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Being pregnant can be described as a chaotic time. There is a lot to keep track of from doctor’s appointments to tracking a baby’s size or your eating habits. Thankfully technology has come to the aid of many moms with cutting-edge pregnancy apps to help you with all aspects of pregnancy. No longer do you need to worry about brain fog and remembering to take your prenatal vitamins.
Here are the best pregnancy apps on the market today.
Conception apps: Using a fertility calculator
If you’re trying to get pregnant, you’ll want to use a fertility calculator and tracker. This can take the guesswork out of timing everything. There are several good conception apps on the market.
Flo Health & Period Tracker
This is a free app found in the Apple Store and Google Play. It receives 4.8 stars out of 663.1 thousand ratings on Apple and gets a 4.8-star rating out of 1.54 million ratings on Google. This app logs everything to do with your cycle from the day you start to the day your flow ends. It allows you to monitor how heavy the flow is and for those looking to conceive, it notifies you of the fertile days in the period calendar. Over time, you can log pregnancy test results so you can fine-tune the data to real results. Once pregnant, you’ll track how long until the baby is born with a countdown tracker. Use the reminders feature to log things like weight, sleep, and hydration.
Clue Period & Cycle Tracker
Clue is another highly-rated free app with in-app purchases that boasts it will not only be a quality period tracker, but it is a total reproductive health tracker. This app helps you monitor your personal patterns from cramps control to mood swings. The more a woman tracks with this app, the more she learns about her ovulation and fertility cycles. There is also a content tab that offers educational articles to help you through every phase of your menstrual cycle and pregnancy.
Apps for tracking the day by day of pregnancy
What to Expect Pregnancy & Baby Tracker
Probably the most popular app out there for expecting moms with more than 15 million downloads. It’s available for both iOS and Android systems. Women love this app for its daily development tracker of the baby, equating size to the size of common fruits so you can easily understand your baby’s growth. It also offers an active community of expectant moms who post and respond quickly to queries. And if you get concerned about things happening, check out the in-app videos that show you exactly what is going on at each stage of your pregnancy.
Kegel Trainer
Build the pelvic floor muscles needed when having a baby. This daily activity trainer creates sessions ranging from 30 seconds to 3 minutes with reminders to do the exercises at the right intervals during your day. This takes the guesswork out of kegel training. This app is free with in-app purchases and ads for both Apple and Android systems.
Pregnancy Pounds
This Apple app will help you specifically track your weight-gain week-by-week. You can work with your doctor on your target weights and make sure you are not over-gaining or losing weight where inappropriate. The app starts with your body mass index and adjusts target weight ranges based on whether or not you are underweight, normal, or obese. It allows you to see both weekly and trimester weight goals in either kilograms or pounds.
Labor Contraction Timer & Counter 9m
Not sure when the right time to go to the hospital is? No problem, this app for Andriod and Apple users will track the duration between contractions to help you determine the best time to go to the hospital. For those doing a home birth, the app helps you determine what stage of labor you are in at any given moment in time. This app has 5-stars with more than 17,500 ratings in the Apple Store and 4.7-stars in Google Play.
Best pregnancy apps for dads
Moms aren’t the only ones who need help during pregnancy. Expectant dads have a lot of questions too. Fortunately, there are some great apps to help answer the burning questions and help dads-to-be better support moms-to-be.
Daddy Up
This fun app will help dads figure out all the things about pregnancy that include a “rugged” baby size growth chart, a place to take notes, and weekly progress reports. Dads can be prepared for contractions with their own contraction counter and a customizable checklist of things to prepare before you have to go to the hospital. According to Mountain Mike’s review, “Excellent technical and emotional resource. If you’re a partner seeking a singular guide for navigating the miracle of birth, look no further!”
Pregnant Dad
This app will help expectant dads be a better support system for their pregnant wife by helping plan for craving shopping trips or new clothing needs. Like any good pregnancy app, it tracks appointments and offers a birthday calculator. We especially like the twin features for dads suddenly expecting two. Dads can also get advice from others about some of their fears or burning questions in the community forum.
