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 great: 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.

Like you can add members as friends holly and keep in touch easier. I feel like I want to stay in touch once baby is born since we've all gone through this journey together

Oh I see what you mean. Hopefully Lucinda knows? I would also love to keep in touch.

Currently sat on my birthing ball, fan in my face after a visit from my health visitor. She wont come until he's here now. So desperate to go into labour...

I'd like to stay I touch too. I feel like we need a HG graduation area or something, where we can finally talk about nice things other than how crap we feel (or moan about feeling a different kind of crap - totally exhausted! Ha). I've spent more time talking to people on this thread about my pregnancy than most people in real life and I'd love to know how people are getting on. I'm actually a bit sad that so many of you are due in July and August and might disappear!

If mumsnet doesn't maybe we can create one on Facebook like the antenatal clubs do? I know that loneliness and isolation are just as much of an issue for mums with babies as it has been for us and i struggled with it last time. Any sort of support network can only be a good thing right?

I think a facebook group is a great idea. I am already a bit worried about the isolation as neither or our families live close by and none of my friends are particularly close by/having babies. It's why I joined the nct class.

But it is nice talking to others who have gone through specifically what we have and really understand. I feel like that support will be really valuable with a new born as well.

Lemon I promise not to disappear once he puts in an appearance! If for no other reason I am dying to see your HP nursery

Sorry to ask gross question but is anyone else burping very loudly and impressively?! This is my 3rd pregnancy and 3rd with HG but never had this before! Feel like an old man!

weasledee I remember passing wind at either end. I was glad that having been made redundant (seems to happen a lot to people here) that nobody had to suffer regularly but OH.
HaichM I think they removed that function after some security scares, or something. I used to have friends added, who have vanished, and you used to be able to visit other people's home page to look at photos, etc. Now we're all Billy No Mates....
I hope everyone survived the awful humidity today. That paddling pool looks lovely...

Ah ha ha. Don't worry Holly, you won't be able to move for my various HP related baby photos A Facebook group is a great idea

I'll get the facebook hg graduation group sorted tomorrow. It will give me something productive to do in the morning.

I feel the same way Holly. Although I have more/better friends than when we first had DS and i was on my own with him all day, I'm still worried about the loneliness and isolation because most of them work, don't have kids or their kids are 5/6 years old and a baby is very different. I've also had experience of people not being as supportive or sympathetic as they could be, so it will be nice to have somewhere where I know I'll be heard and can share the good and the bad like we do hear.

DH is great but he's not the best with talking about emotions. Apparently he has no nerves or worries about baby's arrival and looking after him/her or coping with 2. Maybe it's a mum thing?

Anyway, hope people manage to get some sleep with the heat and everything.

Weasle: I've had some big burps but my problem has been more wind the other way I'm afraid. Our digestive systems are under a lot of pressure so it wouldn't surprise me.

Haich - hubby looks at DD and says she's great, so the next one will be the same. While I'm over here going 2 under 2, and rocking back and forth.
The Facebook group sounds like a great idea. I've found that the antenatal group was great until everyone went back to work,and now it's a bit lonelier.
With baby on the left, it's less likely for them to turn to back on back labour, according to my midwife.

Holly - hope you're also having dates and red raspberry leaf tea (I take mine in pill form). You can't really do much to induce labour, but I did exercise more in the last month with DD. Would walk for half an hour and then lie down for an hour.

Weasle - gas from both ends is a sign of pregnancy here. I'm a burp more than hubby as it is, but pregnancy makes me more of an embarrassment. Although I don't get hiccups when pregnant, must be due to the smaller diaphragm.

Tired here. Big storm and I'm staying in with DD to work on toilet training. She's showing all the signs so I'm hopeful it will click. Ondansetron free day so I'm nauseous all day long. Yay.

Hey all, I keep missing the chat! Can I join the Facebook group as well? Will be nice to be able to chat to people having children at the same time as me, and it will be nice to share happier moments with you all as well!
Hope everyone is doing ok, I'm hoping the storm will mean the hot weather will break!
weasle I hardly ever burp and havent started during pregnancy, kind of jealous who can do the loud ones. My gas comes from the other end (and I squeak during a bad vomit session too, TMI?)
I'm on metochlopromide now, it seems to be working better than everything else, just worried because current doc seemed very wary about it! Still throwing up as well, but no ketones and keeping down a decent amount of food. Not dinner though. Never dinner.

The Facebook group sounds like a lovely idea! Weasledee those burps sound like fun! Unfortunately when I burp too forcefully food comes up with it I end up doing a weird burp/surprise vomit - fun! Enduring the last day of the heatwave here today, looking forward to cooler weather tomorrow.

Mellee I tried dates, but I threw it up almost immediately so thats a no go... Going to get some raspberry leaf tea today. I dont actually like tea, didnt realise it came in pill form? Where can I get the pills?!

Very, very grumpy this morning. Found myself driving around in my car at about 1 this morning as my house was too hot and I needed to cool down. I have had hardly any sleep, so I know the nausea is going to be awful today. I HATE summer at the best of times, but this heat wave is killing me. I have done nothing but cry since I woke up. I really despise being hot at night. I am genuinely wondering about checking into a hotel room tonight so I can sleep in some air conditioning...

I have my 36 week scan today. Hoping he is engaged now. Waves to all.

This thread makes me feel less alone! Although I'm sorry others are going through it.

This is my fifth pregnancy but first time suffering.

I used to think people were exaggerating

I'm 26 weeks due 25th September but I have a cervical stitch in place due to past late losses/prematurity. The aim is to deliver (planned CS) at 36 weeks but I think I'll go early again.

Holly I had reflexology in my last few weeks pregnant with Oklette and found that really helped (and it can also help bring on labour).

FB group sounds good, count me in

Anyone willing to message me with their email address so I can create the group? Apparently you can't create a group without inviting at least one person...

Iv just ate two bowls of porridge watch me suffer for it

Hi unborn that sounds awful for you I'm so sorry that it's happening to you with everything else on your plate. Yeah it really is a great thread and it's so easy to see how ppl who have never had HG just don't get it.

I feel really bad about misjudging it, it's very easy not to "get" it till you've been through it.

Reading others posts I do seem to have got off lightly, partly down to a decent GP who's been through it herself and has been happy to prescribe.

Thanls for the tip Oklahoma, will look into it.

Haich, happy to give you mine, how do I message you?!

If you're on the website there should be a link that says 'message poster' somewhere on my message. The mobile version I have has 3 dots at the bottom of a message and if I click those I have the option to 'PM' that person

Mustang I made the same mistake with cereal this morning as was feeling good. Oh how I'm paying for it now...

mustang at one point a bowl of porridge in the morning was the only thing I managed. Didn't last for more than a week or so though as HG was lovely and fickle at the beginning.

I was having a nice rest/snooze on the sofa when first my mum rang and then a car alarm went off and carried on going for about 10 minutes. Boo! Then I realised I hadn't had breakfast yet and was suddenly starving. Now I'm nauseous. Going to treat myself to some lunch in the town centre before my waxing appointment - which of course I'm having done as the weather turns cooler again. Typical.

Ok the HG Graduation Group is a go for anyone in the 3rd trimester and beyond who wants to discuss nurseries, labour, parenting highs and lows, and any other baby related topics with those who have suffered and supported each other through HG.

It's a closed group so you need to request to join.

I need to get a wax as I have, ahem, left that area due to HG taking over my life... I am terrified of how painful it is going to be ! But I cant possibly go into labour in its current state .

The nausea is bloody grim today, but I did get another 1.5 hours sleep this morning, so hoping that will help.