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If HG continued past mid-pregnancy, did you experience complications during delivery related to your poor health such as a strained ligaments/joints, pelvic floor damage, prolonged or weak pushing, fainting, low blood pressure, low pain tolerance, forceps/assisted delivery, broken bones, nerve damage, low amniotic fluid, fetal problems due to difficult delivery, etc.?

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How to Donate

We hope you will participate in our ongoing advocacy campaigns to increase awareness and funding for HG. You can help us in many ways. Let your voice be heard so women with HG can find help, hope and healing. [More info from the briefing to be posted here soon. Please check back.]

 

Option 1 - WRITE YOUR LOCAL CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVE

WRITE YOUR LOCAL CONGRESSMANThe HER Foundation is spreading the word on Capitol Hill about the need for research and awareness, and we need your help. Please call, email, fax, or write your local Congressman a letter about how HG has impacted your life and how we need government's help to fight this disease. If you reside in districts of either Representatives Xavier Becerra (CA-31) or Dave Weldon (FL-15) who sponsored this event, please also express your appreciation for their support.

Option 2 - MAKE A DONATION TODAY

Donate NowCongress wants to know how many people "care about this cause," and the best measurement is the number of individual contributors - even if you can only donate a few dollars.

If every woman who has suffered from HG gave just $1, we would raise enough money to fund the needed research for HG.
Led by Dr. Goodwin, the USC Maternal-Fetal Medicine research team hopes to fund much needed, current and proposed HG research projects with your donations.

Please donate now.

USC / HER Foundation Proposed Research Topics ($2.5 million required)

  • Maternal/Fetal death (associated meds, complications, cause, etc.)
  • Rare Complications (maternal and fetal)
  • PICC/TPN complications, effectiveness & fetal outcomes
  • Trauma after HG (PTSD)
  • Cognitive effects & treatment after HG (maternal, fetal)
  • Intrauterine programming (endocrine, emotional)
  • Twin study Pedigree study (maternal and paternal lines) **
  • Genetic link (DNA analysis)**
  • Wernicke's Encephalopathy
  • Attitudes of health professionals
  • Modes of nutritional support
  • Long- and short-term fetal disorders (triple A, neurodevelopmental/behavioral disorders)
  • Effects of HG on family (relationships, child trauma)
  • Long-term health issues of HG (autoimmune, musculoskeletal, metabolic)
  • Treatment strategies/outcomes

    **Project has started

Publications & Misc Projects:

  • Improve accuracy of general population books on pregnancy (e.g. What to Expect, Pregnancy Handbook)
  • Protocol for nutritional supplementation (criteria, duration)
  • Assessment forms for health professionals
  • Multilingual brochures
  • Continuing Education for nurses
  • Side-effects of meds
  • Patient perceptions of prenatal care with/without HG
  • Health professional attitudes & beliefs about HG
  • HG management
  • HG treatment protocol
  • Survey Research Summaries
  • HG & Foundation Awareness
  • HG Symposium to link/educate health professionals & patients
  • Abnormal outcomes Database (Maternal & Fetal)

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Updated on: Apr. 24, 2013

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