I just wanted to let you all know that I have now updated the page on Hyperemesis Gravidaum here on the blog.
I have been struggling a lot with this over the past few days and have plenty I'd like to write about, but also have very limited time to blog right now because I want to spend as much time with Oscar as possible.
In short, I have been struggling with seeing other pregnant women, especially those pregnant with a second or third child, because that makes me face my decision to never go through pregnancy again. And that hurts. Anyone who knows me well will know I always looked forward to being pregnant and having a family and to turn my back on expanding my family in that way is painful.
As it stands we won't want to even think of expanding our family until Oscar is several years older because I need to get my health sorted, having been ill for several years with Endometriosis and the treatments for it before my Hyperemesis Gravidarum hell last year. We still aren't sure whether we will have more than one child and whether that addition will be through adoption or not.
This past week I started wondering if I shouldn't have said "never again" so hastily during my pregnancy and yet I know I would be terrified to try again. So basically I am torn in two by it all and am trying to work through my thoughts and emotions rather than pushing them down and letting them build to unbearable levels.
Of course these decisions don't need to be made now. And I am more than happy with Oscar being an only child for the time being. I love every minute with him and want to cherish these early years and would be quite happy if we didn't expand the family until he was 4, 5 even 6 maybe. But I know that one day I will have to make the decision as to whether I can face the possibility of HG again or whether Tim and I need to look at adoption or even remaining a one child family.
So I am trying to deal with these emotions as they come up. I don't want to feel jealous every time I see a pregnant woman. I don't want to have to change channel every time an advert for One Born Every Minute comes on the tv, or turn of Twitter because it is trending. I don't want to become bitter about it, and so that means I need to work through it.
So I decided now was the time to finally get around to writing my page on Hyperemesis and I would be hugely grateful if you would check it out.
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