Around 800 women across the world die every day due to pregnancy and childbirth related causes and around 20 per cent of them are from India, according to UNICEF. Having regular check-ups and healthy lifestyle in place can avoid this possible risks. In medical terms, such approach is called antenatal care.
Recently, TruptiNaikare, a B.A.M.S. student of TilakAyurved College, Pune, unveiled a mobile app that bringsantenatal care at your fingertips. She was awarded first prize under Humanities category for this achievement, at State Level Inter University Research Convention, Avishkar, held at Swami RamanandTeerthMarathwada University, Nanded. The app focuses on ayurvedic diet,treatments, and Yoga advises that a pregnant woman can take.
Trupti did this splendid job with her knowledge in the domain, the support of her sister (software engineer) to develop the app and the funding from her mother. This achievement uplifted her to participate in the University Research Convention Anveshan 2017 which will be held in Jaipur.
To know more about Trupti’s this achievement, visit buzzingg.com, and the more information about the app is available at igenapps.com (The app may be available for real users soon).
So there is a great demand for pregnancy care mobile apps across the world, as it can offer necessary resources and information for a happy and healthy pregnancy.Subsequently, there is a great demand for mobile app development companies who develop such kind of apps. Before downloading or developing a pregnancy care mobile app, let yourself first understand the benefits it can offer that are listed below.
5 Top Advantages of Pregnancy Care Mobile Apps
- Monitor the pregnancy
Pregnancy care mobile app (antenatal care app) helps you understand your pregnancy better providing weekly updates about your as well as your baby’s health progress. You can understand your baby’s growth through visual information and content that provide details on baby’s development, size, and weight.The toolslike kick monitor, contraction monitor, and weight monitor allows you to keep a track of changes.
- Pregnancy FAQs
Pregnancy care mobile apps include FAQs that answer the most commonly asked questions about pregnancy like what food you should take/avoid during the pregnancy. So you can clear doubts from yourself without consulting a doctor or expert.
- Medications alert
You can get medications alert, so you never miss any of the tablet or syrup you have to take. So you can make sure you’re well taking care your pregnancy.
- Book appointments easily
You can book appointments in few easy steps. So you no need to call to get the appointment or no need to waste time for consultation.
- Pregnancy checklists
The app provides you details like what things you should have during the delivery and the things you require to buy for the baby.
Risks You can Avoidusing Pregnancy Care Mobile Apps
If your mobile apps offer above benefits, you can avoid the below risks in pregnancy and maternity:
- Miscarriage
- Birth defect
- Low birth weight
- Neonatal infections
PopularPregnancy Care Mobile Apps
Cloudnine Pregnancy – Expert tips and information to take care of pregnancy and prepare for delivery. Visual information and articles on the baby’s development, size, and weight on moving months.
BabyBerry Pregnancy Parenting – Personalized pregnancy tracker, pregnancy nutrition tips, pregnancy calendar, baby vaccination chart, baby kick counter & more.
Saheli App – Informative daily videos for pregnant women in English, Hindi and Bengali. The content of the app is focused on generic lifestyle related during pregnancy.
Pregnancy Week by Week – This app helps you track your pregnancy week by week, get information about your baby’s growth, calculate current week of pregnancy, track your weight and more.
Note: Before following the advices provided in the app, understand it properly or cross check it with your doctor.
Conclusion:
Good pregnancy care mobile apps help to avoid not just maternal death rates, but also serious defects like birth defect, low birth weight and neonatal infections. If you’re a pregnant women, you should have a good knowledge to follow helps provided in the app. In case you’re an entrepreneur and want to develop a mobile app, you need a support of mobile app Development Company which has a better understanding of the domain.