With a hectic schedule at home, it was not realistic that my husband and I would be able to pick up any of the volumes of books published to help new moms and dads navigate through their first pregnancy. Not that we didn’t want to soak up knowledge, we just needed a better way to get the information that we needed. Thanks to the AT&T Smartphone app Pregnancy Tracker, we now track our baby’s development on a weekly and daily basis. The app also provides us information on the radical changes my body is going through.
As a first time Mom, I have heard of all the expected symptoms during pregnancy but not much is said about some symptoms that can make anyone worry. Thanks to the Smartphone app, I knew that during the 2nd trimester of pregnancy it is common to have your heart race periodically. This is due to your heart pumping blood for two. Trust me, if my heart started to race and I did not have advance warning of the possibility of this occurring, I would have thought I had a heart problem.
The app also provides me great analogies for what is happening to my body – inside and out. I knew when in the development stages my little bundle could hear me and when taste buds were developing. This is when I knew to sing the Eyes of Texas and to be sure to eat my favorite veggies in abundance – brussel sprouts anyone? Speaking of vegetables, according to the app, our baby is about two pounds and is about the length of a cucumber. That is a mighty big cucumber.
Laura Hernandez
Hello, my name is Laura, and I am a wife and working mom who has been with AT&T for 13 years. I am a mom who is about to be a mom for the first time – sounds confusing. I have a stepson with a disability who lives with us, and my husband and I are expecting our first child together in May. My stepson is completely dependent on technology to communicate, so if we want to communicate with him when we are not at home, e-mail and texting is the way to go. I use technology in every aspect of my life. Aside from using my Blackberry to stay connected to work issues, I use Navigator to get around my new city of Dallas, and I use multiple smartphone applications to manage grocery lists, get restaurant reviews or find important locations, like the shoe repair, tailor and, yes, even clean bathrooms. As two working parents juggling the demands our stepson presents us, we use technology to coordinate social schedules and yoga classes and to keep our friends and family up-to-date on happenings in our lives. More recently, I have used the internet to track how my pregnancy is progressing.
Liza Legaspi says:
March 13, 2010 at 9:46 am
I enjoyed reading the blog. Though I am not a mom or a wife, this is interesting to me. Knowing what an expecting mother is going through and how she deals with the day to day makes me realize how my own mother dealt with all these during the days. Makes me appreciate my own mom. Thank you for a great blog and I hope to see more.
Felicia says:
March 26, 2010 at 7:54 am
That would have been great to have when I was pregnant the 1st time. I remember my heart racing, at some points it was scary! This is definitely an app I will share with anyone I know who is pregnant!
Andrea H says:
March 26, 2010 at 7:28 pm
I would have loved to have that when I was pregnant either time. Smartphones weren’t as commonplace when I was pregnant.
Dana says:
March 26, 2010 at 7:32 pm
This is the neatest thing. I wish this had been available when I was pregnant. It must be so fun to be able to follow along with the developemental stages of the baby during pregnancy and not have to wait till you see the OB/GYN to find out. I think its awesome!
Ponn Sabra says:
March 26, 2010 at 8:18 pm
Hi Laura,
Wow, now that’s a cool app. We have 3 girls, 9, 8 & 6 yo, so we didn’t have that kind of luxury. I’ll be sure to share this with my sister who’s expecting her first.
Thanks & Enjoy your pregnancy, labor, delivery & new bundle of joy!
Pregnancy Tips says:
April 10, 2010 at 12:42 pm
really cool =)) =^_^=
Pregnancy Tips says:
April 10, 2010 at 12:57 pm
Best ever =)
Cheryl Brister says:
April 24, 2010 at 10:54 pm
I’m almost 2 months pregnant and I’ve always been somewhat of a fitness nut. I’m glad that I’m finding alot of information out on the web about my pregnancy and especially getting back into shape after my pregnancy.
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