Hyperemesis Gravidarum: surviving severe pregnancy sickness
Over the last few weeks and months, whilst I’ve been fortunate enough to be pregnant, I’ve also been suffering with a condition called Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG), which means severe sickness in pregnancy. It's a condition most people have heard of only via the news that Kate Middleton has been suffering with it, and the reporting in that context is not always very clear or accurate. So I wanted to write something about HG in case putting a bit more information out into the world about it might help someone else. How I imagined I would be in pregnancy... I thought I was going to transform into a glowing goddess in pregnancy, I was going to eat all the vegetables and do all the yoga. I was basically going to morph into Beyoncé and become a superwoman earth mother. My actual experience... I have instead experienced severe sickness for months, vomiting almost every day between 5 and 20 times a day - despite taking anti-sickness medication of ever increasing strength. ...