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Cooke used the app to monitor her baby's movements every night throughout the third trimester, but on the evening of July 18, she felt something wasn't right. “The last time she had kicked was after I got off work at 5," explained Cooke. “So when I got home, me and my husband - we went walking, ate, and I laid down. I realized I hadn’t felt her since I got off work and so I drank ice water. Usually, that would get her to start moving, but I drank some ice water and she still didn’t move.”
Cooke and her husband made the decision to visit the hospital after a while. “It was crazy because the hospital is only 15 minutes away from our house,” Cooke said. “Those were the longest 15 minutes in my life because I kept trying to talk to my stomach like, ‘Come on, Aspen. Come on, Aspen. ‘Move, move, move.’” Despite finding the baby's heartbeat, doctors noticed that the amniotic fluid in Cooke's body was dangerously low. They carried out an urgent C-section.
“I’m just grateful... because what if I didn’t go to the hospital?” Cooke said. “The app itself is really there as the extra support for parents,” said Jasmine Hammonds, ambassador for Count the Kicks on what the users of the application can expect from their services. Cooke's narrative, according to Hammonds, exemplifies what they hope to achieve. “In Alabama, one out of every 113 pregnancies ends in stillbirth,” Hammonds said. Luckily, Cooke wasn't one of them because of their app.