Courageous Advocates

Meet the powerful stillbirth prevention advocates turning their grief into fuel, shame into hope, and energy into action

Healthy Birth Day, Inc. has built a community of courageous supporters and powerful advocates for stillbirth prevention. These changemakers help us raise awareness, push for systemic change, and empower expectant parents across the U.S. to advocate for themselves and their baby.

Learn more about how these courageous advocates are helping us bring stillbirth out of the shadows.

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Our Founders

Healthy Birth Day, Inc. was founded by five Iowa moms determined to make our world a safer place to have a baby after they each lost a daughter to stillbirth or infant death.

What started as conversations over coffee – sharing tears, heartache, anger and unjustified shame of not being able to save their baby girls – quickly lit a spark amongst them to do something. Jan, Janet, Kate, Kerry and Tiffan decided to channel their grief into stillbirth prevention to keep other families from facing the pain of losing a baby.

Iowa Sen. Janet Peteresen is a co-founder of Healthy Birth Day, Inc.
Janet Petersen
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Tiffan Yamen, co-founder of Healthy Birth Day, Inc.
Tiffan Yamen
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Kate Safris, co-founder of Healthy Birth Day, Inc.
Kate Safris
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Kate Safris, co-founder of Healthy Birth Day, Inc.
Kerry Biondi-Morlan
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Jan Caruthers is a co-founder of Healthy Birth Day, Inc.
Jan Caruthers
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Ambassadors

Count the Kicks Ambassadors are powerful advocates for stillbirth prevention who are committed to helping save babies across the U.S. Meet some of the advocates helping to raise awareness and push for systemic change.

Heather Johnston-Welliver is an Ambassador in Ohio.
Heather Johnston Welliver
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Tomeka Isaac, North Carolina Ambassador and Stillbirth Prevention Advocate
Tomeka James Isaac
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Jasmine Abraham is an Ambassador in Ohio.
Jasmine Abraham
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Learn more about our team of 60+ Ambassadors representing 34 states and the District of Columbia.

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Improving Birth Outcomes

We are committed to improving health equity and birth outcomes through programming, advocacy and research. Learn more about our programs.

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Share Your Experience

Researchers at Elmhurst University are looking for parents who experienced stillbirth and neonatal loss to complete a survey to share your experiences. The goal of the research is to help improve bereavement care for new loss parents. The survey takes 20-40 minutes to complete, depending on the level of detail provided in your responses, and asks questions about your demographics, time at the hospital, and early grief.

To start the survey, go to this link.

The research is being led by loss mom Jenna Kremkow, whose daughter Julianna was born still in May 2023. If you have questions, please contact Dr. Jenna Kremkow (loss mom) [email protected] or Dr. Jessica Lamberson [email protected]

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