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Abi Stephenson\u2019s article about hyperemesis gravidarum \u2013 \u201cextreme morning sickness\u201d \u2013 carried me through memories, confirmation, horror and, at last, hope (Don\u2019t call it morning sickness: \u2018At times in my pregnancy I wondered if this was death coming for me\u2019, 31 July).<\/p>\n
When I hear of a new pregnancy,\u00a0I ask after the mother, recalling my two pregnancies in the early 1990s. Both ended with successful delivery, and I can\u2019t imagine life without my two children. But I wonder whether my daughter will have inherited my predisposition to sickness throughout pregnancy, just as I\u00a0did\u00a0from my own mother.<\/p>\n
It is wonderful news to think there might be some safe medical option for her and many other women. I had many miserable days\u00a0and nights with sick bowl to hand, eating one Rice Krispie every\u00a030 minutes and always, always, throwing it back up. I\u00a0theorised that a morsel of sugary\u00a0goodness would get through, somehow. For my second\u00a0pregnancy, under pressure\u00a0to return to work after six\u00a0weeks\u2019 sick\u00a0leave, I spent a morning in the\u00a0staff toilet before being allowed home again for another month.<\/p>\n
The nausea and vomiting started before a positive pregnancy test and ended within hours of giving birth. It took a lot of persuasion for me to embark on a second pregnancy and I\u2019ve never regretted it, but memories soon fade.<\/p>\n
Since then I\u2019ve had chemotherapy, which made me so\u00a0sick that I required all the anti\u2011nausea\u00a0drugs on offer. But being pregnant was worse, maybe because I hadn\u2019t anticipated fighting to stay alive as part of the\u00a0deal. Thanks, Abi, for giving voice to an issue that affects many of us, and causes women to die while pregnant \u2013 yet is ignored. Have an opinion on anything you\u2019ve read in the Guardian today? Please <\/em><\/strong>email<\/em><\/strong> us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our <\/em><\/strong>letters<\/em><\/strong> section.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Abi Stephenson\u2019s article about hyperemesis gravidarum \u2013 \u201cextreme morning sickness\u201d \u2013 carried me through memories, confirmation, horror and, at last, hope (Don\u2019t call it morning sickness: \u2018At times in my pregnancy I wondered if this was death coming for me\u2019, 31 July). When I hear of a new pregnancy,\u00a0I ask after the mother, recalling my<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[587,2581,6894,4805,2921,2559],"class_list":{"0":"post-13526","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-social-issues","8":"tag-extreme","9":"tag-harsh","10":"tag-morning","11":"tag-pregnancy","12":"tag-reality","13":"tag-sickness"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Dr Wendy Bryant<\/strong>
Chappel, Essex<\/em><\/p>\n