7 pregnancy apps to have on your phone

What if your smartphone could become your best ally during pregnancy, or even before? Today there is a myriad of offers in terms of pregnancy questions, whether to better understand your cycle, to follow your pregnancy or to know what to eat and what sport to do. To help you see more clearly at each stage, here’s a selection of our favorite pregnancy apps!

Clue, the period and ovulation tracking app

Sometimes (often, let’s face it) it’s hard to figure out your menstrual cycle. Unless set up perfectly, menstrual cycles can range from 21 to 35 days, with an average of 28 days. However, it is sometimes difficult to navigate, especially for people who have adopted a hormonal method of contraception, such as the pill, hormonal IUD or implant. For what ? Because these means of contraception install artificial cycles, and therefore rules. The day we give up hormones, sometimes after ten or fifteen years on the pill, a natural cycle starts again which can sometimes turn out to be totally different from the one known in all this time.

In this sense, and to get to know each other better, it can be useful to use an application for tracking menstruation and ovulation. There are many of them, but inside to misswe have set our sights on (and most importantly tested!) Clue. The application works like a small calendar, displaying by date but also in the form of a cycle. We can notice the arrival of menstruation, their departure, the premenstrual syndromes felt (irritation, cramps, spotting, headache…). During the cycles, the application integrates criteria and allows you to predict more precisely the arrival of your period but also the moment of ovulation.

Be careful though, an application for tracking menstruation and ovulation remains a tool that does not take into account many external factors, such as stress, viral diseases, alcohol or tobacco consumption that can negatively affect fertility. Not to mention, even around the time of ovulation, there is only a 20% chance of fertilization, and therefore pregnancy. So let’s say it once and for all: Just because a period tracker tells you you’re ovulating doesn’t mean you’ll get pregnant right away.

Pregnancy Food, the application to know what to eat during pregnancy

Let’s face it: pregnancy can be a good time for some people and hell for others! Not just due to nausea, bloating, back pain, insomnia,… (the list goes on). But also and above all because this period deprives pregnant women of many small pleasures in life. There is of course the champagne coupette, the glass of wine or the pint, but also the tartares that we have to say goodbye to (or at least see you later).

But there are also raw milk cheeses and vegetables. Avoiding the former reduces the risk of listeriosis. As far as vegetables are concerned, it is not a question of depriving yourself of them, but of taking care to consume only perfectly clean ones, to avoid contracting toxoplasmosis., a mild disease in normal times, but which can be very serious for the fetus in the context of a pregnancy. It is in particular because of this disease that pregnant women are required to undergo (at least) a monthly blood test, in order to verify that the virus is actually absent.

But note that many people, especially those who grew up with cats (outdoors can transmit toxoplasmosis) may have had it before. What’s a significant advantage, because having had it once, you cannot take it back. Practical, therefore, to afford a salad of raw vegetables or a sandwich on the go, even when pregnant.

Pregnancy Food is an application that lets you know with one click and one search whether or not you can eat a certain food, what the risks are or the conditions under which you can eat it. The app to have in your phone from the positive pregnancy test!

WeMoms, the social network to exchange with mothers anywhere in France

“When should you take a pregnancy test? », “Are we talking about weeks of amenorrhea or weeks of pregnancy? », « What clothes to put for the baby in the maternity suitcase? “,“ Since when do we feel the baby move in his belly? », « What to answer to the mother-in-law who is a little too oppressive? », “Where to buy compression stockings? “. When we are pregnant or when we think we are, a thousand and one questions run through us. And this is quite normal.

