Hyperemesis Support

[LucindaE]

I hope everyone suffering from the Horrors of Hyperemesis will find this thread useful as a source of support and information.

There's no TMI on here - can't be by definition - and nobody should feel ashamed of moaning as much as they feel the need to.

MOH's wonderful website is full of useful information on this illness:
sites.google.com/site/pregnancysicknesssos/
Another invaluable website is:
www.pregnancysicknesssupport.org.uk/
If you need help in obtaining medication, this phone number is
brilliant:
024 7638 2020

Lastly, the NICE guidelines on treatment are useful:
cks.nice.org.uk/nauseavomiting-in-pregnancy#!prescribinginfosub

I would like to thank Everyone who has given such invaluable support and advice on this and on previous threads.

Remember when you are at your worst, 'This Too Shall Pass'. It really will.
So many women on this thread have thought they couldn't get through this, but they did.

Thanks Tally, think I might delete it and unsubcribe from email. I'm just so easily influenced I think and as for said celeb think dates were dodgy anyway and she's using bump as a marketing ploy, I know I need to get a grip!

Wrong mrs meerka

ooops sorry mrsnec! but I do hope your nausea is ok too!

I meant mrsnec ofc.

full of cold and insomnia which always makes the nausea worse. Moving like a sleepy sloth atm

mrsnec that's such good news to hear that the nausea has improved. It is supposed to get better from week 16 I believe for most women so I do hope you are not one of the few who has it throughout.

Those apps are total rubbish. DH banned me from so much stuff earlier on in the pregnancy as it stressed me out so much. I was allowed on MN though :) Don't worry at all about the weight thing or showing. I didn't really sport a bump till well after week 20.

tally you must be so excited with not long to go now, really not long to go.

Suzy thank goodness in one way it wasn't a bug and the return of the dreaded hg. I hope you are feeling recovered now and able to enjoy the pregnancy more.

Off to consultant today. Having to do urine samples every two weeks now so fingers crossed blood pressure is still around the same level and there's no protein in the urine. I feel shocking, terribly nauseous, exhausted (awake six times in the night and couldn't sleep beyond 5.30). Nothing tastes good. My food has limited again to pretty much zero.

And quite overemotional today with hormones. Getting stressed about the baby's middle name and how I feel MIL is taking over things a bit. Which is partly true but not actually going to happen as DH is very good about these things, but still making me upset. No idea how to raise it with DH so now he thinks I am upset with him. Sigh. When does this all end!!!

No problem meerka I don't know how id cope with insomnia on top of everything else!

Living, i agree on those apps but I don't have that many people in Rl to talk to about these things, we lost touch with a lot of our friends who are new parents as we found it so hard being around them given how long we were ttc for and none of them understood what it was like. That's why I ended up here really.

Reassuring about bump! Good luck with the consultant, hope you find something you enjoy eating soon.

I already had problems with my inlaws about names! I know it can be a tricky thing but my mil was trying to impose her ideas on me as soon as I told her last time! They live here too, and love it here so want us to use very greek names. None of us have any greek blood at all,! I threw it back at her as they all sound ridiculous with our common and oh so brittish surname which is their fault. But I like traditional boys names with greek origins so there may be a compromise. Hope you can work something out.

There is a woman in the waiting room next to me eating a stinky slice thing. I want to be sick now it's so gross.

oh no living! that's so horrible when you can't get away from it!

I had a terrible night last night. went in yesterday for a steroid injection pre cs and it must have messed with my guts. I spent half the night awake and on the loo. I'm now back in for a top up so I'm expecting tonight to be similar. also been waiting so long im getting hungry which is never a good thing . I hope I don't have to run to the loo soon.

Oh tally :( but so so so soon it will be DONE with a new baby to play with. It's all worth it (she says desperately )

Baby decided to go from head down in the last three scans to being breech today. Great. Nothing to worry about at 31 weeks my consultant said but why now :( And literally two minutes before going in she was doing a jig and then nothing on the scan, so quiet baby apparently. As soon as we left she walloped me in the bladder. Can't she put on a show for my doctor so I can prove I'm not dreaming the movement?!

