HER Foundation

Meet HER Ambassador Kathryn Romine
2021-10-24 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Meet Kathryn Romine at 5 PM/PST on Sunday, October 24th, where she will share her HG journey with Kimber and explain why she is part of the HER Ambassador Council.
Follow HER on Instagram @HGmoms.

Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day
2021-10-15
Whether the loss is miscarriage, termination, stillbirth, or neonatal loss, we remember the babies we hold in our hearts. Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day honors our lost little ones.
We invite you to add your HG baby to our memorial page.

World Mental Health Day
2021-10-10
The overall objective of World Mental Health Day is to raise awareness of mental health issues around the world and to mobilize efforts in support of mental health.
The day provides an opportunity for all stakeholders working on mental health issues to talk about their work, and what more needs to be done to make mental health care a reality for people worldwide.
Mental health care for all: let’s make it a reality!

Malnutrition Awareness Week
2021-10-04 - 2021-10-08
The HER Foundation is an official ambassador of ASPEN Malnutrition Awareness Week TM!
Malnutrition Awareness Week TM is a mark of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN). Used with permission from ASPEN. Malnutrition Awareness Week Schedule

Sunday Live at 5 PM/Pacific on Facebook
2021-10-03 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join Kimber MacGibbon and Marlena Fejzo, PhD, Live at 5 PM/Pacific on Facebook to discuss HER’s genetic research.

Champions for Change Summit
2021-10-01 - 2021-10-03
The Champions for Change Summit is dedicated to empowering our community with the education, training, and resources needed to make necessary changes in maternal health, hosted by MoMMA’s Voices. This event will give maternal health advocates the opportunity to:

Connect with survivors, volunteer leaders and other like-minded champions for change in maternal health.

Learn to share your story in an impactful way to influence health care practices.

Celebrate the successes that have been made thus far, and honor the affected families we work so hard for.

Use the tools from Summit to ignite a fire of change in your local communities.

Hear from inspirational and accomplished speakers.

The HER Foundation is a proud partner in the MoMMA’s Voices coalition.

Celebrating HER Foundation: 21 Year of Help and Hope
2021-10-01 - 2021-10-31
HER is turning 21 in October! In honor of that anniversary, we will be hosting special events, launching new resources, and celebrating our growth over two decades. Join us!
Some events to look forward to:

10/3: Sunday Live at 5 PM/Pacific on Facebook with Kimber MacGibbon.
10/10: Sunday Live at 5 PM/Pacific on Instagram with Kimber MacGibbon.
Lives with HER’s Ambassadors

Read about our 21 Years of Impact for HG.

Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month
2021-10-01 - 2021-10-09
Whether the loss is miscarriage, termination, stillbirth, or neonatal, we remember the babies we hold in our hearts. Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month honors our lost little ones.
We invite you to add your HG baby to our memorial page.

HER Foundation is 21
2021-09-30
21 years of Help & Hope! From 2000 to 2021, we have been building a healthier future for the next generation! We have offered research, support, advocacy, and education resources to over 2,000,000 people across the globe.

Join us to celebrate throughout October!

World Sepsis Day
2021-09-13

Sepsis Awareness Month
2021-09-01 - 2021-09-30
September is Sepsis Awareness Month. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), sepsis is a leading cause of maternal mortality. Hyperemesis Gravidarum significantly increases risk of sepsis because of reduced immune function, invasive procedures, and urinary tract infections. If you suspect sepsis, get immediate care. Every hour matters.
Sepsis is when the body’s response to an existing infection injures its own tissues and organs. Signs of sepsis include fever (higher or lower than normal), diarrhea or vomiting, abdominal pelvic pain/tenderness, confusion, and signs of infection.
🔹Learn more: https://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/maternal-sepsis/en.
🔹Signs of sepsis: Sepsis.org/sepsis-basics/symptoms.

Black Breastfeeding Week 2021
2021-08-25 - 2021-08-31
The 2021 theme for #BBW21 is The Big Pause: Collective Rest for Collective Power. The 9th BBW honors the need for rest.

Read why Black Breastfeeding Week is important.

PTSD Awareness Day
2021-06-27

Action on Preeclampsia Ghana 3rd virtual Scientific Conference
2021-05-22 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Action on Preeclampsia Ghana 3rd virtual Scientific Conference is scheduled for May 22, 2021. Kimber MacGibbon, HER Executive Director and Co-founder, will speak at the opening.

HG Awareness Day
2021-05-01 - 2021-05-31
Join the HER Foundation as we shed light on HG Truths all month long.
GET INVOLVED

SHARE your HG story.
MEET other HG survivors on Zoom.
FUNDRAISE for HG education & research.
CHOOSE a Facebook frame for your profile. Search frames: hyperemesis HER Foundation.
INVITE others to follow the HER Foundation and learn more about HG.
DONATE to the HER Foundation.
USE the hashtags on your social: #HGAM21 #HGAD21 #HGtruths
Order a 1 MOM tee.

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EVENTS

2021 HG Challenge

Global HG Chats on Zoom

Twitter Chat – May 14, 4 PM Eastern

Sunday Lives at 5 PM Pacific

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Host a fundraiser for the HER Foundation on Facebook, Instagram, or in your local community.
Give 2 HER and support our mission to support, educate, research, and advocate for families facing HG. Please consider a recurring monthly donation.

Tell your HG Truths in a video or writing. Share the facts. One voice. One story. YOUR story may be all it takes for someone to receive the help they need.
Respond to HER social media by reacting, commenting, and sharing. The more you engage, the further the reach of our HG awareness content: Twitter Facebook Instagram YouTube LinkedIn.
Unite with HGers across the globe in HG Chats on Zoom: we’re cohosting chats on every continent except Antarctica. Watch social for dates and times.
Tag friends and family on HER social media, so they can learn about HG. Remember to follow the Facebook event, so you don’t miss anything!
Help educate in the HG Challenge by sharing a Provider Packet with a maternal health provider in your area.
Share the reality about HG with a pic in your tougHGirls of HG tee or pictures and stories from your experience.

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WHAT IS HG?
At least 1 million women are estimated to suffer from a serious pregnancy disease each year that takes the lives of thousands of babies (and some mothers) due to chronic malnutrition and dehydration from debilitating nausea and vomiting. The disease known as HG (hyperemesis gravidarum) is often misunderstood, unrecognized or assumed to be psychological, and thus is inadequately treated. This means women suffer to the point of being traumatized, choosing therapeutic termination, or having serious short and long-term health issues. The children too often are affected as well. With proper treatment, most issues can be minimized or prevented, and the 1 in 3 loss rate is reduced. Be HG aware and educate others, donate to support education and research (HG research rarely gets grant funding!!), and show love to an HG mother today!
* HG: hyperemesis gravidarum (hyper = excessive, emesis = vomiting, gravidarum = in pregnancy)
** Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG) is a debilitating and potentially life-threatening pregnancy disease marked by rapid weight loss, malnutrition, and dehydration due to unrelenting nausea and/or vomiting with potential adverse consequences for the mom-to-be and the newborn(s).
HER Foundation is the Global Voice of HG!

Impact of COVID-19 and Women's Health: Challenges and Lessons
2021-03-10 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
In honor of Women’s History Month, we are proud to join African Health Now in a webinar on the impact of COVID-19 and women’s health: Impact of COVID-19 and Women’s Health Challenges and Lessons.
The event will discuss the impact COVID-19 has had on accessing health care services among women, including maternal and reproductive health services, lessons learned, and post-COVID-19 recommendations. It aims to raise awareness about the challenges of women’s access to quality health care.

Giving Tuesday: Give HOPE
2020-12-01
This year there is HOPE. Don’t you feel it…the feeling of CHANGE. We have suffered through so many uncertainties and challenges in 2020, and now we can look forward to the end of the year and to a new beginning. Here at HER Foundation, we are ready for a very BIG day in the nonprofit world: this year’s #GivingTuesday on December 1st. We want to make this year’s global movement for giving our best yet!! AND YOU CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN.

Please help us launch #GivingTuesday with a bang. Feel good in knowing that you are part of a world-wide movement, working to raise awareness for philanthropy, especially as we gear up for our exciting work in 2021.

