*TW: Stillbirth

Feeling your child kick for the primary time might be an extremely particular second for you and your loved ones. Child’s kicks can really feel totally different for each pregnant individual from butterflies to the literal feeling of being kicked, however do you know that counting the kicks throughout your third trimester is a confirmed technique to monitor each you and your child’s well being? 

On as we speak’s episode of Yoga| Delivery | Infants I converse with Depend the Kicks ambassador Shawn Soumilas. We talk about the proof primarily based prevention marketing campaign, assets and help for fogeys to be and oldsters who’ve skilled loss, in addition to Shawn’s private expertise with stillbirth. 

I so respect Shawn sharing her story. She additionally does an unbelievable job speaking concerning the analysis on counting kicks as a preventative measure. Shawn additionally highlights the racial disparities for birthing mother and father in the USA. Our nation ranks amongst one of the vital costly locations on the planet to have a child, nevertheless our outcomes for infants and oldsters don’t match these prices. 

I hope that the information shared by Shawn and Counting the Kicks empowers you to belief your physique and your child. In understanding what to search for and by giving your self the possibility to show inward and discover the patterns you take a large preventative measure benefitting you and child.  

On this episode you’ll be taught:

• About Shawn and the way they received concerned in Depend the Kicks.

• Analysis from Depend the Kicks.

• Analysis based within the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology as a dependable methodology to stop stillbirth.

• Methods to seek out commonplace mum or dad training, as Depend the Kick’s web site states it isn’t a standardized strategy to show the mother and father to depend the kicks.

• Know when it’s time to start out counting kicks.

• The realm of regular kicks for a mum or dad to be reassured.

• The really useful protocol if somebody is doing kick counts and so they don’t really feel the kick or depend as many as they need to.

• Exterior components and variables that might play a job in stillbirth.

• The racial disparities in stillbirth.

• One remaining tip or piece of recommendation Shawn want to provide new or expectant mother and father.

• Get related with Depend the Kicks.

About Shawn:

Shawn Soumilas is a maternal well being advocate with a ardour for bettering delivery outcomes. She is pushed by her personal private expertise of her son’s full time period stillbirth in 2010. Shawn has been the Arizona Ambassador for Depend the Kicks since 2013 and is concerned with advocating for federal stillbirth laws on behalf of Wholesome Birthday, Inc. She can be a member of the Arizona State College Maternal and Little one Well being Translational Analysis Workforce. Her newest challenge is interning with the Arizona Division of Well being Providers to assist write the Fetal Toddler Mortality Motion Plan for the state of Arizona.

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