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.

Nope Lucinda who was I kidding? This thing is not going to give me any respite until delivery. Vomiting at 3am!!! If this wasn't the last day I really don't know how I would take much more....
At least the weather is great :-)

Still not packed a bag, definite mission for the day!

Oh Punk how utterly shit for you. Like you say though less than 24h to go!!

So close punk hang on in there, can't believe you're still having night v

*vomits, poor you.

It's been a traumatic 48 hours here. They thought Daisy had meningitis and she was rushed off to nicu at 4am the following morning after arrival. Today we had the wonderful news it's 'just' an infection easily treated with penicillin. She will be discharged within 7 days.

Lots of relief, tears, anxiety and even a period of psychosis for me. She's responded so well to the medication and the paediatrician is very pleased with her progress. She moves to a medium care unit tomorrow where dh can sleep next to her.

Will write properly in a few days as when you're in recovery from pregnancy and labour then this happens omg. The one upside is I really can eat anything again! And the care she had is absolutely outstanding.

Hope everyone is OK :)

Wow. Living you really can't catch a break!

I hope Daisy recovers quickly. I can't imagine how worried you must both be.

Living how awful for you and DH, glad Daisy is on the mend though and you are too :) Take care of yourself.

Oh no Living :-(
How terrible and frightening!
I'm glad paeds think she is doing so well, pretty scary though. Last thing you need after everything you've been through. Thinking of you all and hope each day brings big improvements x

Livingzuid How awful for you, that is so traumatic, and as everyone says, after what you've been through. Thank goodness all is on the mend.
Pukstar Poor you - night puking is so lonely - the best of luck for tommorow! You've been wonderful, what will we do without you?
Hope *Everyone isn't suffering too much today.
xx

Punkstar Whoops I typed Pukstar and I honestly was NOT making a nasty play on the word 'Puke'! Sorry.
xx

He he may change my name to Pukestar. Would be very apt.

Will be sat on the ward in 12 hours.....

I cannot believe the time has passed and I have survived this farce.

Will update :-)

Pukestar (love it!) I look forward to your update! Hope it all goes wonderfully smoothly.

living, I hope that Daisy is doing well now. What a shock for you and your DH. Don't underestimate the effect of stress like that. My DS1 was admitted to the NICU at a few hours old with what turned out to be a Group B Strep infection. He was given IV antibiotics and within about 24 hours it was fairly clear that the immediate panic was over, but still it had a real impact on me. He was 8 days in the NICU / SCBU / and latterly in a private room on the post natal ward with me, being visited by SCBU nurses. I became institutionalised! I remember getting home and just thinking "What do I do now? We're all alone!". I did 4 hourly obs on him for about the first week, and was a really anxious new mum (although he is absolutely fine). Hopefully this won't be your experience at all, but I wish I'd asked for help with dealing with it all - I'm still not great when the boys get ill! (For everyone else - please consider getting swapped for Groub B Strep, it's so preventable).

Hope everyone else is OK, no real news here. An average-bad day, which has been very welcome after yesterday's festival of vomit.

Oh god living thank god all is well. Thinking of you all! Such a good job you were still in hospital. I know how ir feels to go through a hg preg and then have a poorly baby in nnu. Big hugs to you xxx

punk so glad for you that there is finally a light at tge end of the tunnel and babypunk will soon be here! Good luck for tomorrow!!

hope everyone is having an ok sunday?

pukestar would be the best nickname ever!

living I don't know what to say, except I'm so glad things are looking up again for Daisy and you, it must have been really terrifying- life is so unfair! Take any support they are offering you, you've had a tough pregnancy and an awful scare

living so glad that Daisy is doing better. My goodness, when will your little family get a break! Thinking of you

punk ..... last night to go!! please let us know how it goes when you are able =)

living omg!! Thank goodness Daisy is feeling better. It sounds as though she is getting amazing care, just make sure you take good care of yourself too.

