My Baby’s Movements: a stepped wedge cluster randomised controlled trial to raise maternal awareness of fetal movements during pregnancy

My Baby's Movements (MBM): a package of interventions to raise awareness and promote early reporting and best-practice management of Decreased Fetal Movements (DFM) in the third-trimester of pregnancy, including a mobile phone application for pregnant women and e-learning program for clinicians. MBM will be a personalised, user-controlled mobile phone software program that will provide information about fetal movement and when and how to report DFM. At a time and frequency determined by the woman, MBM will also send reminders to prompt awareness of fetal movements. Eligible women will be given a unique code to access MBM and become a registered user via their existing mobile phone. Women will be invited to use MBM from 28 weeks gestation to birth. Data generated from use of MBM (frequency and type of use, or discontinuation) will be sent to a secure database accessible to the research team. The e-learning program for clinicians will serve as education and training around the Australian and New Zealand clinical practice guidelines for the management of women who report DFM. The program will be computer-based and will seek to improve care around DFM. The program will take each clinician approximately 20 minutes to complete (one-sitting only), and can be used in ongoing hospital in-service education.