But blood pressure had gone done! No protein in urine! Yay! He said we don't have to worry about pre eclampsia any more. And on Tuesday I have to do that glucose thing where you drink the drink and they do two blood tests an hour apart? Hope that doesn't come back up

Consultant also said the returning nausea was very common in third trimester if you had struggled with it earlier and to get as much rest as possible. He wasn't bothered and told me to stick with my medication. Even with not eating much these last two weeks my weight gain is very steady at around 1kg a week.

mrsnec me too - I'm pretty much on my own here. This thread has been a lifeline. I have close friends who have babies but they are so far away it's not the same as being able to chat on a regular basis is it.

I think I just feel like MIL is trying to take over the baby. You NEVER her hear say 'how is the baby/your child' it is always 'my grandchild' (his dad is totally normal by the way!). Some of it is very well meaning, offering to spend hundreds of euros on baby stuff (which we have said no to nearly all of it), and some of it manipulative. But DH is very close to her and I feel bad saying anything as she does on the most part mean well and he is supportive of me. But the arrival of this baby is a big status thing in his family for her as she's the first on the Dutch side to have a grandchild so is lording it a bit over her sisters. I'm kind of irritated by that sort of thing.

I confess one of the reasons I want to move back is to have a bit of distance again. I feel like if the baby has his grandmother's middle name (which he has his heart set on) then it is just another way of it all being about their family and zero to do with mine. I'm deeply uncomfortable with it, particularly as my mum is very good about giving me space and not interfering and my family, although close, is not in this in your pocket kind of way that he has so it is very difficult for me to get used to.

Anyway, rant over, hmm Greek names....I can only ever think of names like Pedros, Stavios and those types of things! The girls names are beautiful though - I had one colleague who was a Sofia and another who was an Eleni.

And I should have added after my mc and infertility it was impossible for me to talk to anyone. My closest friend is no longer my closest friend as a result as she couldn't understand why I was so silent for months. It was bad enough going into work, I used to obsess over someone announcing their pregnancy and how I was going to handle that. I do sympathise it is horrible to go through

Talllyra and livingzuid Oh no, poor both of you! Sympathetic pats.
mrsnec I so agree with others about the misinformation. Don't expect to have normal weight gains with this. it's ironic but natural that women on here worry when they get a couple of good days, but the bile run sounds horribly reassuring.
About names, I'm surprised in laws can be so bossy - and something like 'Achilles Smith' would sound ridiculous, I agree!
mrsb87 and Meerka Hugs about cold and sleeplessness.
Suzysnoozy that sounds so dramatic and horrible, my goodness. I'm glad you posted and glad you're feeling a little better.
elizabthsmum It sounds as if you had bad luck having that risk as well as bad Hyperemesis -I had an amnio to - 1 in 33 risk given. I did find it upsetting because I felt the movements start unusually early - just before the amnio, so I wished I'd gone for CVS. Not as if I didn't know that the statistics were all in my favour, but you still worry.I do so feel for people waiting.
Hope Everyone is coping with no more dental misfortunes or Public Puking?
xx

Livingzuid Cross posted - hugs, I was so glad I was made redundant at the time of my mc, as there was a woman in the office who was pregnant and talked about nothing else, though it was her second. It's so difficult over the names thing - I called my daughter after my OH's late mother, but there was no pressure on me to do so, so that made me want to, plus it is a name I like and (I hope my mother isn't reading this, but it's highly unlikely) my own mother has an awful name; I don't know what my grandmother was thinking of!
xx

try and endure, puke crew. it does and WILL end

my HG vanished completely after delivery
the best of it is I find I can drink loads of water/juice/tea and eat anything -- except a magnum, to be honest it was too big and sickly

I will keep popping by

Finch that sounds like heaven. I'm down to only puking 2/3 times a day but am still terrified of food. I really want a big juicy burger but I'm don't think I could cope!

How is the little one doing?

MIL sounds like a nightmare. It's your baby, your body and your decision. I know you can't just tell them to butt out (flashbacks to my wedding) but it is so very frustrating!!

Ah hi chaffinch! Can't wait to feel nausea free too! How are you getting on with little Ethan?

