The Morning Sickness & HG Clinic

08/17/2025

Hiiii! Send us all your favorite L&D nurses! Message us for the Indeed job posting with all the details 💕

08/14/2025

A couple snapshots of Dr. Housholder, Founder of The Morning Sickness Clinic, presenting on the final day of Project Healthcare by the Nashville Entrepreneur Center. He shared how our clinic’s approach to treating nausea and vomiting in pregnancy reduces ER visits, lowers hospital admissions, and decreases the overall cost of care for patients.

We’re honored to be part of this inspiring cohort of entrepreneurs working to close critical gaps in our healthcare system—and grateful for the connections, mentorship, and momentum gained along the way. 💙

08/04/2025

Our front desk QUEEN 👑 is off to school & her next adventure!

For the past two years, Elizabeth has been the calm voice on the phone, the friendly face at the front desk, and the one behind every Spruce message and text — making sure our HG mamas felt cared for from the very start. She even kept Dr. H on schedule… most of the time 😅

Elizabeth, we’re so grateful for everything you’ve poured into this place. We’ll miss you BIG.

Now the search begins! Think you’ve got front desk magic in Birmingham, AL— or know someone who does? Slide into our DMs for the job posting 💌

06/11/2025

Lexi and Grayson have a PSA for you: At The Morning Sickness Clinic we BELIEVE WOMEN. HG is not in your head (it’s actually genetic!)

Meet our itty bitty clinic manager, Lexi ❤️❤️❤️ For the last 9 so months she’s been working at clinic, strapped to one of our nurses or napping in the break room. Her mama Rachael is a super mom (and we’re so happy she’s one of our nurses!)

04/07/2025

We’re honored and elated to announce that Dr Marlena Fejzo is a part of our team at The Morning Sickness & HG Clinic as our Chief Scientific Officer!

For the past 2 years, our clinic has collected data and biological samples for Dr Fejzo’s HG research. Together we have preliminary data that shows that early intervention in our clinic’s HG patients reduces severity of symptoms. Early intervention leads to lower HELP scores at 12 weeks’ gestation!

Dr Fejzo’s team found our Black patients’ HELP scores are 4 points higher on average than our White patients’ scores. This is consistent with reported increased rates of HG in the Black population. Her team is trying to understand what factors contribute to more severe symptoms in Black women.

Dr Fejzo is Time’s Woman of the Year 2024, Forbes 50 under 50, HER Foundation () Research Director and has received *numerous* awards for her pioneering research.

Just this week she was awarded the inaugural 2025 BioInnovation Institute & Science Translational Medicine Prize for Innovations in Women’s Health for her leading discoveries about the genetic basis of severe morning sickness.

There’s more to come from this research collaboration!

Photo 1: HER Foundation headshot, Dr Marlena Fejzo
Photo 2: Dr Marlena Fejzo in her lab by
photographer Christina Gandolfo
Photo 3: Poster Presentation in our clinic by Ellie Lewis, Dr Fejzo and Dr Housholder, The Keck School Of Medicine, USC and The Morning Sickness & HG Clinic.

12/13/2024

MSC Holiday Hours update:
HG mamas, take care of yourself before wrapping all the presents! We’re opening late on Monday Dec. 23 to help power all our HG patients through this holiday week. 🌟🎄

We’ll be closed on Dec 25th and opening normally the rest of the week. Make sure to book your infusion appointments online now. If you’re a new patient, text us at 205-772-9595.

I couldn’t decide on my favorite pic - awkward photo of Dr H or ridiculously cute HG baby so you get both!!

11/25/2024

Hi! For this week, we are taking appointments til 6:30pm Tuesday rather than Wednesday. If you normally have your infusions after regular hours on Wednesday go ahead and book now for Tuesday 😘 We will be closed Thursday and open regular hours on Friday.

10/19/2024

[Update: Wow! We are so grateful for all the shares on this post! I have received so many resumes that I can barely keep up! I’m pausing the job listing for now while I review. If you emailed me to apply, I’m working my way through the emails!!]

Hello friends! We’re looking for a nurse to join our team 25-30 hours a week. If you or someone you know might be interested, send them our way!

09/20/2024

THIS! This kind of patient experience that fuels our clinic days. These results fuel Dr Housholder’s passion for HG research and care. Our patients make this work the most rewarding work of our lives! Thank you for posting Haley 🥹🥹 We miss you!

(Posted with permission! Swipe to see our visit with newborn baby Bennett and Haley ❤️❤️)

09/20/2024

We tell our patients to reach out ASAP if they have been unable to hold down food for 24hrs. 🥹

Did you know that nutrition is one the most prolific topics related to pregnancy?

Yet when someone had HG, they are told malnutrition will not harm them or their unborn child.

Ironically, surgical patients are typically given nutritional therapy within one week of being unable to eat.

Yet those with HG may go weeks or months nearly starving without nutritional intervention.

Learn more: hyperemsis.org/malnutrition



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09/18/2024

When our HG patients bring their newborn babes to clinic, it absolutely makes our day *every time!!!* Especially when they wear the cutest lil HG onesies and shirts. (Available on our website!) We love seeing these precious babes after months of caring for mama and baby ❤️ You did good mama!!

03/15/2024

The vibe around here is like no medical experience you’ve ever had ❤️ Natural light, ample space, nurses who are actual Angels, comfy chairs - it’s so peaceful! Of course, sometimes there are squeals from the playroom :) Bring your crochet needles!! 🧶