I was excited to be expecting and looking forward to all of the wonderful changes that I know would happen. Instead, the experience left me depressed and lonely. I was withdrawn from the outside world because of my morning sickness.This is morning sickness beyond morning sickness. I had HG. HG is a debilitating preganancy disease that caused me to become so weak, I was hospitalized over and over while carrying my son. I was nauseas all day long, and I was vomiting just as long. At my worst, I was up to vomiting 10 to 12 times a day. I couldn't keep anything down and I began to lose weight. I was admitted to the hospital several times and getting hooked up to IV fluides became routine.

I was so worried for the baby at the time and wondering how he was being affected by my illness. I felt helpless in the matter because I couldn't eat or drink and I felt that this wasn't healthy for the baby, but there was nothing that I could do about it. I also felt guilty for being so sick and I would try to eat even though it wouldn't stay down. I couldn't even drink a small cup of water as this would send me into a violent spell of nausea and vomiting for at least 20 minutes.

This is the darkside of pregnancy and there is still no known cause or cure because there just isn't enough research done on the disease. I found the HER Foundation and they are in the process of recruiting people to help study HG. Please visit www.hyperemesis.org to join the search for a cure. You can volunteer if you had HG or you haven't had HG. As for myself who have first hand experience with HG, I am on a mission to help this foundation in any way that I can and I hope that you will too. Please go to website and volunteer. It will take 15 minutes of your time and this small investment of your time will help the researchers to move closer to starting the research as they are short on volunteers who haven't had HG.