THON Resource Center™

The THON Companion Series™

Practical tools to help you prepare, track, organize, and advocate.

Every educational guide in the HG Care Hub has a matching companion resource. The guide teaches — the companion helps you turn knowledge into action: preparing for visits, organizing your record, and confidently participating in your care.

Self-Assessment Guide

Is It More Than Morning Sickness?

Twelve check-box questions to help you see your experience clearly — educational only, never diagnostic.

For women & families · ~10 min

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Protective Care Guide

Oral Health During HG

The rinse–wait–brush routine that protects your enamel — keep it by the bathroom sink.

For women · 2 min to learn

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Safety Reference

Emergency Symptoms Checklist

Call-the-doctor vs. go-now signs, household phone numbers, and the words that get faster help. Post it on the refrigerator.

For the whole household · 2 min to learn

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Daily Tracking

Daily Symptom Tracker

Two weeks on one page — severity, episodes, weight, and the end-of-day hydration check.

Women & partners · 2 min per day

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Daily Tracking

Daily Hydration Log

Every sip, whether it stayed down, and the end-of-day dehydration check.

Women & partners · 2 min per entry

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Weekly Tracking

Weight & Nutrition Tracker

Weekly weight against your pre-pregnancy baseline, plus a daily food record.

Women & families · 3 min per day

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Combined Daily Tracker

Nutrition & Hydration Tracker

One page per day — fluids, food, and symptoms in the order your care team will ask.

Women & caregivers · 3 min per day

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Treatment Tracking

Medication Tracker

What you take, whether it helps, and the record that justifies the next treatment step.

Women & caregivers · 1 min per dose

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Appointment Companion

Questions for My OB Appointment

Twelve pre-written questions across diagnosis, treatment, monitoring, and emotional health — with space to write the answers in the room.

For women & partners · 5 min to prepare

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Hospital Toolkit

Hospital Visit Checklist

What to pack, the six numbers to fill in before you go, and what to ask before you leave.

For women & partners · 5 min to pack

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The HG Toolkit Library™

Hyperemesis Gravidarum happens to a household — so the toolkit is built for everyone in it.

The resources above are for the woman living through it. These are for the people around her: the partner keeping the household standing, the family who want to help and do not know how, the employer deciding whether she keeps her job, and the clinicians treating her. Each toolkit is print-ready and free to share.

Partners carry the household, the record-keeping, the advocacy, and the fear — usually with no acknowledgment that they are going through something too. These four resources cover both what she needs and what you need. For the full stage-by-stage companion, see The Partner Journey™.

Orientation Guide

How to Help Someone with HG

The five things that help most, what to say instead of the well-meant wrong thing, and the emergency signs you must not wait to be told about.

For partners · 8 min read

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Daily Use

Daily Care Checklist

Morning, day, and evening — for the days when neither of you has the capacity to plan. Includes the daily hydration check.

For partners & caregivers · daily

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Practical Home Care

Home Support & Meal Guide

Setting up a home that lowers nausea instead of triggering it — and what to offer when almost nothing stays down.

For the household · keep in the kitchen

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Wellbeing

Partner Self-Care Guide

A depleted caregiver cannot care well — and your experience matters in its own right. What partners carry, and the six things that protect you.

For partners · 6 min read

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Almost everyone who says the wrong thing about Hyperemesis Gravidarum means well. These resources exist so that good intentions land the way they were meant to — and so families offer the help she cannot bring herself to ask for.

Orientation Guide

Supporting Someone with HG

For anyone who loves her — what actually helps, the specific offers that land well, how to talk to children in the house, and why staying after the acute phase matters most.

For family & friends · 7 min read

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Communication Guide

Things Not to Say

Side by side: the ordinary phrases that quietly tell her she is not believed, and what to say instead. Plus the four sentences that always help.

For family, friends & colleagues · 5 min read

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Whether a woman keeps her job through Hyperemesis Gravidarum is often decided in a single conversation with her manager. These resources are written to be circulated internally — brief enough to be read, specific enough to be acted on. For guidance organized by role, see The HG Workplace Center™.

Orientation Briefing

Understanding HG at Work

What the condition is, what you may observe and what is actually happening, how to handle the first conversation, and what not to do.

Managers & HR · 7 min read

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Planning Tool

Reasonable Workplace Accommodations

A working checklist to complete together across schedule, workspace, duties, leave, and dignity — then write the plan down so it is not renegotiated weekly.

Manager & employee · 20 min together

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Process Guide

HR Accommodation Guide

The full process in order, what to document, confidentiality in practice, and the retention case.

HR & people teams · 9 min read

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Conversation Guide

Supervisor Conversation Guide

Read before the meeting: how to open, five questions worth asking, what never to say, and how to close.

Managers · 7 min read

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Fillable Template

Weekly Employee Check-In Template

Ten minutes weekly, structured so she never has to raise a problem unprompted.

Manager & employee · weekly

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For the employee

Employee Conversation Planner

You should not have to be articulate about being this ill. Fill it in beforehand and take it in with you.

Employees · 15 min to prepare

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Reference

Employer FAQ

The questions HR teams and managers actually ask, answered plainly and without legal hedging.

All audiences · 8 min read

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Transition Planning

Return-to-Work Planning Guide

Recovery does not end at delivery. A phased return, what to do in her first weeks back, and why abrupt returns cost experienced employees.

Manager & employee · 30 min together

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THON is developing a small set of clinical companion tools with medical review — a quick clinical reference, a patient education handout, and IV hydration, referral, and discharge checklists. Because these carry clinical weight, they are being written and reviewed carefully rather than quickly.

Clinicians who would like to contribute to review: info@thehouseofnirvana.org

How to use these

Open a resource, then use Download PDF or Print at the top of the page. Every sheet also works on a phone screen in the exam room. These tools are educational and do not replace medical care.

You are not alone.

Related resources

Where to go from here.

Print one tracker and start tonightA record beats a description in every appointment.→ Put the emergency checklist on your refrigeratorSo anyone in the house knows when to act.→ Prepare questions for your next appointmentTwelve pre-written questions, with space for answers.→ Give your partner the survival guideSo you are not the one explaining this over and over.→ Send your employer the briefingSeven minutes to read. Written to be forwarded.→ Pack the hospital bag before you need itFive minutes today saves an hour in a crisis.→

Community connections

Support doesn’t end here.

Explore trusted resources that can help you through every stage of the HG journey. As THON grows, this becomes a curated directory of community partners and support services — if you know of one that belongs here, we would like to hear from you.