About
Our Story
During my pregnancy, I noticed a significant change in my baby's movements, spoke up, and my medical team took immediate action. My baby had a stroke in utero and was resuscitated after an emergency cesarean section.
That experience is why I have spent so many years working in stillbirth prevention, and why I founded Moving Forward Foundation on a simple conviction: bringing home a baby should not be a matter of luck.
Through the Foundation, I work to educate expectant families on fetal movement monitoring, advocate for the policies that make education permanent and equitable, and protect the volunteers, doulas and care providers who carry this mission forward every day.
Amanda Braverman-Brohn, Founder and Executive Director
"In America, in the 21st century, no family should have to rely on luck to bring their baby home."
Amanda Braverman-Brohn
Amanda Braverman-Brohn
Wisconsin
Founder, Executive Director
Amanda Braverman-Brohn has spent nearly two decades advocating for fetal movement education and stillbirth prevention, work that began with her own pregnancy. A partner and mother of five who navigated four high-risk pregnancies, she understands firsthand what it means to need reliable information and responsive care during fragile moments of pregnancy. Amanda is a former educator, K-12 Principal, and community college administrator, who brings career experiences including curriculum development, institutional leadership, and community engagement to the work of building Moving Forward Foundation into a national force for maternal health policy.
Amanda holds direct experience developing accredited continuing education curriculum at Mercy College of Health Sciences in Iowa and has been cultivating relationships with clinical networks, community organizations, and policymakers in Wisconsin and beyond. One of the first volunteers with a national stillbirth prevention campaign in starting in 2008, she has been at the forefront of this movement since its earliest days. She currently holds the title of United States of America's Ms. Dane County, competing for USOA Ms. Wisconsin in November 2026 with a platform centered on maternal health and stillbirth prevention.
Moving Forward Foundation is the culmination of everything she has learned, built, and fought for since becoming a mother herself.
Our Mission
To improve birth outcomes by educating expectant families and clinical providers on evidence-based stillbirth prevention and perinatal and postnatal mental health, advocating for policies that require that education to reach every family, and resourcing the volunteers, doulas, and care providers who make that possible.
Our Vision
Moving Forward Foundation envisions a world where every family has access to the education that protects them, the policies that recognize them, and the advocates who fight for them - regardless of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity.