Now that you’re pregnant, your health is doubly important — you’re taking care of two now. Keep safety pregnancy rules straight, find ways to de-stress, choose the right foods to eat, what you can and can’t do pregnant, and more with our favorite apps for a healthy pregnancy.These are my go-to Pregnancy Apps that I like so far, some I use know and some I will use after baby is born. What are some of your favorite Apps?
Ovia Pregnancy App
When you get pregnant you kind of obsess with things, or at least I do. This app is great because it gives you an update of the baby every single day. It either gives you a little fun fact, the size of the baby or symptoms you might be feeling. Ovia also shows you an adorable picture of the baby every week, which I loved.
What To Expect When You’re Expecting App
I love this one because it gives you so much information! It gives you a weekly update with information on both the baby and the mama, as well as a picture of your little one. This app also gives you a lot of links to other pages from the What To Expect world. If you were to only get one app, I would definitely pick this one.
My Pregnancy Today, by BabyCenter
My Pregnancy Today’s layout is a bit more cluttered than WebMD’s, but the app is chock-full of videos, articles and even healthy recipes for meals during pregnancy and breastfeeding. We liked BabyCenter’s videos of real women experiencing childbirth in different ways, including women who didn’t use any pain medications, women who had an epidural and women who underwent a cesarean section. However, the articles within this app can be frustratingly vague in their sourcing and recommendations. For example, one article on eating peanuts during pregnancy cites three doctors, each of whom offers different and contradictory recommendations.
Under its Tools menu, the My Pregnancy Today app offers pregnancy and baby-registry checklists, a kick tracker and contraction timer, and a “bumpie” feature for saving photos of your growing belly. For some, a big draw will be the BabyCenter community, where moms can share frustrations, ask about symptoms and look for advice. These message boards are very active and appear to be better moderated than some of the forums on other apps we tried. But I can say that my December Board can have some ladies that like to get under people’s skin, if you know what I mean…
And finally, when you are on the home stretch. This is a great App for timing contractions:
Full Term – Labor Contraction Timer App
When you’re in labor or you think you’re in labor, they tell you to stay home (most of the time) until your contractions are 3-5 minutes apart for an hour. This app is great at monitoring your contractions so you don’t have to try and write it down while you’re in pain! It keeps track of how long your contractions are and how far apart they are, as well as your previous entries.
When the baby is born, some Apps that I will be using are:
White Noise Baby
Sounds range from a car ride to a vacuum cleaner, all looped for seamless ongoing play, in this helpful app. Put it in Baby Mode to avoid naptime interruptions. Then turn your smart phone into a high-contrast rattle to soothe baby when you’re out and about.
WebMD Baby
This app provides easy access to doctor-approved health information—from illnesses to emergency symptoms and newborn care tips—whenever and wherever you need it. You’ll also receive weekly content packages for baby’s first two years, with guidance geared to her specific age and stage
Baby Bundle App
Baby Bundle tracks all those basic newborn activities — eating, sleeping, diaper changes — in a clean, attractive interface. BUT it does a lot more!
The app functions as a handy guide for what to expect at upcoming pediatrician appointments, kind of like the “your baby week to week” emails so many of us get. It’s a vaccination tracker and a breastfeeding timer. Plus, it’s the perfect place to input height and weight updates so all the info is in one place. No more scribbled numbers on random scraps of paper, whoop there it is…all-in-one! My favorite kind of App!
And of course, I can’t leave out my App: Dayna Deters Determined Fitness
My app will give you recipes that will help jump start your weight-loss after the baby is born and also some workout videos that you can follow after you get the official OK from your Ob-Gyn or Midwife. You can also look up blogs that will keep you busy when you are up at the 3am feeding! You can find this free App here: Dayna Deters Determined Fitness App
Well there you have it. These were my favorite pregnancy and post-pregnancy apps. I hope that this helps you in deciding on which apps to get!