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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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LtXmasEve · 05/12/2012 13:44

Molotov: because she won't be puffing, panting and pushing this baby out and you know this how?

and as for the rest - well that applies to anyone who can afford to pay for private care - not just the "entitled aristocrats".

You sound so very bitter, how draining.

funkybuddah · 05/12/2012 13:51

Shes not the first preghnant person to have it tough and she wont be the last, there doesnt need to be any reporting until she has the baby.

As for it being heir to the throne, yes it is but the Royals dont rule the country anymore so heirs arent really that important (apart from tourism money)

Yellowtip · 05/12/2012 13:52

LtEve Kate is most certainly not an aristocrat Shock.

ooer · 05/12/2012 13:55

I am not all that interested in the details of her pregnancy but I do feel sympathy for her (a) as a human being because she is having probs and (b) precisely because of the minute by minute account. Surely even if you are royal there are some things you would rather keep private?

perceptionreality · 05/12/2012 13:59

I haven't read the whole thread. But I do agree with Greensleeves that the monarchy should be removed. Except on here, some people don't like that thought and I was kindly told by some poster around the time of the Jubilee that I obviously make no contribution to society, otherwise I would want to celebrate the Queen's existence Hmm

I don't have anything against William and Kate at all - there is nothing to suggest they aren't nice people but that doesn't mean the monarchy should continue to exist.

I find it utterly sickening that people like David Cameron go around spouting about the undeserving poor and how they are parasites when at the other end of the scale are the undeserving rich - people connected to the Royal family who aren't high profile enough to perform royal service but live off the tax payer, which they are entitled to do, why exactly?

How exactly does that make any sense?

LtXmasEve · 05/12/2012 14:03

Yellowtip, I know, I was quoting MolotovCocktail.

EverlongLovesHerChristmasRobin · 05/12/2012 14:03

The aristocrat was referring to the royal baby I'm guessing.

themottledlizard · 05/12/2012 14:17

I agree with Yellowtip!!!

I don't understand how anyone can know it is hyperemisis when it has only been going on for a few days. Obviously she needs to be in hospital because she is dehydrated and ill but it doesn't necessarily mean she now has hyperemisis.... it may be the onset of normal (albeit horrible) morning sickness coupled with a stomach bug for instance, plus being tired, very thin etc. So she may well 'get better' soon (especially with all the care she is getting). It may be just the press hamming it up to hyperemisis, she herself may not think she's got it, just feels terribly ill. It will do a great disservice to all those who really do have the condition if she hasn't and then recovers enough to carry on with her duties, out and about looking glowing and healthy. You'll never hear the end of her 'overcoming' the condition through sheer wonderfulness.

I feel desperately sorry for anyone suffering from hyperemisis. I've had 3 DC and was absolutely fine during my pregnancies. If I had suffered that condition I don't think I would ever have had more than 1 child.

themottledlizard · 05/12/2012 14:22

And another thing.....

If it does turn out to be hyperemisis, then let's hope there will be a bit more sympathy/medical intervention given out to all those other sufferers who aren't royal.

BrightenMyNorthernSky · 05/12/2012 14:27

If she's managed to get dehydrated to the point of being hospitalised though, presumably that is proper hyperemesis? I had HG in my second pregnancy - in the scheme of things I had it "mildly", in that I was only hopsitalised once for 3 days and the rest of the time could manage at home (if I took the drugs, lay in a quiet room doing nothing while my mum took care of my toddler, if nobody ate around me, or tried to get me to read anything, or tried to get me to have an in-depth conversation). From 5-20 weeks I did not eat anything constituting a meal (just full fat coke and the odd bite of something), and threw up numerous times a day. But they dipped my urine a lot and after the initial hospitalisation, I never had ketones again (which show that you are dehydrated). So I think if she's got to the point of dehydration it must be more than morning sickness and a tummy bug?

Yellowtip · 05/12/2012 14:29

Thank you mottled. Obviously a person of sound common sense :)

But on another thread in chat, Kate is apparently using a surrogate and this is all a smokescreen for that.

In fact a warming pan baby type replay may be a terrific idea. We might then stand at least an outside chance of getting an heir who isn't irredeemably workshy and irredeemably thick.

AmberSocks · 05/12/2012 14:30

I personally dont give a shit if shes pregnant,i hate the whole concept of the royal family and think it should be abolished,i hope she gets through pregnancy and that the baby is ok,as much i hope any woman and baby is ok!

LtXmasEve · 05/12/2012 14:31

We might then stand at least an outside chance of getting an heir who isn't irredeemably workshy and irredeemably thick

You really are fucking horrible aren't you?

