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AIBU?

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

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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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Frontpaw · 04/12/2012 09:54

It's not through yet! Just dotting the i's I suppose.

melika · 04/12/2012 09:57

I only felt sick when I brushed my teeth!

Mrsjay · 04/12/2012 10:00

It's not through yet! Just dotting the i's I suppose.

They will probably be dotted before the baby comes . I am still holding out for twin royals though

nannyl · 04/12/2012 10:03

Of course YABU

I have HG for the 2nd time right now, had it 9m last time

its horrific, and i have been to the drs almost daily this pregnancy, being taken very seriously and admitted when i am dehydrated to need regydrating... again and again

HG is a serious condition and it can kill you, and in the mean time you feel crappier than crap for months on end.

I have never come across an unsympathetic dr, both at my surgery and in hospital

Yellowtip · 04/12/2012 10:05

fairylights unless things have recently changed dramatically in the forces, I don't believe 'any other' officer would get 'compassionate' leave for extreme morning sickness, given that the wife in in good hands in an excellent hospital with immediate family on hand.

Leave to be with a wife for a couple of days after a miscarriage used to be seriously frowned on, not sure how it is now. In fact anything to do with pregnancy an childbirth was given very short shrift if it compromised the work of the husband in any way. Pregnant women were treated abysmally, certainly twenty years ago, in the nineties.

William obviously wants to do something useful but he doesn't do the job in the same way with the same restrictions as his colleagues; no chance.

The Telegraph says that Kate and William pushed for the news to come out.

What happens with a multiple birth c-section? Can the doctors choose which to deliver first or does the position of the babies inevitably dictate that? Or can both babies be delivered siultaneously? I'm interested to know how the doctors would handle that, esp. if theres one girl and one boy?

RooneyMara · 04/12/2012 10:23

It's fairly simple, if you don't want a minute by minute account of her pregnancy, including a load of made up bollocks and speculation, don't buy or read the tabloids.

That's how I avoid it.

I have EVERY sympathy for her though I honestly envy the doubtless very good treatment she must be getting - that would be what I'd want for every pg woman with HG, because HG is truly shit and awful.

I hope she is able to sustain the pregnancy
I hope she feels as good as she can
I hope she gets the right drugs

And I hope she is allowed enough privacy both during and after the pregnancy.

I don't care what she wears or does, really, and I'm blaise about the Royal Family, but from what I know I like the lass (as well as William) and I want everything to go well for them.

Just...don't read the papers if you don't have any interest in it.

Frontpaw · 04/12/2012 10:25

It's not just the papers though - tv, radio...

RooneyMara · 04/12/2012 10:27

Somehow, we manage to avoid the news. I don't know if this is irresponsible of us.

I do have R4 on in the car but so far haven't heard a peep about Kate though I was kind of hoping to this morning. It's all politics and prostitution laws.

We do watch a lot of CBBC though.

Mrsjay · 04/12/2012 10:27

I have just turned the tv off This morning is about to start I bet Dr chris will be wittering on or maybe denise offering her support at this difficult time

oohlaalaa · 04/12/2012 10:27

YANBU.

Glitterknickaz · 04/12/2012 10:27

It's in the broadsheets too!

Janeatthebarre · 04/12/2012 10:28

I can't understand why Kate would attract such antagonism from some people. She comes across as a perfectly pleasant girl who does what's expected of her without going out of her way to court media attention.She doesn't seem to have any of Diana's insecurities or neediness and will probably be a perfectly normal responsible mother.

That being said I hope the media will calm down after today and will not spend the next seven months forcefeeding everyone stories about the pregnancy or writing silly coy articles or swooning everytime she appears in a nice maternity outfit. We had all that nonsense with Diana and the whole thing turned out to be a complete charade.

RooneyMara · 04/12/2012 10:28

Well if you watch This Morning yes you'll be subjected to a whole host of shite

Not long till lunchtime and you can turn over to repeats of Kavanagh QC and so on

morning TV is pretty desperate, isn't it...that's why I'm on MN I suppose!

Frontpaw · 04/12/2012 10:29

I actually heard of it all first on mumsnet when about three threads popped up!

RooneyMara · 04/12/2012 10:29

I doubt it'll be in the broadsheets for very long though, or nearly as much iyswim. They won't be treating it in the same obsessional way as the tabloids.

RooneyMara · 04/12/2012 10:30

Me too Frontpaw - I think of MN as my news filtering system!

ToffeeCaramel · 04/12/2012 10:33

It will be in the news because people want to hear about it. Me included. Very excited about the new baby me.

ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 04/12/2012 10:33

I could do with without the wall to wall coverage. I expect Kate could too. I have visions of Peter Snow leaping around a vomitometer if they thought they could get away with it.

I am ambivalent about the royals and the heir to the throne comments leave a bit of a nasty taste in my mouth, all babies are equally important regardless of "rank". However, she is a young woman having her first child who is having a rough time of it and she has my sympathy for that.

As others have said hopefully this means that HG will be taken more seriously.

Yellowtip · 04/12/2012 10:34

It's the charade factor which is the biggest difficulty Jane. So much is false. Given how many lies were peddled about Diana, Charles and Camilla it's difficult to see what there is left to admire. The Queen possibly, for sheer hard work. And Anne for the same. And Zara, for talent.

Nothing in the least remarkable about Kate, except tenacity and a good game plan perhaps.

BeckAndCall · 04/12/2012 10:37

If her condition helps the rest of the world understand just how horrible it is to be that sick, then I would see that as positive But wouldn't be wishing it on her.

The number of times 'you hear 'it's just morning sickness' from people who've never had it or from male doctors or male colleagues. You try having your head down the toilet for hours at a time for 6 month ( in my case) and then say its 'just' anything.

I hope its of short duration for you, Kate, and that you get all the help you need. 'This too will pass.'

Yellowtip · 04/12/2012 10:47

At what point does morning sickness become hg?

Alisvolatpropiis · 04/12/2012 10:50

digerd George VI wasn't heir to the throne. He became king only because Edward abdicated. He was the spare heir in much the same way Harry is now. Of Edward and George, it seems we did end up with the better one for the job,Edward was a massive Nazi sympathiser throughout the war.

RooneyMara · 04/12/2012 10:57

I'm not sure of the official definition...'hyper' usually means excessive, or too high,, or extreme.

I'd imagine it crosses over once the person becomes physically and/or mentally unable to carry on with their life without considerable medical intervention.

I think the Dr said I had it because I could not function even with meds. But I think it can be far far worse than what I had.

nannyl · 04/12/2012 10:59

yellowtip

HG is when you are truley dehydrated, cant keep anything down, your body goes into ketosis...... and thats often WITH medication

also as a rule of thumb someone with HG will loose at least 5kg of weight (or 10% of their body weight) in just a few weeks.

a few days of nasty morning sickness is 1 thing

continual vomitting (often not keeping anything at all down for days) looseing weight, and your body going into starvtion mode is different.... and it doesnt improve for ages... even with medication and with IV fluids

and you feel so so so SO poorly, you could not even comprehend how poorly (unless you have had it) and most people feel like that continually for months.

Plenty of people with HG are bedridden for MONTHS

Frontpaw · 04/12/2012 11:01

It's like the worst food poisoning ever and it can go one for weeks.

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