Hyperemesis gravidarum

A very big hai to everyone who are following my blog posts. Hope you are all familiar with the term hyperemesis_gravidarum. The pregnancy condition which I underwent, was termed as Hypermesis gravidarum, a condition which results in weight loss. Have a look on my previous post to know more on the term hyperemesis gravidarum.

And  Today we are gonna start our travel from India to Germany.  He had ICRA 2015 in Seattle and he came to India, to take me along with him to Germany. I was afraid of flight journey, because of my previous hospitalization due to severe vomit. But our gynaec had so much confidence, since weather change can help in reducing the vomit. After all checkups we planned our flight journey from Trivandrum, since it was hours away from our home, and it will be easy for me to console my grandma who was not ready to send me. It was the end of summer in India and I was about to land where the summer was about to start. After two hours of travel we reached the airport in very early morning (speed of car was maintained too slow) and had our check-in. The flight took off and our first transit was Doha during the early hours in the month of Ramadan. So the diet in flight was ok for me, which means I had no signs of vomiting.  We had a delayed landing and we ran to catch our connecting flight after the security check. Though I can’t have anything, I asked for a cup of coffee and I had a full mug of coffee while we were running to the gate. Though no one noticed my pregnancy, the guy, who was in charge for the desk near gate found out. He had a complete analysis of the reports. Finally the crew helped me seated safely and the flight took off. Within mins the altitude increased and we reached near the clouds. Suddenly the coffee started to flow back, followed by breathing suffocation. To be back to normal we both had to tap on head, on back near shoulders and on chest and in minutes I was normal. This made me to know how danger it will be for feeding while sudden altitude change. After 6 hours we landed up in Frankfurt airport and started our journey by train.

 

Keep on reading the post to know more on our journey with hyperemesis gravidarum.

 

Hope you all know that am from India and my kid was born in Germany. And I planned to write down my experience of pre and post pregnancy in a continuation. Since I came across more queries on post pregnancy am writing those topic now. The picture was taken ten days after delivery.

As a new mom in a far away land I was in a very hard phase to find our natural medication(paati vaithyam). My mom and grandma prepared all ingredients and it flew along with my mother in law to Germany from Kanyakumari. Though I was not able to have them regularly but I had them and that helped me to take care of my daughter all alone from two months (my husband will be in lab for 24×7 days).

Initially I had Hyperemesis Gravidarum, which prevented me from having anything during pregnancy. So I had a clear point to have anything during feeding. And I am afraid of weather (winter reaching negative) I was in hospital for 3 days in total. Those three days were the only parental leave my hubby took.

Then my food procedure…

Morning I had my tea and after breakfast I had kurinchi kuzhambu. Then skimmed milk with garlic (2 pieces). In gaps before feeding I had milk since I had nothing during pregnancy.

Then the same after lunch. And there was a special preparation for bathing ( will write them separately ). After bathing I had a homemade preparation.

Liquify palm sugar (not jaggery) and added each element on a day to form a chewing gum texture. The elements are chukku- dried ginger, omam, pepper, fenugreek. My mom powered all separately and packed them in separate bags to avoid reduction of flavour in weather.

On having those I had the same feeling of labour pain. That’s the symptom of your contraction of uterus. And all the other ingredients has specific value. Palm sugar plays a major role of contraction. Pepper avoids cold and cough and the remaining for digestion. This avoids colic in newborn children. I had them for 11 days (odd days from having it for the first time).

Once I remember my co-sister preparing kashyam (homemade remedy for cold and cough using palm sugar and pepper, thulasi and the like) since I know the value of palm sugar in contraction of uterus I avoided her from having that in her early days of pregnancy else it would have resulted in contraction of uterus.

Keep on reading and I will update on this topic next week.

 

Note.

This is based on my experience and had no side effects for me. Please do refer your gynaecologist for more based on your health.

Hi, to all my subscribers who are reading my post and you might have some nightmares on reading the post under the tag Hyperemesis Gravidarum. Yes, my pregnancy was too worst and as a result, I start praying without pause when I come to know that someone is pregnant.

Today on this auspicious day of Onam (4/9/17) we can change a little bit of our topic from giving nightmares to fairy tale fun.

During my pregnant days, our kitchen became an R&D lab and our home had more group discussions as a result of the brain storming from various people who kept on saying some remedies. I became a tester for everyone and they tried all means to stop my drastic vomit. Among everyone, my brother’s try was quite different, being a 12th standard student writing the public exams, came out with a wonderful idea of diverting my mind so that I can come out of my bed. To keep my meagre intake in my stomach, till it gets digested I used to be in bed all time. Now you too enjoy what he did. He bought all the Tinkerbell series and made me watch them continuously thus driving away my thoughts on vomit.