Forget Apple Watch — Garmin is getting a huge feature it can’t match

Forget Apple Watch — Garmin is getting a huge characteristic it can't match

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Garmin today announced a new pregnancy tracking feature to help expecting mothers go a more complete overview of their health. The GPS company'southward fitness wearables will be the first to offer native pregnancy tracking.

The pregnancy tracking feature in the Garmin Connect platform (iOS, Android) lets you log your symptoms, follow the baby growth's, meet your blood glucose levels and more alongside the dashboard of wellness data that's already bachelor. Garmin will offer nutrition and activity tips based on the progress of your pregnancy, too.

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Similar to the menstrual bike tracking already present in Garmin's app, logging symptoms with pregnancy tracking requires you lot manually take note of how yous're feeling and when you sense your baby's motion. While y'all tin log symptoms in the app, a daily reminder will also be sent to your Garmin smartwatch or fettle tracker so you lot can input your symptoms from your wrist.

The Garmin Connect app will show you a week-by-week overview of your logged symptoms, which could exist informative during doc's appointments. Meanwhile, your activeness nudges will be tailored to adjust the status of your pregnancy.

When it's time for commitment, Garmin's wearables will exist able to track the frequency and duration of your contractions through the Contraction Timer Connect IQ app. This interval timer lets you to record the length and frequency of contractions right from your watch.

Co-ordinate to Garmin, its Venu, vivoactive, vivomove, Forerunner and fenix lines volition all support pregnancy tracking. That means some of the best sports watches like the Garmin Precursor 245 Music, Garmin fenix 6 and Garmin Venu Sq are not simply good options for outdoor activeness, but for keeping track of your bun in the oven, besides.

Garmin is a straight competitor of Apple, Samsung and Fitbit in the habiliment market, but none of the other brands offer native pregnancy tracking. You lot could utilize a third-party pregnancy tracking app similar HiMommy and PregLife depending on compatibility, though.

Pregnancy tracking for Garmin Connect users is free and rolling out now. If y'all're expecting (congrats!) and desire a smartwatch that can be your pregnancy guide and action tracker all-in-one, continue it locked to our Black Friday deals for Garmin'south annual holiday discounts.

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Kate Kozuch is a senior writer at Tom's Guide roofing wearables, TVs and everything smart-home related. When she's not in cyborg fashion, yous can find her on an exercise bicycle or channeling her inner celebrity chef. She and her robot army will dominion the world one day, but until and so, reach her at kate.kozuch@futurenet.com.