Morning all, still no baby but I do have this stinking cold that has reappeared. Struggled to sleep last night with a sore throat and bunged up nose. Wish it would go away!
Hello to newbies. missjuliet you are a hero - coping with such a severe case of HG and still being in good spirits and providing support to others. I am in admiration.
Welcome to lizzy, you really shouldn't be fobbed off when you are unable to keep any fluids down. You require anti sickness medication. Please contact your GP today and get an emergency appointment. Tell them you have been unable to keep any food or fluids down for the last few days. They should prescribe something, likely to be cyclizine/promethezine as a starting point but as someone has mentioned there are others so if the first ones they prescribe don't work, please do go back. If your GP won't prescribe it can be useful to go to an out of hours clinic or if you can go to your nearest EPU. Carry on as you are with no meds will likely end up with a hospital admission for hydration. You will be feeling very low at the minute - and don't feel guilty of that as most, if not all, of us on here have felt that way at some point in our pregnancies. It does get better, and although it has felt like the longest pregnancy ever (esp when I couldn't move without throwing up), I can't believe I'm only days away from my due date. Once you get the right meds, you'll start to find a few drinks/foods that work for you. Often it's referred to as the beige HG diet. Lots of us have found flavoured milk to be ok. And as others have said, ice lollies can be helpful to get some fluids down. Don't worry about the nutrition of what you're eating/drinking - just eat/drink whatever you fancy and what works for you. These HG babies seem to do pretty well considering. As lots of HCP's say, they are very good parasites. When you are able to it is worthwhile trying the combined VitD and Folic acid tablets - they are much smaller than the pregnancy vitamins which very few of us on here could manage to swallow or keep down. Please stick around on here as it is a great source of support. Not many understand how it feels to have HG.
Hi to everyone else, sorry to hear of you hair loss lucy, hopefully it'll ease off soon and your hair will start to recover. Is it worthwhile speaking to a hairdresser to help with hairstyles that will cover th missing patch?
Sorry to hear others are struggling so much. happy how are you doing? I struggled to sleep last night but things haven't been as bad. Fingers crossed the PG insomnia gets better for you too.
rae worrying about you too. Please do take it easy at work. I'm sure I got worse in the third trimester because I was pushing myself too hard. I'm not actually too bad (despite the cold) now I've had a decent break from work to rest up.
light glad to hear things are improving a little for you. Hopefully time will go quickly for you now.
Waves to lucinda and mop and everyone else who I have rudely overlooked. Best get back to parenting DS who is currently sat watching even more kids tv!