poor kate middleton- hyperemesis

[Bex84]

I am so pleased for them and feel so sorry for her suffering with hyperemesis. I ended up in hospital with it. I am so fed up seeing comments about how ordinary people don't go to hospital with morning sickness, and time she lived in real world etc etc ..... I know from personal experience of not being able to keep anything down including water, ending up on a drip, being constantly sick, worried about baby, not even being able to get out of bed without fainting that it is not pleasant. I remember the car journeys to hospital holding a bucket and laying on floor in doctors room due to fainting, and waiting at 8 weeks for a scan desperately hoping my lo was ok (oh yes no different from normal morning sickness ). I hate people making ill educated comments when they don't know what they are talking about. I dramatically lost weight as start of my pregnancy until finally went on medication. I continued to be sick but at least manageable. I'm lucky and now have a healthy little girl. I hope Kate feels better I wouldn't wish hyperemesis on my worst enemy and I can quite honestly say it was worse than giving birth. Maybe the people who make these comments should begin to live in real world and realise that they don't know everything. I wish Katherine and William the best and I bet they will be fantastic parents as both of them seem like such down to earth people who love each other.

 

[amjon]

Those of us here do know that "regular" people sometimes have to go to the hospital for morning sickness. I'm lucky that even with the twins I've never had horrible MS, but some (probably most) women are not that luck. I'm probably in the other .2-2% that don't get ill hardly at all (though this time I've felt a bit nauseous morning and night, but nothing I can't handle).

 

[Princess Lou]

My sister was the same. Terrible time for her.

What a lot of people fail to remember is that she is pregnant with the future monarch, of course they are going to be super sensitive to her pregnancy.

Ah well, shows for narrow minded a lot of this country is.

 

[Bex84]

On the news sites people are being so harsh. She seems so lovely and he seems like a nice bloke why don't people give them a break. Its scary enough worrying about your baby when your pregnant hoping their ok without additional worries. At least people on this site seem to be a bit more sensitive

 

[holly2234]

The problem is, the media have to use words that the general public understand without the need for Google. They said she has morning sickness. But what she has is waaay worse than that. But if they said Hyperemesis, a lot of people wouldn't understand what it was without an explanation and that is not effective in the media.

So, that creates a whole lot of ignorant people who try to belittle her or try to make a fuss over her "getting attention".

Im happy for them. I hope her pregnancy gets easier for her and they have a healthy baby.

 

[Bex84]

I know when i was pregnant i had a few people say to me including dad its only morning sickness. It wasent until i was hospitilised and really ill people began to slowly realise how bad it was. I just hate how people jump to conclusions. I hope she feels better soon and she has a healthy and happy pregnancy. I did find it was mostly men who judged with me haha my mum and grandma were most understanding having both gone through it themselves. She is such a slim woman to start with so must make it worse

 

[Sarahkka]

As soon as I heard the HG diagnosis, I felt so sorry for her and so annoyed that the media were calling it "acute morning sickness". Talk about euphemisms!
All of us know how scary and miserable the first pregnancy can be, and many of us have either experienced, or commiserated with friends who experienced such extreme nausea. It's absolutely awful. I had minimal nausea with my pregnancies, but I have had a few friends who had to be medicated to keep food down. It was absolutely grim.
And to think about having such horrible, invasive public attention turned on her when she is already so miserable? Poor thing!

 

[~RedLily~]

It annoys me too. I had hyperemesis and it was the worst time of my life. Hopefully she has had it treated early and it can be managed, when I had it doctors refused to believe me and repeatedly told me to eat little and often until I was too ill to take medication and needed regular injections.

 

[LulaBug]

I was lucky in that when I was pregnant with Ethan, I had no morning sickness whatsoever. Certain smells made me feel a bit queasy but it passed within 2 minutes. The only time I was sick was when I drank a dodgy milkshake but apart from that, no sickness at all.
But it's funny how although I had no experience of sickness, I can show empathy for her. Being sick at all for anyone is a horrible time, we all hope we can get better as quickly as possible so it does annoy me that people go overboard with their harsh comments. Ohh it's only morning sickness, blah blah blah! It's more than that, it's exhausting and when you can't eat or drink, it's even worse.

