{"id":514668,"date":"2017-07-12T14:55:53","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T19:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countthekicks.org\/2017\/07\/saving-babies-nevada\/"},"modified":"2021-01-27T12:33:25","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T18:33:25","slug":"saving-babies-nevada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/countthekicks.org\/2017\/07\/saving-babies-nevada\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambassador Committed to Saving Babies in Nevada"},"content":{"rendered":"

September 11, 2001 will always be an emotional day for much of our country. It was devastating and awful and unreal. For my husband and me it has an additional horrible memory of losing our first child to stillbirth.<\/p>\n

It was my first pregnancy and we were all super excited. My parents, his parents, my grandmother, all of our friends and, of course, my husband and me. We had waited to have children to make sure our marriage was strong and we were ready for our little girl \u2013 Sydney. I had a perfect pregnancy \u2013 everything looked great.<\/p>\n

At 38 weeks I was still working full time in advertising and public relations, and everything looked great. Then September 11th happened. We were all in shock. One of my clients was the National Championship Air Races. No Air Races. No planes at all.<\/p>\n

On September 13, I had my scheduled doctor\u2019s appointment. It was too late. He sent us straight to the hospital. It was the worst day of my life. I didn\u2019t know anyone who had lost a baby. Everyone came home from the hospital with a baby. We didn\u2019t. I didn\u2019t know how to react. I was in shock.<\/p>\n

I was surprised to hear the statistics regarding stillbirth. A baby is born still in the United States every 22 minutes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. I found an online community of women who were like me and that helped. I was lucky \u2013 we got pregnant again and I have my rainbow baby. She is 14 but still my baby. I have two girls and they are the light of my life.<\/p>\n

I heard about Count the Kicks<\/em> from best-selling author Glennon Doyle Melton. She spoke at their annual Every Woman Counts<\/a> fundraiser luncheon and the founders\u2019 stories spoke to me: five women in Iowa who lost little girls in the early 2000s to stillbirth. I felt like these were my people<\/a>. I wanted to help.<\/p>\n

These women got to work to try to help reduce the number of stillbirths. They found studies that showed if expectant moms track their baby\u2019s movements starting at 28 weeks, they will significantly reduce their chance of stillbirth.<\/p>\n

Count the Kicks<\/em> has a free app<\/a> in the iTunes and Google Play online stores or you can use an old school chart and pen. The system works by having expectant mamas begin monitoring their baby\u2019s movement in the third trimester. Expectant moms should pick the same time of day, every day, to count baby\u2019s movement. Mamas should sit with their feet up or lie on their side. Then, they should count each of their baby\u2019s movements as one kick, count until reaching 10 movements, and record how long it took to get to 10.<\/p>\n

Pretty soon moms will start to notice a pretty consistent pattern in how long it takes their baby to get to 10. If the amount of time it takes to get to ten changes significantly, moms should call their provider right away. Kick counting histories are useful for visits with providers.<\/p>\n

The women created Count the Kicks<\/em> in Iowa in 2009 and spread the message to a grassroots network of supportive hospitals, clinics and doctor\u2019s offices in Iowa. Since then, they\u2019ve watched the state\u2019s stillbirth rate drop by 26 percent. Iowa has gone from 33rd in the country in stillbirth rate to 3rd lowest.<\/p>\n

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Today Count the Kicks<\/em> has gone global \u2014 the five Iowa moms are literally trying to save babies around the world. This year moms as far away as the South Pacific and the Middle East are downloading the free Count the Kicks<\/em> app.<\/p>\n

Count the Kicks<\/em> is growing every day to save more babies. There are passionate ambassadors advocating kick counting in 18 states. I\u2019m happy to be the Ambassador for Nevada — a small part of the team that\u2019s spreading the baby-saving message as far and wide as we can send it.<\/p>\n

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Julia Tayler
\nCount the Kicks<\/em> Nevada Ambassador<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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