Tiny group devastated by pregnancy ‘wonder-drug’ need to be heard

FOR some mothers-to-be, it happens in the morning.

For some, it doesn’t happen at all. For a sizeable number of pregnant women, it takes the virulent form of constant, unremitting day and night nausea and vomiting for weeks if not months on end. It’s called “morning sickness”.

When a new wonder-drug promised — among other benefits — to curtail the crippling nausea affecting many of them in their early months of pregnancy, it was widely welcomed. GPs loved it, because nothing makes a patient fonder of a GP than the doctor’s capacity to take away real and present misery, and there’s no misery quite as real and present as pervasive nausea.