The Morning Sickness & HG Clinic

10/14/2025

09/30/2025

Our nonprofit, The HG Relief Project, is hard at work raising funds to make sure every HG mom in AL has the care and support they need. This month we’ve had the honor of receiving funds from the for our patients in Shelby and St Clair counties. Thank you United Ways!

Our mutual aid for patients includes:
- financial aid
- employment advocacy
- medication costs, shipping
- coordination of care and benefits
- mental heath coordination
- transportation coordination

All of the above is made possible with funding from The Daniel Foundation, and private donors. If you want to donate or get involved, or if you need mutual aid, please reach out! We haven’t met a barrier we weren’t willing to cross for our HG mamas :)

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!!