Kelly,
HG is hard! I'm glad you have a case that is under fairly good control. Chances are you'd be in a really rough place with your pg if you weren't on the Zofran. Please let us know when you are asked to wean from Zofran, because stopping cold turkey can be shocking as to how sick you still are without it, and lots of physicians think that HGers should be off of it before they are ready. It's best to wean gradually so you know you really are ok without it. There are also some over the counter options (B6/Unisom) that you can add or substitute that may help you. Are you trying small frequent snacks and drinking lots of liquids so that you are staying neither hungry nor full and hydrated? There's a lot of info in the top post in the first trimester folder that is really informative that may be very helpful to you.
Anyways, the other gals told you so much to reassure you about the health of your child. There have been many studies done researching babies born to mothers during times of famine and malnutrition, and women in suffering 3rd world countries have healthy babies even if they aren't eating enough themselves. Your baby will be ok. Calories are far more important than nutrition, and things you crave will probably stay down better than what may be "logical" because it's "healthy".
I was really scared I would need my meds after I delivered. I was afraid I'd grown dependent on them, but my first midwife said that "once you are not pg, you are not pg, and you won't need them" and she was right. Once my children were born, I had my appetite back (probably too much of it back, lol). Depending on how severe the HG is during a given pg, and depending on long it is allowed to stay out of control, and how much an HGer can recover from the worst before delivery all impacts how long it takes to recover after delivery. With your pg, you stand a very good chance of feeling fairly normal once you've delivered (although normal is after-birth pains, and your healing from birth and breast changes - but normal for all post-partum women).
Now, will you have HG again? Yeah, probably so. HG tends to be a little worse each subsequent pg. With knowledge and planning and support and good Drs., you can face more HG pgs and endure them. HG is hell, and there is no escaping it, you can only try to make it easier to endure. I'm not surprised to hear you say that you may never want to be pg again. Almost all of us think that. Most of us curtail how many pgs we're willing to face because of HG. I have had 2 HG pgs, miscarried a pg, and we have adopted. We want to adopt again worse than anything, because there's no way we can face HG again. Others choose to pursue a child through surrogacy, and others choose to simply call their families complete a bit earlier than they'd hoped to. A few just stare HG in the face, and have the number of children they've always wanted ~ we ought to have pedestals for those amazing women.
It's a really personal choice, and difficult to make. HG for sure makes us all think twice (or 100 times) about getting pg again, or at least about when that next pg will be. You can always come here to find out how other women have handled these types of decisions and dealt with their choices.
Huge hugs, and let us know what we can do to help you.
Andy
p.s. Pamela, I know a Mom and Daughter HG duo if you need the info, Pamela. DJTURR is from Florida.
Mom to Aaron 14 (HG), Anna 11 (HG), Adam 8 (adopted), Andrew 8 (adopted), fostering a newborn . . .