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A mum-of-two has revealed the state of her house as she battled debilitation morning sickness, while still looking after her two young daughters.

Emily Boazman shared a video of her house, strewn with toys, laundry, food and craft supplies – a byproduct of her daughters doing pretty much what they liked, while all she could do was throw up.

“Actual footage of my house while I had hyperemesis gravidarum and my two young daughters basically raise themselves while my husband was at work,” she wrote.

“They made MASSIVE messes and I could literally do nothing except lay there and throw up.”

Hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) is a severe form of morning sickness, that can even lead to hospitalisation. It can cause dehydration and weight loss, but there are still many women who have never heard of it, because it only affects between 0.3 and 3.6% of pregnancies.

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Emily’s video has attracted hundreds of supportive comments from women going through the same hellish pregnancy symptom.

“I’ve said it a million times and I’ll say it again … there needs to be more awareness and treatments for HG!,” wrote one mum.

“I had hyperemisis with my son. It’s as close to death as I ever want to be. I thought I was going to die,” said Chelsea Bowling.

‘You need a new husband’

While the video was meant to help educate other mums, and normalise HG, some took Emily’s husband to task for not helping more.

“Honestly I have a hard time believing this is your husband’s best,” wrote one commenter. “And if so, you need a new husband.”

Emily responded with another video, saying her husband was a ‘rockstar’. “Every day he would come home for lunch, make the girls food, check on them, go back to work, come home from work, make us all dinner, get me whatever I needed because I was literally vomiting my life away.

“Then he would try to clean up areas of the house. But no matter how much he cleaned, when a five and a three-year-old are by themselves every day, because I was no capable of anything, they’re going to make each room a disaster, and they did.”

Emily says she eventually started to feel better at around 21 weeks pregnant.

Did you suffer from severe morning sickness? How did you cope? Let us know in the comments below.

  • Oh no! Must have been so hard for this mama 🙁 glad she eventually got over the morning sickness. My sister had it with her second pregnancy and it was not pretty!

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  • Aw bless, that must be so bad. I have a friend who was hospitalize for over 3 months due to HG.
    In regards to the mess, I don’t think we point fingers to the husband…kids can be like a tornado; one minute it’s tidy, the next minute it looks like a bomb went off

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  • I’m so lucky I didn’t have HG! I only had nausea the whole time.

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  • Luckily i never experienced morning sickness. This sounds painful

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  • The sight and smell of salami made me ill whilst I was pregnant but other than that I had no problems.

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  • Yes was a constant hangover. Threw up driving to work. Was terrible

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  • I feel this so much I had 3 HG pregnancies and fell with my third while my 2nd was only 3 months old, I often had to put her in a bouncer or on a play mat while I went to vomit or play with her on the floor with a bucket near by, Those few years of pregnancies everything was a total mess all the time which reflected my general state.

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  • Completely relate. My life was is shambles I could barely get out of bed and had to stop uni.

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  • This poor mum, it must have been so hard for her. I’m sure her husband did the best he could to support her

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  • Sounds absolutely awful to have. I think more awareness needs to be shown

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  • I was so bad with my third, I spent most days near the toilet. If someone cooked eggs they had to shut the kitchen door. Everything set me off.

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  • I haven’t had it but the stories are so awful and I really commend those mummas who suffer- they didn’t ask for any of this

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  • Might be time to 1. Teach your girls how to clean up after themselves, they are NOT too young, and 2. Move these things out of their reach so they can’t make such a big mess in the first place. 3. Maybe even get someone to come in and watch them, because if you are that sick how are you going to help them in an emergency?

    I’ve never had morning sickness, I’ll admit to that, but I do live with chronic pain that can cause my body to seize up. I have three child, two who have high needs (one completely physically impaired) and am pregnant with my 4th. I still manage to get some stuff done and my children are expected to tidy up… even the not yet 2 year old with the physical delays is learning how to put things in a basket.
    And when I am physically unable to help my youngest I ask for help, or come up with alternatives to make things work.

    Best of luck to you and the rest of your pregnancy

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  • The poor things. This must be so hard with little ones running around so i really feel for them.

    I had to lay down with my first for 20 weeks and I couldn’t have done it without the help of family and friends. hubby would get me set up with breakfast and what not before he left for work and they the others would help feed me during the day.

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  • I am so grateful my sickness never reached this level.

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  • With my first I had a short bout of dry reaching in the morning for about a month, with number two, nothing.
    Definitely feel sorry for those who get really bad morning sickness as I can’t imagine it feels very nice to feel like that everyday.

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  • Wholly, poor family. I feel sorry for everyone involved.

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  • Poor mumma! My managers wife suffered from this and we were fine to cover any shifts he needed to care for his wife.. our area manager commented if she was that sick she should go to a hospital. Flippin horrible!!!! Best of luck mumma!!

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  • Morning sickness is the absolute worse! I’m currently 17 weeks and although not throwing up I have had terrible nausea everyday since my positive test. It is incredibly difficult getting anything done.

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