to find royal morning sickness irritating

[piplypip]

Having had to work through all my bouts of morning sickness and endure three labours at st marys (definitely not lindo wing) I have limited sympathy for Katiekins' morning sickness. I think she shouldve tried to cope with the engagement she had lined up this afternoon looking less than her usual perfect self. That wouldve sent out a great sign of solidarity to us mere mortals.

Well I'm 25 weeks into my second HG pregnancy. Have been hospitalised twice so far with dehydration and ketosis, the last time 3 weeks ago for nearly a week. I'm also on lots of tablets, some of which have had pretty awful side effects. It is causing me to be depressed. Perhaps you would like to pop over to the hyperemesis support thread and tell us all to get a grip.

The OP has admitted she was probably too hasty in posting.

Sympathy with the Duchess and anybody else suffering from HG.

123jump you are right I am jealous and a bit anti royal too.

xpost.

So you had lots of people having a go at you/not believing you that you had severe morning sickness/HG.

Maybe KM has a slightly easier ride re being able to talk to someone. I doubt that being on the limelight is making it easier all the time though.

And tbh, if she had carried on with her engagement, she would probably have had comments after comments on how she isn't looking after herself and how can she out her 'job; ahead of her health and the one of her child or whatever other gems they would have come up with.
But no one would have said 'Well done. You are clearly ill but are still keeping your engagement. Well done.'

Hot pink you are right! I never thought of that. Yes it must suck having to announce early. No Basgetti, I do not think you should all get a grip. I hope you all get as good a care as she does, but thats my point. Sadly you probably wont.

Branluese that's a rather nasty post, is there any need to be quite so hateful about anyone?

But you didn't have to announce your pregnancy to the world before you were ready, did you?
Or have the world and it's mother trying to find out every teeny, tiny private and intimate detail?
Or analyse your weight/figure/hair via the front pages?

Yes, she has a whole heap of perks, but many downsides too.

Fenton, yes. Yes there is. Obviously.

Has noone told you that the whole concept of royalty and privilege, and the massive massive rich poor divide, is pretty controversial??

My solution would be french revolution style

I wouldn't want her life.

Nice.

I can't speak for others but I've had excellent care. It wouldn't be physically possible for her to suck it up and do this engagement whilst in the throes of HG. I couldn't even do the ten minute school run this morning, let alone stand around chatting to crowds whilst smiling at photographers. I'm anti royal but can still muster up sympathy for another pregnant woman feeling so poorly, and having to do it in the glare of the public eye and bitchy comments.

Branleuse I'm not an idiot, I just don't wish other people horribly sick or dead.

Glad to say that we probably don't agree and leave it at that.

I work on a ward where we care for women with HG, it's a lot different to regular morning sickness in pregnancy. Yabu op.

Fucking hell. She's a woman too ya know, who suffers illness and worries for her unborn child the way we all do. Basic human emotions aren't conditional on our bank balances or amount of health care we receive.

Royalist or not, that's not important. Have a bit of empathy for a woman that's suffering with a horrible, horrible condition of pregnancy Ffs.

HG is horrendous, and this thread is vile.

Appreciate that you've had a rethink but my first thought on reading that she was pregnant again - was "how nice for them" and thanking my lucky stars that I don't have to be fat and pregnant in front of the world's media. Can you imagine being pregnant and having your appearance critiqued on the Daily Mail etc for 9 months. Poor cow doesn't even get 12 weeks off.

I await the first dumbass posting saying that she looks pregnant much earlier this time around with No 2 like it's unusual!

No worries, Pip.

Oh noes! It's just not fair! Some people in this world are privileged beyond our wildest dreams, whereas we are just privileged beyond the dreams of tens of millions of people in this world.

You had to wait to see a well-trained midwife FOR FREE for many appointments where you received care in a clean equipped hospital in London, where had there been anything wrong with you or your baby, vast amounts of money would have been spent to care for you. You probably got there on a world class transport system. When your baby was born, it received vaccinations and medicines and there were enough doctors and nurses in this country to treat it. You are not living in a war zone or dealing with famine. You will never watch helplessly as your child wastes away or dies from diarrhoea for the want of a sachet of diarolyte. You will never experience having an obstetric fistula.

Jesus wept.

Thank God or the universe or luck that you live in this country and be grateful for all that we have, rather than snarking about what someone else has. Be grateful that you had the opportunity to wait for 2 hours to see that midwife.

and a bit anti royal too said piplypip

Really? I'd never have guessed

I bet she doesnt have to spend 2 hours queuing to see a midwife next to someone eating a big stinky KFC.

Well, maybe you should have thrown up there and then. :)

I bet she hasn't had to leave a bus when she was about to be sick or faint, but I know I never had to be in hospital for my sickness.

She gets private care, as many wealthier women.
She deserves just as much sympathy as I'd have for anyone in her position. Only those women don't get country wide sympathy because not many people actually know of them.

BTW, I'd have left after the second post and deleted the thread.

Really not trying to say HG is nothing!

Think I was trying to make this point (from penguin) but did it very clumsily!

"If I may wade in here, I feel sorry for any woman who has HG; its clearly horrible.

But I struggle to feel sorry for any members of the Royal Family TBH, whatever the circumstance, because many of us mere mortals will have to go through the same life experiences at some point, but without the millions of pounds' worth of care and attention being lavished on us to help us cope.

Which is why I usually just avoid the Royal threads smile"

Anyway, I think I might just get my coat now. I am very sleep deprived if thats any consolation

Horrible for anyone to be ill like that. I hope she does have HG though and hasn't had the RF lean on her to announce her pregnancy early because of their fears over the Scottish referendum. This could stir up some patriotism and swing it

just one last thing! Msanthropic- you are soooo right. I do actually thank my lucky stars every day and have nothing but awe for the people that took care of me at ST M's.

MsAnthropic I think I love you.

Bit sanctimonious there, Msanthropic!