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daughter wants to terminate at 16 weeks

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Lyndylou Thu 27-Aug-20 20:12:12

Sounds like Hyperemisis Gravida and you and your daughter completely have my sympathy. My daughter went through this, spent most of her first 5 months in and out of hospital being rehydrated. I hope your DD's GP has referred her to hospital, they see HG a lot these days. There are websites and blogs for HG sufferers which may help her. I wish I could offer more for you but as you say it is her choice and I totally understand if she can not see the pregnancy through.

Riverwalk Thu 27-Aug-20 20:04:12

Poor girl, I understand how she feels - I had the most dreadful hyperemesis in both pregnancies. Many women, including the Duchess of Cambridge, are hospitalised with this condition.

Can she be persuaded to call her GP and ask for an urgent referral to see if the sickness can be dealt with?

crazyH Thu 27-Aug-20 19:58:37

How sad flowers

Oopsadaisy4 Thu 27-Aug-20 19:52:20

It’s so sad, but I think that you have to separate your home situation from your DDs.

Sadly you can’t influence your daughter, I understand where you are coming from, but it has to be her decision, you can’t persuade her to keep going with the pregnancy because a GC would fill the gap in Your life.

I really think that you have to sort your home life out first, get yourself on an even keel with your husband, Stay together or part, maybe that will help you to come to terms with your DDs decision.

I am sorry though, I was sick and ill for 9 months with both of mine and it was really awful, it must be difficult for her to think straight if she is away from her OH, is there any chance that he could get home and be with her before she goes ahead with the termination?
But I also think that to keep a secret between you is a bad idea.

nanaK54 Thu 27-Aug-20 19:39:26

That is all so sad, sending kindest thoughts to you and your daughter flowers

Summerlove Thu 27-Aug-20 19:32:42

What a sad situation.

Your poor daughter.

tanith Thu 27-Aug-20 19:28:51

I don’t know what to say how very sad flowers

biba70 Thu 27-Aug-20 19:23:20

oh this is so so hard, just do not know what to say- apart that I feel for you, and for her too. You will probably be 'blamed' and the baddie whatever you do. I am so sorry.

Smileless2012 Thu 27-Aug-20 19:19:53

I don't know what to say but didn't want to ignore your heart breaking post. All I can think of to say is please don't feel ashamed.

This is your D's decision. Does her H know of her decision or will she be telling him that she miss carried. I ask because if she is not going to be honest with her H, this may be too big a secret for either of you to keep.

flowers

CS1958 Thu 27-Aug-20 19:12:42

I joined solely to post and get some feedback. I am 63, have had a rotten year, discovering last November my husband of 39 years was having an affair. To cut a very long story short he was sorry ( only to have been caught out i am sure ) ,but we are not well off and have no family at all, apart from 2 daughters aged 34 and 31.
So we decided to try and make it work -if we had sold our home at 280k, there is not enough to buy a flat each in the part of the UK we live in. Then came Covid and we were stuck together having been living apart. I work in the NHS and was working 7 days through April and May. I then decided we would have to sell as i discovered so much more that i could not accept his lies. +
But then my younger married daughter tell sus she is pregnant. She was so happy and apart from the normal worries this was some great news and gave me a new feeling of purpose as she sais she would my help and i was willing to give it.
However, she has been very sick, vomiting and relentless nausea. She cries all day - her husband works abroad and is not here to help, his parents live 300 miles away.
So i have been supporting her as best i can with food, care and just being around. But now she says she cannot cope and wants to terminate. She has meds from her GP which do not help , and she is signed off sick from work. She is very poorly.

I know this is her / their decision to make, but it has blindsided me. If i try to talk to her she gets very aggressive and angry , so i back off.

I feel so disappointed in her, i support a woman's right to decide , but this is dreadful in my view. I dont want a wedge to come between us , because i know deep down i am being selfish hoping for a grandchild to fill a void.
But just when i thought life couldnt get any worse for me , it did.
People wil be told she has had a miscarriage , and i will keep her secret, but i dont recognise her now - and that is what my husband did to me, he lived 2 lives.
My sadness isnt just for me - as she so wanted the baby , she cant cope and cant work...
Any words welcome as i cannot tell my friends - i am too ashamed,