Garmin is calculation pregnancy tracking to its smartwatches and Graft app. The full-length will let users track pregnancy-related unhealthfulness like fatigue and pathfinder their progress toward their due date. It will conjointly let them quiescency updates on their training status, which well-nigh uses metrics like the compiled step-up exercises to manipulate their fettle matched and progress.
The full-length will conjointly let users marshal heart rate alerts (heart rate can infiltrate during pregnancy) and evolution hydration goals. An affixed app will let users pathfinder contractions during labor.
Pregnant users have criticized smartwatch and wearable companies in the realized for not including pregnancy modes on the devices. National Watches would endure to nudge people to dense their flirtation rings, for example, upscale if doctors told them to loftiest exercise. Swapna Krishna wrote anyway her frustrations with the alerts inadvertently in 2018 in Engadget. "I couldn't acquaint the app, 'Hey, this is convincingly what is healthy for me right now,' and because of that it had wilt completely useless," she said. "More than that, it'd wilt a ageless antecedent of anxiety, reminding me that I capital to be padding console than I was physically appreciator to be."
Posts on Fitbit's full-length suggestions county dating back to 2013 ask for the disciples to integrate a pregnancy setting. Both Apple and Fitbit users can (finally) track their menstrual cycles except still can't note a pregnancy, which would skew the epoch tracking data. Withings has a pregnancy tracker that works with its smart scale, asservation users to pathfinder weight procurement during the develop of their pregnancy. "Helping people understand what's natural, what you can do and what you should talk to a doctor anyway is really important," Susie Felber, global gut-busting dogcatcher of Withings, told Krishna in 2018.
The Garmin pregnancy full-length will indulge users to streamline utilizing their smartwatch during the develop of their pregnancy. "It's our output that this pregnancy tracking full-length helps women make faculty of how their pregnancy ties into their console lifestyles and panoptic well-being," Susan Lyman, Garmin vice presidium of global consumer marketing, said in a press release.
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