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#!scenario

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.

[LucyHMK]

Take a look, I am completely overly impressed with myself... How did I do that??

[icklekid]

That is very impressive lucy and looks brilliant! Make sure you don't push yourself too much especially in this heat. Sometimes the effect of doing too much is only felt the next day! But still great news you have drugs that work and are feeling so much better!

[RaeSkywalker]

Fresh what a nightmare! Hope you managed to sleep ok in the heat.

That's reassuring Lucinda, thank you. One of my friends fell down the stairs whilst pregnant. Broke her hip but baby was fine!

Hope you managed to get some rest Sleepy.

ickle glad you aren't painting! The smell would set me off too.

It's looking like being another scorcher here today! I'm very sore from the fall. DH and I are going to see the new Star Trek film this evening- first time since the HG set in that I've been comfortable with the idea of the cinema. Hope it goes well!

[RaeSkywalker]

Lucy be careful at yoga!! Your garden looks great.

Special I hope you're ok. Been thinking of you.

[SleepymrsE]

Wow, sounds like you're managing amazingly well lucy, although as others have said careful you don't overdo it.

So sorry to hear of your fall rae, although glad to hear baby is fine. They are pretty resilient I think. Hopefully you manage to get a restful weekend.

I was half expecting a quick response to my early morning message ickle. I slept 9.30-11ish and then 5ish to 7.30am and surprisingly not doing too badly. Have been up and into town with DH and DS and off to work for a couple of hours shortly. Maybe it's mother natures way of preparing me for the lack of sleep in October! Hope you managed to get some rest and DS wasn't up too early.

Hope everyone else is coping with the heat once again. I've taken to having to wear maxi skirts / dresses to hide my hideous feet but thankfully they are also quite cool in this weather too.

[LucyHMK]

Thanks, Ickle - not doing too much today as it's a bit warmer than yesterday.

Rae you fell down the stairs? I missed that. Are you okay?

The yoga was a bit embarrassing, was pregnancy yoga too, it's not like I was doing headstands. I have dreadful blood pressure!

[icklekid]

Sorry sleepy was awake at 4am but got back to sleep quite quickly and ds slept until 6! A minor miracle and much appreciated after the 4.30 start the previous day! I seem to be getting better at this sleeping lark...not going to be at all prepared for the depravation but will be used to broken sleep!

lucy glad your taking it easier- is very hot and humid again here today! Maxi dresses are too much for me I've got legs out and vest top on - just wish had some shorts that fit...may have a look for some in prep for holiday as that would be useful!

rae air conditioning + cinema honestly sounds perfect! Do enjoy!

Managed a walk into town to collect boots order of lots of post birth stuff will need - pads/mats/nipple cream you name it if I found it at all useful last time I bought it! Ds is still asleep 2h and counting...I've made use of the time by napping and turning a chopping board of veg into pasta sauce freeze so I don't feel like an awful mum to ds over coming weeks when I'm too exhausted. It's all been blended so hopefully he won't know...ha ha ha! Wait until he tries one bite and says no! I am now collapsed and dh is putting off painting. We have at least cleared the room !

[RaeSkywalker]

Sleepy hope work goes well! I'm struggling with what to wear in the heat. Today I've got a smock thing on with flip flops.

Lucy not down the stairs, just off a high step, backwards. Landed on my back but also my head on a concrete floor, and then I didn't feel the baby move for a couple of hours, so called 111 for advice and they sent me to A&E to check for concussion: issues with baby. I'm ok, just really sore. Baby is doing some good wiggling today so seems unaffected- just DH and I that are traumatised then! 😂

[RaeSkywalker]

Cross posted with you ickle. Impressed that you walked about in this heat! One of my friends swears by batch cooking hidden veg pasta sauce- they use it in basically everything to add flavour.

[LucindaE]

Lucy Lovely to hear from you again. So glad you feel so much better. I'm very impressed with the DIY. As others say, don't overdo it.
Rae Sorry you are bruised and sore. I hope you enjoyed the film.
icklekid I am sure gloss paint and Hyperemesis don't go well together. Congratulations on walk and food preparation for LO.
SleepymrsE I'm sure you look lovely in those maxi dresses. I love them.
I hope everyone is coping. It's thurndery and humid here in Wales.
Apologies to anyone rudely overlooked.

[RaeSkywalker]

Lucinda I love a good storm! Hopefully the weather will break then and bring some relief. It's still hot here- no sign of a storm.

The film was great! So nice to have a proper outing with DH too, we haven't really had proper 'us' time for months. On the downside, I'm now even more sore than I was, I can barely walk. Very little bruising has come out so far which I think is why it hurts so much. Think I might try a couple of lengths of the local pool tomorrow morning to see if I can loosen my muscles up a bit, I can't think of any other way to ease it. Will be taking it very easy though, I've learned my lesson!

Hope everyone is coping ok tonight.

[icklekid]

Ohhh a storm is needed here to lucinda please send it on to the Midlands!

Ds is in our bed, I woke with him asleep on top of me and had pins and needles down one side! Have not slept at all well and looking forward to dh taking him downstairs when their both awake and getting some more sleep! Everything aches and no space with diagonal starfish toddler!

rae so pleased you enjoyed the film and some time with dh- so important to make the most of it if you can- hg does make this hard though especially when worse in eve. Dh and I are going to try for lunchtime date soon! Swimming is a good idea- althoigh I will have ds so less lengths more floating!

[RaeSkywalker]

Hope you managed a lay-in ickle.

I had a nice swim, home now- shattered so planning to have a nap in a bit! Still very sore but being in the water eased things a little. There were sooooo many toddlers in the changing rooms having simultaneous tantrums, it was a nice insight into the future!

