Depend the Kicks with Shawn Soumilas

*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 completely 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 strategy to monitor each you and your child’s well being? 

On right this moment’s episode of Yoga| Beginning | Infants I converse with Depend the Kicks ambassador Shawn Soumilas. We talk about the proof based mostly prevention marketing campaign, sources and assist 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 in regards to 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 probably the most costly locations on this planet to have a child, nonetheless our outcomes for infants and oldsters don’t match these prices. 

I hope that the data 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 bought 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 search out commonplace guardian schooling, as Depend the Kick’s web site states it isn’t a standardized method to show the mother and father to rely the kicks.

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

• The realm of regular kicks for a guardian to be reassured.

• The beneficial protocol if somebody is doing kick counts they usually don’t really feel the kick or rely as many as they need to.

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

• The racial disparities in stillbirth.

• One ultimate tip or piece of recommendation Shawn want to supply 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 enhancing beginning 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 Baby Well being Translational Analysis Crew. Her newest venture 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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