FBworry · 05/12/2012 14:36

Well I hope the baby inherits her dignity and grace.

Theres a lot to be said for dignity isn't there?

themottledlizard · 05/12/2012 14:38

I also agree with Yellowtip about the Palace PR peddling lies over the years.( I am old enough to remember all the Charles/Camilla carrying on denials making out poor old Diana to be a loon. Everyone's conveniently forgotton about that, now he's married to Camilla.)

Diana btw had dreadful sickness, had absolutely nil sympathy then from the Royals. At least they are being a bit kinder to Kate. Seem to have learnt their lesson. (runs away to read rumours about surrogate :))

Mumofthreeteens · 05/12/2012 14:39

Feel very sorry for them that their secret is now public. Poor girl feeling so ill and having the world's press pointing their lenses at her hospital room. Really the press have learnt nothing from Diana and it is happening all over again. I wish them both well and hope poor Kate, like I would any pregnant mother, feels a lot better very soon.

Frontpaw · 05/12/2012 14:41

Well, there was so much speculation anyway, maybe now the press will respect heir wishes and leave the hell alone. I am quite amazed that Buckingham Palace doesn't have a functioning medical suite anyway.

LtXmasEve · 05/12/2012 14:50

I don't understand how anyone can know it is hyperemisis when it has only been going on for a few days

That will be because you have a distinct lack of years and years of medical training I expect.

making out poor old Diana to be a loon

'Poor Old Diana' was as manipulative and as media savvy as the rest of them. The press is a tool to be used, and used it is to great effect.

Diana btw had dreadful sickness, had absolutely nil sympathy then from the Royals

I didn't realise you were a close personal friend of Diana Spencer. Did she tell you herself?

themottledlizard · 05/12/2012 14:55

How do they decide if it is hyperemisis or not then? (bows to superior medical knowledge)

I suspect there is an element of 'wait and see'........as there is with other medical conditions once they have been stabilised.

perceptionreality · 05/12/2012 14:58

Diana was only 19 when she married into the royal family - I doubt she was media savvy at that age, she probably developed that side of herself in order to survive. Kate is more fortunate in that, from where I sit it appears that William actually loves her, plus she's older and has had plenty of time to know what she's in for.

Yellowtip · 05/12/2012 15:14

LtEve you do seem rather fawny tbh. Is Kate your Colonel? :)

If we're going into what's fucking this and what's fucking that then I happen to think you're fucking naive to pretend that Kate isn't workshy. She was ludicrously workshy for nigh on ten years, despite an adequate education. Spoiled baby. She could have piddled around in an art gallery or auction house for a couple of days a week and done the whole Sloane gig, which usually involves at least light work. But instead we get peddled this baloney about helping out with Party Pieces. My Aunt Fanny. Especially since the story about why she did fuck all kept changing as the Middletons and Kate were told what to say.

On the thick front. Well, er..... maybe listen to them speak? William is tolerable, Kate is bad (really quite bad) and you've only got to read a snippet of Pippa's book to see what kind of stock we're filtering into the gene pool. Dear me.

William seems pleasant enough but not worth a kingdom. His dad screwed up royally. Nothing left to admire, let alone revere.

If that's fucking horrible, then so be it.

PickledInAPearTree · 05/12/2012 15:17

Yes, you are coming across as horrible. Very much so.

It's quite confusing your spending such a lot of energy on being pretty vile, whereas surely the sensible thing to do if you find this all so bile worthy is to switch the tv over.

Perturbing.

LtXmasEve · 05/12/2012 15:32

Yellowtip. No, she isn't.

If that's fucking horrible, then so be it. No, I said you were fucking horrible.

I didn't realise you were a personal confidant of the Middletons. Do they know how you feel about their family?

I'm also surprised that you think it is easy to pass your advanced pilots, advanced search and rescue and sea rescue examinations, as Prince William did. Lots of people are not confident at public speaking, that does not make them unintelligent.

I'm not naive or fawning, I'm just not comfortable being vile about people I do not know, for the sake of it.

FunBagFreddie · 05/12/2012 15:35

Bored of the Royals full stop. Couldn't care less about her pregnancy, it's just another parasite on the way, destined to live off tax payer's hard earned money. They are just upper class benefit scroungers imo.

themottledlizard · 05/12/2012 15:42

I still want to know how it is diagnosed? Does it not need to go on longer than, say, a week before it officially becomes hyperemisis? Because she could actually have the norovirus on top of normal pregnancy sickness (and so become dehydrated and ill) and then revert back to what is classed as normal pregnancy sickness (as opposed to hyperemesis).

I don't want to be taken to the Tower for suggesting that though......