what could i do to help my pg friend who is suffering from severe sickness?

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my friend is about 9 wks pg with her 2nd baby; she also has a 14 mo. she is suffering from severe sickness and yesterday was admitted to hospital and out on a drip -she is still in hospital.what could i offer to do for her or what could i get to cheer her up? her dh is being great and i have already offered to pick up or drop off her ds as he goes to nursery with my dd.
her dh said she'd love a visitor tomorrow as she is fed up but i dont want to go empty handed - what can i take?
thanks in advance for your help!

a good book or lots of magazines
Poor thing, do you know how long she wil be in for?
Just keep offering to help out with her ds too

i'm not sure how long she may be in - she had been expected to come out today but has started vomiting again. magazines are a good idea, i'll get some tomorrow. i guess even if she's at home resting she may get bored. very few people know she is pg - she confided in me last week as she was so fed up - so i can't really even encourage anyone else to help out/ visit.
thanks dooley.

Oh this sounds familiar - I was in hospital with both of mine in the early stages. Things I really appreciated were -

• magazines but not celeb tat ones - Marie Claire etc so I still felt as if I had a brain, despite being sick so much that half my braincells felt like they were going down the loo!
• the loan of a Walkman so I could listen to CDs
• bottles of sugar free squash - even though I wasn't even keeping drinks down I was constantly thirsty
• lipbalm as my lips were really dry
• glucose tablets to try and get rid of the nasty taste in my mouth

I think you being there would be the best thing and secondly things to do so she doesnt feel like she is going out of her mind! I was hospitalised a few times towards the end with pre eclampsia and was so bored as I hadnt taken any books with me etc - so books you would know she would like, newspapers to keep up with things but nothing too heavy going.

You sound like a fantastic friend offering to help out with her ds and thinking about her so much - do you want to come and be my friend, lol.

xx

sorry to hear you've suffered from it too and thanks for your advice, your ideas are really helpful. i will encourage her to remember that it will (eventually!) pass her first pg was relatively easy, i imagine this has come as a big shock.Hard to imagine unless yuo've been there.

thanks inzidoodle, will have a read of that one.

offer to buy/ prepare something she fancies eating (and dont be offended if she doesnt eat it/ fancy it by the time you get there!) when i was in hospital the idea of eating hosp food made the sickness worse, my mum made me salads and i lived of avocadoes for months.