punk I just logged on to wish you all the luck in the world tomorrow when you have your little one! Like everyone else on here, I'm thinking of you!!

just think by this evening you can enjoy anything you want for dinner with a beautiful new baby to cuddle too! Good luck!

sunny that is exactly what it is, a strepB infection. Everyone including the nurses and doctors are all so relieved it's not meningitis. This is a simple infection to treat. Thank you so much for sharing your story it made me feel so much better. She's doing really well and I made dh go check on her in the middle of the night to be sure going to pop down now for a morning cuddle.

elizabeth my heart has been in my mouth and still is really to see her on all those wires and monitors (which dh loves as they appeal to his ocd) she's a brave thing though and as she gets stronger is really quite feisty!

Thank you all ladies so much for the kind words. Even beyond hg this thread has been a lifeline :) I will write properly once I know daisy is finally out of the woods as I have had some interesting chats with the ward sisters and my psychiatrist over the mental toll of it all, support from pre to post pregnancy with hg.

Hope you are all well

Big hug Living

Today is the day ladies. I feel like sobbing that I'm finally going to be free of this.

Bit of an unexciting message but if I can get to this day you all can :-)

Oh Punk I'm so excited for you!!

Hope it all goes perfectly.

Aw living So glad to hear Daisy is ok,That must have been so scarey.And punk Thinking of you today! Wow you will have your baby soon :)

Punkstar I 'm so glad for you that this horror will come to an end.
Will be thinking of you. Do let us know how it went. That must have been a Freudian slip about names!
Livingzuid and SomeSunny How horrible for you both - as a new mother one is so anxious anyway, it's terrifying how your life is bound up with this little being who seems so vulnerable - but they're good at surviving! I*m glad staff are being understanding.
Starry Lottie and Everyone I hope not too bad today.
Waves to in residence Hyperemesis Throughout Veterans Meerka and
Elizabethsmum.
xx

Cross posted George and Okla. I hope no bile run horrors?
xx

Morning! Having a slight panic this morning... I get WhatToExpect daily emails and this one was about packing a hospital bag (very sensible) but it has made my daughter's arrival feel a lot more real (she's due next month!) and I'm jittery with nerves. I'm so glad she will be here soon, but am also terrified of her arrival and being in hospital etc. But SO looking forward to not feeling sick any more. So many conflicting feelings and feeling like a nervous, crying wreck at the moment :-/ How do people deal with this? I feel like a complete idiot.

Just very quickly to say I have no idea what hospital food is like in the UK but here it is something like the cat dragged in. To the point where dh put it in a sick bag and threw it in a bin outside so we could pretend to have eaten it. The nurses and midwives here are quite militant. Lovely and very good but boy have I been told off a couple of times!

What is the point in going through hg if you can't then enjoy a nice meal straight after the baby arrives!

So make sure you take something you want to eat to hospital or get dh / relatives to bring in real food. As a reward for the crap 9 months of beige. Dh got me some Ferrero rochers which i have already devoured.

starry I had all that and more. When my waters broke I went into shock and couldn't speak until well after an hour in at hospital. Still on phone, can't write much but I know what you mean. I looked at all the things I wanted to do with my daughter after the birth and dh and I talk about all our hopes for her, wondering what she looks like, what's her personality going to be, all the positives.

I found I went very into myself mentally before the birth around 2-3 days before. I think that's natural as you prepare yourself for labour. I know you are having a c section but you may notice a bit of that beforehand.

Also make sure your dh stays with you. They even let dh sleep in my room for two nights although that wasn't really allowed. It made such a difference. He is my rock and my one person I trust implicitly so he is my advocate often on anything health related. It makes me calmer if he is here.

And have the perinatal team not pescribed you anything? It may be possible to get some temporary medication after the birth when we are at our most vulnerable mentally. Ask your consultant. I'm on an anti psychotic temporarily with my lithium which is really helping.