Best of 2025: Don’t call it morning sickness: ‘At times in my pregnancy I wondered if this was death coming for me’
From July: the Victorians called it ‘pernicious vomiting of pregnancy’, but modern medicine has offered no end to the torture of hyperemesis gravidarum – until now By Abi Stephenson. Read by Nicolette Chin
December 17, 202532m 45sExplicit
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Show Notes
Each week for the rest of December we will publish some of our favourite audio long reads of 2025, in case you missed them, with an introduction from the editorial team to explain why we’ve chosen it. From July: the Victorians called it ‘pernicious vomiting of pregnancy’, but modern medicine has offered no end to the torture of hyperemesis gravidarum – until now By Abi Stephenson. Read by Nicolette Chin. Help support our independent journalism at <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/longreadpod">theguardian.com/longreadpod</a>
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PregnancyFamilyParents and parentingMaternity & paternity rightsMaternal mortalityHealthHealth & wellbeingWomen