For anyone who isn’t a doctor, we can sometimes feel a little lonely if no one around us is a parent or about to become one. At that time, most of the time we address our question to a search engine with an uncertain answer and a certain coldness…. And it’s a bit of a shame to know that hundreds of thousands of people give birth every year! Many opportunities to exchange and start sharing experiences, advice…

With its application, WeMoms wanted to overcome this sometimes very real loneliness by imagining a sort of gigantic forum for (future) mothers. The perfect place to ask all your questions and discuss with people who are in the same stage of pregnancy as us or who are trying to get pregnant. The app lets you subscribe to a feed, depending on your expected delivery date, that lets you follow posts and posts from moms-to-be who are at roughly the same stage. In short, WeMoms is a huge community of women who are wondering about motherhood, trying to get pregnant or about to give birth.. A true encyclopedia!

Pregnancy +, the app that lets you know how tall your baby is (and what fruit or animal it is!)

Are you one of those people who wants to know EVERYTHING, down to the smallest detail, about what happens in your body during pregnancy? You keep asking yourself, “How to best monitor my pregnancy” ? This can be understood, to the extent that the body does an incredible job during this period: Your uterus, which used to be the size of a Corsican clementine, will soon be the size of a watermelon. Your hips will widen, soon you will have the joy of discovering that you secrete colostrum (the baby’s first milk) even before delivery. In short, a lot of amazing things are happening in the human body right now.

But of course that’s not all, the craziest remains invisible to the eye, namely the development of the child in the womb. Did you know, for example, that starting from 5 or 6 months of gestation, the fetus begins to hear sounds, voices coming from the outside? Did you know thatat 37 weeks your baby measures 36cm from head to tailbone and is the weight of a pumpkin?

To know all this and much more, the Pregnancy + application calculates the physical evolution of the baby throughout the pregnancy and provides, week by week, small sheets that allow you to know everything that is happening regarding the development of the fetus. Fascinating. You can also follow the evolution of your pregnancy using a pregnancy calendar which allows you to record appointments and important milestones in particular. Did you say very useful?

Kayla Itsines, Melissa Wood Health… Apps for exercising during pregnancy

Who said pregnancy rhymes with laziness? If for a long time it was considered that pregnancy and sport were incompatible, suggesting future mothers to stay in bed and athletes to stop practicing their discipline, we know today these precepts are false. It is obviously possible and also strongly recommended to maintain physical activity during pregnancy. Look first, and then the chance. Because the nausea, pain and any medical problems inherent in this period can obviously prevent some mothers-to-be from practicing an activity.

For people who feel like it, however, it is recommended to avoid brutal sports that can cause falls, to limit the risks. stay thatthere is therefore a plethora of disciplines in which to continue practicing during pregnancy. And if you don’t feel like leaving the house (and we understand this!), there are many apps, some founded by famous coaches on social networks, that have programs on pregnancy.

This is the case in particular of Kayla Itsines, head of the SWEAT App, which offers various sports training programs, including one dedicated to pregnancy and another, “post-pregnancy”, to thus regain shape.

You can also find prenatal and postnatal pilates classes on the Melissa Wood Health app, ideal for a fit postpartum!

Contractions in pregnancy, the application that tells you when to go on maternity leave!

That’s it, you did the test, the pregnancy tests, the cycle calculations that gave you the impression that you did sup’ math, your cheesemaker knows exactly which pasteurized cheese you prefer in his stall, you’ve experienced Braxton contractions and you wear your best pair of compression socks every day. Now you are waiting for D-Day, and your midwife has explained that you need to figure out how regular your contractions are before you consider leaving for the maternity ward with your purse under your arm.

But clearly, when it’s the first time, it can be difficult to tell a working contraction from a Braxton contraction, to really calculate how long the last one was and how long it was between it and the next one. Good news: there’s an app with a name that couldn’t be more evocative: Pregnancy Contractions. It is a tool that allows you to calculate, systematically noting them, the time between contractions, their intensity. After a certain number, getting closer and closer, the app warns you: “It’s time to go to the maternity ward!” ».

But let’s remember one thing: If you notice too much pain, that the contractions are accompanied by blood, or if your water breaks, do not wait before going to the emergency room of the maternity ward.

An application remains a useful tool to help yourself, but it will never replace the advice of a specialist!