to find royal morning sickness irritating

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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.

that's a bit mean she is poorly

save you irritation for the we are happy to be peasants to the royals as they are better people than us threads that will pop up over the next 8 months

Oh dear OP.! Well at least you learnt something and got a full pack of biccies for your pains. YABU but you can see that at least

I lost my first pregnancy due to ketosis brought on by HG.
I feel nothing but sympathy for the poor woman. At least I could lie in bed throwing up 24/7 for 16 weeks in relative privacy. She has the whole world taking an interest.

Morning sickness is nothing like HG.

3littlefrogs that is so sad and frightening. I'm so sorry.

Well its only been a few hours and yes I am fed up with it. Yes it is awful for HER but why do they have to tell us the details. Surely it is a private thing and the cancelled engagements can be explained away as unwell or something, I dont need to know every detail

Perhaps if more people were aware and understood it would make those of us none famous people who have it or have had it less of a target for those who ridicule or bully them because they think its just morning sickness or the family members who use it to make judgements about how good a parent you will be or the ones who get all eye brow and cats bum faced then drivel on about bastard ginger biscuits when you don't even have the ability to talk and your biggest concern is the risk of oesophagus rupture and blindness because of it.

I spent 9 months with HG with my 4th child (1st dd).

I couldn't even keep water down. The second anything touched my stomach I was sick. I was so weak I couldn't lift my head at times.

In and out of hospital on drips. I was skinny when the baby was born.

I also had it with my 5th child (2nd dd) but thankfully it only lasted 16 weeks.

It was hideous. Very depressing and rendered me incapable of doing even the basic of tasks.

Yeah, I have to work through my own social awkwardness everyday and do fine. What are people with Asperger's whining about?

I have to work through my own sleep deprivation and am just fine. I don't see why people with insomnia are complaining.

Just because you experience a less severe symptom of something doesn't mean you understand it. Also, even having mild morning sickness, I left afternoons at work because I was worried about puking on the customers. I don't think I'd be down for a public event where everyone could potentially photograph me getting sick.

I actually thought fair play to the women for wanting to go through it all again so soon.

I think she's great and I hate the stick they get. William even said today please let's focus in the "important things going on in the world".

Feel sorry for her going through it (cannot imagine what it must feel like) esp with the world spotlight on her knowing she's probably spending her days with her head down the loo - how mortifying for her.

She has something very different. I have had both types and know the difference! I had normal morning sickness for 3 months in the mornings with the first children.

With the twins I was sick all day every day for the first 3 months. I had special sinks where I was sick in, spaces on my office floor I lay down on (I worked with it) and mine only went on 3 months of that all day sickness and it was not as bad as hers. She has a horrible illness which is not really morning sickness at all. In fact it can m ean she eats so little she could die at times unless tube fed.

Even if she only had regular morning sickness, I think she'd be forgiven for not wanting to risk puking in front of the world's media.

It's not like she can reach under her desk for the waste paper bin if she feels a bit green around the gills...

Penguins - is it just members of the royal family you don't feel sorry for, or does anyone who has millions of pounds worth of care and attention lavished on them also not have your sympathy when they are feeling really rotten?

She must be having a tough time and it must suck having to announce earlier than you'd really like to.

On the other hand, I'm not that impressed by the fact that it's been the lead item on the radio news all sodding day.

But I'm slightly anti-royal too –or, anyway, not that interested in them.

Please educate me on HG: I thought it usually lasts during most of the pregnancy. Kate had it last time, yet she was fine and making appearances from 2nd trimester onwards, or am I being dumb? By the way, I have a lot of sympathy for HG sufferers. I could barely cope with morning sickness, never mind HG.

Have a bit of compassion! morning sickness is bloody awful at the best of times and hg is in a completely different league and potentially dangerous for the baby. I'm not a royalist by any stretch of the imagination but I really feel for her.

God whatever I think of the royals as an institution, I feel for her as a person – it must be horrendous anyway, let alone with paps hanging around outside and news stories following your every move.

I hope the media learn from last time and leave her alone.

To be fair the OP has realised she was being unreasonable.

Natalia32, it usually lasts longer than standard morning sickness, but doesn't have to last the whole pregnancy to be considered HG. (There are different definitions of HG anyway which doesn't help clarify things.)

Mine lasted until the day after DD was born. I was lucky enough to respond to the drugs fairly well, but even then it was so, so awful. I had norovirus a few weeks ago and it was a walk in the park in comparison.

Well I sort of agree with you OP in that hearing about on the news all the time it is irritating (because I just want to shout "Oh leave her alone!").

Re her engagement though, I think cancelling it actually sends a good message to women. Don't push yourself too hard and feel you have to paste on a smile when you feel like crap.

I would support a republic so I am not bothered by any amount of royal-bashing, but surely on a forum like MN it is obvious that there will be a higher proportion of people than usual who have suffered with HG so you are going to get flamed for referring to the condition dismissively as morning sickness?
It doesn't matter how debilitating your morning sickness was, HG can be fatal and requires being hospitalized, there is no option to choose to push through it and you can't compare the two. I fainted while having HG, I would love for you to explain to me how my status as a 'mere mortal' could have enabled me to 'work through' being unconscious.

Is she having another baby?

Where the feck have I been not to know that!!

Morning, madame! :o

It was only announced today.

You must have been on Mars, Madame . It's been inescapable.

It was only announced today I think Madame, so if you haven't seen or heard the news today you wouldn't have known.

I don't believe for one minute that Kate wanted the media to have a field day with this. I am sure she doesn't enjoy having her pregnancy and HG splashed all over the papers.

As someone up thread pointed out, the Royals cost us less than a £1.00 per year each; they bring in loads of tourism cash and generally work hard.

There are far worse people who are overpaid and do a lot less for the country IMO.