HG Chat!
2020-11-27 19:00 (America/New_York)
Join us for HG Chat on Friday, November 27th, hosted by T and Suzanne. HG Chat is a chance to get together with other HG moms and socialize.
Friday, Novmber 27, from 7-8 PM/EST.

HER Foundation Facilitator is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: HG Chat
Time: Nov 27, 2020 07:00 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
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Raise Your Voice to Honor Maria
2020-11-25
Join us in honoring Maria and her twins on Wednesday, November 25th. Maria’s voice was silenced due to preventable complications of HG, and we all must be a voice for her. No mother should be silenced by HG!

Raise YOUR Voice for Maria!
Share a selfie with your right index finger in the air to indicate 1 MOM is 2 Many to die (or use this graphic).

Copy/paste one of these captions:

I’m raising my voice to honor Maria.
#1MOMis2Many to die.
#Iam1MOM who will speak for Maria.
#Iam1MOM who was not believed.
#Iam1MOM with a preventable complication from HG (state complication).
Maria’s voice was silenced due to preventable complications of HG, so we all must be a voice for her.

Be sure to tag @1MOMis2Many and HER Foundation (@HGmoms). Use these tags: #MariasVoice #Isupport1MOM #Iam1Mom #1MOMis2Many #HGaware
YOU can help by being a voice for Maria, buying a cool new 1 MOM tee/hoodie, and donating to the HER Foundation’s 1 MOM is 2 Many campaign.

About HG for Indonesian Moms
2020-11-14 11:00 - 13:00 (Asia/Jakarta)
Kimber MacGibbon, RN, Co-founder and Executive Director of HER Foundation, is presenting for Indonesian mothers about hyperemesis gravidarum (HG), treatment options, HG care, and ways to support women with HG.
Cohosted by HG Indonesia and Orami Parenting.

Prematurity Awareness Month
2020-11-01 - 2020-11-30
November is Prematurity Awareness Month. Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG) is one of the leading causes of prematurity. Women with HG are up to 4-fold increased risk are premature birth and are more likely to deliver babies that are small for gestational age and growth restricted likely due to malnutrition and stress. Support HER Foundation’s efforts to improve the care of HG mothers and prevent prematurity through research and education.

Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day
2020-10-15
1 in 3 HG pregnancies ends in loss. Whether the loss is miscarriage, termination, stillbirth, or neonatal loss, we remember the babies we hold in our hearts. Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day honors our lost little ones.
We invite you to add your HG baby to our memorial page.

2020 Champions for Change Summit
2020-10-02 - 2020-10-03
For the first time ever, you can join us from wherever you are for Champions for Change Summit! Registration for this virtual event gives you access to our live event keynotes and workshops, an opportunity to network with patient engagement opportunities and more!
Connect with survivors, volunteers, leaders and other like-minded champions for change in maternal health.
Learn to adapt how you share your story to influence health care practices.​
Celebrate the successes that have been made thus far, and honor the affected families we work so hard for.​
Use the tools from Summit to ignite a fire of change in your community​
Register Here

2020 HER Virtual Walk, Run, or Roll
2020-09-25 - 2020-10-05
Let’s Lace Up and #Move4Moms!
September 25 – October 5, we will be moving for our #tougHGirls and #tougHGuys. While we can’t be together in person, we can still come together for some fun, fitness, and charity.
Get your tickets, tees, and awesome swag! Ticket prices include a virtual swag bag and digital race bib.
100% of the proceeds of this virtual event will be used to grow the seed money for our Light Easing Darkness (LED) Crisis Fund that will aid women in receiving the help and treatment they and their unborn child need. With this Fund, HER will help HG women in crisis by covering critical co-pays or medical costs up to $500. The LED Crisis Fund launches in October 2021, and 100% of your donations to the 5K will go directly to this important program.
Thank you in advance for helping a mom get critical treatment and avoid the choice of suffering (and possible complications from untreated HG) or therapeutic termination of her pregnancy.

World Breastfeeding Week 2020
2020-08-01 - 2020-08-07
At the HER Foundation, we’re celebrating World Breastfeeding Week 2020 is August 1-7. The week is a worldwide event intended to inform, educate, and engage individuals and promote the benefits of breastfeeding, benefits for the baby, mother, and planet. All women/parents have the right to be supported by society to breastfeed optimally. Support can come from families, communities, health systems and workplaces.

