Pregnancy setting/mode for more accurate data

[JLMD]

Necessary:

Logging a pregnancy is a must, as is the ammenorheic period due to breastfeeding.  These drastically affect predictions making the app useless for many.  Eg. I have entered my data since 2011.  My periods are like clock work occurring every 27 days... but I have had 4 pregnancies in that time so the app is telling me that my peiods average every 104 days.

Useful:

Option to add basal body temp and ovulation data (eg. predictor strip).

Moderator edit: title

[Emmie_louise85]

Yes, really need to include pregnancy and breastfeeding, i tried to log it in exercise cos it burns around 500 calories so when i log my food intake always looks like I'm eating too much! As others have suggestedalso need personalised symptoms for when period is due, i always get quite low. 

[Tskyy]

I love the Female health feature. But i recently became pregnant and I would love to be able to Log it. The female health feature is pretty useless if you're pregnant. 

[SantiR]

Hi everyone, thanks for sharing this suggestion. We're always striving to enhance Fitbit products and services, and we appreciate all of the input we receive from our customers. We do not currently have plans to release this feature. You can learn more about how Fitbit decides what suggestions get released in our FAQs located at the top right box of the Feature Suggestions Board screen. For now, we will leave this suggestion open for votes (and closed to comments) so that we can continue to track community demand over time. Thanks for taking the time to share your feedback with us and we will let you know if anything changes.

[Jaqadams22]

I’ve recently switch to the Apple Watch. Thank you for taking the time to read our suggestions. 

[Grace1788]

Can we please have the option to turn off that we have a period and that we are now pregnant and do a count down till baby.

[MommaTerri]

There should be an option for if you are pregnant.

[Jsimpson87]

Breaatfeeding moms, such as myself, are often unable to accurately use their Fitbit product because ita unsafe to follow the guidelines laid out by Fitbit and their calorie recommendations. Nursing moms need to take in more calories. But they also burn more calories. We need a way to see that. To track that. And having seen a thread on here where a developer said “we’re not considering this feature now” basically tells me that Fitbit doesn’t really want to cater to ALL women, pregnant/nursing, or not. This is a feature that seriously needs to be added and would push Fitbit further ahead of other activity/health trackers. 

[veganish]

The female health tracker on my fitbit helped me figure out I was pregnant.  

Now if only I could track my pregnancy, that would be nice. Please consider listening to the many posters before me.

[JuliaMc14]

Not applicable to me anymore, but I would have loved something like this!

[YojanaFitbit]

Hey @dotcaaahm.

I will be merging this suggestion to the one about ovulation and pregnancy test. Be sure to vote for the requesting pregnancy suggestion if you have the time.

Thanks for participating!

[Njgirl]

I lived using my female health tracker but it keeps saying I have my period and asks me to confirm it but I am now pregnant so I will not be getting a period. There is no where to put that in the app.

[Mouse23]

Hi, 

There appears to be no obvious options in the female health tracking part of the app to set any kind of pregnancy tracking. There are links to information for getting and being pregnant, but why have a female health tracking app with this info, that shows ovulation and fertile timeframes but doesn't allow you to actually log a pregnancy? Surely this can't have simply been forgotten about in the design and development stages of such an app?! Can someone please advise how to set/log a pregnancy as the automated response I received from the help centre was not helpful in the slightest, 

Thanks 

[suzilyn]

I just found out I was pregnant and then found out fitbit doesn't have a pregnancy option. This seems ao wired that you would track periods but not pregnancy. I definitely thing this is an option that should be added. It's important to have a healthy pregnancy and I think this could be a great for fitbit.

[Sln504]

Sadly, FitBit just closed down another thread on this. I’d love to see Fitbit demonstrate interest in pregnant & nursing women and their health, rather than worrying about the risks of setting an average baseline which individuals can dispute - something I fear is the meaning behind removing the pregnancy setting.

Id also like to see a genuine response from Fitbit to any of these posts, with a review timeline & criteria for evaluation - not just another fob-off “thanks for your input, we’ll take a look” and then closure of the request & thread. 

Just for context, the previous thread requesting this was not “judged” for response by Fitbit until 31/08/2018, after being opened in 2014.

[Jendreams]

Can you add a breastfeeding app to the fitbit site. You have one for Monthly cycle but nothing for women who breastfeed. It should show how many calories we burn breastfeeding per day.