I've noticed though that it's mainly men I know who have made these comments, so I just sit and think "You poor misguided fools" because if they knew even a fraction of what we go through when pregnant, they wouldn't be so quick to judge.

The only thing with Kate and Willliam is I am not looking forward to the constant press they will be receiving, I know it's a royal baby and that there is lots of interest in what she's going to call it, buy it and whatever else but it's going to be rammed down our throats and I'm already sick of hearing about it. It's been 5 days since it was announced and already, people are going mad. Just leave them be to enjoy this time on impending parenthood.

And without meaning to sound cynical, this child is going to be so exploited it's unreal.

 

[Bex84]

Its mostly men i have heard say it. Most women seem empathetic though have to say on wright stuff they were really understanding including all the men. I hated going out when pregnant and having hyperemesis it must be awful also being in public eye. I think press should step back not that it will happen and i still cant believe that radio station got as far as talking to her nurse

 

[amjon]

I was lucky in that when I was pregnant with Ethan, I had no morning sickness whatsoever. Certain smells made me feel a bit queasy but it passed within 2 minutes. The only time I was sick was when I drank a dodgy milkshake but apart from that, no sickness at all.
But it's funny how although I had no experience of sickness, I can show empathy for her. Being sick at all for anyone is a horrible time, we all hope we can get better as quickly as possible so it does annoy me that people go overboard with their harsh comments. Ohh it's only morning sickness, blah blah blah! It's more than that, it's exhausting and when you can't eat or drink, it's even worse.

I've noticed though that it's mainly men I know who have made these comments, so I just sit and think "You poor misguided fools" because if they knew even a fraction of what we go through when pregnant, they wouldn't be so quick to judge.

The only thing with Kate and Willliam is I am not looking forward to the constant press they will be receiving, I know it's a royal baby and that there is lots of interest in what she's going to call it, buy it and whatever else but it's going to be rammed down our throats and I'm already sick of hearing about it. It's been 5 days since it was announced and already, people are going mad. Just leave them be to enjoy this time on impending parenthood.

And without meaning to sound cynical, this child is going to be so exploited it's unreal.

I'm kind of like you. Even with the twins I've only actually gotten sick a couple of times (and it was after either sausage or bacon each time), but I certainly know how it feels to be sick from having illnesses before. You would think men would remember the same if they've had the flu or stomach virus. It's never fun. I can't imagine getting so sick you need an IV. It must be horrible. I saw she went home today. Hopefully they have it controlled with meds, so she won't have to return.

 

[SLCMommy]

I had that too, it's a total total total nightmare. It literally sucks all your energy and it's a horrible feeling.

So glad when it's over you when a beautiful baby, otherwise..it wouldn't be worth it!

 

[Bex84]

Totally agree i can honestly say my little girl was worth every second of sickness

 

[moomoo]

I feel for her!

I can remember being so sick that I was hallucinating, and was so poorly that I wanted to end the pregnancy rather than go another day feeling like I was dying.

I won't be having any more children because of HG

 

[~RedLily~]

^^I decided I wouldn't consider another baby until LO is older and less dependant on me incase I got it again.
It really messed with my head as well I refused to try and drink anything at one point because it hurt too much and I didn't care about dehydration.

 

[WelshOneEmma]

I have been lucky and not had much sickness, but what gets me is that even if she was being precious (which i dont think she is), no one knows how anyone else feels.

I am in agony with SPD and all i hear from my sister is "no-one gave me all this attention when i had it" - how does she know hers was worse than mine? We all cope with things differently so no-one can really judge.

And as has been said, this is the future monarch, people will be overly careful. But even if it wasnt and she wasn't married to William, she comes from a wealthy family, its likely she would have married someone wealthy and with the slightest thing she would have gone to hospital.

Lets be honest, if it were us and we had the money, wouldnt we? I know i certainly would!