Complimentary Webinar!
Join us for an insightful webinar on best practices in implementing the Count the Kicks program, a proven initiative aimed at improving birth outcomes by encouraging expectant mothers to monitor fetal movement. This session will guide you through the essential steps of successfully integrating the program into your organization or community. We’ll cover everything from raising awareness and training healthcare professionals to distributing toolkits and collecting vital data. Additionally, participants will receive an editable standard workplan, designed to help streamline the implementation process and tailor the program to your specific needs.
Whether you’re a healthcare provider, community leader, or advocate for maternal and child health, this webinar will equip you with the tools and knowledge necessary to make a meaningful impact. Don’t miss this opportunity to enhance your efforts in promoting healthy pregnancies and reducing the risk of stillbirth.
November 13, 2024
12:00 – 2:00pm EST Virtual
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Questions: Adriane Burgess, aburgess@marylandpatientsafety.org
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Count the Kicks for Healthcare Professionals
The Maryland Patient Safety Center is partnering with Count the Kicks, an evidence-based stillbirth prevention program, to educate expectant parents in Maryland about the importance of tracking a baby’s movements daily in the third trimester of pregnancy. Stillbirth is a national public health crisis that has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. For Maryland families, 1 in every 155 pregnancies end in stillbirth and families in the state are 6.5 times more likely to lose a baby to stillbirth than to SIDS.
Learn how to engage in the Kick Counting conversation with your patients and guide them is downloading and using the FREE Count the Kicks app today!
Webinar Recording: Introduction to Count the Kicks for Healthcare Providers
Count the Kicks for Patients
Maryland loses about 496 babies to stillbirth each year.
Research shows that a change in a baby’s movements could be the earliest, and sometimes only, indication that something may be wrong with a pregnancy. It’s a simple and free way to self-monitor and improve the chance of delivering a healthy baby, and by doing so, reduce stillbirth rates.
Count the Kicks is an easy way to monitor your baby’s well-being in the third trimester of pregnancy in addition to regular prenatal appointments, and acts as an early warning system for parents and providers to determine when a baby may be in distress.
