Support

Peer Support Groups
Maintain multiple support groups, including the original HER forums, Facebook groups, live groups, and Circle community.

1-1 Consultations
Offer 1-1 support for patients and families seeking information on HG management options since 2000.

Warmline
Maintain a crisis warmline to ensure the sickest mothers get immediate help when they are most in need, since 2020.

Crisis Fund
Launched a crisis program to extend additional resources to families in greatest need in 2025.

Advocacy

1 MOM is 2 Many
Launched 1 MOM is 2 Many, a collaborative campaign aiming to eradicate severe HG and its complications through education.

Legislation
Work with state governments in Texas and Massachusetts to create legislation acknowledging HG and building effective care for patients.

2005 Congressional Briefing
Co-sponsored by Congressman and Dr. Dave Weldon (FL-15) and Representative Xavier Becerra (CA-31).

White House Speech
Marlena Fejzo, PhD, presented on HG at the first White House Conference on Women's Health Research in 2024.

Awareness

HG Awareness Day
Established the first World HG Awareness Day, May 15, 2012. The day is officially acknowledged by South Dakota, Texas, and Somerville, MA.

HER 5Ks - 2012, 2013, 2017, 2020
Host the first HER 5K in 2012 and 2013 in Washington DC; 2017 in Chicago; Virtual 5K in 2020.

Expecting Amy
Feature interview with Executive Director Kimber MacGibbon, RN, giving voice to HG via a major media outlet in 2020.

Ambassador Council
Collaborate with influencers on social media to raise awareness about HG and communicate on behalf of those who may feel silenced.

Education

First HG Website
In 2000, Kimber MacGibbon, RN, launched hyperemesis.org.

Medical Conferences
Give a voice to women with HG at medical and research society conferences, including SMFM, ACOG, ICHG, INS, WIC, AANP and CREOG.

Clinical Tools
Creation of evidence based tools for clinicians, including the HELP Score and HER NVP Treatment Algorithm.

Provider Training
Created a proprietary CME for providers and collaborated with Texas Medical Association on their HG CME in 2025.

Research

Breakthrough: Cause
Discover that GDF15 is the most likely cause of HG. Publish findings in Nature, 2023.

HG is More Than Misery
Analysis of pre- and post-pregnancy issues in women with hyperemesis gravidarum. Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical, 2016.

Psychosocial Impact
Breakthrough study on psychosocial impact of HG published in Journal of Perinatology shows "83% of HG patients reported that HG caused a negative psychosocial impact."

It's Not in HER Head
Psychiatric factors do not affect recurrence risk of hyperemesis gravidarum. Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Research, 2015.

PTSD
Breakthrough: Posttraumatic stress symptoms following pregnancy complicated by hyperemesis gravidarum. Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine, 2011.

Child Outcomes
Breakthrough: "Neurodevelopmental delay in children exposed in utero to hyperemesis gravidarum" published in Obstet Gynecol Reprod Med, 2016.

Continuing to a Cure!

HG Care App
Created an evidence-based app for patient use with mHealth at UCLA. Buidling a new app to launch in 2026.

Prevention
Designing and fundraising for a clinical trial of a medication that may prevent HG.