by Charlotte Howden | May 23, 2025 | HG Stories
Having just watched the harrowing story on the news of Jess, driven to suicide, I felt the need to share my own story. HG was debilitating for me from the moment I became pregnant. The only time I wasn’t being sick was when I was asleep. I lost a lot of weight and was...
by Charlotte Howden | Apr 8, 2025 | HG Stories
I started with HG very early into the pregnancy – at about 3 weeks. I was tired, had no energy, and wondered if it was long COVID. My favourite food started to make me feel sick, and then the vomiting started… the day before my hen party. I managed to make it...
by Charlotte Howden | Mar 29, 2025 | HG Stories
I experienced Hyperemesis Gravidarum in all three of my pregnancies. My first started with nausea and constant vomiting from around five or six weeks. It lasted about a month, and I thought I’d made it through the worst of it—until I went to my 12-week scan and found...
by Charlotte Howden | Mar 18, 2025 | Fundraising, HG Stories
HG Advocate, Sarah, has been running an awareness campaign through her photography business since 2024. As one of our brilliant fundraisers for a month to change minds, she shares how Hyperemesis Gravidarum was the ‘Loneliest experience of her life’. “I feel slightly...
by Charlotte Howden | Mar 11, 2025 | HG Stories
For Emily, pregnancy was not a time of joy—it was a relentless battle against hyperemesis gravidarum (HG). She shares her experience in the hope that more people will understand the true impact of this debilitating condition. My HG experience was the most horrendous...
by Charlotte Howden | Feb 17, 2025 | HG Stories
“I Felt So Alone”: One Woman’s Battle with Hyperemesis Gravidarum For one woman, pregnancy became a terrifying and isolating ordeal, made worse by a lack of support and understanding from healthcare professionals. She bravely shares her experience of hyperemesis...
