By Sneha Sadhwani,
Clinical Nutritionist
Pregnancy apps are convenient, informative, helpful and fun, but they are no substitute for professional medical advice. You can never rely on a pregnancy app for answering your medical questions.
These apps help you in tracking the baby’s growth and let you know how far you have reached in your pregnancy. Here is a list of best pregnancy apps, which will make your life a little easy and fun:
1. What To Expect: Pregnancy Tracker
This is an amazing app for expectant mothers. It allows you to track your baby’s growth and lets you know the size of the baby in centimeters as well as it uses visual benchmarks like fruit. For example- If you are 15 weeks pregnant, the size of your baby will be approximately 10 centimeters and weight 70-75 grams.
Many mothers may not have an idea about all these measurements. But, if the app tells you that the baby is of an avocado’s size, easy to understand and imagine? Hence, this app has made the growth size quite easy to understand.
It also has more than 15,000 medically accurate articles on every aspect of pregnancy and parenting. The best part is you can download the app for free.
2. The Bump
As the name suggests, this app has all the important information for parents-to-be. It prepares expectant mothers for upcoming doctor’s visit. This app also has amazing health reads and it also offers nutritious recipes for pregnant mommies. Besides this, this app allows you to track your baby’s growth and also answers all your pregnancy-related queries.
3. Hello Belly: Pregnancy Tracker
This cute pregnancy app offers easy tips and guidelines, which will help the pregnant women all throughout the three trimesters. This app gives you 3D visualizations of what the fetus looks like week by week.
Besides this, it has yoga for you, which will help you keep calm. De-stress yourself with the handy prenatal yoga class, which is always available for you on the app.
4. Sprout Pregnancy
This app has some great features like neat 3D visualizations that allows you to check and understand how your own baby is developing. You can also see life-like interactive movements, heartbeat and kicks that gives you a realistic representation of what is happening inside your own belly and your baby’s daily progress. It also provides daily and weekly information about you and your developing baby.
5. I’m Expecting Pregnancy App
With the help of this app you can find information about the pregnancy symptoms, the changes that take place in your body and your baby’s growth and development.
You can keep a track of your body weight, note down important pregnancy points and set reminders for your prenatal medications or doctor’s appointment.
It also contains weekly videos that help you understand what changes take place in your body throughout pregnancy.
6. Pregnancy Assistant
As the name suggests, this simple and easy-going app has all the important information stored in for you right from week one till week forty. Fill in the details about your last menstrual period and see your baby’s growth, development and all the fascinating details.
It also has a ‘notes’ section, where you can jot down all your pregnancy-related important reminders. In other words, this app is your handy assistant, which has all the essential information for expecting mothers.