Oh god what a hideous article, banging on endlessly about this poor woman's catacylsmic weight loss while pregnant as if it were a plus point, and no comment at all on the low birth weight of all three babies and serious problems with the last, surely caused by poorly managed HG, as I imagine was the horrible illness she endured after the final pregnancy. No clear statement at any point that substantial weight loss in pregnancy is NOT a good thing, even if you are overweight to start with, and that weight loss caused by uncontrollable vomiting is not only bad but actively dangerous.
living it won't be long! If you go all weirdly calm and zen like, get ready, that was the sign for me. I was in such a state physically but then for the last few days I was a weird vision of tranquility, to be honest I felt totally stoned, it must be some funny hormone thing in pre-labour! I was super-calm once labour started too and didn't even wake DH up until I'd been sitting around timing them for a few hours and had already phoned the hospital. There's a mumsnet thread somewhere!
sunny your little boy sounds very calm and resilient! All credit to you - if he is calm and polite that's bound to be because you have somehow managed to remain calm and polite too!
meerka I found the same, I had quite persistent probs with nausea for a while and did throw up a few times when tired/stressed. I actually found I didn't recover fully until I stopped breastfeeding - apparently breastfeeding does keep some similar hormones circulating, though in much lower doses.
henrietta I am 5 weeks today; I had v. severe HG last time and threw up all the way through. I am already on a low dose of ondansetron - the GP was fine prescribing me cyclizine in advance but I saw a consultant last week who put me on the ondansetron. Have you seen your GP?
Well I have reached 5 weeks. I am really really struggling with the totally hideous ondansetron constipation, to which I seem to be unusually sensitive as I am taking very little but none of the constipation treatments I am using are really working. In the end I came off it for 48 hours just so the other methods would work and I could go to the loo. Grim. But on the plus side though I am retching regularly if I move around (and open - or even think about opening - the fridge!) I have not yet thrown up. Hurrah! Last time I started vomiting at 5w4d. A week or so ago I really thought I was going to start throwing up much earlier despite the cyclizine which was super depressing so at least this is something. Though obviously I am on the ondansetron and, I have to say, doing absolutely NOTHING. I do get dressed in the morning for morale but that is pretty much it.
Good luck to everyone.