With my first and only full term pregnancy, I had severe HG which had me hospitalised at 11w, very very ill and having lost lots of weight. It did let up towards the end, after frequent hospital trips, lots of IV treatment and lot of medications ( Read more... )

My half-sister is a little over 8 months, and STILL throwing up. She's been pretty ill for the entire pregnancy, and frankly I'm amazed she's gained any weight at all. Now it's to the point where she'll go 2 or 3 days just fine, but then she's throwing up everything for hours or days at a time again.  She's tried pretty much everything, except the ( Read more... )

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I've been stuck at home due to having hyperemesis gravidarum, and needing to keep my blood pressure down.. I'm curious for all the other women that stay home right now what do you do to keep yourselves busy? i can usually get the cleaning done in about a hour, and the rest of the day is so boring.. I need some ideas what i can do to keep myself ( Read more... )

So, I'm pregnant with baby number 2. I had to start wearing maternity bottoms by the time I was 8 weeks along, but I can still wear some of my normal tops @ 15 weeks. I am definitely showing now, but you can only really tell if I suck in my gut (I've got some fluff). The thing that is bothering me is this: I can't bend down the way I want to ( Read more... )

Following up on this. I called a nutritionist to schedule an appointment and got the nurse that works there. She explained that 104 was a little high, but not so high that one would normally be diagnosed with GD (but she felt high enough that getting some counseling certainly won't hurt). She was skeptical of the significance of that number ( Read more... )

I called and refused any further testing and treatment for GD. My reasons are thus ( Read more... )

Hello Ladies. I was a member of this community back when I was pregnant with my now almost 2 year old son (I can't believe he will be 2 on Friday!) and now I am back ( Read more... )

I've got a problem ( Read more... )

My second son was born last Friday, 5/28, after an induction at 38 weeks gestation. Due to lots of complications (hyperemersis gravidarum, gestational diabetes) my OB didn't feel safe waiting any longer.
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