Hope you manage to escape another bad night Tally ... yuk, not what you want at this stage!!

living im so glad the threat of pre-eclampsia has faded. MiL does sound a bit smothering. silly question, could the baby have two middle names? thought hat doesnt really solve the problem of over-closeness ...

Hi finch!!!

I've been home an hour. they neglected to tell me it was a full preop bloods and anaesthetist meeting. thankfully dh went back to the car and found me some food. shame we had the dog in the car. he was very good but now were home he's gone a bit mental!

he's a cool little guy, he gets a lot of hiccups and murmurs in my ear when he wants feeding. so cute!

Afternoon!
MrsNec don't worry about not gaining weight yet, as long as you're not losing it, I think the worry is if you don't gain weight across the second tri. In my first pregnancy I only got to my pre-preg weight at 20 weeks (had lost some in first tri)

Ahhh the dentist!! I'm not dentist adverse (I nearly was a dentist!!) but I've had a root canal prob since just before preg. Dentist has started to sort but can't finish until delivered!!! Has been a bit of a pain especially with poor dental hygiene when you have HG. Fortunately can manage mouthwash.

Tally did you get the steroid injection because you were on prednisolone in pregnancy? The obs registrar I saw the other week wasn't certain if I'd need one but to my understanding I probably should so my body has enough cortisol to deal with surgery stress.

I think the name thing is very personal. We don't tell anyone until birth. Everyone's always got an opinion and it's usually negative (not that we gave first little boy a silly name and it was spelt correctly ;-) but last time OH despite his declaration of secrecy told people names we were considering, needless to say it ruined all the names :-( with peoples silly comments.

Living it sounds like we have similar HG issues. The food aversions are terrible, my struggling to eat makes the nausea much worse but if I leave it too long then I vomit the food I've managed, I've not gained any weight over the past four weeks :-(
Glad the BP is okay. I understand about the MIL. Mine is very well meaning but she lacks a tact sensitivity chip sometimes. Likes to give and argue advice about things of which she knows nothing (especially annoying when it's something I do know about ie it's my job/I have a degree in it.....grrrrrr)

Hi to everyone....Doom, so glad the nause days are over!!!

Thanks again about the weight thing I will try not to worry I probably could still be ok if I lost a bit but I carried on dieting just before my mc last time so I decided this time I wasn't going to obsess about food and just eat whatever I fancy I still think that's the answer with so many food aversions which i still have.

Living thanks for understanding, it was horrible I lost my 2 closest friends because of it.

Regarding the family situation it sounds like an absolute nightmare I had a bit of interference on other things too but not to that extent, on the name situation I was able to prove a point there was a birth announcement in the local rag, the parents called their son Kyriacos Kypros Scholes, their names were Dave and Shelley or something like that so now mil gets she was being ridiculous but is going to be religiously checking it for inspiration now. I like some greek girls names too but if it's a girl I want to name her after my grandmother, boys names a lot of the classic names I like are greek in origin anyway, like George, Gregory,Phillip and Alexander so they'd still get a name day but i think on most things you should put your foot down as everything is ultimately your decision but its easier said than done I appreciate that. I'd consider 2 middle names if it solved a family issue though. Good news the bp is ok,

finch glad you're both doing so well and the hg was gone so quickly hope you can enjoy a magnum soon.

Checking in quickly to catch up later... Xx

Hi all

just to echo prev posts- defo no need to worry about lack of weight gain mrsnec . Both pregs I lost 1.5 stone up to 20 weeks before gradually putting back on. Had no bump at all until 22 weeks with Dd1 and still wore all normal clothes until then. As consultant put it unceremoniously 'babies are good parasites!!'

glad appointment has gone well living hope you manage ok with the lucozade on tue! Good advice about the baby name issue I think if it is kept a secret until babes arrival and then just announced to everyone, anyone voicing their opinion would just be plain rude!! I found discussing beforehand people more likely to offer negative opinions!

Glad you and little ethan are getting on well chaffinch.

Good luck tallyra hope you are feeling a bit better now.

Ps- I found MIL very over bearing to start with after DD1's arrival (she eventually backed off!), which was hard going as my parents have always been much more respectful of our personal family space and much less interfering generally. Conversely when I had the teins she was much less interfering (when I could have done with the help!! ;)

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