This free pregnancy app helped to prevent a woman having a miscarriage

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There's a plethora of handy pregnancy apps out there, but a woman has spoken out about how one of them helped to save her baby's life. Emily Eekhoff was using Count The Kicks to monitor how her baby was doing throughout her pregnancy, which ran smoothly up until the 33-week mark. At this point, she noticed that something wasn't right with her baby.

“I was aware just of how much she usually moved during the day with the app’s help,” she said, reports Mommyish. “The kicks were not happening as frequently as they usually did and when she did move, it was really, like, soft, subtle, not, like, hard kicks like normal.”

The change prompted Emily to go to her local hospital, where doctors learned that the baby was in distress and brought her for an emergency C-section. It emerged that the umbilical cord was wrapped around her baby's neck three times. Baby Ruby was delivered safely and is now at home with her family, but doctors told Emily that the little girl would not have made it had Emily left it a day later to go to the hospital. The app was developed by a five mothers who had all had stillborn babies.

“I’m thankful for them for doing something out of their loss and saving my own because I don’t know if I would’ve caught it had I not been using the app,” Eekhoff said.