Count the Kicks is an evidence-based campaign that teaches expectant parents about the importance of tracking fetal movements. It was founded on the belief that stillbirths and poor birth outcomes are preventable. By providing stillbirth prevention education and resources, they improve care and empower expectant parents to advocate for themselves and their baby. We will bravely push for systemic change, speak truth to power, and not shy away from difficult conversations, meetings and decisions.
Mission: To help mothers and babies realize healthy, safe pregnancies and labors by understanding what causes labor and preterm birth. We believe that the answers to the fundamental question of what causes labor is applicable to all mothers. We understand that it is impossible to provide the best care for mothers when working off an outdated understanding of how a pregnant body works during labor. e can do so much better. It starts at the Columbia Preterm Birth Prevention Center, where paradigm-shifting research is underway that will one day, in the not too distant future, become the new medical standard.
The Iris Fund hopes to make certain no other family endures the heartbreaking loss and complications of prematurity. It ensures that ALL families have the information they need to understand how their bodies work during pregnancy and labor. To accomplish this, the Iris Fund supports innovative research to define labor, how it occurs, and develop novel, safe and effective therapies to prevent preterm birth.
Birth injuries can transform the celebratory moment of a child’s birth into a lifelong nightmare that includes serious health complications, permanent disability, or death. The Birth Injury Center provides support and resources to families that have been impacted by birth trauma. When these injuries are caused by medical errors, the Birth Injury Center can provide legal representation to help families pursue justice.
Birth trauma occurs in approximately 29 out of every 1,000 births in the United States, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. This is a shocking statistic given the advanced state of modern medicine. Unfortunately, many of these injuries can be traced back to human error.
Your family should not have to suffer the effects of traumatic birth injuries alone. The Birth Injury Center provides education and referrals to local resources that may offer financial assistance, emotional support, and assistive technology and services. We also provide legal representation to help families recover damages from negligent health care providers.
Saving babies' lives. Supporting bereaved families.
We work to support anyone affected by pregnancy loss or the death of a baby.
We also carry out vital work to improve maternity safety through targeted research, campaigning for change, working with government and reducing inequalities in healthcare to save babies' lives.
Babies are dying every day. Currently in the UK, 13 families a day suffer the heartbreak of losing their baby before, during or shortly after birth. This must change.
Baby’s Breath is Canada’s only national foundation focused on SIDS, and more recently also dedicated to reducing all sudden and unexpected infant deaths including stillbirths.
Since our inception in 1973, we have pursued our mission through research, advocacy and a peer-to-peer bereavement support network to assist families who have faced the tragic loss of an infant.
The death of an infant is a devastating event not only for the parents, but for the entire family. Siblings, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins and friends are all affected by the sudden death of a baby. Baby’s Breath believes no one should endure the grief of such loss alone. We are here to help.
Our mission is to improve birth outcomes through programming, advocacy, and support. Health Equity is at the center of our work, with a goal to reduce the racial disparities that persist. We help save babies using the evidence-based Count the Kicks stillbirth prevention campaign, which educates expectant parents on the importance of tracking their babies’ movements in the 3rd trimester of pregnancy and to speak up if they notice a change.
Our vision is to replicate the success of the highly effective Count the Kicks campaign in all 50 states. We hope to reduce America’s stillbirth by 32% as we have done in Iowa, which would save 7,500 babies from preventable stillbirth every year.
OUR MISSION: Cut the US stillbirth rate by 20% by the end of 2030, in half by 2050, and in time, eradicate all preventable stillbirths.
OUR VISION: Through partnerships with health providers and aggressive awareness campaigns, we will empower every expectant family with the equitable, evidenced-based medical care and education they need to advocate for a healthy pregnancy, giving parents and babies the best possible chance to make it home safely together
The Stillbirth Health Improvement and Education (SHINE) for Autumn Act will prevent stillbirths through improved data collection and research, fetal autopsy training, and awareness campaigns.
PLIDA serves as leaders in perinatal and neonatal bereavement care. We do this through education, advocacy and networking for health care providers and parent advocates. We promote the highest quality of consistent evidence based care for all families. LIDA's goal is to be the central place for care giving professionals, parent advocates, members of the media and policy makers to share information on the professional care of families experiencing a perinatal loss. PLIDA also organizes the biennial International Perinatal Bereavement Conference.
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RESEARCH · The International Stillbirth Alliance (ISA) is a membership organization uniting bereaved parents and other family members, health professionals and researchers to drive global change for the prevention of stillbirth and neonatal death and bereavement support for all those affected.
TRAINING • To teach, train, and assist Loss Advisors/Loss Doulas to offer compassionate, informed support to families facing the loss of a baby in miscarriage, stillbirth, or other infant death.
An initiative out of Seattle Children’s Hospital leading a collaborative, global effort to increase awareness and accelerate innovative research and interventions that will improve maternal, newborn, and child health outcomes around the world. GAPPS is leading a collaborative, global effort to increase awareness and accelerate innovative research and interventions to improve maternal, newborn and child health outcomes around the world.