First I'd just like to say thank you for this awesome site and all of its contributors here on the forums. My wife is pregnant with our first baby, and unfortunately (as you could probably guess since I'm on this site), she has HG. She's in her 12th week now, and she's gone to the ER twice been admitted once, and I'm guessing we're going to be heading back in the next couple of days. The IV's seem to help her not throw up temporarily, and she even throws up less in the days following the IV, but then it slowly goes back to the usual. Nothing seems to help the nausea. We've tried Reglan, Phenergan, and Compazine....none of them make her feel better, but the last two just make her sleep a bunch which I guess is better than being awake and feeling really bad. Her pre-pregnancy weight was 230 and she's now down to 195, making for a grand total of 35 pounds dropped.
Anyways...that's just to give you an idea of where we're coming from. I'll number my questions for convenience. I guess my main question is...
1) What next?
2) Should we just keep going back to the hospital every week or two for IV fluids? And if so, how frequently should we go back, and how do we know when to go back?
3) Her aunt had HG for all 9 months, and as we enter the second trimester it seems only to be getting worse, not better. If it continues into her second and third trimesters, is there any option to get her more nutrition than the IV fluids? As far as eating right now, she can sometimes have a few pretsels or saltines, a granola bar here and there and maybe half of a slim-fast once in awhile.
4) This relates to the last question, but I've read people talking about being on some type of line...I forget what it's called, but it sounded like a home IV/feeding tube type thing. Where can I get more information on these types of options, and should we be asking the doctors about them? At what point in the pregnancy would they start to be necessary if she continues hardly eating anything.
Thank you so much for all the info
~Blake~