Rachel shares her experience of 4 pregnancies withHyperemesis Gravidarum (HG) and her 4 positive births to Rhys, Harper, Brooklyn and George.

In this episode our chat includes:

- Rhys born 2020 at 38 weeks + 5 days, a straight forwardbirth with 4 hours of established labour,

-difficult after pains

-Pregnant again soon after and dealing with HG with an 8month old

-Harper 2022 – born at week 40. Rachel took laxatives the day before to see if that would help ramp things up, fast efficient birth, struggled to bond, hard to settle baby

-Third pregnancy with Brooklyn in 2024 was the most difficultHG experience

-Incredible support from Timaru hospital

-Moving house around due date, laxatives to get labourstarted

-George 2026 – very different experience with Waikato DHB,luckily HG didn’t last as long as previous pregnancies,  born 38+5 labour story a little bit different from his siblings likely due to position.

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