:56

Well no one is going to put a gun to anyone's head to read about it.

I've only seen one small news article personally and I could have turned that over had I not been interested.

Rudolphstolemycarrots · 04/12/2012 23:06

Having suffered from acute morning sickness myself, I have lots of sympathy for her. It's bloody awful. I'm not really into Kate but wouldn't wish a bad pregnancy on anyone.

chipmonkey · 04/12/2012 23:49

I had very bad morning sickness on pregnancies one, three and five. Didn't have to be hospitalised but even what I had was debilitating. It wouldn't have mattered if I'd lived in Buckingham palace, I wouldn't have been able to enjoy it at all.
I hope she and her baby get through this OK.

sayithowitis · 05/12/2012 00:01

I had HG with both my pregnancies. Whoever said it can strike quickly id=s right. With no 1 I had had 'normal' morning sickness for about three weeks and then suddenly I was hit by the train that is HG. I rapidly became dehydrated, couldn't swallow a mouthful of water before it was coming back up. My GPs couldn't have been any kinder. I had home visits from them every day and they tested for the ketones level each day. As soon as they rose to a certain level, they had me hospitalised and I was on a drip for several days. I had various medications to try to stop the continuous vomiting - seriously, if I was awake I was vomiting. Like others on here I was told that HG is often a sign of a multiple pregnancy and in my case this was correct. Sadly, I miscarried one of my twins, but did manage to maintain the pregnancy with the other. I spent approximately half my pregnancy in hospital due to the HG and I can honestly say that the day it finally stopped, was the day DC1 was born. At one time, I had so little 'spare' fluid in my body, that not only could i not urinate for a couple of days, but it was even painful to blink my eyes because they were so dry. I have never, ever, felt so ill in all my life as I did then. My second full term pregnancy followed a very similar pattern, though this time there was only one baby and thankfully, DC2 held on for the full nine months. But, again, I spent a significant length of time in hospital for HG.

I am sorry for those who feel they have had this condition but have not had the right treatment from the NHS. maybe things were different 20-odd years ago, when it happened to me, but I cannot complain at all about the attitude of any of the healthcare professionals that looked after me at that time.

I think it is very sad that so many posters on here seem to think that Kate is somehow at fault for being so ill, or is even putting on some kind of PR show. I would not wish HG on my worst enemy and really don't understand why so many people are so nasty about her.

knackeredoutmum · 05/12/2012 07:05

There is absolutely no way she has hv.

Out on Friday acting normal at a function and feeling better by Wednesday, just no way.

She's prob got normal morning sickness with no need for hospital. Even so I don't know anyone who has morning sickness for 5 days...

DoesntTurkeyNSproutSoupDragOn · 05/12/2012 07:17

Have you thought of becoming a top private doctor, knackeredoutmum?

Bunbaker · 05/12/2012 07:50

She probably is Grin. She sounds like my MIL who has never suffered from various ailments therefore they don't exist.

TheShriekingHarpy · 05/12/2012 08:11

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Northernlurker · 05/12/2012 08:22

'There is absolutely no way she has hv.

Out on Friday acting normal at a function and feeling better by Wednesday, just no way.
She's prob got normal morning sickness with no need for hospital. Even so I don't know anyone who has morning sickness for 5 days... '

I think you meant HG - bit early for a health visitor to be in the picture. The rest of your post is just as much bollocks though. She hasn't said she's well. She said she's feeling better - as she should be on a drip and with drugs. You have no idea when this started. This could have just started or she could have been medicated for days. She could have been chucking up behind the scenes on Friday. You haven't heard about it because she was surrounded by decent people. I realise that may be a difficult concept to grasp for you.......

Pagwatch · 05/12/2012 08:24

Yes she is immensely priviledged and I completely support people who want rid of the monarchy.
But not being able to sympathise with a woman feeling so horrendous during her first pregnancy is not very nice IMO.

Yellowtip · 05/12/2012 08:26

I'd have thought it was the hg sufferers above all who could see that there's something a bit dubious about the whole show. It smacks strongly of the sudden onset of ordinary morning sickness at 6 weeks which if you're married to a royal dramatically becomes hg. From day one.

If Kate is laid out for months that's one thing. If she's been way over the top and precious then she's done a disservice to those suffering properly from the full blown conition, which is obviously way beyond grim.

I know which my money is on.

Bunbaker · 05/12/2012 08:30

Still the nastiness and cynicism continues. These comments say more about the posters than they do about Kate.

Yellowtip · 05/12/2012 08:32

Pagwatch she might have been, but which day was it we had reports of her eating her 'favourite' pudding at her old school and giving a hockey demo in high heels? Tbh even with my ordinary morning sickness all I could do was put a pillow over my head and moan. Clearly the onset of hg can be fast, but equally clearly she has absolutely not been suffering for days. The jolly pictures are there.

I have real sympathy for anyone suffering badly with morning sickness but it would definitely be wrong of her and all those 'decent people' around her if this is being bigged up. Very wrong for proper sufferers. We'll see, since time will inevitably tell.

Yellowtip · 05/12/2012 08:34

Bunbaker it's her call. My posts say I'm a cynic. True, I am, particularly about certain aspects of the royal family given the absolute lies which get put out.

MsElleTow · 05/12/2012 08:35

I feeling quite pissed off about the situation today, actually! My DH is serving in the RAF, I need urgent hospital treatment. The first day he can have off is 01/03/13! I am nearly in tears with the pain! There is no compassionate leave for us, we have to use annual leave! Even when DS1 was a toddler, and I had such severe SPD I could not walk at all, my DH got not compassionate leave!

ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 05/12/2012 08:36

Yellowtip
I don't think what you are saying is logical. I really really doubt they would have wanted to announce the pregnancy so early if they didn't have too so they would have avoided hospitalising her unless it was absolutely necessary. If she was just suffering from bad morning sickness there are plenty of large royal residences where Kate could have been quietly looked after without all this fuss until they were ready to announce the pregnancy. I suspect all this media circus so early on in the pg is the last thing they wanted.

As I said above I am pretty meh about the Royal Family (with a few exceptions) but I think she genuinely has HG.