2026 Madison Promise Walk for Preeclampsia™

Saturday, September 12, 2026

Location: Kilkenny Park, 1021 Water Wheel Drive, Waunakee

10:30am-1:30pm

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Please join us for family-friendly activities, music, speakers, information booths, food and refreshments, great prizes for our fundraising raffle, and celebrations of our survivors, and family and friends of those experiencing hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. Let’s make 2026 the walk one to remember! 

Guest Speaker - Physician Champion Dr. Caitlin Regner

Dr. Caitlin Regner practices family medicine with obstetrics at Access Community Health Centers, a Federally Qualified Health Center in Madison, Wisconsin. She providers bilingual care in Spanish and English and treats a myriad of medical conditions, with a focus on prenatal and postpartum care, labor and delivery care, newborn and pediatric care, ultrasonography, and management of substance use disorders. In addition to her clinical work, she is passionate about educating patients, medical students, and residents. She has several research interests including evaluation of factors that influence healthy pregnancy outcomes and evaluation of educational tools for medical learners. Outside of medicine, Caitlin enjoys time with her husband and five children, running, and spending time outdoors.

Mission Mom- Amanda Schwartz

At 37w I went in for a meeting at work (where I also get my OB care) and then ended the day with my routine OB visit. When my nurse told me my blood pressure was elevated, I didn't believe her and made her retake it. Sure enough, it was high. Given I was 37w, delivery was recommended. Even though I do this everyday with patients, I was in shock. We had my labs drawn and I had bargained with my OB to let me go home and repeat my BP the next morning with delivery if indicated at that time (even though I know better! Denial is powerful!). As my husband and I went to run a few errands my results came back and I saw I had HELLP syndrome. Still in denial I tried to run a few more errands before my OB called and when her name showed up on my phone, I knew exactly what she was going to say.

We ended up at the hospital that night and our daughter was born happy and healthy at 37w. I was not so lucky and suffered a number of complications related to my other pregnancy conditions. Postpartum I ended up in the IMC with worsening HELLP syndrome following a massive postpartum hemorrhage. I was on magnesium sulfate and memories from that first 24 hours are very fuzzy. I know how bad preeclampsia can be, and I had it bad, but I am just so so thankful for the amazing team I had taking care of me from my OBs, the OB nurses and the anesthesiologists. They are all the reason that I am alive today to see my daughter grow and for that I am so thankful.