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Personal reflections from our founder, Fatima Pabani, on pregnancy sickness, hyperemesis gravidarum and why SIPS exists.
Isn't that really common?
Common does not mean mild, and the women at the severe end pay for it.
IT'S NOT MORNING SICKNESSIT'S NOT MORNING SICKNESSIT'S NOT MORNING SICKNESSIT'S NOT MORNING SICKNESSIT'S NOT MORNING SICKNESSIT'S NOT MORNING SICKNESSIT'S NOT MORNING SICKNESSIT'S NOT MORNING SICKNESSIT'S NOT MORNING SICKNESSIT'S NOT MORNING SICKNESSIT'S NOT MORNING SICKNESSIT'S NOT MORNING SICKNESS
Why I want to banish 'morning sickness' from the English language
Two words that carry an assumption, and why the language we use matters.
We don't even know ourselves that we have it
At a birthday party, four women realised they had all been through HG.
HAVE YOU TRIED GINGER?HAVE YOU TRIED GINGER?HAVE YOU TRIED GINGER?HAVE YOU TRIED GINGER?HAVE YOU TRIED GINGER?HAVE YOU TRIED GINGER?HAVE YOU TRIED GINGER?HAVE YOU TRIED GINGER?HAVE YOU TRIED GINGER?HAVE YOU TRIED GINGER?HAVE YOU TRIED GINGER?HAVE YOU TRIED GINGER?
Have you tried ginger?
By the time a woman asks for help, she has already tried ginger.
It wasn't as bad as yours
What "severe" pregnancy sickness actually means, and who gets to decide.
You probably did. You just didn’t know.
How much suffering women absorb quietly, and why silence is not proof.
Why can't I just cope with this?
It feels hard because it is hard. You are not failing at it.
You really need to eat something
The burden of proof falls on the woman with the least capacity to carry it.
I think I might be able to have a baby again
A conversation at a hyperemesis conference, and a reason for hope.