Hello, I'm a repeat HG customer!
I have had to really prepare this time, it's something you can't really gauge the severity of how it might be.
But prior to TTC I'd take all the vitamins and minerals you can for as long as you can. And go discuss a plan with GP, can you start on omeprazole and cyclizine as soon as possible, then if that fails, which is likely depending on the level HG wants to kick your ass at, can you have ondansetron, ideally if you can go into hosptial for it to be administered IV and stay until the wafers or meds can stay down, then failing that, the prednisolone also. I'm 34 weeks and still taking all 4 meds, I'm still vomiting but I'm hydrated enough to wee still. That's sign for hosptial, if I'm not weeing, I need the drip.
DP has reduced his work at hours and it's been a crap time for the kids if I'm honest, but they're still coming to my pit where I lay like cleopatra simply because movement/tv/the smell of little things like food or laundry make me so sick I just stay away. They come snuggle me and I see them loads, I just can't do outings with them, so we've got days out planned for when "mummy's better". Easier with my eldest because he just loves gossip and chatting my head off and showing me places were going to eat etc when I'm better.
HG has buggered 3 of my pregnancies but one was amazing, one was really quite scary it was so awful, and they were both sons, born 14 months apart, so I've no idea how I was so lucky. (My youngest was a total shock and I was devastated at the thought of missing dc2 early years to be in hosptial, but I was absolutely fine!) So it really is hit and miss with HG.
I'm crossing everything for you that you get what we called a "unicorn" pregancy because it was so unexpected.
I would never have tried for another pregnancy but I fell pregnant, on the pill actually, and had a loss (ectopic) and since that loss I just struggled with grief that DP and I figured, one last shot, it was unlikely because I'm older, we'd had a long time trying to get pregnant with dc2, (years) and with loss of my tube etc, we just thought it wouldn't happen.
We had sex the once and a within a week or so I felt sick, it was still before my period was due but I took a test and we got a very faint line.
So the GP knowing how shit the HG is started me on the big guns immediately, just so I wasn't spending weeks in and out of hosptial. Like I say, I'm still sick and the early days it was really awful, but I've a few weeks left and my boys are delighted to be having a new sibling, a girl also! But I will say that the whole hg depending on your baby's sex is balls, you get HG, you get hg sadly xx