“I really wanted to share something I’ve never told you before,” Bibi begins the video. For a long time she kept this to herself, because she did not want to scare expectant mothers. However, she now needs something from the heart. During the pregnancy of daughter Teddy, she was struggling with a complicated condition: hyperemesis gravidarum.
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The ZEHG foundation spoke to the former for International HG Awareness Day Oh Oh Chersostar about this violent condition. In the interview, Bibi tells about the first time she realized that she was not ‘just nauseous’. Bibi: “I wanted to do my usual home workout that night. When I unrolled my mat I felt a nausea coming on that felt very different from what I was used to. That night I felt so sick that I saw the light outside (…) I really thought I was poisoned. That’s how the nausea felt. “
After spitting nonstop for about four days, her friend Waylon urges her to go to the hospital. There she is told that she is very dehydrated and is immediately admitted. “Then I was shocked,” said the YouTube star.
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For five months, Bibi had to vomit constantly, sometimes up to six times an hour. Bibi: “It hurt my whole body neck and back.” Eventually, the nausea disappeared a bit from the drug Zofran, which is also used for people with cancer. “That was my last rescue,” she said in her video.
Because the young mother could barely keep food in, she lost a lot of weight. At one point, Bibi thinks she remembers weighing only 49 pounds, so she ended up in a wheelchair. “Your muscles are also losing weight,” she explains to her viewers. “I had overloaded my pelvis, so I could no longer walk.”
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In the video, Bibi also discusses when Teddy will have a brother or sister, something that is regularly asked about. About this she says: “I myself am very afraid that I will get it again, I also assume that I will get it again. That is why I really want to plan it this time. Then I can also explain to my daughter what is going on. Without HG, I might already have had a second pregnancy. But I’m just waiting for it to start again. “
All the while, Waylon stood by her side. He even wrote a song for his child’s mother.
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