Sick Of It!

Imagine being unable to stop vomiting

- Christina Smith

The burning sensation rose up my throat and I clapped my hand over my mouth.

Within seconds, I was violently throwing up in the toilet.

Aren’t I supposed to be glowing? I thought tearfully as I retched.

I was nine weeks pregnant and victim to the dreaded morning sickness – morning, noon and night.

Over the next few hours, I vomited repeatedly.

My partner was so worried that I was dangerously dehydrated, that he called an ambulance.

‘You have hyperemesis gravidarum,’ the doctor said at the Edinburgh Royal Hospital. ‘Extreme vomiting in pregnancy.’

I was gutted I couldn’t enjoy the pregnancy of my first baby.

Other pregnant women were decorating the nursery while I was left decorating the toilet in the worst way!

The doctor gave me anti-sickness tablets to help.

But I was back in hospital 13 more times.

The stress was so bad that my relationship broke down.

I was exhausted, in pain and terrified about the safety of my baby.