WHO Breastfeeding 2020 Message
Join the Twitter Storm and other Social Media activities
#WBW2020 Press Release

The logo for #WBW2020 represents the focus this year to support breastfeeding for a healthier planet. Since 2016, WABA have aligned our WBW campaign to United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

HER Live with Andrea Saliba
2020-05-28 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
Raise Your Voice for mothers and babies around the world! Join us weekly during HG Awareness Month for a conversation with Kimber and Marlena. This week, they talk with Andrea Saliba.
When: May 28 at 11 AM PST.
Where: Andrea Saliba Nutrition on Instagram.

HER Live with Liz Lombard
2020-05-21 12:30 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Raise Your Voice for mothers and babies around the world! Join us weekly during HG Awareness Month for a conversation with Kimber and Marlena. This week, they talk with Liz Lombard.
When: May 21 at 12:30 PST
Where: Mrs.Liz Lombard on Instagram.

HG Awareness Day 2020
2020-05-15
Join in the exciting month-long HG awareness campaign. Raise Your Voice for HG Progress!
Get INVOLVED

SHARE your HG story.
MEET other HG survivors on Zoom: detaild below.
FUNDRAISE for HG education & research.
CHOOSE a Facebook frame for your profile. Search frames: hyperemesis HER Foundation.
USE the hashtags on your social: #HGAD2020 #2020HGvision.
INVITE others to follow the HER Foundation and learn more about HG.

HG Awareness Day Activities

We will be LIVE on our Instagram, @HGmoms, Friday, May 15th!
🔸12 PM/PT: Walkthrough of new site with Kimber.

🔸12:30 PM/PT: HER research with Kimber & Marlena.
🔸1 PM/PT: Special announcement to be made!
🔸5 PM/PT: Update on HER HG documentary with the Directors, Rachael & Bevin.

Zoom Meetup Schedule
Join other HG survivors for informal conversation in our Zoom Meetups across the globe:
🔸New Zealand 7 PM (GMT+12): https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83758124228.

🔸Indonesia 10 PM Jakarta Time (GMT+7): https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83376579429.

🔸Kenya 7 PM/EAT (GMT+3): https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87332207140

🔸The Netherlands 7:30 PM (GMT+12): https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84273794485.

🔸Canada 2:30 PM/EDT (GMT-4): https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86598858275.

🔸United States 7 PM PT (GMT-7) https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83264507499.

What is HG?
At least 1 million women are estimated to suffer from a serious pregnancy disease each year that takes the lives of thousands of babies (and some mothers) due to chronic malnutrition and dehydration from debilitating nausea and vomiting. The disease known as HG (hyperemesis gravidarum) is often misunderstood, unrecognized or assumed to be psychological, and thus is inadequately treated. This means women suffer to the point of being traumatized, choosing therapeutic termination, or having serious short and long-term health issues. The children too often are affected as well. With proper treatment, most issues can be minimized or prevented, and the 1 in 3 loss rate is reduced. Be HG aware and educate others, donate to support education and research (HG research rarely gets grant funding!!), and show love to an HG mother today!
* HG: hyperemesis gravidarum (hyper = excessive, emesis = vomiting, gravidarum = in pregnancy)
** Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG) is a debilitating and potentially life-threatening pregnancy disease marked by rapid weight loss, malnutrition, and dehydration due to unrelenting nausea and/or vomiting with potential adverse consequences for the mom-to-be and the newborn(s).
HER Foundation is the Global Voice of HG!

HER Live with Cindy Montoto
2020-05-14 20:00 - 21:00 (America/Boise)
Raise Your Voice for mothers and babies around the world! Join us weekly during HG Awareness Month for a conversation with Kimber and Marlena. This week, they talk with Cindy Montoto.
When: HGAD Eve at 7 PM MT
Where: https://www.instagram.com/yourlittledove_/

HER Live with Jen Jean-Pierre
2020-05-07 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
Raise Your Voice for mothers and babies around the world! Join us weekly during HG Awareness Month for a conversation with Kimber and Marlena. This week, they talk with Jen Jean-Pierre.
When: May 7 at 8 PM EST
Where: Jen Jean-Pierre on Instagram.