[SleepymrsE]

Glad to hear you had a good swim rae, swimming with little ones, although often lovely, is a very different experience.

I won't tell you about my nightmare story from last night but let's just say don't ever leave a window open when you have a toddler!

[LucindaE]

The thundrery weather has gjven me a migraine, so only a brief message from Mother Hen. SleepymrsE oh dear, that sounds alarming Did said toddler climb out of window? Rae Sorry about the lingering pain- it must have been a spectacular fall. I would send the weather down to you and icklekid If i knew how. Hope's everyone isn't suffering too much...

[RaeSkywalker]

Oh goodness Sleepy that sounds terrifying!

Lucinda you poor thing, I hope you feel better soon

[SleepymrsE]

lucinda he made a climbing frame from a table and toys piled up on top to climb onto the window, got undernearh the blind and pushed the window open. Luckily the neighbour spotted him and came running round. We don't live in a bungalow so you can imagine the heart attack he gave us all. Don't think I've ever been so scared in my life. Took me a good couple of hours to calm down and kept getting very teary thinking about the what ifs. We've been and bought another fan today. Won't be long before I'm in bed after what feels like a weekend of sleepless nights.

[SleepymrsE]

Ps I hope you feel better soon.

[icklekid]

Oh my sleepy heart was in my mouth as I read about your ds. Terrifying what can happen in a split second but glad he is ok.

Thanks lucinda no storm yet but much cooler day- which is lucky when ds made puddles all over patio and wanted me to chase him so he didn't sit in them in his last clean pair of shorts! I decided to do the sensible thing...let him get a wet bottom and put some washing on! 😋

rae glad you had a good swim- it was a long time before I felt confident to take ds swimming by myself and last time he slippes on the side of the pool when getting out to get changed poor thing. I'm hoping to go to toddler and parent sessions (early morning and quiet) each week this holiday just so I get some relax in the water time and he will then have a nice long nap! Will see how long that lasts. As for tantrums I never shower him there and usually distract with dummy (when little), food or peppa on my phone! Means I can get changed in peace!

Well sickness not too bad over the weekend, finish work tomorrow and then just me and ds for 9 months! Hoping that these first 6 weeks with hg are good preparation for adjusting with a newborn...although at least in sept toddler groups all start back up so will have some structure. Really need this nice weather to last! Although slightly less heat would be appreciated! Hope your all well ladies...

[RaeSkywalker]

Sleepy 😱😱😱 thank goodness all turned out well.

ickle hope your last day at work goes well! I think I'll be signing up to lots of classes for aforesaid structure when outs arrives, I suspect that otherwise I'll just sit in covered in baby sick!

[SleepymrsE]

Good luck with your last day ickle, hope all goes ok. It's hotting up again where I am and the office is roasting from the sun all weekend, very jealous of your air con office rae. Tired once more, DS up at 4! So my sleepless nights continue. Hopefully it is preparing me well for newborn stage. Woke up to be sick in the night again last night so I know I'm in desperate need of a good nights sleep.

[LucindaE]

Back to being a more or less healthy Mother Hen this morning.
Thanks for good wishes.
SleepymrsE Sorry about lack of sleep and puking in the night. That always feels worse - more lonely somehow - than puking in the day.
Icklekid Sorry too about sleeplessness. Glad it's your last day! Now you'll have to do just a little less.
Rae Lol about structure. I found it difficult with a baby who broke the rules. I do think, in retrospect, that a baby who when I deliberately took the 'wrong' way home, pointed to the right way, and shouted angrily, was precocious. I never heard of other babies behaving like that, but perhasp they do. She also looked at me cynically when I was doing things, as if she knew I was inefficient. I hope nobody on here has such a tyrant of a baby and is able to impose a good old routine, no questions asked.

[LucindaE]

Forgot to say, that was that tiresome baby at seven months. But I hope for angelic babies for you all, and deserved. How some of you are coping or have coped with toddlers, and working, and even demanding relatives or friends as well, I will never know.

[LightTripper]

Hello all!

Hope your head is OK Rae and the cinema was good? Really impressed with the garden Lucy - you'll have to do an update when the grass is down!

All fine here. Looking for a new nanny (everything happens at once) and did our first interview at the weekend, which was good, so that's a relief that we at least have somebody good on the list.

Cyclizine has continued to be good, though I think I was also having a good day that first Thursday, so maybe not as amazing as I first hoped! Still, it gives me at least an hour of good time per pill, sometimes a bit more. Most days I've been managing on 2 pills but sometimes I have needed 3 when I've started throwing up earlier in the pm.

Has been a bit of a nightmare getting a repeat. Because I got it from the hospital my GP can't just do a repeat, and for some reason they are super-busy at the moment so it's hard to get an appointment (especially on a Monday). Have now got set up with an e-prescriptions service with the pharmacy over the road from work, and am waiting on a telephone appointment with my GP at lunchtime, so hopefully she will prescribe more for me and then I can pick it up this afternoon on my way home. I've got 2 more pills, so I can probably go until tomorrow afternoon if worst comes to worst... although I just did my first retch of the day and it isn't afternoon yet, so I may be being overoptimistic...

My own fault really: my ability to organise myself has definitely taken a hit! Everything is just so exhausting. Thank God my OH is a good egg. I honestly don't know how I would cope without him.

Sending love to you all. Hope baby Monkey is doing well and the sickness all just feels like a bad dream now!

LT xxx

[LucindaE]

LightTripper I'm glad cyclizine is working generally. There are definitely, as you know as a veteran, other safe drugs if it isn't helping enough. Remind me of how many LO's you have? A nanny interview sounds engergetic - is that a full time one?
I hope poor Rae is less battered...