Kate Middletons Privacy: A Victim of the New Media Age?

Hyperemesis gravidarum is a very nasty condition that affects less than 2% of pregnancies; it's like morning sickness on steroids. If you're hospitalized for it, it means you're vomiting so frequently you're at serious risk of dehydration and malnutrition.

The last thing you want on top of that condition is the world's media clustering on your doorstep, literally and figuratively. But that is what the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, will have to face, now that the Royal Family has announced her pregnancy and hospitalization in an online press release.

Most couples get to decide when to announce their pregnancies to the world (generally, not before the second…
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