Healthy Birth Day, Inc.
Kimberly Isburg is an accomplished communications professional with extensive experience in supporting new mothers and families through various roles. Currently serving as Communications Manager at Healthy Birth Day, Inc. since September 2019, Kimberly also works as a Postpartum Doula and Birth Story Writer for SweetBeginnings by KAVI. Previous positions include contributing writer at Des Moines Mom's Blog, copywriter and project manager at TwoTone Creative, and project manager at Think Digital Inc. Kimberly's early career includes significant roles at The Des Moines Register, where involvement spanned from community content specialist to features copy editor. With a solid foundation in journalism from Drake University, Kimberly holds a Bachelor of Arts in Magazine Journalism and a Bachelor's Degree in Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs.
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Healthy Birth Day, Inc.
Healthy Birth Day, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in Des Moines, Iowa dedicated to healthy birth outcomes. We created the successful Count the Kicks public health campaign which has helped reduce Iowa’s stillbirth rate by 32% while the rest of the country has remained stagnant. Our evidence-based program teaches expectant parents the method for and importance of counting their baby's kicks daily in the third trimester of pregnancy. Our goal is to reduce the rest of the country's stillbirth rate by 32 percent, saving 7,500 babies every single year. Five Iowa moms who all lost daughters to stillbirth or infant death in the early 2000s turned their grief into fuel by creating the Count the Kicks awareness campaign in 2008. Kerry Biondi-Morlan, Jan Caruthers, Janet Petersen, Kate Safris and Tiffan Yamen are pioneers in stillbirth prevention, taking important fetal movement research from Norway and turning it into a successful mom-centered campaign. Moms everywhere can download the FREE Count the Kicks app which is available in the Google Play and iTunes online stores. The app, which is available in more than 15 languages, allows expectant moms to monitor their baby’s movement, record the history, set a daily reminder, count for single babies and twins.