[Chedasha]

CamiZebra i am sorry to hear you have HG. All the feelings you have are normal. I desperately wanted it to end anyway it could. You wont build up a tolerance to the Zofran it's not an addictive drug. But hopefully it keeps you functional on some level.

Tinkster hope you get some better days soon. You poor thing.

Bettymm and drseuss so glad but envious of your good night sleepers. Estella hates sleeping nights and wakes frequently still.

Estella is 10 months old now. Hard to believe. She crawls, stands and has teeth.

[doctorseuss]

Oh Tinkster how horrible!!! If it's any consolation, I have also not made it to the toilet several times with DD1, and then had to clean it up. And incontinence while vomiting was pretty common towards the end of each pregnancy...My pelvic floor is now perfect again...yay. I think it's very hard to contract the right muscles while vomiting with a big baby bump.

So pleased to hear about Noelle and Estella. It is so worth it.

[Gonewiththewind:...]

Hi Girls,
I hope you don't mind me popping in here. I was never diagnosed with HG but did spend the first 20 weeks of my pregnancy vomiting up to 8 times a day and spending the rest of the time extremely nauseous and feeling generally rubbish. Before 20 weeks I could eat very little and had lost weight by then (not too much of a concern as I was a bit overweight to start). I lived on fruit and juice. I was on both maxalon and zofran up until 20 weeks and my nausea continued for most of my pregnancy. I don't know what the official diagnosis of HG is but some of your stories sound very very familiar to what I went through.

I just had a question for those who went ahead with a second (or third or forth etc) baby. When did you decided to TTC again, how big an age gap did you have and how did you manage? Was the pregnancy the same (or worse!) rather than better? I am expecting to be as sick or worse again and just thinking ahead. My son is 15 months at the moment and I work 1 day out of the home and then run a business from home (but it is very very flexible). My son is not very good at entertaining himself and isn't a TV fan so I'm just thinking through a plan of attack for next time. Last time I ended up taking extended periods off work as I just couldn't function. Not exactly an option with my current lack of sick leave arrangements in my role as SAHM

Thanks so much for reading this far!

[Gonewiththewind:...]

New low. For only the second time in three hyeperemesis pregnancies I didn't make the toilet. Spewed all over the toilet wall, floor. Spewed hard enought to wet myself, my eyes watering, coughing up blood, broken capillaries all over my face.


Yay.

Best part, I got to clean it all up as well. .

Remind me again why this is worth it.

Oh tinkster I really really really feel for you. This happened to me twice during my pregnancy. I ended up sitting in the shower balling my eyes out. Oh hun, I just want to give you a huge hug xx

[Gonewiththewind:...]

Re the Zofran, not sure how much Chemist warehouse is but I used to get 10 wafers (4mg) for $40 from the pharmacy at the hospital which was a lot cheaper than I'd seen other places

[doctorseuss]

Hi mtilly,
Definitely sounds like HG! Each pregnancy was slightly less vomiting but mentally harder... Not sure why, maybe because i always wanted a child but going again was not essential, maybe because I knew it wouldn't end until delivery by DD3 but first two times I always thought it must be about to end.

Anyway I pretty much convinced myself and DH that it would be better, I'd take more drugs, maybe have a boy.... But each time I was wrong. I didn't take zofran with DD1, only took it from 14 weeks once a day with DD2, took it from 7 weeks up to 3 times a day with DD3.

DD2 is 20 months younger than DD1, but DD1 was a lovely calm baby and areliable sleeper day and night so we coped. DD3 is 3 years younger than DD2, but the girls go to childcare 3-4 days a week (and I worked shift work) so if I was too sick to work I would be home alone. They have watched more ABC2 than I am comfortable with but I did my best I could with the illness I had.

And in the end it is worth it. (well 3 times, never again) There is a lovely lady with 5 kids and terrible HG, hopefully she'll come in and tell you how she can do it.

[Gonewiththewind:...]

Thanks doctorsauss. I have a son, is HG normally worse with girls? Ahhh... hoping for a boy again then!!

My son is a good day sleeper but still wakes once at night for a feed. He was a really really difficult young baby (severe reflux, dreadful sleeper etc). He's still medicated for reflux but it is fairly well manages now.

We were thinking maybe 2.5 years between babies, close enough I could still nap during the pregnancy when he naps but not so close that he's totally dependent on me (ie he could feed himself etc). It's such a hard decision because I remember feeling like I would NEVER EVER go again and even after he was born I felt the same but in reality we'd really love 3 kids.

[Chedasha]

Mtilly my sister had a boy and had HG and I had a girl and had HG. What they have found is if your sister had HG you are 17 times more likely to have it. If your mum had it 3 times more likely. Usually subsquent pregnancies are worse but some people can have a HG free pregnancy for a second one and then have it return for a third pregnancy.

I wont be finding out as I am only having the one.

[MrsNorthman]

mtilly. you had hg, i'm willing to bet its in your medical notes somewhere.

I've had hg 4 times.

2 year age gap between 1 and 2. i needed help for dd1, couldn't do it by myself.
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dd2's hg was worse than dd1's and lasted 4 weeks longer.

preg 3 the hg was horrific. the pregnancy did not continue.

dd3 the hg was the "best" out of all though it lasted the longest by 4 weeks. i coped looking after dd1 and 2 though there was a couple of weeks where the were thrown packets of cheezels and dh had to come home early for those 2 weeks so they could get dinner.

[Gonewiththewind:...]

Thanks girls, it sounds like I won't know until I'm there! I think I'll be back here when the time comes