Latest in Gear

Image credit: Garmin

Garmin adds pregnancy tracking to its smartwatches

Boost your fitness and health before the baby arrives.
Jon Fingas, @jonfingas
November 10, 2020
160 Shares
Share
Tweet
Share

Sponsored Links

Pregnancy tracking on Garmin smartwatch and app
Garmin

Garmin is giving its smartwatches more power to track women’s health. The wearable maker has added pregnancy tracking to its smartwatches and activity trackers, offering future mothers both a look at their progress as well as ways to improve their health before the birth. It includes simple features like measuring progress based on the due date (you can even compare the size to fruits and vegetables), but it stands out by adapting to your changing body.

The feature shows how your fitness and performance stats change during pregnancy, and gives you the option of tweaking your heart rate alerts, monitoring your hydration or freezing training altogether. You can set custom reminders for relevant fitness like Kegel exercises, and log (or learn about) 30-plus details and symptoms ranging from baby movement to blood glucose levels. When birth is near, you can use a contraction timer to track labor.

Pregnancy tracking is available for “many” Garmin devices through the Connect IQ store, including the Fenix, Forerunner, Venu and Vivoactive lineups. You activate it through the Garmin Connect app on your phone using the menstrual cycle tracking feature. In many ways, this is an overdue addition — it’s an acknowledgment that your interest in wearable health and fitness tracking doesn’t stop when you’re with child.

All products recommended by Engadget are selected by our editorial team, independent of our parent company. Some of our stories include affiliate links. If you buy something through one of these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Comment
Comments
Share
160 Shares
Share
Tweet
Share

Popular on Engadget

Fox Sports used a Sony A7R IV to give NFL broadcasts a cinematic look

Fox Sports used a Sony A7R IV to give NFL broadcasts a cinematic look

View
HBO Max lists all the devices that can play 'Wonder Woman 1984' in 4K HDR

HBO Max lists all the devices that can play 'Wonder Woman 1984' in 4K HDR

View
SpaceX shows off its Starship test flight one more time

SpaceX shows off its Starship test flight one more time

View
Five must-play games for your new PS5

Five must-play games for your new PS5

View
Apple rolls out lower App Store fees for 'Small Business' developers

Apple rolls out lower App Store fees for 'Small Business' developers

View

From around the web

Page 1Page 1ear iconeye iconFill 23text filevr