Why this book exists
A focused place to understand what is happening
Lowri is thirty-one and eleven weeks pregnant, and she has not kept food down for nine days. She has been to her general practitioner twice and to an emergency department once. She has been told that this is a normal part of pregnancy, that it usually settles by twelve weeks, that she should try ginger, and that she should eat little and often, which is advice given to a woman who cannot eat at all. She has lost a substantial amount of weight. She cannot stand up without the room moving. She has stopped being able to work, and she has begun, in the last three days, to think thoughts about this pregnancy that frighten her. Lowri does not have morning sickness. She has, on any reasonable reading, hyperemesis gravidarum, which is a serious medical.
The writing is designed to reduce shame, bring the underlying pattern into view and give you practical ways to respond without pretending that every life follows the same formula.
