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Parenting & Pregnancy > Pregnancy Surviving Hyperemesis Gravidarum

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Most women, when they decide to try to conceive or discover that they are pregnant, expect to suffer from a bout of morning sickness in the first trimester. Normal morning sickness symptoms usually alleviate around the twelfth or thirteenth week of pregnancy. For some women, however, morning sickness lasts throughout the pregnancy and gets worse with time. This is called hyperemesis gravidarum. A woman who suffers from hyperemesis gravidarum is usually diagnosed after losing 5-10% (sometimes as much as 20%) of their pre-pregnancy weight, having been confirmed with dehydration and ketosis (...

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