Posts Tagged ‘Hyperemesis Gravidarum’

• Supporting women with Hyperemesis Gravidarum

  Date: 2011.04.24 | Category: Pregnancy | Response: 7

  This is part 2 of the article Diana “Whining Puker” wrote about Hyperemesis Gravidarum. You can see part 1 by clicking on the link!

  In the HG world, I had it easy. Super-easy. Walk-in-the-park-with-balloons-and-birds-singing kind of easy. In fact, my HG was so “mild” that many would not even characterize it as HG. Why? Because there are many HG women who spend their entire pregnancies hospitalized, vomiting blood and bile. Who come out weighing less at birth (baby included) than they did pre-conception. Who have IVs for the duration of the pregnancy, or even PICC lines (peripherally inserted central catheters) because they are so, so, so sick. Who have lifelong adverse health effects from the strain on their bodies. On those terms, I did indeed have it easy.

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• The Week That Changed My Life: An Introduction to Hyperemesis Gravidarum

  Date: 2011.04.23 | Category: Pregnancy | Response: 2

  This is a guest post from Diana – a sister birth blogger and a wife, worker at home, and mother to two boys. She lives with her family in the Phoenix Valley of Arizona, USA. In her few spare moments, she enjoys participating in her local birth community, reading, baking, helping out at church, and blogging about hyperemesis and birth at the Whining Puker and Birth at Home in Arizona. This is part 1. Come back for part 2 tomorrow!

  

  
  

  There is so much to be said on the subject of hyperemesis gravidarum (HG), that is, extreme nausea and vomiting of pregnancy, that I could never really give the subject the depth that it deserves.  So I’ll begin at the beginning and just tell my story.  Six years ago, my husband and I decided that the time had come to start our family. Our first child was lost in a blighted ovum miscarriage (characterized by a symptomless pregnancy before the loss) at eight and a half weeks.

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