Aussie mums recall horror of Hyperemesis Gravidarum pregnancies

Of the 85 per cent of women who suffer from nausea or vomiting during pregnancy, the majority know it will pass after the first few months.

But imagine having to throw up more than 20 times a day for the entire nine months of your pregnancy, or needing help showering because you are too weak to stand.

That’s exactly what happened to Aussie mums Jaimi-Lee and Belinda, who just like the Duchess of Cambridge suffered from Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG) during their pregnancies.

Belinda Moon, from Kingswood, has four children and suffered HG during all of her pregnancies.

“I had it for the 40 weeks of the pregnancy, even vomiting during all stages of labour, I was one of the worst cases my doctor from Nepean Hospital had seen,” Belinda tells Be exclusively.

Belinda was so sick during her first pregnancy she lost almost 20kgs by the time her eldest daughter Eboney was born.

“I weighed 38 kilos the day my daughter was born (still pregnant), and I was 52 kilos before I fell pregnant,” she tells us.

“I remember one day I’d tried to work but ended up throwing up over everything – at the shops, the car, my clothes – and needed to go to the hospital where I spent three days on a drip still vomiting.”

Mum-of-two Jaimi-Lee Mckenzie, from Camden, had a similar experience saying the condition meant the excitement of being pregnant was very short lived.

“I was throwing up around 15-20 times a day, nothing comes up but blood and bile so it's quite painful. I could not even swallow my own saliva without throwing up,” Jaimi-Lee, 29, tells Be.

“It got to the point where my husband had to literally shower me because I would be too weak to stand under the heat by myself without passing out.”

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Despite their horror experiences, both mums went on to have more children, with Belinda saying she learned to put things into place to help.

“After the second time I knew what was going to happen, so I stopped working, my husband made sure he had plenty of leave for when I was hospitalised and there were always buckets, towels, and tissues in both cars because I could not control when I did or didn't vomit,” Belinda says.

“I tried to stay with food like potato, bread, apples, bananas, light foods and foods that won't scrap your oesophagus as it becomes sore. I also drank red Powerade, it was my saving grace.”

Jaimi-Lee, who now has Levi, 3, and Huxley, 9 months, would like to have a third child but is not sure she can go through it again.

“I think Kate must be an extremely strong women willing to go through it again for a third but I also know just much it's worth it, so I can understand why she'd be willing to put herself through it again,” she says.

Hats off to you, ladies.

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