I love my Mom, but she is so unsupportive about how sick I am when I'm pregnant.
Some back story: The other day I realized my uncle's ex-wife had bad HG, and this was the first time I had realized it. It was several years ago, before I had it and knew what it was. I remember my uncle telling me about how sick she was and how she had to have IV hydration. At the time I didn't understand why she was so sick. Of course, now I do. I had completely forgotten about her situation until the other day when I realized she must've had HG! (their divorced now, but I almost wish they weren't so I could go give her a big hug and tell her I know EXACTLY what she went through).
So I was over at my mom's house the other day and brought it up to her saying "She had HG, just like me!" Well my mom looked at my like she had know idea what HG is. I swear I had told her about it while I was pregnant, but to be honest, I knew very little about HG til my third trimester when I found the Help HER website and HuGS forum, so maybe I really never explained it to her (she was never very understanding about how sick I was, and I know for a fact that she just thought I was weak).
So I give her a quick three sentence explanation of what it is. Her response was: "They have a name for everything these days!"...as if it was just regular morning sickness but they decided to come up with a new name for it! Then she just there with a smug look on her face while I tried to explain that it is NOT just some made up thing.
I know she just thinks I'm being a hypochondriac or something. It's sooooooooo aggravating! Before I was pg she told me how sick and miserable she was when she was pg...she threw up a total of TWO times during each pregnancy...What?!? If that's awful, then what's HG? Hell?!?
Okay...my vent is done. Thanks for listening. I know it was long.