I believe she first announced her pregnancy on The Ellen Degeneres Show a few weeks ago.

i also have hyperemesis gravidarum and can relate to the all-day/all-night sickness… this pregnancy (i’m almost 7 months) has been my sickest… i’ve had a PICC line with daily IV’s at home for dehydration since december and i’m on around the clock anti-nausea meds… i also have been monitored this entire pregnancy to make sure my baby is growing as i have been so malnourished… baseball season is starting for my older sons, so the other parents will have to get accustomed to seeing me push around an IV pole… this is my last pregnancy as my HG keeps getting worse each time and i can’t emotionally, mentally and physically go through this again… i feel for anyone who has to be sick like this…

All throughout my first trimester I have been taking a product called Stomach Chi, made by the Oriental Herb Company (ohco.com) It’s all Chinese herbs and it has helped me enormously! I couldn’t imagine going through pregnancy without it and am forever indebted to the person who recommended it to me! I think you can get it at Whole Foods, if not, definitely at their website.

I had horrible morning sickness when I was pregnant with my daughter, and like Minnie’s it lasted all day long. The only thing that helped was coffee, not drinking it, but SMELLING it! I would drive to the grocery store and stand in the coffee aisle until my stomach settled down. I also kept a small bag of ground coffee beans in my purse.

With my last pregnancy I had something called Hyperemesis Gravidarum. It lasted throughout the whole pregnancy plus two days after. I was taking Zofran, Reglan, and Compazine daily. Because Zofran (no generics at that time) in 2004 was only used for cancer patients, my insurance company would only allow me a weekly amount of the drug at a time. We lived at Walgreens and the ER.

Because of the constant vomiting it caused migraines (I get them even not pregnant), so to treat the migraines, which in return would cause high bloodpressure because of pain, they put me on Morphine. My husband said “with all the drugs I had to take the baby was going to be stopping at Betty Ford before coming home”. Every one in the ER would laugh.

I would cry before they would give me that drug and a little after ward until I was too woozy too and would drift into semi consciousness. This would happen at least weekly maybe a few times I would make it every other week. Even with all the drugs to stop my throwing up I gained the 12.5 pounds back that I lost plus 6.5 pounds extra.

Our baby girl weighed in at 7.8 oz (I know the math does not make sense) I was thrilled because I was very little you could not tell I was pregnant. I remember I kept asking the nurse who was washing her up in the room “how much does she weigh” She said “this is the last time I am telling you 7.8,” in a joking manner.

Every two weeks I would have an ultra sound because I would measure very small for the gestational size. I am done 4 children is enough. They said it would get worse if we had more.

I embarrassed my children by quietly throwing up at their sporting events in a zip loc baggy in the stands. While some of the people, friends around me knew. They would try and joke about it. Some people from the other team who did not know me did move to another seat. My husband and some close friends loved that, so we did have that section to ourselves LOL! And my husband would throw the zip loc baggy away for me.

So I feel very sorry for anyone who is sick during their pregnancy. I feel their pain.