Martha Kalifatidis has had a very difficult pregnancy.

The makeup artist and influencer, who met fiancé Michael Brunelli on season six of Married At First Sight, posted on Instagram earlier last month about the suffering she has endured over the last nine months.

"I don't know how I can be so up and down⁣," Martha wrote alongside a photo of her and Michael.

"I felt okay yesterday but today I literally feel like⁣ I'm dying.

"⁣Last week I spent four days straight in the house on⁣⁣ the couch. I thought maybe COVID, but I just did a test it's⁣⁣ negative⁣⁣. I have a sore throat, no energy AT ALL. ⁣I'm hot and⁣ cold. I don't want to get out of bed⁣.

"I forced myself to get up and go get food just for⁣⁣ some momentum, ⁣but I couldn't even get myself out of⁣ the car once we arrived.⁣⁣"

The reality star, who was diagnosed with Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG) early in pregnancy, also wrote about the psychological difficulty of simply getting through the days when feeling so unwell.

"Yesterday my due date was pushed back to the 6th of⁣ March⁣, an extra week!⁣⁣ Every hour feels like a day,⁣ I have work commitments looming over my head and⁣ can't help but feel like I've completely neglected⁣ everything I worked so hard to build.⁣

"I feel like I'm at breaking point.⁣⁣ All I've felt for eight months is suffering.⁣ I want to scream!⁣⁣ I've completely lost myself. I feel like I'll never⁣⁣ feel normal or like myself again!⁣⁣"

Last week, at the tail end of her pregnancy, the reality star shared the gender of their baby.

"Oh boy do we have news," she captioned a video with a montage of clips on Instagram.

In the video, she and Michael open up a jewellery box that homes an infinity band with diamonds and blue stones.

"It's a boy," the couple scream excitedly in the voiceover.

Days later, it seems Martha may have accidentally shared the name she has chosen for her son.

The 34-year-old shared photos of her recent baby shower on her Instagram Stories this week, including a photo of a guest book filled with messages from her friends and family.

In one photo, her mother, Mary, referred to her grandchild as "Guiseppe" - the Italian form of the name Joseph.

"Dearest, Guiseppe, you are my first grandchild," she wrote in her message.

"You will be forever loved and spoilt. I know you will love me because I will spoil you so much. Everything your heart desires will be yours."

"Love you Guiseppe, can’t wait to meet you," she concluded the message.

Martha also confirmed that she's chosen an Italian name for her son in a Q&A on her Instagram Stories on Monday.

"He has an Italian name, because he was conceived in Italy... potentially in this lil [sic] room," she wrote alongside a photo of her and Michael.

In November 2022, Martha recorded a special episode of herSwipe Uppodcast about her experience with HG.

According to NSW Health, 1 in 100 pregnant women will experience HG, although this number may be higher. It usually starts before women are 10 weeks pregnant and for most the symptoms stop somewhere between 13 and 20 weeks. A few women like Martha have HG for their entire pregnancy.

Watch: Martha gives advice to her five-year-old self. Post continues below.

Martha tells her Swipe Up co-host Roj Torabi that while she has experienced shocking HG symptoms, she knows other women have had it so much worse.

"It can be so bad that some women are hospitalised for the whole nine months," Martha tells Roj.

"I just had nausea and vomiting and it was sh*t, but at least I wasn't being fed through a tube."

When she first discovered she was pregnant, Martha's doctor in Athens thought she might have HG, but it wasn't until she returned home to Australia that she was officially diagnosed.

"By that time, I had lost eight or nine kilos in just five weeks and my body was in ketosis. Now, my body is not my body anymore. All my muscle has just gone. I have no strength - even just walking up stairs is hard because I laid in bed for five months and wasted away."

While still on holiday in Greece with Michael, Martha's HG symptoms came on quickly and with force.

"You barely sleep, and you're in a dark room all day. It had to be cold. You don't know if it's day or night. Michael would make a million suggestions about what to eat. He would cut up three slices of a green apple and I couldn't get through it. I couldn't drink water. I would just lie there.

"A lot of the time, I wasn't even vomiting, just dry heaving, or it was bile. I was so dehydrated that my urine looked like a long black - it was brown and it was disgusting.

"Everything would make me want to throw up. Every sound. The su