The Hyperemesis Files

This is the seventh episode of the Hyperemesis Files. A podcast presented by Hyperemesis Campaigner Charlotte Howden. Each episode Charlotte talks to HG survivors about their personal story with Hyperemesis. In this episode, Charlotte talks to Petra, a Swedish Londoner mother of 2 girls, who suffered with Hyperemesis in both her pregnancies. Her second daughter was born just 6 weeks ago so her experience is obviously still very raw. Petra is a freelance producer and writer and has spent the last 10 years of her career delivering live broadcasts, campaigns, and factual programming. Petra talks openly about her battle to get access to medication, intrusive thoughts about termination and also how a trip to Los Angeles is how she finally got a diagnosis of HG!!!!! Given her profession, Petra and Charlotte also take this opportunity to discuss how pregnant women are portrayed in Film & TV and how the back story of most pregnant characters is often misrepresenting the real experience of pregnancy. Petra also talks about how she managed to cope (or not) during a pandemic/lockdown and giving birth in her car!

In 2018 Charlotte interviewed Dr Marlena Fejzo for the Sick - The Battle Against HG Documentary. Marlena is a faculty researcher with joint appointments in the department of Medicine at UCLA and the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at USC. Her primary focus is in improving women’s health. She has published papers on her genetic studies of many diseases of women including ovarian cancer, breast cancer, and multiple sclerosis and she discovered the first genes linked to nausea and vomiting of pregnancy and Hyperemesis Gravidarum. Here is her full interview. 

This is the fifth episode of the Hyperemesis Files. A podcast presented by Hyperemesis Campaigner Charlotte Howden. Each episode Charlotte talks to HG survivors about their personal story with Hyperemesis. In this episode, Charlotte talks to Claudia, a mum of 2 (nearly) from the UK. Claudia is currently 34 weeks pregnant with her second child and talks us through her HG pregnancies and the differences between the milder side of HG and the severe! Claudia is also a Clinical Psychologist who specialises in Trauma and PTSD which certainly puts a spin on her experience. Topics include living with HG (or not), having HG during a global pandemic, dealing with intrusive thought and getting help for your mental health and looking after a child when you have hyperemesis.

The Hyperemesis Files Podcast episode 4 features Kaitlin a woman from South Carolina in the US. Kaitlin has 2 boys and suffered HG with her second, although it seems likely that she also suffered with a milder HG with her first pregnancy. Charlotte talks to Kaitlin about her struggle to cope with HG the second time round, trying to care for the child she already had, a business, living in a new town with a very new support network and making the decision to never have children again by undergoing a sterilisation. She also talks about her experience with memory loss from having a thyamine deficiency (due to HG) and how her husband (a medical professional) became her full time carer. As with all the podcasts their maybe triggers so please do listen with someone. 

This is the third episode of the Hyperemesis Files. A podcast presented by Hyperemesis Campaigner Charlotte Howden. Each episode Charlotte talks to HG survivors about their personal story with Hyperemesis. In this episode, Charlotte talks to Jo, a mum of 2 from Kent, UK. who suffered 2 Hyperemesis pregnancies.Topics include vomit-less Hyperemesis, Isolation and Loneliness, Coping with a child when you have HG, Unhelpful remarks, Seizures, Medications and how we should all just call it what it is! Hyperemesis! Please note that if you are currently suffering with Hyperemesis some of these issues might trigger you as it is common for food to come up in conversation as well as talk of vomiting and sickness.

This is the second episode of the Hyperemesis Files. A podcast presented by Hyperemesis Campaigner Charlotte Howden. Each episode Charlotte talks to HG survivors about their personal story with Hyperemesis. In this episode, Charlotte talks to William Howden, someone who she knows very well as he is her husband and partner in crime. 
 
Charlotte interviews her husband to get the perspective of what it is like for a partner to watch their wife/girlfriend go through Hyperemesis Gravidarum. Topics include, support, safe foods, isolation, becoming a carer over night, termination and medications.
 
Please note that if you are currently suffering with Hyperemesis some of these issues might trigger you as it is common for food to come up in conversation as well as talk of vomiting and sickness.

This is the first episode of the Hyperemesis Files. A podcast presented by Hyperemesis Campaigner Charlotte Howden. Each episode Charlotte talks to HG survivors about their personal story with Hyperemesis. In this episode, Charlotte talks to Sabrina, a mum of 4 from London, UK. who suffered 3 Hyperemesis pregnancies.

Topics include treatments, hospital admissions, black women and HG, loneliness and isolation, terminations and stigmas around pregnancy sickness.

Please note that if you are currently suffering with Hyperemesis some of these issues might trigger you as it is common for food to come up in conversation as well as talk of vomiting and sickness.