I cried too and middle one was planned but I felt sick from about 3.5 weeks and I naively thought I’d be fine after my first pregnancy. My sickness lasted until I was 4 weeks post-delivery. I was so ill I even considered a termination and booked it, then cancelled. I then had to look at her beautiful face when she was born and think about what I almost did which led to PTSD. It really affected my relationship with my eldest too as my husband and my mum had her for about 4 months as I was in hospital or too ill. I used to count how many times a day I was sick and one day I got to 62. My dentist asked if I’d been bulimic as my teeth at the back were (are) smooth. It was such a traumatic time and I feel so much anger that she could document her sickness like this and label it as HG.
I follow Martha Kalifatidis and Michael Brunelli on Insta and seeing Martha go through HG when she was having Lucius, and Michael’s documenting of it was so genuine and so sensitively done. She was an influencer who genuinely had it. Not like this grifter, who’ll say anything as long as she thinks it’ll boost her engagement.
I probably sound quite bitter but HG was absolutely horrific. I also had placenta previa with baby 3 and that was less traumatic than the HG with baby 2.