[AlexandraFitbit]

Hello @Jendreams! Thanks for sharing this suggestion, I moved it to this similar post so you can add your vote to it. Please keep sharing your ideas with us!

[Dana_na_na]

FitBit also has a cap on how many days you can track a period, which is 10. Periods can be longer for women who have just given birth, miscarried, are using certain types of birth control, have endometriosis, PCOS, and a plethora of other reasons. There is a board for this problem as well. If any of you may also be effected by this, please head over there and up vote the topic! 

 https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Feature-Suggestions/Extend-the-10-day-period-tracker/idi-p/2722339/p...

[Sbrittan]

Without a pregnancy feature, the whole female health section becomes useless for me. It seriously needs to be added already! As a software developer I understand these things are complex to design and develop, but I promise you will make a whole bunch of women happy and actually get some sort of data integrity from the stats your collection. If you start doing analysis on the data set without including pregnancy your results are going to be completely useless. And it will definitely mess with any attempt of Machine Learning that you try set up. 

[Cutegeek86]

I spent a good twenty minutes fiddling with the tracker as I was sure the option for pregnancy HAD to be there somewhere. Why track fertile times if I can’t tell it it worked and I’m pregnant. Now every time I go into the app (calander part) it asks if my period is over even though I’m not having it. Please add this ASAP.

[Marisolbm]

A pregnancy and breastfeeding log option would be great! I'm currently pregnant and I would also love to keep track of weight gain during my pregnancy and weight loss after having my baby!!!

[andyc-andydo]

I find it very strange that there's a women's health module with no pregnancy or menopause options, and also no men's health or options for people who identify as one or the other or neither, who may want to track stuff without putting a gender on it. It would also be nice to have a setting in there to indicate if you're trying or avoiding. Rather than saying fertile, it might make sense to say optimal or avoid 😉 + with an option to modify if you know your ovulation cycle doesn't conform with the standard.

I recall that years ago there was an item in the settings that allowed people to mark that they were pregnant, but I don't think it worked well, and it was done away with.

I get that you don't want to be responsible for suggesting too many or too few calories to someone who is pregnant or nursing, but it would be nice to have the option to enter in my own caloric increases based on my doctor's recommendations. As it stands now, I've set myself to gain and honestly I think I'm gaining too quickly, but there isn't any way to modify what the app is telling me so I almost feel more lost than if I wasn't using a fitbit at all. I feel like my caloric burn is wildly off, but not sure if I can or should try to correct it, or how I'd go about doing that.

For now, I've disabled the women's tool, which otherwise could have been very helpful as I navigate my first pregnancy. Seems ironic that after using fitbit for over 5 years that I'd end up pregnant the first month you released an app for women's health that does everything to track women except those who are experiencing an almost quintessential part of being a woman for most. Ces la vie.

[SunsetRunner]

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@JLMD wrote:

Necessary:

Logging a pregnancy is a must, as is the ammenorheic period due to breastfeeding.  These drastically affect predictions making the app useless for many.  Eg. I have entered my data since 2011.  My periods are like clock work occurring every 27 days... but I have had 4 pregnancies in that time so the app is telling me that my peiods average every 104 days.

Useful:

Option to add basal body temp and ovulation data (eg. predictor strip).

Moderator edit: title

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@JLMD wrote:

Necessary:

Logging a pregnancy is a must, as is the ammenorheic period due to breastfeeding.  These drastically affect predictions making the app useless for many.  Eg. I have entered my data since 2011.  My periods are like clock work occurring every 27 days... but I have had 4 pregnancies in that time so the app is telling me that my peiods average every 104 days.

Useful:

Option to add basal body temp and ovulation data (eg. predictor strip).

Moderator edit: title

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You should at the very least be able to mark pregnant and not have the app track your period and keep telling your period is due! I understand fitbit is not a fertility/pregnancy app but if you are going to offer female health tracking the basics should be included or it is pointless.

[ChristieA]

I'm new to using my Fitbit, I've only started using it the beginning of last month and I loved all the features and how smart the device is. I've even used the cycle tracker to determine fertile days and so forth ... So you can imagine my dismay when I learned that there is no way to log my new pregnancy, which essentially renders this whole section, which is crucial to some women, useless.

A pregnancy option would be a great addition to Fitbit.

[KLo96]

Allow a user to enter a current pregnancy in the female health tracking app, including single/multiples pregnancy, due date, etc

[sajcameron]

YES TO ALL OF THIS!