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Sickness in pregnancy is common, but around one woman in 100 will experience sickness that can often threaten to ruin their entire pregnancy. MM speaks to one woman, who was so badly affected, she doesn’t know whether she could actually endure another pregnancy for fear of a recurrence of hyperemesis...


of Cambridge was experiencing the excessive nausea and vomiting. Twenty-seven year-old Magherafelt music teacher, Laura Farrell, knows exactly how she felt! 'Te peculiar thing,' Laura told MM, 'was


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that I actually began to suffer from the hyperemesis (HP) during a trip to London when I didn’t even know that I was pregnant! I thought it was just the smells of the big city that were getting to me, but when I came home, I did a pregnancy test and that confirmed it. ‘My HP began with nausea that lasted all


day but then developed into vomiting that started at night and then lasted the whole of the next day. I couldn’t even keep water down and my mouth was constantly filled with saliva. Everybody thinks that HP is just vomiting, but the fact that the vomiting lasted right through the night meant that I didn’t sleep so then I had tiredness that was totally overwhelming. Te only way I could describe it is like being on a boat or suffering from car sickness. ‘My GP told me that it was perfectly


normal to be sick and that it would all calm down by the second trimester but, fortunately, I had a friend who was a GP and who recognised the symptoms even before I told him I was pregnant. He advised me to go to the emergency doctor and I was >


yperemesis hit the headlines several times over the last couple of years when it was announced that the Duchess


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