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Healthy Birth Day, Inc. is the proven stillbirth prevention organization in the U.S.

10/09/2026

The CDC report also notes that these differences persisted from 2023 to 2024, with no significant change in the rates for these major groups.

Understanding these numbers is an important part of understanding stillbirth and identifying where more research and resources are needed.

Because improving birth outcomes means making sure every family has the opportunity for a healthy pregnancy and birth.

10/08/2026

Check out everywhere Count the Kicks has been this week!

📍Nebraska - Postpartum Support International’s Climb Out of the Darkness: Count the Kicks Nebraska Ambassador Jessi Michel attended

📍Wisconsin - Ascension St. Mary's Community Baby Shower: Count the Kicks Wisconsin Ambassador Hazel Flint-Jones hosted a table

📍Massachusetts - Nurses Association Convention: Count the Kicks Massachusetts Ambassador Sam LaCroix hosted a table

📍Idaho - AHWONN Multi-State Conference: Count the Kicks Ambassadors McKinsey Cirulnick (Montana) and Angelica Kovach (Idaho) hosted a table

📍Ohio - Light the Way: Conference & Silent Auction: Count the Kicks Ohio Ambassador Megan Stevenot hosted a table

10/07/2026

Next Thursday, we invite you to join us in honoring all of the loved and missed babies during the International Wave of Light, which is held each year on Oct. 15 at 7 p.m. (your time zone). The is an opportunity to join bereaved parents, families and friends around the globe to commemorate all babies gone too soon.

If you would like to post about this important day of remembrance on social media, you can use the Canva template we have created. This will allow you to create your own customized graphic with the name of a loved and missed baby. If you don’t have a Canva account, you can create a free account to customize the graphic.

Canva Template:bit.ly/2026RemembranceDay

10/06/2026

Healthy Birth Day, Inc. attended Stillbirth Symposium 2026: Closing the Gaps over the past few days in Utah!

Thank you to University of Utah School of Medicine for hosting these sessions with parents, researchers, and clinicians.

We celebrate Count the Kicks ambassadors who shared their lived experiences and urged the inclusion of fetal movement monitoring in the creation of a Safer Baby Bundle.

Prevention is possible. We demonstrate this every day.

Together, let's make the future better for families by providing evidence-based education to more expectant parents.

10/05/2026

Stillbirth isn’t rare. La’Zette’s family is just one of the nearly 20,000 families in the United States who are impacted by stillbirth each year.

Share this video to help spread awareness, which leads to prevention.

We work in honor of Lasaaun Jarell Tyiska Smith and all babies gone too soon.

10/02/2026

How can we better understand the causes of stillbirth? How can we improve care? How can we give families better answers and more tools to prevent loss?

Asking better questions leads to better research, better care, and, ultimately, better outcomes for moms and babies.

10/01/2026

October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, a time to honor and remember the tens of thousands of precious lives lost every year to stillbirth and pregnancy loss and to explore proven solutions to improve birth outcomes for expectant parents and their babies.

Stillbirth, which is defined as the loss of a pregnancy at 20 weeks or greater gestation, is a public health crisis that is rarely talked about even though it claims the lives of around 20,000 babies every year.

Healthy Birth Day, Inc. was founded by five Central Iowa women who all endured the tragedy of stillbirth or infant death in the early 2000s. They wanted to prevent other families from experiencing the pain of facing life without their baby. Now, nearly 20 years later, loss parents and stillbirth prevention advocates have joined the Healthy Birth Day team with the same goal.

We are working to improve birth outcomes and save babies in honor of our founders’ five girls, the many babies of our Count the Kicks ambassadors, advocates, staff, supporters and volunteers, and the tens of thousands of other babies who were gone too soon.

09/30/2026

The late fetal mortality rate (28 weeks of gestation or more) was 2.57 in 2024, a 3% decline from the 2023 rate of 2.66.

The 3rd trimester stillbirth rate declined 8% from 2021 to 2024.

National Vital Statistics recently released 2024 live birth and stillbirth data for the U.S. We are excited to share promising news related to stillbirths at 28 weeks or greater (where the stillbirth prevention work of Healthy Birth Day, Inc. is focused).

The late fetal mortality rate (28 weeks of gestation or more) was 2.57 in 2024, a 3% decline from the 2023 rate of 2.66. When comparing 2021 to 2024, the 3rd trimester stillbirth rate has declined 8%.

While we know there are many factors that can cause the stillbirth rate to go up or down, we believe this lowered rate helps demonstrate the impact of everyone currently working to reduce stillbirth in the third trimester, including our work to expand the reach of the Count the Kicks program during this time.

From 2021-2024, our organization launched with communities, health departments and maternal health experts in 24 states, including Georgia, Alabama, Nevada, Indiana, South Carolina, Arizona, Mississippi, South Dakota, Arkansas, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, Washington, Wyoming, Maine, Michigan, New York, California and Tennessee to bring stillbirth education to hundreds of thousands of providers and expectant parents.

Our work is far from over, and there is still work to do to end the stillbirth crisis in the U.S. But we are gratified to know the stillbirth rate is steadily declining in the third trimester and more babies are going home safely to their parents. Since launching in Iowa in 2008, we continue to join communities across the country in reducing the rate of stillbirth through the evidence-based Count the Kicks program.

09/29/2026

That’s a wrap on the 11th annual Lydie's Loop: Steps against Stillbirth presented by Preferred Living, Columbus Firefighters Foundation, RAP Management, ExperiGreen Lawn Care and The Surgery Center of Southwest General.

THANK YOU to everyone who participated and engaged!

In addition to reaching their goal of raising over $50,000 for Count the Kicks, over the past 11 years, Lydie’s Loop has raised more than $350,000 to support stillbirth prevention!

We are incredibly grateful to Count the Kicks Ohio Ambassador Heather Johnston Welliver for organizing this walk, which benefits our organization. Lydie’s Loop was created in memory of Heather’s daughter Lydie Welliver, who was born still in 2014 in the eighth month of pregnancy.

Thanks to all of the sponsors and teams who helped make this year’s walk a success!

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1820 NW 118th Street Suite 220
Clive, IA
50325

Telephone

+15156508685

Website

http://www.healthybirthday.org/

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