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(221 posts)My aunt had it with four pregnancies. Her first one was in 1947 and she had to have a "legal abortion" (as it was told to me by my mother). Three doctors had to say it was necessary. None of them would do it in their office. It was performed on my grandmother's dining room table. She had what I presumed later to be a saline injection. She was down to 75 lbs. and wasn't even to three months along.
She subsequently had three other children, all girls, and suffered some degree of this with each pregnancy. She couldn't eat much of anything. Her oldest daughter, my cousin, also suffered severely with it. She had one child. She was about 5'7" tall, and at the 9 month point only weighed 110 lbs. She looked like a skeleton with a bump. Her daughter was fine when born, but she never had another child, as the genetic component was presumed to be strong. Interestingly, the only daughter also experienced this with her first pregnancy, so three generations with it certainly implies genetic risk.
Here is a link. According to the article, this official condition only occurs in 0.3-2% of pregnancies. If she stays sick throughout her pregnancy, then this is a definite concern.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperemesis_gravidarum