Pregnancy Tracking with Garmin Smartwatches
If you are pregnant or hoping to become pregnant, you likely already understand the importance of tracking your pregnancy. The changes your body is going through are nothing short of miraculous, but it’s critical that you monitor them to make sure both you and your baby are staying healthy. With your compatible Garmin smartwatch and the Garmin Connect™ app, you can track nearly everything about your pregnancy, from morning sickness to baby movement.
The same women’s health feature that allows you to track your menstrual cycle and menopause symptoms also allows you to monitor your pregnancy. It’s like a pregnancy app, but with the added convenience of having all of your other body metrics — including heart rate1, sleep score, Body Battery™, stress tracking and more — sent from your wrist to the same, easily accessible Garmin Connect app on your compatible phone.
Let’s explore everything you can keep an eye on when tracking your pregnancy with Garmin.
What can you record with the women’s health tracking feature?
Can you track your weight? What about pregnancy symptoms like morning sickness and pregnancy discharge? Yes, to all the above. The women’s health tracking feature on your Garmin smartwatch includes pregnancy tracking so you can keep an eye on all that and more.
- Daily symptoms and mood: Paying attention to how your body is feeling and how it evolves during this time is important. You’ll be able to log your daily physical symptoms such as acne, bloating, constipation, contractions, cramps, headaches, fatigue and tenderness. You can also track your mood with options including fine, happy, sad, overwhelmed, sensitive and more. Each month you’ll get a 4-week overview of symptoms you logged so you can identify larger patterns. If you are not yet pregnant but hoping to conceive, you can use the same feature to log your menstrual cycle and ovulation.
- Baby size: Throughout your pregnancy, you’ll know approximately how big your baby should be measuring, with comparisons to real-life objects for scale. Watch your baby grow from the size of a strawberry to an acorn squash to a cabbage, and feel free to share the updates with friends and family so they can marvel right along with you.
- Baby movement: Are you confident your baby is destined to be a soccer star with all the kicking they’re doing? Does it seem like they’re having hiccups all the time? You’ll be able to log all your baby’s movements, which can serve both as a keepsake of the pregnancy and a pattern of habits to discuss with your doctor if you have any concerns.
- Tips for exercise and nutrition: You don’t need us to tell you that your body changes during pregnancy. Remember, too, that what your body needs also changes. The Garmin women’s health tracking feature will provide exercise and nutrition suggestions as you progress in your pregnancy, from reminders to eat more protein to key information about how much extra water you should be drinking based on your trimester.
- Due date: Once your doctor has given you an approximate due date, you’ll be able to add this information to Garmin Connect to see a weekly countdown of how you’re progressing from week to week, with the final countdown leading up to your baby’s birthday.
- Weight gain: Obviously, gaining weight is going to be a significant part of this journey. But still, we hear it all the time: How much weight should you gain during pregnancy?The pregnancy tracking feature will provide ballpark figures based on how far along you are, so you’ll have something to measure against and be able to better communicate with your doctor if something seems off.
- Training status: If your smartwatch monitors your training status, you may be concerned about losing progress during your pregnancy. To avoid this, you can disable the feature so you can pick up where you left off once the baby is born and you’re ready to get back into your workout routine. You can also disable the regular alerts you may receive to get up and move because your habits will often change during pregnancy.
What is the Garmin contraction timer?
When it’s nearly baby time, tracking your contractions is important. You and your partner can download the Contraction Timer Connect IQ™ app to see how far apart your contractions are — which helps you determine whether you’re going into labor. In addition to recording the length and frequency of your contractions, you’ll also be able to access your history of previous contractions to compare.
With the pregnancy tracking features on your compatible Garmin smartwatch, you can monitor the miraculous changes happening in your body during the next 9 months and then during the rest of your life through menstruation and menopause.
If you’re pregnant — or hoping to be — browse our collection of smartwatches designed specifically for women.
