Welcome to Count the Kicks!

Your pregnancy is a special and exciting time full of anticipation! Everyday your baby is growing and changing inside your belly. Keeping him or her safe when you can’t actually see what is going on is probably one of your biggest concerns. There is a way to help you know if your baby is active and healthy.

Counting and tracking your baby’s movements is a safe and very simple way to monitor the well-being of your baby everyday during the third trimester of low- and high-risk pregnancies. Significant changes in your baby’s movement patterns may help identify potential problems with your pregnancy before the baby's heart rate is affected. Kick Counting is recommended by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and endorsed by Iowa’s leading perinatologists.

“There are not too many campaigns or community projects that actually have such an immediate potential to truly save lives, but in my medical opinion, this one does.”
Neil Mandsager, MD
Medical Director
Perinatal Center of Iowa

Count the Kicks is an awareness campaign dedicated to educating expectant parents about the importance of counting their babies movements daily during the third trimester of pregnancy. The goal of Count the Kicks is to improve the chances of delivering a healthy baby and to reduce stillbirth rates, which occur in one out of every 150 pregnancies nationwide.