I've just found this forum, and then my emotions and memories washed over me and all I have done is cry.
My daughter will be 1 in July, and when I was pregnant with her, I was diagnosed with Hyperemesis Gravidarum at 6 weeks PG. I was so sick, I spewed all day. I didn't eat anything, I just spewed and cried, then spewed more and nothing I did would help it.
The doctor was adamant it was more a case of "mind over matter" and eventually after me begging for help he prescribed me maxalon, stemetil and gave me pethadine injections. None of it worked. I ended up in hospital on a drip for 3 months, and I still spewed..and spewed.. and spewed.
Everybody told me it couldn't be THAT bad. But it was. I wished I had never fallen pregnant. I HATED being pregnant. I vomited 3 times a day until the day my daughter was born. After having a pre-pregnancy weight of 74 kilograms, I was discharged from the hospital weighing in at 56kg.
I felt so much love for my daughter, the day she had been born. I also felt the guilt too, for all those times I spent with my head in the toilet bowl, wishing I would just lose my baby, and not be pregnant anymore.
So I am glad I found this forum, I want to meet other women like me.
I'm off to read all this inormation thats here. Theres so much, I just cannot belive it!