Healthy Birth Day, Inc.

After experiencing a stillbirth at 32 weeks during my first pregnancy (which was, according to doctors, perfectly healthy and low risk) every subsequent pregnancy has been a rollercoaster of emotions. Healthy Birth Day, Inc.'s public health campaign, Count the Kicks has given me the tools and education I desperately needed to bond with my babies and be aware of their normal movement patterns. It doesn't completely take the anxiety away (nothing can) but it has been a huge benefit to my mental health during three pregnancies after loss. I became an Ambassador for Count the Kicks with the goal of raising awareness among anyone I come in contact with. Hopefully it will be common knowledge worldwide and help reduce preventable stillbirth.

(Roles: client served, volunteer, and donor)

I volunteer for this organization in honor of my daughter who was unexpectedly stillborn at the end of my pregnancy. Monitoring fetal movement saves lives, and I will always wish that someone empowered me with information; instead I am making the world a safer place for babies through my work with Count the Kicks. I am proud to volunteer my time for this organization!

As a doula and childbirth educator, families reach out to me during their most joyous times and their most devastating times. Sometimes, tragically, their journey does not include the living baby they expected it to include. Healthy Birth Day’s free mobile app (Count the Kicks) is contributing to lowering the stillbirth rate in the United States by empowering families to take an active role in their healthy pregnancy. Experiencing pregnancy loss affects you for the rest of your life, and it’s far too common. The evidence is overwhelming that counting kicks saves lives. Black women are more than twice as likely to lose their babies to stillbirth than white women. Healthy Birth Day has proven to be committed to eliminating racial disparities in stillbirth via their Count the Kicks campaign. They acknowledge the inequities in maternal healthcare and are working to educate providers on eliminating racial biases. I enthusiastically recommend this organization to every family I work with!

Healthy Birth Day and the people who work at this heart warming organization are a gift to our country. As a volunteer Count the Kicks Ambassador, I see first hand the work staff put into helping prevent stillbirth in the U.S. They put in the longer hours. They take the time to forge relationships to support important research, to establish thoughtful policies, to engage supporters in a meaningful way, and to invest in the tools need to educate on stillbirth prevention. I also see how they are judicious with where their funds are allocated to ensure they remained focused on their mission and that resources are allocated in line with defined objectives.
None of this compares to the heart of this organization. For every way I engage to support their mission, I hear and feel their appreciation. The founders, the staff, and even board members will send a personal, handwritten note of thanks. They remember my child for whom in honor of as an ambassador. I am honored to be a small part of such an incredible organization!

Healthy Birth Day is an amazing resource that helps to educate and empower expectant parents to have a safe delivery of their baby. I refer every expectant family that I work with to this great resource.

Without Healthy Birth Day and their evidence-based stillbirth prevention campaign, Count the Kicks, my second son would not be here alive today. It is because of their education and advocacy that I was educated on fetal movement and knew to speak up when I felt a change in his patterns. HBD is literally saving lives and generations of families. Thank you!!!

Healthy Birthday, Inc. is an organization that is dear to my heart. I’ve had the opportunity to volunteer with this organization for the past three years. I have witnessed, firsthand, the commitment and passion from staff and volunteers that they put into preventing still-births. Each day I am amazed by the many accomplishments that have been made and for those that are yet to come. Thank you to the (5) founders, staff, ambassadors, and volunteers.

It is wonderful to see the impact that Healthy Birth Day, Inc. is having to improve birth outcomes for families across the U.S. and around the world. The organization is made up of a dedicated and passionate team who work hard every day to carry out the mission of saving babies and preventing stillbirth. When you donate to Healthy Birth Day, Inc. your funds go directly to supporting the Count the Kicks stillbirth campaign. Please consider supporting this impactful nonprofit organization so they can continue to expand their campaign and prevent stillbirths by making sure all expectant parents know the importance of tracking their baby's movements in the third trimester of pregnancy.

I first became involved with this non - profit in 2017. After volunteering at an event Healthy Birth Day / Count the Kicks was hosting, I immediately wanted to know how I could become more involved. Staff leaders, board members and even the founders made me feel like my contributions, no matter how big or small, were life changing. Because in fact they were! The organization has never steered away from its main goal of empowering expectant parents, educating providers and saving babies despite its growing popularity. Anyone who has ever loved and cared for an expectant parent should support the literal life -saving efforts of Healthy Birth Day / Count the Kicks

Great organization with an extraordinarily important mission. The Healthy Birth Day Team is fabulous and the work they are doing is life-saving!

Healthy Birth Day does such important work to prevent and reduce stillbirth through the Count the Kicks public health campaign. By sharing this educational message with expectant parents and health care providers across the country, babies are being saved. The staff and leadership is dedicated and this work is supported by an incredibly determined network of passionate volunteers

Healthy Birth Day, Inc. is a small, yet growing non-profit focused on stillbirth prevention through the public health campaign, Count the Kicks. This organization uses all of its passion, energy and resources to save babies in it's home state, Iowa, where the number of stillbirths have dropped by over 30% AND is expanding into a national campaign.

What a fantastic organization! Love what they are doing to save babies! I used the Count the Kicks app with my pregnancies and found it so helpful.

Great experience. Their mission drives their work and is their passion.

This nonprofit is amazing! So much awareness being raised and they do it from the heart not for the money. So many mothers being brought together for such an amazing cause. Love, love, love this organization and highly recommend! Thanks for everything you are doing!

This is a wonderful organization working through empowerment and education. I commend Healthy Birth Day in being vocal and putting effort into ending the racial disparities in stillbirth.

I became involved with Healthy Birth Day through a friend of mine. The people who have dedicated their time and efforts to help educate and make a difference are extremely kind and giving. I have had a personal experience with my own son being stillborn and I feel strongly that reaching out to others through this amazing organization helps honor his memory.

Healthy Birth Day, Inc is a well organized non-profit doing so many amazing things to educate women about stillbirth risks. Thank you for all you do!

This organization is wonderful, doing work that saves the lives of the most vulnerable.

Fantastic organization saving babies throughout the country!

Healthy Birth Day is a well run organization with an excellent staff. Everyone is well focused on the mission of the organization to prevent stillbirth and infant deaths.

This nonprofit helps save 50-60 Iowa babies every year with a goal to save 6,000 babies in the U.S. each year. They're leading the way in stillbirth prevention and I am proud to support their efforts.

They are making a difference by saving babies! They recognize the racial disparities in stillbirth and are aiming to not only close the gap, but save 6,000 babies each year. They are open and transparent.