Meet Elowyn

• Baby Saves

• 08.19.25

“During my pregnancy I saw a TikTok about the Count the Kicks app. It was a mom sharing her story about how it saved her baby. It reminded me that my OB-GYN had recommended I start kick counts when I reached the gestation that I was at when I watched it! My daughter never moved around a whole lot, but I was told I couldn’t feel her a lot because of where my placenta was at. 

When I used the app she always met the minimum kick count in the time she was supposed to, but it was always just barely. We found out in my third trimester that she had turner syndrome and had a 98% risk of stillbirth! That coupled with her not moving a lot was enough for them to allow me twice weekly non-stress tests (NSTs). 

The morning of her failed NST, I noticed she wasn’t moving much at all. They gave me juice, ice water, had me move around and she still ‘borderline failed.’* The doctor came and asked me if I wanted more monitoring or if I felt like her movements had been OK and that’s when I was able to tell her that she hadn’t been moving anywhere near as much as she typically did. Because of that I got extended monitoring and a biophysical profile (BPP) and that’s when we were told I was going to be induced that day at 37 weeks 2 days! 

When my daughter was born her placenta was about 350 grams, her cord was short and thin with two vessels and basically no coils. On her placenta pathology report they found chorionic villi with patchy delayed maturation and increased syncytial knots. 

I feel extremely lucky to have my daughter here, and I’m so glad I was able to use the app to notice when her movements had started to change! The biggest thing for me was making sure to do it consistently before it ever became a problem so I knew what her normal was. Having that baseline to go off of made it a lot easier to tell when something was wrong!

I genuinely believe that if I hadn’t been counting her kicks with the app that she would have been in the 98% statistic.” Breanna P., Elowyn’s Mom

Editor’s Note: A change in a baby’s movement may indicate potential problems before actual changes in the heart rate are detected. Expectant parents should only use a Doppler device under the guidance of a healthcare provider.