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.

I just want to say that acute doesn't mean severe. It means something like "sudden" or "not long term". That is all.

aherd, , I know a few people who complain of "acute chronic back pain!"

I have experienced quite a few ranges of HG one where I spent the entire pregnancy as a inpatient I arrived before I knew I was pregnant and did not leave until 15 days post delivery.

One pregnancy coping quite well with tablets and of the top of my head only 4 hospital admissions for 2-3 days each time.

My most recent pregnancy I still worked 2 days a week just spent the time in between working having treatment in a clinic and at home other than my hair coming out in clumps and the sores round my mouth and the bruised bits from drips and injections nobody would have known anything was up until I was induced at 35 weeks.

"I'm sure Kate isn't bothered about what people put on here, well she probably doesn't read it anyway but why do so many get so riled up when they read criticism about her."

There are probably some very good reasons for criticising her, as there are for every other person in the world, but her suffering from something like this during pregnancy certainly isn't one of them.

I'm not saying anybody has to like her, or even sympathise with her, but why go so far as to criticise her for this of all things? The other people sharing their experiences of HG on this thread have made it clear how terrible it is and we know it puts her unborn baby at risk. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy so in this case, you might have nothing nice to say about her but why comment at all, to criticise her over an illness she has no control over?

If nothing else, someone as high profile as she is being reported as suffering from HG might make people more aware and understanding of the condition for all those other, less well off people who also suffer from it.

A lot of Kate's critics here have brought these 'mere mortals' into the argument and if they were genuinely concerned about them they wouldn't be talking about battling through it or getting on with it, because it's been said several times that with HG, people can't do that. The attitude towards Kate may well make someone else feel worse about their own experience of HG.

OP, frankly I can't be bothered to RTFT, but I've read enough if your posts to say this:
If you have an issue with a monarchy in this country, start a thread about THAT.
That's a whole different issue to a woman dealing with HG whatever their circumstances. I've never had it, thank god.
And yes, do have another .

HG proper is absolutely excruciatingly awful but I would say that this monarchy now does so much tedious spin, underestimating the intelligence of a good part of its audience, that there might be very good reason for doubting that Kate actually suffered full blown HG, or indeed anything resembling it. If viewers recall, she was out and about and 'glowing' very soon after the last hospital stay. I thought the received wisdom was that Ma Middleton got hysterical at the first sign of regular morning sickness and it all got a bit silly. And that they then had to justify it. Isn't this surely just more of the same , with the Scottish ref (rather ridiculously) thrown in? It doesn't seem to me that the doubters are trivialising HG, rather that they don't want the condition hijacked for some artificial royalist spin.

Interesting that 2 of the posters on Kate threads are Celtic and Weatherall both of whom are hard at work on the all no voters are selfish scaredy cats. Must have been disappointing seeing the reports today of Salmond attempting to brownnose the Queen and co-opt her onto their side.

My friend had HG with both pregnancies. It's awful, she was so sick she was hospitalised vomiting blood. I feel very sorry for Kate dealing with it - and in the public eye

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There is no doubt what so ever that I had full blown HG none at all in several of my pregnancies but with rate last one not one person outside of a very small group would have had a clue until I hit 30 weeks and the effects of it became apparent appearance wise and hard to cover up.(it was so clear that most of my children were induced between 34 and 36 weeks)

A combination of really rather good medical care and a very good make up lady kept it well under wraps,